I just stumbled upon your post. There was an allure to his background and ties to Chicago gang culture, something that media outlets were quick to exploit. Variety: There’s hip hop all over the place. shut the fuck up retard. Back then, you felt the movement. In fact I want them to kill off the ‘golden age’ and kick start a new one, but how can that happen when half these guys can’t even pull a decent freestyle? It's aggravating. You don't have to be old to know how that's complete nonsense. From Dr. Dre to Tupac on the West Coast to The Notorious BIG, Nas and groups like the Wu-Tang Clan, there are countless classic hip-hop albums from that period. While the heyday of story-telling rap was really the 80’s, with most early raps being stories (or hype songs… “Let me clear my throat”), like most things hip hop the 90’s not only improved on storytelling but also basically perfected it. In a bad way. I want to believe in the new generation of artists bringing the culture forward , I really do. However there doesn’t seem to be enough of their kind, and if they continue to be outnumbered by throwaway artists then sooner or later the genre is going to end up on a WatchMojo article such as this. Hip-hop is a passport from a present oppressive state into a world where we are all significant. Hip-hop has two phases, old school and new school each of which give off a different vibe. It may be blasphemy to not give Slick Rick credit for being the best storyteller in the game, especially considering that his classic album The Art of Story Telling was released in the 90’s, one of the main difference between what 80’s and 90’s rappers were doing in terms of storytelling is/was the content of those stories. From Outkast to Gang Starr, the wealth of material out there is ridiculous. Simultaneously, though, it solidified its standing as the dominant influence on global youth culture. While 80’s hip-hop was relatively basic and sort of lame, it did end up evolving into the best era for hip-hop music ever, which occurred in the early-to-mid 90’s. *Nas’s last studio album Life Is Good didn’t go Gold. Hip-hop encompasses everything from dance and fashion to music. Old school all the way. Hip-hop, more than any other form of music (perhaps outside of early rock and roll) is a consistently changing art form. If you don’t believe me, compare Mobb Deep’s The Infamous or Hell on Earth to the St. Lunatics’ album(s). You’d think that with the number of movements going on right now (#MeToo, Black Lives Matter) that the top rappers in the game would be focusing a lot more on social issues instead of releasing songs like “Hotling Bling”. Don’t get me wrong Migos and Future are killing it right now, but they haven’t even touched on what Nas has done career-wise (for the record I absolutely LOVE Future’s Mask Off, despite its nonsensical lyrics). Same goes for Dr. Dre’s The Chronic and Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle, the G-Funk/gangsta rap era might be long gone but the joints on those LPs are a lot better than most of what’s out today. Hip-hop has become … Slick beats and fun music. That extends to the production side, as well, as producers in the 90’s never rested on their laurels but rather kept improving their output as to not become stale or fall behind what was a fast moving/changing game. Then you have Snoop Dogg(y Dogg) in his prime, Dr. Dre’s the Chronic and G-Funk style and amazing groups The Wu-Tang Clan’s 36 Chambers and Mobb Deep. I would agree with swagger about hip hop because hip hop is better than country and most of me and her songs are in hip hop. An it's bassically rubbing it in their fans face that they are living a better life then their fans. Benjamin Anderson Ms. Marae Bailey English 110 January 18, 2010 Old School versus New School Hip Hop Many people believe that all hip hop music is the same. That’s because the first Bush White House had made an issue out of rap music, namely rap music that targeted the police. If you go to any rap video on YouTube and check the comments you’ll eventually run into a comment (or 500) that states that whichever rapper whose video you’re watching/listening to “wouldn’t exist if Tupac/Biggie was still alive” and while that’s probably a mix between hyperbole and wishful thinking, those people have a point. But the harsh reality is the quality of modern day hip hop (if we can even call it that) has dropped severely since entering the millennium. Also Watch. Whether that was due to him being reckless or racial profiling is up for debate, but in the end it was stopping him from fulfilling his potential. That’s what happened with Shakur and Smalls, who were 25 and 24 respectively when they were gunned down. Hip Hop is a genre that started in … I’m not demanding today’s rappers drop knowledge darts in the club (no one has time for that when you’re getting LIT), ’90s duo Capone-N-Noreaga (CNN) weren’t exactly known for their intricate lyrics, but they still made long-lasting material. Their music was so good that they were considered leaps and bounds ahead of people like Nas, whose Illmatic album is one most every Top 10 hip-hop albums lists. As is also explained in the third entry on this list, rappers/emcees were anti-establishment back in the 90’s as opposed to being fully integrated into the few corporations left that produce and release music these days. This is a very interesting question, and there are so many possible answers. 