Remember when you could purchase "Singles" on cassette or CD

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I remember wifey had this.....knew she was the 1 :wow:

if you were lucky they had instrumentals. could freestyle all over them. best $5 you could spend.
 

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My 9th grade world geography teacher still got my "mass appeal" cassette single.

She was setting up for some type of geography lesson on cassette. She left the classroom and I hurried up and put in my "mass appeal" joint. She came back, pressed play and the beat dropped. The whole class started laughin and bobbin' to the music. When she asked who did it, me nor the class said anything, so she said "fine. I'll keep it:ld:"
 

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My 9th grade world geography teacher still got my "mass appeal" cassette single.

She was setting up for some type of geography lesson on cassette. She left the classroom and I hurried up and put in my "mass appeal" joint. She came back, pressed play and the beat dropped. The whole class started laughin and bobbin' to the music. When she asked who did it, me nor the class said anything, so she said "fine. I'll keep it:ld:"

Imagine if it was a Capone N Noreage tape.....whole class woulda thought the Middle East was really in queens :wow:
 

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I still remember Crossroads and Hay by Crucial Conflict was the first pieces of music I ever purchased


Breh I bought the actual e1999 CD. I was SHOCKED. I'm lying my MOM bought it for me she loved crossroads. I played the album and it was all straight murder music :mjlol:

they even had a ouijee curse in the liner notes I heard if u held it up in the mirror u were DONE :damn:
 

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I remember wifey had this.....knew she was the 1 :wow:

if you were lucky they had instrumentals. could freestyle all over them. best $5 you could spend.
I still got mine too. Sometimes you'd get singles and they would have remixes on them and tracks that weren't on the album. For example, the bside to Fab Fives "leflaur lefhah.." was "blah". They even had a video for "blah", but it was never on any album. Then there was Goodie Mobb's "cell therapy" that had Outkast's "benz or beamer" as the b side. It had a video, but never on any album. The cd singles would sometimes have 4 or 5 remixes of a song that were never played on the radio.

Here in the late 80s and early 90s, cassette singles were $3.49 a piece or 3 for 9.99. Maxi-singles and EPs were $5.99 . CD singles were around 5.99 as well i don fully remember the cost for those
 
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