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honestly, this was the point where I started to tune out mainstream black music unless it was from my goto artists.i agree that many things were more enjoyable then. record stores used to spend many a night in there just digging as a lonesome teen
but be honest, you see Baby Phat as good because 1) it's De La 2) it's not the weirdo shyt we hear on WPGC today. but when that song came out, lotta cats were at that shyt, it doesn't hold a candle to earlier de la
but to show you that i feel your argument in part, i do marvel at how un-grimey the radio got. Blackout! was released in 1999, and one of the hardest songs out has Ja Rule and LL. LL always had a soft side, so he didn't get crucified for churning out J Lo hits, but Ja went from Jay, X, Meth and Red to J Lo and Ashanti
i guess my problem was not so much the music itself, but just that you were forced to listen to it if you wanted to hear hip hop. like i said, we were bombarded
I dug the production on fabolous' cut, but I couldnt stand him as a rapper. But all these brehs wanted to look like him, and it astounded me.
I started to lose it with JayZ around this time as well, and everything was produced by the Neptunes. It got annoying fast.
But there were A LOT more good songs back then than now.
Something changed between 99 and 20002 in black music because there were some HARD records on the radio back in that period but then in the early 2000s it became all R&B infused to today where its mostly European pop influenced shyt.