Aug 17, 2023·1 reply
2wordsOh I didn’t know you were going by that
Yeah I personally don't care about certifications but a lot of people here put a lot of emphasis on that so that's why I'm parsing it that way
- Aug 17, 2023Skinn Foley
Yeah I personally don't care about certifications but a lot of people here put a lot of emphasis on that so that's why I'm parsing it that way
Not mad at it, probably a decent way to get an overview
- Aug 17, 2023·1 reply
Good job itt it’s a good list of albums, lowkey a good resource.
Nothing is beating the 90s imo but it would be interesting to see how mixtapes/independent albums from 2007 to like 2013 stack up. It would be hard to cut it off for either the 00s or 10s because the real blog mixtape era was at the end of one decade and the beginning of another
I’ve been going through and revisiting classic albums a lot, mixtapes is up next
- Aug 17, 2023·1 reply2words
Good job itt it’s a good list of albums, lowkey a good resource.
Nothing is beating the 90s imo but it would be interesting to see how mixtapes/independent albums from 2007 to like 2013 stack up. It would be hard to cut it off for either the 00s or 10s because the real blog mixtape era was at the end of one decade and the beginning of another
I’ve been going through and revisiting classic albums a lot, mixtapes is up next
Yeah I will say the free album/mixtape prime from the late 2000s to like 2014 was an explosive time for creativity in hip hop. It birthed a lot of crazy styles and sounds that are still influencing music today. Like I'm sorry, maybe it's nostalgia talking, but the amount of free classic music we were getting on a monthly basis during that time was just unreal
- Aug 17, 2023·1 replySkinn Foley
Yeah I will say the free album/mixtape prime from the late 2000s to like 2014 was an explosive time for creativity in hip hop. It birthed a lot of crazy styles and sounds that are still influencing music today. Like I'm sorry, maybe it's nostalgia talking, but the amount of free classic music we were getting on a monthly basis during that time was just unreal
Agreed, a comprehensive list of the classics from that era could be crazy. Hip hop has always been dope since I got into it in 05 but it was really 09-11 that was the only time where I felt like it was golden era level activity happening
- Aug 17, 2023·1 reply2words
Agreed, a comprehensive list of the classics from that era could be crazy. Hip hop has always been dope since I got into it in 05 but it was really 09-11 that was the only time where I felt like it was golden era level activity happening
I hated feeling the shift when it started to decline again
You felt that transition in 2016 and it kinda fell apart fast in 2017 sadly enough. But to me, 2011-2014 will always have a special place in my heart
- Aug 17, 2023·1 replySkinn Foley
I hated feeling the shift when it started to decline again
You felt that transition in 2016 and it kinda fell apart fast in 2017 sadly enough. But to me, 2011-2014 will always have a special place in my heart
I feel like streaming finally restored the status quo in the industry and basically made the “mainstream” control music again for the first time since like the 90s if not even before that
S*** hasn’t been the same since then for sure
- Aug 17, 20232words
I feel like streaming finally restored the status quo in the industry and basically made the “mainstream” control music again for the first time since like the 90s if not even before that
S*** hasn’t been the same since then for sure
Yep
The freedom of freely distributed music in the early-to-mid 10s is what made it so cool. Once it got commodified again s*** fell off and every avenue is cornered now
F***ing sad
Aug 17, 20231990s > 2010s > 2000s > 1980s
- Aug 17, 2023
notice the gradual downgrade after 05, although we got a few gems from those years, but look at 08-09....you barely listing anything shows how weak the decade ended.
- Aug 17, 2023·1 replySkinn Foley
90s though:
1990:
- People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
- Amerikkka's Most Wanted
- Fear of a Black Planet
- Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em
- Mama Said Knock You Out
- Edutainment
1991:
- Death Certificate
- O.G. Original Gangster
- Mr. Scarface Is Back
- Quik Is the Name
- The Low End Theory
- We Can't Be Stopped
- De La Soul Is Dead
- Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Back
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- efile4zaggiN
- Cypress Hill
- Naughty By Nature
1992:
- The Chronic
- Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
- Check Your Head
- Whut? Thee Album
- Dead Serious
- The Predator
- S***and Violence
- Way 2 Fonky
- Spice 1
- Music to Driveby
1993:
- Strictly 4 My N...
