Let me reminisce on the first wave of the Internet Hip-Hop scene 1996-2000

[GETTINIT23]

I used to lurk the aol battle rooms back in the day, one name that I still remember is jfcxswordz, anybody got audio files of some of the tracks from this era?

Also one song that went... I grew up in the streets of jersey thank god I grew safely could never walk my block without my heat off safety

 

[MouseTeeth]

Sucks that there's really no records of the internet battle board subculture...would be a dope subject for a documentary

 

[Nevasoba]

I have unearthed my cpu back up disc....I have ALOT of music but it's mostly all in.ra and.rm format...give me a week to get this converted somehow and I'll have to figure out a way to get it out....its everything I have from 97-2000 reaper, Lennys, virus, tragic and obviously it's heavily jaded I have my stuff from 97-2004 and a couple things I apparently recorded in 2011...talk to yall soon

 

[Nevasoba]

Also apparently Virus 's High School had $5 hoes...2 dollar hair cuts and 3 dollar clothes

 

[mobbinfms]

Anybody remember Cipher Divine?
Downloaded a lot from there.

 

[Nevasoba]

Remember them I had an account on there

 

[DoomzdayzV]

^^^ ahhh shyt LennyS.........he was one of the dopest spitters back then, I had constant beef with that dude.....aint heard his name in a long ass time.

 

[Nevasoba]

Lenny was one of my favorites I think he could have been great...still never heard anyone flow like him....I have 2 or 3 songs I did with him....I'm working on getting it all ready to share

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Audiogalaxy

 

[Carbone]

Hahaha...

Wow ... Nevasoba and fmlxvirus..

This thread popped in my head and I wanted to see if anyone else stopped by holy shyt lol .. Never would have expected you guys .

 

[mobbinfms]

Remember them I had an account on there

An account on Cipher Divine? Was it a message board as well? I just went there for purposes. That's how I heard 2001 for the first time
And they had all the super duper UG nerd rap vinyl in MP3 format

I actually recal it had a different name at first, you remember what it was?

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

Audiogalaxy and Limewire in '01-'02. All the beefs...Nas-Jay, Beans-Kiss, Em-Everlast, ICP, Dialated Peoples, Jermaine Dupri...

 

[DoomzdayzV]

Hahaha...

Wow ... Nevasoba and fmlxvirus..

This thread popped in my head and I wanted to see if anyone else stopped by holy shyt lol .. Never would have expected you guys .

yeah when I made this thread I had no clue that a bunch of the AOL heads from the 90s would come out the woodwork. dudes like Nevasoba inspired me to step my pen game up. I looked up to alot of yall and yall gave me jewels that I still use today in my music. much love to all of u straight up

 

[Inf1ne]

Who remember dzk that motherfukker had like 100000 diss tracks

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Back when I was chilling in the high school library looking up rap lyrics on OHHLA