what about when u finally found the song u were waiting for to play on the radio but then when it gets to halfway the dj would fuk it up by talkin or goin to commercial break right in the middle of the song, or when friends want you to copy some shyt for them and they have NO IDEA how hard it is to put together the dope mixes u had, they think shyt take five minutes when u spent weeks makin "the perfect tape"
Nas: The Cassette era
- Thread starter Robbie3000
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Francis White
i been away to long, my feeling died.
I remember going to 42 and 8th ave to get Clue tapes when that area was with the shyts for real. Then on Saturday going to 14st to get a new house music tapes and the latest ragamuffin mixtape. Glory days in NYC .
Alexander Wiggin
All Star
and when you spent 10 minutes writing the titles of the songs and if you fukked up you had to redo the all thing on another paper cassette til it was perfect. And sometimes you didn't know what the title or rapper was so you had to let a blank
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
maaaan rewinding the tapes w/ the pencil 
I'm a young OG brehs
I'm a young OG brehs
EatingGoodNow
Pro
Sticking tissue in tapes that weren't meant to be recorded over. Hell even did that with vhs.
yea 'pain' isnt even on the cd
It was on the maxi single, I found this in a music store downtown in my city, they had one copy on the shelf, grabbed it as soon as I saw it.
8-track
the cassettes this thread is about are 4 track btw. that's 2 stereo tracks running in opposite directions. that's why sometimes when the tape would get fuct up, or the player was bad, you could hear the other side of the tape playing backwards
the old 4-track multitrack recorders would use all four tracks going in the same direction. then the volume, pan, and bass/mid/highs, for those tracks could be adjusted and mixed down to a stereo mix. it also allowed for overdubbing, where your could record one track, and then play it back while recording another track. this was a valuable tool for early hip-hop (and other genres)
8-tracks were basically more complicated and suffered because of that. 8-track players were pretty much exclusive to cars. you could buy home players, but vinyl was still the go to format at home. you couldn't record on 8-tracks, so that created the issue where you would have to pick a format, or double dip. they had 4 stereo tracks going in a continuous loop. that meant you couldn't rewind, but you could switch between the four tracks on the fly. that generally complicated things though, because again vinyl was still the standard, and that was a stereo track split onto two sides of a record. sometimes they would have to rearrange the song order to get that to fit right on 4 stereo tracks. plus the mechanism was more complicated and subject to jamming. and four stereo tracks increased the chance of the playback head picking up some of the wrong track
all of that led to the 8-track having a rather short run. "compact cassettes" (what this thread is about) were around before and after the 8-track. it just took a lot of advances in their sound quality to get them to the point where they could be used for commercial music. plus you could record and rewind, and the two-side format easily mimicked vinyl. I vaguely remember in the early 80's most popular music came on all 3 formats, and some people had monstrosities like this:
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
What yall know about laying in bed on a school next to your radio listening to the quiet storm trying to make a slow jam comp to fukk to though? 
DaveyDave
Superstar
It was on the maxi single, I found this in a music store downtown in my city, they had one copy on the shelf, grabbed it as soon as I saw it.
it was on the Regulate cd single as well i stole it from a radio station i did work experience at
BigL187
MOPAO
wild100sboy
:mjpls:
That music life was so real back then. I used to block off time during the day to listen to the radio and work on my mixtape 
I used to block off time during the day to listen to the radio and work on my mixtape
wild100sboy
:mjpls:
I was one of the first kids in my school with a CD burner. I ate GOOD off that word of mouf, Tha block is hot, and nellyvilleWhen did CD's start truly replacing cassettes? I remember only getting CD's in the late late late 90's bc of that company that gave them away for a penny each.
I bought my last cassette in 2001 and it was a mixtape someone made of PUN.
I only switched to making cd's when napster and limewire popped off and my parents finally bought us a computer in 2000.
before that i had to go to people's houses to get on aol or ask them to make me mix cd's.
mine were mostly dubs.
