Nas: The Cassette era

[mr.africa]

that battery in the freezer ish dont work?

it worked for me!!
no freezer around, dip them in ice cold water!!
us nikkas used to 'mcguyver' shyt every possible chance!!!

 

[hatechall]

Who remembers putting paper in the top of the holes so the tape would keep recording and not pop when dubbing?

I always used to put a small piece of tape over the holes.

 

[Monoblock]

Yo I still got that It Was Written tape with the bonus track round my house somewhere

Good find breh

Silent Murder was

 

[The_Hillsta]

Tapes without the screws when you had to perform surgery

Bought that second MC Breed tape, a bootleg, all the print came off within a couple days, hissin n static.....First time I ever experienced that shyt

Them multi colored tapes tho

 

[MoneyBags]

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.

Those are the pride and joy of my iPod/iPhone, the rare, exclusive, unreleased to even the most hardcore fans, songs with different verses than the album/released version, unheard interludes/intros, actual promo tapes...that's what I miss most about the mixtape when they were actual tapes. Converted my whole mixtape cassette collection to MP4/MP3 to keep that dirty, unmixed quality alive amongst the pristine clean, digitally enhanced mixes of today.

 

[SummerNights]

this dude talking about smelling tapes

dying

batteries in the fridge

 

[T.he I.nformant]

This is my shyt. Nostalgic as fukk. Piece of hip-hip history, y'all.

 

[daze23]

Cassettes didn't have hidden trakks like CD's though.
They shoulda.

some did. and it was less obvious than on CD's because you couldn't see that the 'timer' was still going, or that the CD had more tracks than what was listed. it was normal that one side of the tape would be shorter and have a bunch of blank space. so if something was hidden there, it really did catch you by surprise. I can't think of any examples right now, but I know they existed

on a side note to that, when tapes were uneven like that, a lot of the time I would just flip it and listen to the other side where it was at because I didn't want to waste batteries rewinding

 

[Monoblock]

Cassettes didn't have hidden trakks like CD's though.
They shoulda.

They actually did. I remember the Above The Rim soundtrack on cassette tape having these bonus tracks.

2Pac Featuring Stretch- Pain (Bonus Track)
Lord G- Mi Monie Rite! (Bonus Track)
2Pac, Treach & Riddler-Loyal To The Game (Bonus Track)

 

[reserved_one]

I remember back when I was yougin...I made mixtapes by recording songs off the radio with my fisher price tape player with the mic on it.

I would do my own drops and take over my shyt like I was Dj Drama lol

good times

 

[bigboom]

my 2 cents -

still bump this shyt....willie d is that nikka!

 

[Mr. Negative]

I hated when the ribbon got fukking stukk, or even worse twisted and crumpled.

When you was listening and your shyt started slowing down.....

You'd be jumping up and knocking mad shyt over trying to hit the stop button in time!


Ironically enough, Illmatic was the first tape I had break on me.

"Deep like the shinin', sparkle like a diamond, sneeak aa uuuuuuziiii onnnnnn da issssssllllllaaaa *click*"

me:

*opens walkman*

 

[Mr. Negative]

remember how a brand new tape used to smell!?

When you take the plastic off, put the take in the deck, hit play and unfold them long ass liner notes like a scroll() and start reading it all?

I swear it's one of the best, most unique smells ever.

It's amazing to think that there's billions of folks alive right now that'll never experience that.

 

[Mr. Negative]

fix your broke tape with scotch tape and cutting the broke ends, brehs.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

it's funny how we are all talking about back when while people older than us probably spoke the same way about vinyl, probably not A-Tracks though Lol

I was so into music as a youngin that I bought 3 boom boxes, one used to play one song and I'd try catch when there was no spoken word and do the same with the other boom box and record on the 3rd boom boxes to make some ghetto ass remix HAHAHAHHAHAA
If I listened to that today I'd probably be like WTFFFF

What ever happened to the equalizer though? I don't see that no more much as I saw it back then, you know adjusting the treble and all that