That time in 1993 where artists had to switch up and go hardcore

[Flav]

nikkas is tripping bigging up fukking ONYX they ain't start shyt

Onyx came in the game with this wack shyt in 89' (beat was ahead of its time tho)


then ghostwrote this joint for an r&b group you can see them in the video



Fredro Starr stole the Cuttroats concept & bought it to Jam Master Jay in 91 and blew the fukk up before the cuttroats had a chance to come out so by the time they did they sounded like they were biting Onyx smh



The cuttroats got done real wrong by the industry

Damn! That’s crazy cause when I first heard Stop Lookin At Me off the Menace Soundtrack I thought they was biting Onyx hard! I was like “Why is Guru rappin with these Onyx wanna bes?” Now I know why. It was their style to begin with!



I knew Sticky had blonde dreads wore Hawaii shirts all the time and was a barber before the Onyx scene but damn!

 

[Airfeezy]

The drs shyt

These songs sound like parodies

looking at these videos now it definitely does it’s easy to see how forced these images were at the time we didn’t look at it like that tho a lot of these songs were actually huge gangsta lean and Run Dmc down with the king were definitely the shyt at that time even some of the gangsta hammer songs

 

[FreshAIG]

KRS- One with Return of the Boom Bap.

Which is why I always put KRS ahead of the other 80s GOATS because he dropped classics in the 90s too.

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Tung Twista to Twista

1992


To this

1994




Twista bodied this shyt all while taking shots at naughty by nature

Chicago heads, let me know about that transformation

 

[NormanConnors]

I know this came out a couple of years later...but how the fukk did Chubb Rock go from making all them new jack swing raps in the 80s to making gangsta/street shyt in the 90s?



And no lie, I actually prefer Chubb's gangsta shyt over his stuff with Hitman Howie Tee and I love both of that stuff.

Chubb wanted all the smoke with Cube and them, they wouldn't oblige tho/knew what was good for them.

 

[Fresh]

hip-hop really lost something when it wasn't cool to dance no more

facts

 

[Saint1]

93 even had cac boy band lookalike rap groups go from this

To this....

I forgot about this.sounds like sesame Street writing a rap song.

 

[Saint1]

Yo, watching dudes like will smith, run dmc or mc hammer pretending to be street rappers was one big embarrassing moment in hip hop history

Even rookie shaq had to jump on this trend

At 0:45 did Shaq just say he doesn't give a heck about punching a hooker?

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

At 0:45 did Shaq just say he doesn't give a heck about punching a hooker?

"I lean on the statue of liberty when i get tired
Then i punch her in the stomach, i don't give a heck"

Let's not #metoo shaqfu

 

[boskey]

I never heard none of this shyt before. It’s like the hip hop historians kept 93 rap hid under a rock.


Man that was a cringe year

Shaq might have been Top 5 in '93 lol.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Shaq might have been Top 5 in '93 lol.

Im Outstanding was Fire tho


If im not mistaken there was a Album that dropped after Shaq got Hot wit the Rapping of NBA players who wanted to get in on it too

 

[Saint1]

"I lean on the statue of liberty when i get tired
Then i punch her in the stomach, i don't give a heck"

Let's not #metoo shaqfu

What's the adlib say?

 

[Waterproof]

West Coast Gangsta Rap Changed The Game

Y'all loved our Style

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

What's the adlib say?

Were you looking for an answer to your question or confirmation of what you wrongly heard?

 

[Saint1]

Were you looking for an answer to your question or confirmation of what you wrongly heard?

An answer. sounds like hook for sure