Hip hop fell off when CD's became popular

[mbewane]

I don't know about the whole "artists valued singles more", because albums in that era sounded coherent for the most part. Of course you miht have single that stands out, but say Brooklyn Zoo still was coherent with the rest of the album for example. Now when it started getting worse imo is when artists would have all kinds of different producers on the album in order to follow whatever was trendy and have "super producers" on their joint, leading to less cohesive "albums" that really were more compilations than anything else.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I don't know about the whole "artists valued singles more", because albums in that era sounded coherent for the most part. Of course you miht have single that stands out, but say Brooklyn Zoo still was coherent with the rest of the album for example. Now when it started getting worse imo is when artists would have all kinds of different producers on the album in order to follow whatever was trendy and have "super producers" on their joint, leading to less cohesive "albums" that really were more compilations than anything else.

I’m talking circa 98 - 02

 

[JustCKing]

CDs played a part but it was really the Napster era that killed it. People stopped living with albums at that point because they had so much music available in their hands. People stopped appreciating full works of art and in turn artists stopped focusing on making full bodies of work and just putting out strong singles.

CD's made Napster possible. You couldn't rip a cassette to Napster and not have the sound quality sound like garbage.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

CD's made Napster possible. You couldn't rip a cassette to Napster and not have the sound quality sound like garbage.

This is probably the most important caveat I should’ve included in my initial post. Napster started in 1999 in the middle of peak CD sales.

 

[King Poetic]

Nah.. started around 2011 it started to fall apart

 

[WesCrook]

Temu value thread

 

[Billie Jean]

bush this nikka for making the booth dumber with ONE thread

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Buying CDs was legendary but at the same time, some of your favorite rappers dropped some duds that folks spent what would have been their weed money and gas money….



I can see why fans don’t wanna spend their hard earned money in this era when they can pay 10.99 on Apple Music to listen to a album.

Some albums aren’t on streaming.


Like I can’t even find Krayzie Bone’s first two albums on Apple Music
Thug Mentality 1999
And Thug On Da Line

Like WTF mayne .

nikka i wanted to listen to speakerboxxx n love below..on apple n they dropped that hoe down to 16 songs..big has6 n dre has10

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

1997-2003 Southwest Wholesale was in its prime tho

nikkas had binders full of CDs

 

[TheMailMan]

. Hip hop fell off cuz the Internet. Everyone sound the same. No regional sounds anymore

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

bush this nikka for making the booth dumber with ONE thread

You do realize that CD’s birthed the mp3, which birth file sharing, which birth streaming right?

Just because an idea or though goes over your head, doesn’t make it dumb. Maybe you should look in the mirror.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

So now it’s the CD era that killed Hip Hop

A majority of my all time favorite albums are from that era and later

Next year it'll be music videos killed hip hop

 

[Formerly known as...]

Trolling. Statement is dumb

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Next year it'll be music videos killed hip hop

If by any miracle Coli makes it 5 years, it will be recording songs killed Hip Hop. Ever since it left the parks it went downhill.

 

[Regular_P]

We have some stupid fukking posters on this site

And that bozo @smitty22 is the ring leader.