Atmosphere

You just brought back memories with that video. Playing maplestory and blasting this while hoping Anonymous destroyed Atlantic Records.

chill lol

I miss this period was a lot more fun

I know they kind of started with Emo Rap but the whole Rhymsayers label is hella influential esoecially the 2000's

The truth

Did we forget The Cool Kids gave us OF's fashion style before OF became huge. Plus they were one of the first hip hop groups to be known about on the internet imo.

snapbacks and retros js. that's all i remember about the cool kids..... and black mags, of course

The Bake Sale EP and their other mixtapes was the s*** back in those days. It was still purely underground, but you had to be there to remember what it was like. I was only 8 when I first heard them on NBA Live 08 lol

Lupe, Kanye, DOOM, and Pharrell were the Mount Rushmore of the movement imho.

I know Odd Future alone is influenced by all of them.

Everyone discussing Lasers from Lupe in here need to realize that Lupe was on the wrong label(Atlantic)at the wrong time. If you wanted to release Pop Rap with heavy promo at that time,you go to Atlantic. I feel like Lupe just gave up on trying to make Lasers ambitious and just went to make an album that’ll sell and it back fired.

I think he lost some fans and failed to gain any new ones with that one album. Kinda wish Lupe could’ve found a way to get on GOOD/Def Jam but oh well.

I’ve had an idea to make a “Cool Era” (blog) playlist with the holy trinity being Ye, Pharrell and Lupe

And all the artists they influenced.

I need help remembering artists from the blog era tho

When you seen the Black Mags video play on MTV in the morning and Rap City in the day time they literally only play Black Mags on Rap City for like a week and never played it again

i don’t think doom fits tbh but I’m not mad

Idk why. He’s mad influential but I feel he had a different vibe like grimy Wu Tang

Bruh, I remember me and my older sister would just rap "I'm Mikey" constantly lmfaoooo.

Those were some good ass times.

MySpace days too

Good point.

Literally was tryna get a post off about how I vividly remember seeing the black mags video and being like
“This different”

When did blog rap end? 2014?

With odd future?

yeah. odd future was the last of that era

Bake Sale a personal classic for me. The Cool Kids debut might’ve got f***ed over worse than Lasers but they were just so different,I don’t think a major label would’ve signed them at that time. But if they were to release WFRB on time,their story would be different.

Lupe, Kanye, Pharrell, The Cool Kids was such an era.

Damn and the future did get really odd too