That '96-97 School Year Was SERIOUS
- Thread starter Wacky D
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became a teenager
MVike28
right around the ACC
Youtube comment:After holding back tears, I shall not play this youtube video again
This is the sound of the heavens opening up, extending its gracious arms to embrace the player, immersing them in a whole new world.
Damn I forgot about thisthen pac came out with this video like a week after he died.
shyt was spooky as fukk bro the whole mood changed. Everyone hated the shiny suit jiggy shyt but when Big and Pac died everyone was sad. Nobody wanted to die
ehh i cant cosign the bolded.
puffy had the parties & rinks on lock.
Jermaine dupri was doing his thing too.
shiney suit rap was dope. just too much overkill. and it was a blueprint that a lot of rappers weren't built to follow, but they tried anyway.
Yea it wasn't, that's kinda why I call it the end, cuz imo it was the end of the authentic point in hip hop and the beginning of the "strictly business" era of hip hop....ie., flashy suits, colorful videos, rnb thugs etc all the way to the diluted shyt of today. Once they got suge out the business corporate took over and really started controlling to a degree with the dollar. Before 96-97 somebody like Jeru the damager and smiff n wessun could sell....straight hip hop shyt. After 96-97 you had to have some sort of swallowable mass appeal....it changed everything for the worst....hip hop just that dope tho that it still stands, cuz rock literally died after Kurt Cobain.
Marlo Barksdale
Really out chea
Dope that those videos are actually from my Youtube channel and I was in 7th grade as well the 1996-97 school year
. That really is the most pivotal school year because we lost Pac and then Big but the music and entire culture was POPPIN at the same time.I do remember how scary it was for hip-hop after Big died. Everybody was scared for the direction that hip-hop was going in losing the two biggest stars in 6 months.
On a somewhat related topic, I gotta get back to uploading stuff because I got so many gems from the 90's and early 00's cus all I did was record stuff on VHS.
Nautica in 3rd breh....nah it was polo and tommy and nautica tied for second(to each his own tho of course).....nautica shyt was SUPREME
i was just talking bout their ranks in popularity.
its crazy tho. the era when people were getting killed over clothes.
nostalgia
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Because only people like me were around to witness it and those who are my age dont fukk with Hip Hop messageboards like that.
I thought Marbury & garnett were gonna be the next payton & kemp.
that '96 draft class was one of the goats. Marbury almost went #1 ahead of Iverson & all of em.
We were waiting for Grant Hill to be the next Jordon he was hyped up to be while sleeping on Kobe.
Big Meat 5000
Un-Harlem like
there's certain sounds & theme's that holds a special place in my heart :cryingmike:
I could go on & on
NYC pre 9/11 :jbhands:
I was gon let him slide,but i'm glad you didnt
yea
it was a couple cats that steered into the wrong fiscal years.
its all good tho.