1. Old school rappers began the hip hop movement, encouraged it to thrive in communities and passed the torch to the Millenials to continue the artistic movement they started. Listening to hip hop has reinvigorated my faith in the journey and that you must have faith that you are on the right path. The comment he made was that he felt the period […] Before that, though, there were actual groups that started out as groups and then, depending on the success of their album(s), they might have a solo album every couple of years (while they were still part of the original group). That’s because they took immense risks and were really experimenting with music in ways that producers these days really don’t, as they were at the point in the evolution of the genre where they were being rewarded by experimentation because they cared more about the craft than they did how well a certain song performed on the charts or radio. Stereo Williams Updated Jan. 20, 2018 8:36PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2018 8:35AM ET The main thing wasn’t just that 90’s rappers released those songs as singles, but that they made classic songs that were actually really great to listen to as well. During the 1950s and 60s, many white, middle-class people left the cities to move to the suburbs. From a glance it looks like artists today are happy to have their moment in the sun and peace out with a cheque they’ll inevitably end up blowing on ridiculous things (which we’d all do given the chance). nikki minaj isnt a rapper, shes a pop star. Hip hop is great music and I can literally say it helped me to become a better person. His full-length debut, Summertime ’06, actually feels like a throwback nineties, early millennium album. Mar 21, 2019 177 166 153. That lead to consequences like the FBI following rappers like Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG, to the point that they were trailing both when they were murdered (yet somehow didn’t intervene or provide any useful information to the police that were investigating those deaths). Despite their young age, the two produced what is considered the best hip-hop music that the world has ever seen! The very thing that’s happening with hip-hop right now is what disco did, and Melle Mel came out and made a record; ‘The Message’.” “Right now, we need a 17, 19-year-old individual to make ‘The Message’, to shut down all the nonsense that we’re celebrating.” Today’s rappers really only discuss like five things (women, money, drugs, parties, guns) and while 90’s rappers also covered those topics, they had a much more diverse range and that’s another reason why it was the best era. Illmatic dropped in 1994, it’s now 2017 and it’s still as amazing as when I first heard it. Examples of that are nearly endless, with Nelly and the St. Lunatics, 50 Cent and G-Unit, Eminem and D-12 being prime examples of that. Because of the lack of support, it really made it even more impressive that rappers were willing to talk about things like that as they not only fell on mostly deaf ears, but they also created a backlash that was unprecedented at the time (see entry #9). At least with ’90s veterans there’s a back catalogue of hit-after-hit you can rely on. I compare him to a freshman like XXXTentacion because so far all I know about him is that he got sucker punched at his show in San Diego. The overall ubiquity of rap has created an environment in which thereâ s zero quality control. The best example of that is The Wu-Tang Clan, which debuted with one of the best albums (hip-hop or otherwise) of all-time with 36 Chambers. Old school hip hop typically dates from the origination of the movement in the early 1970s up until the mid-1980s. Most of the more modern group’s albums had a lot of filler, with songs that you really only listened to in order to hear the star of the group like Eminem or Nelly (to a much lesser extent), whereas groups like Wu-Tang really had no weak members and no filler songs. Here are 10 reasons why. I’m a product of old school hip hop but these days are much better. That rebellion in the 90’s took guts as there were real consequences behind the actions those rappers took as both politicians on both sides of the political spectrum were targeting rap as an, especially dangerous cancer for the youth. The type and sound of what’s popular, even now, changes from year to year and because of that rappers have the same job security of anyone working in the White House these days. As this entire list will show, though, modern-day rappers