Nas: The Cassette era

[Prince.Skeletor]

Saturday nightttttt was when I recorded the most on my maxwells
Even reggae, everyone recorded Champion Lover

 

[DaveyDave]

getting dubs was like the old school P2P sharing. i was always dubbing shyt off my boys, used to copy the cd then if there was any time left on the tape i'd just start the album again for the rest of it so there was no dead tape.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Finding a song in a cassette tape back then with the fwd or rewind button vs now just clicking on a track LOL.

From cassette tapes to CD players to iPhones
Damnnnn......

I had them all, it seems music was always part of my life.
I cant believe so many years later im still as into it as I used, maybe even more...
I always thought it would be the opposite growing up.
I bump into dudes i used to chill with with boom boxes they not even listening to music no more.
Makes me wonder if I need to grow up tbh.....

 

[Monoblock]

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

 

[beenz]

*can relate*

I got that chronic tape in my garage as we speak

 

[Entrapta310]

Finding a song in a cassette tape back then with the fwd or rewind button vs now just clicking on a track LOL.

From cassette tapes to CD players to iPhones
Damnnnn......

I had them all, it seems music was always part of my life.
I cant believe so many years later im still as into it as I used, maybe even more...
I always thought it would be the opposite growing up.
I bump into dudes i used to chill with with boom boxes they not even listening to music no more.
Makes me wonder if I need to grow up tbh.....

When you were fast fwding, did you ever push down on the rewind button very lightly as the same time to hear the song fastfwd through the speakers so you can know when the song you were trying to skip was over?
My radio when I was younger did that. Made fwd and rewinding so much easier.

 

[daze23]

listening to the radio with your finger on the pause button

I remember it sucked when I would unpause it, and it was a wack song, or some shyt I already had. I would have to rewind and find the exact spot I was at

years later I did that with Yo and Rap City. I still got some of those VHS's but no VCR

 

[daze23]

I think i used to get white crust on them batteries, any1 else?

you were doing it wrong if you kept batteries long enough for them to start corroding

 

[Entrapta310]

listening to the radio with your finger on the pause button

I remember it sucked when I would unpause it, and it was a wack song, or some shyt I already had. I would have to rewind and find the exact spot I was at

years later I did that with Yo and Rap City. I still got some of those VHS's but no VCR

I hooked up my ish to the TV in the mid 90's/late 90's to tape the sound of the videos on bet and mtv.
At least i could record it on vhs while i was at school and then come home and make tapes vs waiting to hear it on the radio at night.
Sound quality was pretty decent too coming frm the TV

 

[head shots101]

Man dope ass vid....was he talking about yellow man the reggae artist?

 

[904]

I think the last tape I bought was Harlem World

I was young though I didn't have many tapes

 

[daze23]

I hooked up my ish to the TV in the mid 90's/late 90's to tape the sound of the videos on bet and mtv.
At least i could record it on vhs while i was at school and then come home and make tapes vs waiting to hear it on the radio at night.
Sound quality was pretty decent too coming frm the TV

I did some shyt like that. but I actually got a audio splitter to get the mono audio from the vcr to two channels, and then another adapter to get that into the mic jack on my box. I felt like a radio-shack scientist back then

I remember the volume was also the record-level on my box. so you had to have that shyt mad loud to get the best quality when dubbing. that caused problems...

 

[shawntitan]

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

 

[KravenMorehead™]

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

then you gotta use a pen to rearrange that shyt and hope it work

 

[spliz]

Damn this brings back so many memories...what it meant to be a fan back then man...these kids will never get to experience or understand it...