Older heads , what was the reaction like when Mobb Deep The Infamous first came out ?

[DMGAINGREEN]

Nah, lil homie. No one was talking about it outside of one project building in NY

Your deep despise for NYC rappers is damn near irrational sometimes

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Your deep despise for NYC rappers is damn near irrational sometimes

I got two NY rappers in my top 10... How do I hate on NY rappers?

 

[director_of_bands]

everybody wanted to be from NY back then...to the point some southerners were starting to change their accent...I remember going back and forth between this album, new jersey drive soundtrack, sunset park soundtrack, and of course the first biggie....

 

[ISO]

good album but if nikkas are acting like it was some doggystyle hype then they're wrong.

It's a better album though.

So is Me Against The World.

 

[ISO]

Infamous album only second to Illmatic.

I didn't listen to it until after either but when I did...

Up North Trip resonates with me as well because I did 18 months when I was 15 for assault and possession of a firearm , only thing I ain't go upnorth I went to a juvenile detention center in the same borough but still lol (Shoutout to my Horizion cats btw)

I pass by Horizons on the 5 Train shyt looks

Mobb Deep was the only rappers talking about juvies that I know of on they first album they actually had a song about Spofford Juvenile Facility later renamed Bridges in Hunts Point.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

It was so much dope hip hop dropping back then

 

[King P]

Funny seeing this thread considering I've had this on repeat the past couple days

 

[3rdWorld]

Saw the cd for the first time at some rich kids house we'd gone to school with..I remember wanting it so bad

 

[daboywonder2002]

It was like victory lap. Great album but it wasn't like radio was playing the album like that. Back then radio and dj were your music source. U didn't have internet. So when you see your homie collection and see that infamous album it's like oh snap u got this too?? Once the club got that shook one's playing Mobb deep reign began

 

[tuckgod]

It was like victory lap. Great album but it wasn't like radio was playing the album like that. Back then radio and dj were your music source. U didn't have internet. So when you see your homie collection and see that infamous album it's like oh snap u got this too?? Once the club got that shook one's playing Mobb deep reign began

I don’t know where you from, but here in Tidewater, VA, The Buddha Brothers played Shook Ones and Survival of the Fittest to DEATH.

RIP DJ Law

 

[tuckgod]

everybody wanted to be from NY back then...to the point some southerners were starting to change their accent...

That’s a fact for East Coast Southerners (VA down to SC) but a nikka from somewhere like Louisiana might curse you out for that blasphemy

It wasn’t just NY though, we was soaking up culture from everybody from CT down to DC back then.

The colleges and DJs played a big part in that.

Beautiful times

 

[director_of_bands]

That’s a fact for East Coast Southerners (VA down to SC) but a nikka from somewhere like Louisiana might curse you out for that blasphemy

yeah I meant those states only FL/TX/LA/TN stayed true

 

[tuckgod]

yeah I meant those states only FL/TX/LA/TN stayed true

Yeah, I’m from VA and we were definitely guilty but it was natural.

It’s how everybody from our generation going forward talked.

This part of the state (757) is where New Yorkers love to relocate to, literally all of the music on the radio was from NY back then because the DJs was from there (or wanted to be), the only people that would do shows here were East Coast rappers, we have 100 colleges full of Northeasterners, and 500 military bases full of them.

 

[director_of_bands]

Yeah, I’m from VA and we were definitely guilty but it was natural.

It’s how everybody from our generation going forward talked.

This part of the state (757) is where New Yorkers love to relocate to, literally all of the music on the radio was from NY back then because the DJs was from there (or wanted to be), the only people that would do shows here were East Coast rappers, we have 100 colleges full of Northeasterners, and 500 military bases full of them.

yeah I went to nsu with all them ny nkkas back then...ny DOMINATED back then from the parties to the fashion to the girls.... we listened to buddha brothers all the time and went to the club they used to dj at in portsmoth from what I remember

 

[tuckgod]

yeah I went to nsu with all them ny nkkas back then...ny DOMINATED back then from the parties to the fashion to the girls.... we listened to buddha brothers all the time and went to the club they used to dj at in portsmoth from what I remember

Oh yeah so you definitely know how it was back then