Nas: The Cassette era

[Entrapta310]

Used to drive an hour from my house to the AC boardwalk for my mixtapes in 96-97...

I would hit up the feasts in Brooklyn during the summer. They always had some dope mixtapes for cheap.

 

[daze23]

I remember my dub of Death Certificate cut off halfway through Color Blind. sorry Cube, no one gives a fukk about Us when we go past half a 90 min tape

 

[the cac mamba]

one of the illest concepts ever, anyone have one of these?

 

[daze23]

one of the illest concepts ever, anyone have one of these?

I had the purple cd . actually the case was purple. cd was red I think

and I felt like I was the last of my friends to get a cd player. cassettes were still good for dubbing at that time though. I would get a cd, and immediately dub it so I could listen to it on my walkman

 

[Animal House]

If I only kept the purple tape
I had that the first day it dropped...

I remember here in cali, how dope the radio was out here and when I would go home to Jersey my cousins would have even iller tapes courtesy of hot 97

 

[Animal House]

one of the illest concepts ever, anyone have one of these?

one of the illest concepts ever, anyone have one of these?
The insert with all the aliases

 

[Pop123]

SMH @ having to stick tiny pieces of paper into the cassette holes on top to dub over some wack shyt you bought with some hot shyt. I remember I dubbed Capital Punishment over that Flipmode album (how the fukk did that even end up in my crib?), best decision ever.

 

[DaveyDave]

SMH @ having to stick tiny pieces of paper into the cassette holes on top to dub over some wack shyt you bought with some hot shyt. I remember I dubbed Capital Punishment over that Flipmode album (how the fukk did that even end up in my crib?), best decision ever.

I found my tape of Vanilla Ice 5 or 6 years after I got it and dubbed something over it. It's too bad mini discs never took off they were like a tape and cd mixed together.

 

[eerieBell]

2k on ebay

prolly worth around 100$

 

[jimbean]

Great post! i miss them days

 

[mr.africa]

younger dudes will never understand having to HOPE you catch a song on the radio. And you wanna catch it from the start, not halfway thru. Listening to the radio when the DJ says he's gonna play that song coming up. "Coming Up" always took forever. lol


now you can just go to YouTube and listen anytime.

totally forgot about this!!!
memories!!!

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

that battery in the freezer ish dont work?

 

[FreshAIG]

one of the illest concepts ever, anyone have one of these?

I had Redman's Dare iz A Darkside cassette and the tape is red. shyt was so dope.

 

[Rev]

Daaaaaamn everything he mentioned me and my sister used to do with the tapes. That and the VHS tapes while recording music videos too.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

cassettes were greats especially for radio freestyles. freestyles joint sounded very raw, authentic and grimy on cassettes. And the more unheard and rare was the freestyle, the more value the cassette had. Whenever it would be freestyles, alternative versions, leftovers or albums previews. It was like having lost tapes but litteraly, it was like having a lost treasure really.