i was younger than that then and Nas was name dropping the conflict with Bdp and Mc Shan and Snoop paid homage to Slick Rick and Kurupt mentioned Rakim as his idol on Snoop's first album, I got deeper into the catalogue of 80s legends because of how much they were bigged up and the average listener would have at least had some respect and familiarity with those names
Same way these new dudes give props to 50 , tune , dipset and guwop and their predecessors$$$$
But that ain't even enuff for the old heads.
I got neg'd the other day for just making a wu tang vs dipset thread for crying out loud
Ya don't respect anything that wasn't hot during your "wonder years" so why should we respect y'all opinion on anything?
Corny hip hop historians frontin for the daps. Talm bout "back in 92 I had Nas, Krs n grandmaster flash"
Goofy nikka. Nas ain't even drop illmatic till 94