are basically integrated with corporations and because of that they really don’t want to rub anyone the wrong way and interrupt the flow of money they receive from sponsorships and concert promoters. Reactions: an167, garethou, jeeve324 and 23 others. Tupac Shakur, for example, had multiple songs removed from his earlier albums (namely Thug Life: Volume 1) because of the fervor over his music and that all lead to Warner Brothers dropping Interscope Records after people protested outside of their headquarters. Hip Hop is originated to express sentiments in politics, society, and poverty while Rock mainly started to develop with the creation of rhythm and melodies produced by instruments. In an interview with thePress Association, Method Man, from the iconic Staten Island group the Wu-Tang Clan, said: The music was way more grounded than it is today. After that album blew up there were and still are albums from group members like Method Man, RZA, Ghostface Killa, Old Dirty Bastard and GZA, whose Only Built 4 Cuban Linx album is one of the best albums of all-time, as well. Wait, you really, actually, seriously think hip-hop is better today?. Hip Hop has never been more mainstream than it is now. I absolutely agree with you! While there are so rappers that have forged their own path, ie Chance the Rapper or Atmosphere/the Rhymesayers guys up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the truth is that rappers are a lot more mainstream than they were back in the day (case in point, Snoop Dogg hosting a game show and Ice T playing a police officer on television). There are obvious exceptions to that, like Kendrick Lamar, but you only have to look at his mentor to see why he’s able to really ignore the flavor of the month stuff and focus on his craft. A huge – and very important – factor in this longevity and continued relevance is the fact that artists from that era cared about their content. Nas is a great example beyond that, as well, as when he suddenly had to compete against someone again he came back with such a vengeance that he created a new verb (getting “Ethered”). An interesting debate was sparked last year when up-and-coming West Coast emcee Vince Staples commented on some earlier comments he made to Time magazine about his views on 90s Hip Hop. Hip-hop is found somewhere between freestyle raps about not feeling accepted because of the sociopolitical conditions in your country and the Bronx in the 1970s -- when young people were not accepted in schools, but welcome in prisons. Now before you guys get itchy trigger fingers in the comments section let me put it out there: this is in no way a dig at the current crop of hip hop artists out there today. Old hip hop is wayyy better than the new shit. The best example of this is the fact that former President Barack Obama had Jay-Z at the White House on numerous occasions and while Eazy E did visit the White House as well, it wasn’t done as a casual invite but rather as a way to discuss the effect of “Gangster Rap” on the youth. As I said, there’s still a collective of artists that are reaching the standards set by the legends who came before them, and in some instances they’re surpassing them. Nostalgia has it’s place. Tupac Shakur, who was known as a walking contradiction because of the difference between his story telling songs and his party songs (the former of which was really pro-woman with songs like Keep Your Head Up or Brenda’s Got a Baby, the latter of which talked about sleeping around with women, like I Get Around, for example), also did a great job of projecting the mindset of a young black man whose mother was addicted to crack and who had multiple negative run ins with objectively bad police (as he sued the Oakland Police Department for brutality and won). Very rarely is anything uplifting ever discussed, except in the case of songs meant to uplift one's self. While that did extend into the early 2000’s with people like Scott Storch, there aren’t really a ton of producers out there today that were on that level. To be fair, though, the realities of the music business are completely different than they were back during the mid-90’s, as artists have to focus on the amount of streams their song can generate and because of that albums as a whole aren’t as important as they used to be as people no longer have to buy entire albums to access songs they like, so you have to take that into account. Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the greatest hip hop artists of all time, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones – aka Nas, aka Nasty Nas, aka Nas Escobar. "The Notorious Big" arrived on the rap scene in the early '90s, it was obvious that people saw their music as inferior compared to the hip hop of their generation. The music industry isn’t what it was even in the 90’s and so it is understandable that musicians can’t rely on the sale of their albums the way that rappers did in the 90’s, a lot of which was driven by controversy that helped their albums seem cool to kids in the suburbs (not to mention the people that were buying them just to stomp on/burn them during protests). Hip hop is great music and I can literally say it helped me to become a better person. Just look at Notorious BIG’s first album, Ready to Die, that really shows not only what his life was like as a crack dealer but also the pressure he felt as a young father whose mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. I absolutely agree with you! Features Lists Do Androids Dance. Here are some my arguments for why Hip Hop is still as creative and vital as ever, and in a great place! Over the years it has changed, though. The talent was so amazing and the classics were being released month after month, that’s something that’ll never happen again and that’s really the reason why 90’s hip-hop is the best. The first major hip hop deejay was DJ Kool Herc. Forman said rap is the vocal and lyrical aspect of hip-hop. Shakur’s FBI file is available online and is really, really long, especially for a musician (most famous people have an FBI file, mostly because of the death threats they receive). Next: The latter of which, The Seven Day Theory, is a lot like The Dark Side of the Moon in that if you listen from beginning to end there’s really no gap between songs (and there are things you’ll miss if you skip ahead). Err… why is everyone so attracted to hip hop culture? Because of that, 90’s hip-hop still sounds amazing and while it may remind you of a certain era, it doesn’t sound as dated as the production from the 00’s and 10’s, with things like Krunk music that sound a lot like 2007… In a bad way. the list is female rappers who shaped hip hop. Arts (266) Cars (289) Economics (522) Education (1149) Entertainment (1689) Fashion (248) Funny (812) Games (1350) Health (840) Miscellaneous (4479) Movies (930) Music (1065) News (353) People (2254) All types. You could argue that I’m being too nostalgic, I’m living in the past, or the always classic ‘you’re just too old!’. Hip hop is no doubt more diverse than it was in the 80s and 90s, but itâ s also oversaturated. While the aforementioned entries on this list were important (especially the producers and beats entries), the main reason that 90’s hip-hop is the best really boils down to the fact that the emcees that were around back then were just straight up amazing. One of the main differences between 90’s hip-hop and today’s rap is really the fact that a lot of the producers back then were as famous as the rappers/emcees they were working with. @media (max-width:767px){.css-4n1las{display:none;}}Most Read Stories@media (min-width:768px){.css-1s8mc50{display:none;}}Most Read, Third Mysterious Monolith Has Now Appeared In California, Oscar Isaac To Play Solid Snake In Sony’s Metal Gear Solid Movie, The IT Crowd Is Officially The Funniest British Sitcom Ever, Study Finds, Man Forced To Sell PS5 After Wife Realises It’s Not Air Purifier, Method Man, from the iconic Staten Island group the Wu-Tang Clan. The African Americans and Latino Americans that were left behind in cities (or who moved to the cities in the intervening years) encountered many challenges in their neighborhoods, as budgets were slashed and resources diverted to the wealth… That’s how you know you’ve reached peak irrelevancy. I am a big believer in manifestation of what you ask for. I was kinda depressed back then, thought everybody hates me and so on. Ranking Every Season Of The Walking Dead So Far, Ranking Every Season Of The Walking Dead So Far. Not long after the inception of hip hop, many artists split from the disco movement inspired by funk music and started creating music based on funk base line. At the age of 44, the veteran from Queensbridge, New York has been a staple in hip hop culture for well over a decade, ever since making his debut at 17 on Main Source’s Live At The Barbeque. New hip hop also has these violent, misogynist and love-for-drug connotations. Despite what your grandmother, Steve Harvey and the kind of people who say they don’t have a problem with black people, just “thug culture,” think, hip-hop can be a positive influence, in fact, it can make you a better person. What we got from Keef was multiple carbon copies of his first two hits. Even as the almost mythical hip hop legends of 2Pac and Biggie Smalls a.k.a. It’s gone through an abundance of permutations, and will continue to do so. Between Republican Dan Quayle and people on the left like Al Gore’s ex-wife Tipper, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore’s Vice Presidential nominee in Joe Lieberman, rap was basically public enemy number one in the 90’s. I could name a long list of post-90s rappers right now who are keeping the culture alive, but we’d be here forever. If you look at their last five albums both artists have gone Gold and Platinum respectively*. Imagine the Beatles dying in a plane crash in 1964, before they’d reached their prime/late 20’s. In fact, it’s weird to label Nas and Jay-Z as golden era artists in an age where album sales are becoming more and more irrelevant. 