when did the golden age of rap start and end of you?

[Chyeahhh!!!]

just a question. Was having a debate with someone lastnight about DMX for example, and dude argued that DMX wasn't apart of the golden era and I pretty much think he was on the tail end of the golden era being the golden era for me was like 93-99.

[Amen]

Same.

Yo, legit question. You remember that Miami bath salt/face eater/zombie incident? Think dudes name was Eugene something? I just bumped in to some weird conspiracy shit surrounding that incident. No bath salts were found in dudes system just weed or some shit and following the evidence something about how our government has been prepared for a zombie apocalypse and 8 different froms of one. This was all a part of A GOVT plan to introduce zombie like symptoms by an introduction to some genetic engineered type substance and to create a zombie apocopyse? Forgot what the code name was but ended with a 4 digit number 8888 or 8808 SOMETHING like that.... You up on this?

Edit: Rudy Eugene was the dudes name and the Pentagon operations is supposedly called CANOP 8888

[Mr. J]

98 seemed like the last big year for Hip Hop due to the diversity of great albums that came out.

[Geno]

Same.

Yo, legit question. You remember that Miami bath salt/face eater/zombie incident? Think dudes name was Eugene something? I just bumped in to some weird conspiracy shit surrounding that incident. No bath salts were found in dudes system just weed or some shit and following the evidence something about how our government has been prepared for a zombie apocalypse and 8 different froms of one. This was all a part of A GOVT plan to introduce zombie like symptoms by an introduction to some genetic engineered type substance and to create a zombie apocopyse? Forgot what the code name was but ended with a 4 digit number 8888 or 8808 SOMETHING like that.... You up on this?

Edit: Rudy Eugene was the dudes name and the Pentagon operations is supposedly called CANOP 8888


Heard about this. No bath salts. Apparently it was a virus he eas infectrd eith.

Crazy

[Schadenfreude]

Yea that bath salt story's wild as hell.

As for my personal golden era, I was about 10 when I started grasping the meaning of music for myself, so 2000-2001. I started listening to hip hop & music in general, from all eras.

[uh-oh]

i hate these golden era discussions. define golden era?

i feel like everyones definition is different. are we talking specifically mainstream music? or hip hop music in general?

[Ghost1]

Yea I think 93-99 is pretty standard but I also want to fit in dipsets entire movement cuz I'm a Stan lol.... So maybe extend it to 04 and I think that also let's us pay homage to when weezy started being good too....idgaf what uh oh or anybody else say Wayne wasn't good until the squad tapes lol

[uh-oh]

Yea I think 93-99 is pretty standard but I also want to fit in dipsets entire movement cuz I'm a Stan lol.... So maybe extend it to 04 and I think that also let's us pay homage to when weezy started being good too....idgaf what uh oh it anybody else say Wayne wasn't good until the squad tapes lol

nonsense to that last statement

but word to rocafella as a whole

the problem i have with these discussions is you can basically keep extending it out

we can all agree it started in the early 90's because thats when the genre fleshed itself out completely and you had artists that were well rounded and complete.

but i mean what makes the era end? when poppy uninspiring music hits the mainstream? because even in the golden era there was garbage breaking through

[Blue Bayou]

^^Are you Bags or is For Batting Bags? I'm confused...

Ghost1

[Destroyer]

Hahahhahaha
Ouch

[Schadenfreude]

Ghost1 is Bags, For Zelph is an oddity that won't die.

[For Battling]

Excuse me?

[Amen]

^^Are you Bags or is For Batting Bags? I'm confused...

Ghost1

Lmaooooooo

For Battling

[Schadenfreude]

You should be ALL For Battling (the battler) or ALL Zelph (the comic relief), not both.

[Blue Bayou]

sorry Bags :(

[Amen]

Ghost1 - Jim Jones dropping a new album soon.

[~RustyGunZ~]

Jim jones mama wrote a diss track at his girl his careers a wash

[Chyeahhh!!!]

Same.

Yo, legit question. You remember that Miami bath salt/face eater/zombie incident? Think dudes name was Eugene something? I just bumped in to some weird conspiracy shit surrounding that incident. No bath salts were found in dudes system just weed or some shit and following the evidence something about how our government has been prepared for a zombie apocalypse and 8 different froms of one. This was all a part of A GOVT plan to introduce zombie like symptoms by an introduction to some genetic engineered type substance and to create a zombie apocopyse? Forgot what the code name was but ended with a 4 digit number 8888 or 8808 SOMETHING like that.... You up on this?

Edit: Rudy Eugene was the dudes name and the Pentagon operations is supposedly called CANOP 8888

told ya'll about this when it happened like 3 4 years ago

[Enbombz]

I don't know but I was most into it between 2000-2005. On the back of 50 cent getting big. I was already into like bone thugs and Had a few Jedi mind tricks tracks on a mix cassette.. I was big on dipset, then started discovering like boot camp click, non phixion and everything that came before. I used to really know my shit. My interest in hip hop died off though once I hit my twenties.

