That time in 1993 where artists had to switch up and go hardcore
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that’d sound SICK!!
That Run DMC shyt Is Straight Embarrassing What A Joke
This Is My First Time Seeing That Fresh Prince shyt Good Lord lol
It Was An Era Where Hip Hop Went From Fun To Angry And You Either Change Or Get Left Behind
This Is My First Time Seeing That Fresh Prince shyt Good Lord lol
It Was An Era Where Hip Hop Went From Fun To Angry And You Either Change Or Get Left Behind
DontEemTry
Superstar
My nikka, 1993 had MC Lyte out here lookin for a ruff neck 
Frida Giezman
Banned
Crazy how when you listen to 80s hip hop how innocent a lot of it is
Beats was fire back then too
Beats was fire back then too
fukk u talkin bout?
How 2pac gon call cube out, 2pac is guilty of switching his style up from political/conscious rapper to fake super dupper thuggin. Y'all nikkas kill me
this is cube in 1988
He's right about Cube. Cube is 1 of my GOATs but facts are facts. Pac switched up 2
@ dat time but Cube was way worse.
When he did AMW it was basically a westcoast P.E. album. U mite give him a slight pass 4 dat cuz
he was workin w/ The Bomb Squad (P.E.'s producers) & the subject matter wasnt 2 far off from what he usually spat. Classic album nontheless.
Around '93 came the real switch tho. Grew an afro, his style became more laidback, rapped more about
smokin weed. All of dis cuz it was trending.
We know about the east vs. west issues in '95-'96, w/ 2pac being the front face of it. Here comes Cube & drops "Bow Down" goin @ the east w/ WC & Mack. Great album nontheless.
When P/No Limit hit '97? Now it's Don Mega & the sound & look was identical to No Limit's.
Friend of mine actually wrote a piece on how tempo changes and the decline in the traditional club scene led to the rise of an era were dancing/clubbing kind of lost its edge to street culture and began to inmpact how people interacted with the music.The tempo and energy shift also made the need for signature dances pretty much DOA since the music was more about attitude then actually made to make people dance,a stark contrast with,for examle the early 80's up to the New Jack Swing era in the late eighthies when the line between R&B and hip hop was still very much in place.Something similar happened in the late 70's when electronic devices like drum computers and sequencing made their way into traditional R&B,the tone and attitude changed along with chord structures which changed the way people danced and interacted with the music.That era were everybody was trying to adjust is a staple in hip hop and how it keeps itself from becoming stagnant.This period(808/AABB/ABAB rhymeschemes,autotune,melodic structures around bounce) is the longest running style of production and style we've seen and shows no signs of letting up.I think it will take a big shift in attitude to get trap'ish style hip hop out of here.
Kriss Kross turned into Snoop
Da Brat was even worse. She's in that video too.
Alotta fans used to wonder if Snoop was writing 4 Kriss Kross @ the time. Think he denied it or never confirmed it but
im not sure.
Big Daddy Kane didnt switch up and got slept on in 93 when he put out a dope album and a song with Spinderella that was a banger. That to me was a sign that the game had changed.
93 was the one year when NJ rappers were really shining.
93 was also the year of the jazz fusion in Hip Hop. From Digable Planets "Cool Like That" to Guru's first installment of Jazzmatazz.
Dancehall was also really taking off around this time.
93 was the one year when NJ rappers were really shining.
93 was also the year of the jazz fusion in Hip Hop. From Digable Planets "Cool Like That" to Guru's first installment of Jazzmatazz.
Dancehall was also really taking off around this time.
Ahh the Simpler Times
I would "Blame" Onyx and NBN for that Transistion on the East Coast. Yeah Death Row/West Coast was getting Hot but I thought the Rapping Styles of the Posted Videos reflected those of Onyx, Das EFX and Treach more than a Snoop or Dre
I would "Blame" Onyx and NBN for that Transistion on the East Coast. Yeah Death Row/West Coast was getting Hot but I thought the Rapping Styles of the Posted Videos reflected those of Onyx, Das EFX and Treach more than a Snoop or Dre
Death Row changed the game
spliz
SplizThaDon
shyt is overstated imo. There was ALOT of non gangsta rap shyt back then.
Marlo Barksdale
Really out chea
My nikka, 1993 had MC Lyte out here lookin for a ruff neck
Salt-N-Peppa too
When you watch Unsung it's almost amazing that nearly every 80's artist fell off directly because of the impact of gangsta rap and more specifically The Chronic had all the labels and fans wanting hardcore music.
R&B artists like Jodeci & R. Kelly went from New Jack Swing to a "gangsta" image with g-funk samples.
DRS came out in 1993 with "Gangsta Lean" and were the first to really cuss like gangsta rappers as an R&B group.
They even had a song about them straight up committing rape
It's 1994 but it's hilarious that Ready For The World lead singer Melvin Riley went from jheri curls to gangsta
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