90 per cent of artists are not only dropping music that lacks lyrical content but the longevity of these artists is nonexistent. I’m a product of old school hip hop but these days are much better. That changed in the 90’s, though, or at least it reached it’s peak in the 90’s, with hip-hop albums not only having a lot less filler (or at least, intentional filler) but also having concepts. Old-school hip hop is noted for its relatively simple rapping techniques, compared to later hip hop music. Like the theory/justification for capitalism, competition is actually a good thing because it breeds innovation and change. Mixing percussive beats with popular dance songs, Kool Herc was instrumental in developing the sounds that became synonymous with hip hop, such as drum beats and record scratches. People like Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Daz Dillinger, DJ Quik, DJ Muggs, Johnny J, Timbaland, Q-Tip, RZA, Pete Rock and J Dilla produced some of the best music really ever. The difference between hip-hop today and hip hop from the 90’s is that today’s hip-hop really just jumps from trend to trend, from krunk to sing-songy rap (think Ja Rule, and then try not to shudder), to the high pitched chorus’ of Kanye West’s beats, whereas 90’s rap seemed to change based on a natural evolution that comes from competition and creativity. Typically, rap songs consists of three topics: sex, money and drugs. There's nothing like hip-hop music. At the age of 44, the veteran from Queensbridge, New York has been a staple in hip hop culture for well over a decade, ever since making his debut at 17 on Main Source’s Live At The Barbeque. It’s the reason why Cole, Lamar, Chance The Rapper, the A$AP Mob, Action Bronson, Joey Bada$$, Vic Mensa, Vince Staples (who hates the 90s) and the rest of their ilk will most likely last longer than their contemporaries. Bush’s Vice President was Dan Quayle, who discussed Tupac Shakur on national television, which may or may not have been the reason that the FBI was actually investigating Tupac and other rappers like the Notorious BIG. Maybe you’d be right on all three counts, but forgive me if wanting a little bit of quality from hip hop’s current generation is asking too much. The reason for that is because really after The Beatles transitioned from a pop group to a rock group and started actually focusing on albums as a whole as opposed to albums as a way to sell singles (with filler in between), musicians started focusing on albums that way as well. And that's why I think old school rap is better. Hip-hop needs more of that, but it’s understandable why people moved away from that as both Tupac and Biggie died because of their intense competition and people like 50 Cent really just made “beef” into a cheap way to get attention before an album was ready to drop. The 80’s were pretty rough for rock music, but it was responsible for the birth of the most popular music of today, rap/hip-hop. A perfect example of this is looking at how every rapper sounded after both Drake and Future and then compare that to the 90’s, where every rapper had their own distinctive sound that didn’t sound like anyone else (Tupac’s line from Hit ‘Em Up “Now it’s all about Versace, you copy my style…”, notwithstanding…). Could it be today’s young bloods are happy with making something that is flavour of the month, but which will have no lasting effect on the culture? Hip-hop is a decades-old, global phenomenon. Hip hop and rap had to overcome that censorship, artists like Public Enemy, NWA and Tupac Shakur were scrutinized like no other artist had been before. However, the true difference occurs when you look at how […] Here are 5 reasons why: 1. While every generation claims that the era of music they grew up listening to is the best, there is an objective argument to be made that certain decades definitely had better music than others, either as a whole or in terms of specific types of music. For the purposes of this post I use "Old Heads" just as a term for those who hate on the hip hop scene today. Quit your yappin about the 90s being the better era of hip hop! Since the late 1970s, when the culture and music was taking form, there was something unique about the beats and … The 1990s are highly regarded as the Golden Age of hip hop music, specifically rap. Knowingly or... Click Here to join our content program and start making money! They think hip hop is about the beat of the music and the fame of the rapper. It might sound like I’m being elitist, far from it – I want these new artists to succeed, but the trick is to continuously make innovative, long-lasting content. The same thing goes for hip hop albums, as they started out really just doing the same thing, pushing singles and not really having an overall concept for their albums. It was that focus on his gangland connections which ultimately led to his drop-off as