[ill nik-A]

Run DMC
Beastie Boys
LL cool J
Mc shy D
2 live crew

Started it all for me

[Amen]

told ya'll about this when it happened like 3 4 years ago

Missed it. Damn. More and more research I do the shady’Er the shit seems.

Bout to start building a bunk on my property man.

[Lyfzaa Gamble]

I think he began for me when The Lox emerged and began to change up alot when Lil Wayne got hot, then from there it just turned into something completely different. I stopped listening to all these new trash rappers just look at half of their names

Lil zan
Lil pump
Lil uzi vert
Tekashi69
Xxxtentacion
Young thug

Like wtttffffff

[Geno]

Pac/nas got me going. Shit started dying off hard for me around 05 ish

I mean yall only talking commercial shit in here. In the era yall say hiphop died we still had heavy jmt releases. Aotp shit. Mad underground shit came out so it wasnt a total flop if you knew how to turn the damn radio off.

[Chyeahhh!!!]

nah not talking from a commercial standpoint Geno, just influence, basically shit that changed the game or that the game couldn't live without to this day.

Wu, Nas, Jay, Big, Pac, Em, Mobb Deep, CNN, AZ just to name a few. My fav year for this era was 95-96

[Exis]

Whoever said LL needs a bullet...

[Chyeahhh!!!]

forgot Pun, Pun def made it in there

[Inno]

Round the time wayne got hot.

I mean wayne was dope as fuck in that era. But after his run I feel like these new niggas took over.

[Geno]

^ stamp

[Geno]

But ya id have to say 95 96 also. Good call

[Moe Jetts]

94’ to the Black Album.

People have been dope previous and following this timeline but not enough consistent shit.

[Exis]

Lol @ Wayne...yeah Ma$e inspired me to find Lucifer also nigga, Fuck outta here with your Hip Pop snot nonsense...Your the type of bitch that have every Diddy song on rotation convincin' yourself every time it's spun that "He's so in my top 5!...Man".

[Amen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weDan238XZE

[Ghost1]

exis could you list your top 10 for us...so we could maybe try to listen to good rap like u?

[Geno]

Man. This dude exis been in thendiscussion real cocky lately trying to talk down to everyone in different threads. So i went and peepes some of his writing in OM. Specidically the 'diss the person above you" cypher. Jesus. Some nerve. Where you get concieted from?

Anyway. I dont like it. The arrogance does not fit the writing or the personna. This needs to end.

[Exis]

I've been myself forever son...It's why this gay ass rep thing in the red...I speak truth & you bitches don't Iike real..
fuckin' deluded obviously ;)

[Exis]

& Like I give a Fuck what you feel nigga...

[Exis]

exis could you list your top 10 for us...so we could maybe try to listen to good rap like u?

Lol..In no particular order.

Crooked I
Twisted Insane
Twista
Jus Allah
Vinnie
RA
Redman
Big L
Em
Iso

Now hate away bitches...

[Inno]

Lmao@ jus allah

[Exis]

& your better yeah?...

[Ghost1]

Lol..In no particular order.

Crooked I
Twisted Insane
Twista
Jus Allah
Vinnie
RA
Redman
Big L
Em
Iso

Now hate away bitches...

this is an all time list!?

[veritas]

I have been listening longer and deeper than any of you. My list would be epic.

[Eŋg]

i have listened for less time (owing to youth) than veritas, but with greater depth. my list would be tepid.

[Diode]

I have been listening longer and deeper than any of you. My list would be epic.

ego?

also ill nik-A also Destroyer

[sral]

lmao to be real the hiphop I generally listen to is around 2002ish

a few diff things I'll bump but that seems to be about my limit

[sral]

I fuck with Brother Ali's Shadows On The Sun, Tame Ones When Rappers Attack and Athletic mic leagues sweats and kicks albums heavy

Ransom was dope to me around that time

Louis Logic I liked

Non Phixion I liked

ton of great underground shit at that point

I'm a Jay and Wayne fan too though don't get me wrong

[ill nik-A]

Y’all ain’t got shit on my repertoire

[wasim]

just enjoy the music

fuck all that age era talk

[veritas]

No ego. Someone test me in this

[Exis]

this is an all time list!?

If you want it to be, sure...

[Amen]

No ego. Someone test me in this

Testing you.

I'd like to see your list.

[Geno]

50

[veritas]

Testing you.

I'd like to see your list.

How many and what category or genre or qualifications or theme?

[Amen]

How many and what category or genre or qualifications or theme?

Your all time top 10 HIP HOP/RAP artists.

[veritas]

In no order

Blackalicious
Atmosphere
Deep puddle dynamics
Zion I
Wormhole
Outer limitz
Secta 7
Latyrx
OutKast
Ugk

[veritas]

That’s just trying to cover all genres and took one minute. Come at me.

[Geno]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJPpx8vHoII


Flames.. This shit classic. Miss joey b