Your Top 10 Albums Of 1999

[JustCKing]

only people here that I would say were REALLY poppin in '99 were the lox & jay.
nas was poppin too, but he phased himself out by the end of the year.

And this is ludicrous. In 1999, Jay Z definitely was old school considering he was rapping with Jaz O and was around during BDK's run.

The Lox were not "poppin" in 1999. Their biggest joints were Ruff Ryder posse cuts. They weren't out here with Lox joints that had people going crazy.

 

[Wacky D]

Well it was hyped because it fell victim to heavy bootlegging and they changed the album. The album didn't exactly come and go.

Semi-old school being used to describe a group that was six years old with their biggest album in year six is less than flattering.

And no, nobody should be drilled about what's on their personal list. It's not even about that. You still downplayed Mobb Deep for no reason to justify Murda Muzik not making your list.

well yea, they dropped an arguable classic 3 years prior, had yet to follow-up and the album leaked. of course its gonna get bootlegged heavy, especially considering that theyre from the bootleg capital.

six years was an eternity back then.

I WAS ASKED WHY MURDA MUZIK WASNT ON MY LIST, AND I SIMPLY ANSWERED THE QUESTION!!!
I didn't downplay anything. I just called it like it is, and it wasn't even an insult.
if you catch feelings off of somebody simply keepin it real, then that's a personal problem.

 

[JustCKing]

naughty by nature was still selling records.

plus jamboree is low-key one of their biggest hits. and that's saying ALOT cuz they have a big catalog of REAL hits.

but yet, I didn't see not one person vouching for them in here, or acting like they were big chit in '99.
if I called them semi-old school or flat out OLD SCHOOL in '99, nobody would say nothing.

clear example of the double standards & favoritism on this board.
mobb deep is one of the coli's favorite groups. I get it. LOL.

Naughty was like 10 years deep in 1999 and that wasn't their highest selling album.

 

[Wacky D]

And this is ludicrous. In 1999, Jay Z definitely was old school considering he was rapping with Jaz O and was around during BDK's run.

CMON NOW.
its not about how long you were around.

'99 jay-z was at his absolute peak in rap popularity and he was arguably the freshest chit out.

mobb deep was 'your older brother's group' status at this point.

The Lox were not "poppin" in 1999.

LOL.

you don't know anything about east coast street music. you just know whats documented by TV or the charts.

 

[JustCKing]

CMON NOW.
its not about how long you were around.

'99 jay-z was at his absolute peak in rap popularity and he was arguably the freshest chit out.

mobb deep was 'your older brother's group' status at this point.





LOL.

you don't know anything about east coast street music.

why do you insist on putting yourself out there like this?

1999 was Mobb's commercial peak. They had new fans, younger fans. They wasn't "my older brother's music".

Apparently, you don't know East Coast street music. In 1999, Mobb was a bigger deal than The Lox.

 

[Newportbox]

1)Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
2)The Roots - Things Fall Apart
3)Dr. Dre - 2001
4)Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs
5)MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
6)Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
7)Mobb Deep - Murda Muzik
8)GZA - Beneath The Surface
9)Soundbombing II
10 )AG - The Dirty Version

 

[Wacky D]

Apparently, you don't know East Coast street music. In 1999, Mobb was a bigger deal than The Lox.

 

[spliz]

And this is ludicrous. In 1999, Jay Z definitely was old school considering he was rapping with Jaz O and was around during BDK's run.

The Lox were not "poppin" in 1999. Their biggest joints were Ruff Ryder posse cuts. They weren't out here with Lox joints that had people going crazy.

Fam The Lox was poppin in 99. Ride or Die Chick was a dope single and We Are The Streets was coming out. The streets was fukkin wit The Lox heavy.

 

[Wacky D]

and once "we are the streets" dropped, the LOX were basically the hood's favorite.

and that album dropped literally weeks after 1999.

but let the coli tell it, das efx & smiff-n-wessun still had the streets on fire in '99. untouchable.

 

[JustCKing]

Fam The Lox was poppin in 99. Ride or Die Chick was a dope single and We Are The Streets was coming out. The streets was fukkin wit The Lox heavy.

This was tail end of 1999.

 

[Wacky D]

This was tail end of 1999.

they were killing chit all year.

 

[JustCKing]

they were killing chit all year.

That doesn't make them poppin'. I could say that about several artists in 1999.

 

[spliz]

CMON NOW.
its not about how long you were around.

'99 jay-z was at his absolute peak in rap popularity and he was arguably the freshest chit out.

mobb deep was 'your older brother's group' status at this point.





LOL.

you don't know anything about east coast street music. you just know whats documented by TV or the charts.

Jay Z was def poppin but that Vol. 3 shyt wasn’t barely even better than Nastradamus. Album was wack. Big Pimpin kept that shyt afloat. Even tho he had “Girls Best Friend” and “Anything”. But they was like bonus tracks or some shyt. “Girl’s Best Friend” was for the Blue Streak soundtrack. Mobb Deep’s sound was fazing out yet there was a bunch of different remixes to the Quiet Storm beat n shyt? RnB shyt like “You Will Never Find Another Lover” off the Funk Flex Vol 4 tape the next year over. My nikka I’m not even gonna hold u I’m glad u made this thread because this shyt is bringing back memories like a muthafukka. Lol. But yea. Mobb Deep was poppin fam. Why u think the next year over Prodigy dropped bangers like “Keep It Thoro” and “YBE” feat BG. How they sound get old when Quiet Storm ain’t sound like shyt else that was out at the time?

 

[spliz]

And let me make shyt clear real quick. I was a fukkin DJ at the time. Doing block parties, house parties, school dances, and anything u can think of at the time. I was everywhere. Runnin wit E Money Bags cousin as my mentor. I KNOW what was poppin at the time.

 

[mobbinfms]

alot of people were off mob deep. if you cant see that they weren't poppin like they were with the previous albums, then I don't know what to tell you.

and they had ONE hit, being the quiet storm remix, and that was mainly thanks to lil kim, cuz the original single went nowhere.

I think you made his argument much better in the Nas thread. You essentially argued that Mobb wasn’t a big deal to people your age. Freshman year to Sophomore year of high school. That they were Your big brothers group.

Let’s just assume that’s true. I can’t speak on what kids that age were into because I was in college. At the end of the day, that’s one demographic. For the big bros, Mobb was still a top tier group and they weren’t considered old school or to have fallen off. They picked up a lot of new fans that go round to because Hav updated the sound in a way that kept the core audience happy but appealed to more people.