That '96-97 School Year Was SERIOUS

[Wacky D]

Because only people like me were around to witness it and those who are my age dont fukk with Hip Hop messageboards like that.

We were waiting for Grant Hill to be the next Jordon he was hyped up to be while sleeping on Kobe.

they hyped up kobe way harder than they did grant hill breh. it was sickening.
and this was before kobe was even that nice. he was getting outdone by a grip of players from his draft, and wasn't even starting for the lakers yet.

but yea, I understand the bias towards earlier eras of hip-hop. I just make sure I point it out at every chance I get.

 

[spliz]

Fire thread! @Wacky D

 

[Wacky D]

Fire thread! @Wacky D

 

[spliz]

U already know bro. shyt was lit in school around this time. Hip Hop was in a crazy place. Basketball was lit. Sitcoms. Video games all that. U got it 100 percent wit this thread bro.

 

[tuckgod]

86-96 was that era

Fixed.

Started with Paid In Full, ended when Pac was murdered.

Copycats and Lames been running rampant ever since

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

I got some heat in my collection that I uploaded to Youtube

Here's the opening of BET Rap City where they acknowledge the passing of Biggie the day after he died (I had the MTV News Special Report on his death uploaded but Youtube took it down)


Peep this Yo! MTV Raps top singles and album coundown list. Who remembers that Yo! MTV came on Thursdays at 8PM for an hour and Fridays at 11PM for 2 hours. Then on Saturdays it was often some kind of special video coundown


Snoop Dogg & Daz hosting Yo! MTV two months after Pac died


Rare 2Pac interview on the set of "2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted" explaining the Biggie disses lol


Dr. Dre hosting his personal top 25 favorite videos on MTV after leaving Death Row

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Here's the Tavis Smiley Show on BET the day after Biggie died with guests KRS-One, Willie D, Chuck D, Nonchalant & Cheo Coker. Dope if anybody wants to see how everyone was uncertain and scared about the direction that hip-hop seemed to be going. Amazing how so much hasn't changed.


Chuck D explaining how the non-Black execs profit off of the hip-hop violence

Them talking about the generational divide (sounds like right now)

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Biggie BET Rap City tribute the week after he died


Ghostface Killah at the arcade on BET Rap City for the release of Iron Man. Talks about "Daytona 500," eating healthy and more


MTV New report on if Lil Kim & Foxy Brown exploiting or empowering. People really forget how many barriers they really broke

 

[patscorpio]

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.

mic geronimo

how you go from this



to this

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

I actually liked "Nothin Move But The Money" . The Shiny Suit Era was fun and needed after all the death

 

[Asicz]

Am I the only one here who was not impressed with the De La Soul "Stakes is High" Album?

 

[Asicz]

Puffy's Radio dominance was crazy

 

[Asicz]

EPMD Back in Buisness

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

EPMD Back in Buisness

Nah Back In Business came out the start of the next school year

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I was 11-12 around that time and it was .

The summer of 96.

• Copped the WWF magazine with the Ultimate Warrior comic book
• Mista dropped their album (Blackberry Molasses was the bees knees)
• Outkast dropped
• If I Ruled the World flood the airwaves
• Hogan was the third man
• UFC was popping
• Touch me Tease Me was legit flames
• Bad Boy was thriving

good times.