- Midnight Marauders
- Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
- Bacdafucup
- Reachin'
- Return of the Boom Bap
- Black Sunday
- 187 He Wrote
- Doggystyle
- 93 Til Infinity
- Get In Where You Fit In
1994:
- Regulate...G Funk Era
- Illmatic
- Ready to Die
- The Diary
- Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
- Resurrection
- Ill Communication
- 6 Feet Deep
- Dare Iz A Darkside
- We Come Strapped
- Amerikkka's Nightmare
1995:
- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
- The Infamous
- Soul Food
- Liquid Swords
- In A Major Way
- E. 1999 Eternal
- Me Against the World
- Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
- Safe + Sound
- On Top of the World
- Doe or Die
- All We Got Iz Us
- Cypress Hill III
- Dogg Food
- KRS-One
1996:
- Reasonable Doubt
- Ridin' Dirty
- The Score
- It Was Written
- All Eyez on Me
- Muddy Waters
- The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
- ATLiens
- Hell on Earth
- Firing Squad
- Illadelph Halflife
- Ironman
- At the Speed of Life
- The Coming
1997:
- Wu-Tang Forever
- One Day It'll All Make Sense
- Life After Death
- Supa Dupa Fly
- Uptown Saturday Night
- Street Gospel
- The 18th Letter
- Chapter 2: World Domination
- Harlem World
1998:
- Aquemini
- Capital Punishment
- 400 Degreez
- Hello Nasty
- Moment of Truth
- First Family 4 Life
- Still Standing
- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
- It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
1999:
- 2001
- Black on Both Sides
- Things Fall Apart
- Blackout!
- The Slim Shady LP
- Guerrilla Warfare
- ...And Then There Was X
- Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha
- Chopper City in the Ghetto
Untouchable
yeah this the undisputed decade. look at that list...god damn. can't beat this
- Aug 17, 2023Chris M
yeah this the undisputed decade. look at that list...god damn. can't beat this
Yeah like I wasn't playing the 90s is that decade
And that doesn't even factor in the underground
Like 300 classics from the 90s alone lmao
- Aug 17, 2023·1 reply2words
Great era but I’d 2008-2013 is probably the best 5 year period outside of the golden era
your opinion ofc but HELL nah
the music and production from 08-10 did not age well at all, minus dark twisted fantasy
- Aug 17, 2023
A Mad Ass NiggaIt’s funny cause back in the day 06-2010 were considered dry times for hip hop lol.
For whatever reason when discussing 2000s hip hop, the end of the decade is like forgotten lol.
it is. s*** was garbage. 08 autotune wayne and all them jim jonsin ass beats
Aug 17, 2023
Keepthereceipt2010s were better
I just like what came out in the 2010s so much more than anything else sue me
- Aug 17, 2023
2000s we’re my favorite era of hip hop. That r&b collabs were peak
Aug 17, 2023Early 2000s was definitely heat retrospectively. Regional + musical scenes were collabing with each other(Dipset/Three 6 Mafia, Scarface/Roc-A-Fella, Rawkus/Ruff Ryders, etc.) and a lot of dope moments from the culture happened.
The 2010s especially 11-18 is underrated. The energy during that time was unreal and considering this was the internet age and beginning of streaming as we know it now. A lot of records, creativity, and expansion was seen in a big impact. This is era is probably the last time we saw the impact of the traditional Hip Hop superstar. For Ex. Drake, Kendrick, J.Cole, Kanye, Future, etc.
- Aug 17, 2023
It peaked right before Wayne and Kanye did if we’re being honest. And they’re the reason for its trajectory since. Even tho they themselves of course have classics.
And tbh they would have had better discographies themselves if they never became the two clear leaders of the pack of pop rap. but as they say the rest was history.
Graduation and Carter 3 are classic but 808s Heartbreak, So Far Gone and Rebirth/Demolition Freestyles probably had a terrible effect on rap’s trajectory in retrospect compared to where it was before. But I can’t complain because I definitely loved all that s*** lol
- Aug 17, 2023·1 replyChris M
your opinion ofc but HELL nah
the music and production from 08-10 did not age well at all, minus dark twisted fantasy
I’m talking mostly about mixtapes not those albums. The free albums/tapes during that period is legendary. Pilot Talk, Kush and OJ, Return of 4eva, More About Nothing, Covert Coup, Friday Nights Lights all hold up and can compete with MBDTF imo and that’s just a few off top
Aug 17, 2023drake cole and sean mixtape era crazy
Aug 17, 2023Skinn FoleyThere will never be another 1990s for hip hop
If anything, 2010-2016 was the closest we've ever come to recapturing the 90s. There is absolutely nothing like that decade for rap, the more you dig into the more you realize just how f***ing special that era was. Early 2000s were tight but straight up after 2003 the decade went off the rails and by the late 2000s got corny as s***. Late 2000s was and still is the worst era in hip hop history and if the genre is still alive today you can thank Lil Wayne and Kid Cudi for carrying that s*** on their goddamn backs in 2008-2009
This is the original kanyetothe consensus take and it is f***ing correct
- Aug 17, 2023
with the exception of Kanye being great through the entirety of the 2000s after "Through the Wire" obv
Aug 17, 2023Skinn FoleyIf I was big-upping Indicud or even MOTM2 I'd get it but MOTM is a certified classic lol it ran 2009 for hip hop
I'm not even a huge fan of Cudi like that but history is history
Utopia is historically a 5.7