it’s also why I get confused when people hate on Andre Benjamin. He came out with rugged, sometimes reckless rhymes then took a look at himself and immediately decided to explore his humanity and feelings. Big boi, Face, and bun eventually changed to but I think their transition took a little longer and was less noticeable.
That time in 1993 where artists had to switch up and go hardcore
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it’s also why I get confused when people hate on Andre Benjamin. He came out with rugged, sometimes reckless rhymes then took a look at himself and immediately decided to explore his humanity and feelings. Big boi, Face, and bun eventually changed to but I think their transition took a little longer and was less noticeable.
I couldn’t understand it in my teens (I was 2 in 88). Now that I’m older I love hip hop from 86-88. 94-98 is till my favorite but I can definitely appreciate, understand, and agree with anyone saying the best years were 86-88. It was considered the original golden age of hip hop and if someone says it’s the only golden age I wouldn’t argue. I wasn’t really doing anything but trying not to piss myself in 88 lol.
94, 91, 88 best years imo
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
As a lil kid I remember askin what happened to Hammer's pants
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That's crazy. Who's responsible for that shift?
Btw tribe called quest is a example of a group that didn't switch their style up but stayed relevant
Midnight Marauders 93
Personal GOAT Hip Hop group and album
That Gangsta shyt made the industry do a 360... Look at Run DMC:
Mc Hammer:
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Even Vanilla Ice switched his whole shyt and tried to rap like Das Efx
:Dead: looking like some damn fools
Blame West coast gangsta rap
Album was garbage
Nah the Wu Tang demo was around the same time, already taking about thug shyt. The difference is GZA and RZA's respective labels at the time had them be Rakim and BDK lookalikes
Didn't have any hits
He needed more fast life songs, his issue was songs that could've been hits came out in the late 80s when hip hop didn't embrace the hard core crazy
avon barksdale
i want my corners
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Reach... those songs are from the same album
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Myra was so fine
Rest in Paradise
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
I'm a Pac fan but his entire Cube criticism was misdirected hate. I think he let them Deathrow nikkas get in his ear too much.
The whole Cube talking point always seemed hypocritical.