an artist. Everything in life has a good side and a bad side. Quit your yappin about the 90s being the better era of hip hop! Much of the subject matter of old-school hip hop centers around partying and having a good time. There was NWA (which technically was formed/in it’s prime in the late 80’s), Mobb Deep, Thug Life, Junior Mafia, Live Squad, The Outlawz, Cyprus Hill, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and many more. These are the thoughts that dwell in my head when I think back to artists like Lil Jon (who I once unashamedly/mistakenly compared to James Brown! However, the first thing I should point out is that it is also an assumption, ostensibly based on the fact that hip-hop is more of a mainstream genre than metal is. Compare Dr. Dre’s production on NWA’s first album to what he did with Death Row and you’ll see a natural evolution that is a lot like what the Beatles were doing in the late 60’s. Nostalgia has it’s place. Sure a lot of it sucks ass, but there’s some really great hip hop … They wanted to make music that lasted – at least that’s how I feel when I listen to their stuff today. I’ve been around and here is no hesitation in my ability to say that EDM is crushing hip-hop right now. Beyond that, you had groups like NWA and especially Public Enemy, that rapped about real issues. 3. 2. It took a certain balance that seems to be off these days. Mumble rap doesn’t define it, but it isn’t trying to. Hip-Hop is an incredibly diverse and deep genre with many sub-genres that connect together in a huge web that brings people all over the world together. So, while there are obvious downsides to that competition as well (see the East Coast/West Coast “War”), when you had people like Tupac and Biggie competing against not only one another but other rappers like Nas, especially, you’ll see just how helpful competition can be when it comes to the rap game. 1. Although this rule change has been implemented, hip-hop continues to fare well on the Hot 100, as many white artists with genre-bending music have also topped the Hip-Hop/R&B chart with no removals. Most of the drinks on this list are real, but not all. We heard less about the music he was making and more about his constant run-ins with the law. Hip-hop suffered at least as severely as or worse than other genres, with sales tumbling throughout the decade. While it did become a cop out for a lot of rappers to talk about whatever they wanted while saying “I’m just talking about what I see!”, the truth is that a lot of the GOAT rappers were in fact, discussing the bleak realities of living in the inner-city in the era of crack cocaine. Here are 5 reasons why: 1. I personally can't stand mainstream, commercial rap because it all talks about the same stuff: money, drugs, guns, killing, disrespecting women, cars, jewelry. It had the GOATs. Yes, they all made bangers that were hot for about a year or two, but now the only time you’ll hear them is at an O’Neil’s or Tiger Tiger. Hip-Hop dance can be broken up into two basic types: old school and new school. After both Tupac and Biggie died people no longer had the two best emcees of all-time to compare themselves to and because of that some rappers fell off, with Nas being the best example. Artists like Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and even Drake are proof there’s a space for dope lyrical content. Some of my favorite rappers are Eminem, Tupac, House Of Pain, Biggie, Jamie Foxx. ‘old school’ hip hop developed in the early 1970s inspired by funk music, which soon afterwards turned into disco fever after influencing the hip hop fraternity. I'm old. Nowadays, hip-hop has faded to the underground and rap fills the airwaves. Hip hop is no doubt more diverse than it was in the 80s and 90s, but itâ s also oversaturated. Basically, they’re staying relevant – by keeping their day one fans interested while also picking up new listeners along the way. Old school “hip-hop” has music based prevalently on African American culture. That’s why it’s weird basketball player Lonzo Ball, who has yet to make an impact in the NBA, can call Nas irrelevant and then make comparisons to Future or Migos. Considering how profitable Interscope became, I’m sure they regret that move now. One day all good music will be forgotten and the music that … So, let’s take a look at why 90’s hip-hop is the best! Today’s hip-hop has been described as corporate hip-hop, because most of the biggest rappers/emcees are really all about making money and while they may rap about things like drugs and women, often in a profane way, they’re really not focusing on things like social issues or taking on the establishment as they’ve basically become the establishment. The death of both Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls left a void in the rap game that was filled by rappers like Jay-Z and DMX (and Puff Daddy, briefly) and that changed the trajectory of the entire genre.
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