"Golden Era" Hip Hop 1987-1995

[shonky]

Pete Rock, EPMD, Gangstarr, Public Enemy....maybe I'm just an old bastard.

I am an old bastard as well:)
Man I love those artists as well bro. I also like alot of the new stuff - but there were some great moments in music back then.

I was just listening to Ice Cubes -"Amerikkkas Most Wanted" Last nite.

All the other acts mentioned in this thread are the ish in my book as well.

Some others that I dont think were mentioned that I love and loved are- Showbiz and AG, Black Sheep, Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, X Clan, Diamond D, Lord Finesse, Das Efx, Fushnickens, Lords Of the New School, N.W.A. , Digital Underground, Tha Alkoholiks, The Souls Of Mischief, Digable Planets,
Main Source - " Smashing Atoms" wow (Nas's debut!), Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap,
Schoolly D. Just Ice, Biz Markie, Damn I could go on forever- but i wont bore you all with that stuff.

Diamond D - Stunts, blunts and hip hop - one of the best albums of all time. Nice to hear Fu Schnickens name-checked too.

[struggle]

O.C if only for 'Times Up'.

you lack the minerals and vitamins, irons and the niacins

[serialkill]

biggest hip hop album ever to me:

gza - liquid swords....those instrumentals are rza´s masterpiece

[selector.dub.u]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Cvuqmw ... schnickens


biggest tune ever

Man i've not heard that for years. It gave me a spine tingle moment..

Very surprised no one has mentioned Jaru the sun rises in the east..

Oh yeah that dude too. Jeru The Damaja..
Also Group Home and Bahamadia...

[selector.dub.u]

biggest hip hop album ever to me:

gza - liquid swords....those instrumentals are rza´s masterpiece

I think I listened to that album about 50 times straight one day. All day over and over again.

[marsyas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Cvuqmw ... schnickens


biggest tune ever

Man i've not heard that for years. It gave me a spine tingle moment..

Very surprised no one has mentioned Jaru the sun rises in the east..

Oh yeah that dude too. Jeru The Damaja..
Also Group Home and Bahamadia...

jeru is fire.
so is afu-ra (1/2 the time)

[mushug]

a thread about hip-hop and no one mentions eric b and rakim?

[struggle]

a thread about hip-hop and no one mentions eric b and rakim?

that's just a given. and technically i'd say they were pre golden era.

pharsyde was kinda post golen era, but labcabin is def in my all time top 5. can't believe it's been 11 years since that came out. i am gettin old! and del-i wish my brother george was here, special ed-i got it made is one of my favorites, nice and smooth too, but more greg nice really. leaders of the new-a future w/o a past one of my top 5 as well..

[antilynd]

[ms hathaway]

i was fortunate in that even though i was very young during this time for hip hop, my father was wayyyy into most of the artists you guys have mentioned, and he used to dub me copies of all the tapes he had.

so i was 5-10, living in the sticks, carrying around my boombox blasting public enemy, epmd, erick b and rakim, nwa, etc.

i remember my mom confiscated my 3rd bass tape: the derelects of dialect

i also posthumously got into the likes of KMD, Kool Keith and Ultramagnetic.

sigh. i miss those days, and with a few exceptions, hip hop today just doesnt do it for me

[joseph-j]

I hated hip hop and just out of interest bought Nation of Millions to see how crap it was.

I bough every other PE album the very next day, and listened to almost nothing but PE for the next 3 years.

Yeah yeah I know its a cliched geeky whiteboy thing to be into, but I don't care. They were my punk rock, my Sex Pistols, and no other type of music - let alone a single band - has ever changed my life so much.

And best of all my parents hated them. "Just a load of black men shouting at each other" as my dear ma once observed.

[joseph-j]

KMD - Black Bastards is def my favourite album of this era

MF Doom is the only rapper I'll listen to these days.

I want one of those masks.

[m9918868]

jeru is fire. so is afu-ra (1/2 the time)

Afu Ra - Mortal Kombat is one killer tune.

[selector.dub.u]

i was fortunate in that even though i was very young during this time for hip hop, my father was wayyyy into most of the artists you guys have mentioned, and he used to dub me copies of all the tapes he had.

so i was 5-10, living in the sticks, carrying around my boombox blasting public enemy, epmd, erick b and rakim, nwa, etc.

i remember my mom confiscated my 3rd bass tape: the derelects of dialect

i also posthumously got into the likes of KMD, Kool Keith and Ultramagnetic.

sigh. i miss those days, and with a few exceptions, hip hop today just doesnt do it for me

you had a cool dad!

[ms hathaway]

i was fortunate in that even though i was very young during this time for hip hop, my father was wayyyy into most of the artists you guys have mentioned, and he used to dub me copies of all the tapes he had.

so i was 5-10, living in the sticks, carrying around my boombox blasting public enemy, epmd, erick b and rakim, nwa, etc.

i remember my mom confiscated my 3rd bass tape: the derelects of dialect

i also posthumously got into the likes of KMD, Kool Keith and Ultramagnetic.

sigh. i miss those days, and with a few exceptions, hip hop today just doesnt do it for me

you had a cool dad!

i know! i was really lucky

when i was about 5 or 6, we went to nyc to visit family, and i can remember that we went to this block party in brooklyn, and people were breakdancing on cardboard. for months after that my mom was so pissed because she would catch me trying to do headspins on the kitchen floor

[aaron contreras]

Some others that I dont think were mentioned that I love and loved are- Showbiz and AG, Black Sheep, Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, X Clan, Diamond D, Lord Finesse, Das Efx, Fushnickens, Lords Of the New School, N.W.A. , Digital Underground, Tha Alkoholiks, The Souls Of Mischief, Digable Planets,
Main Source - " Smashing Atoms" wow (Nas's debut!), Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap,
Schoolly D. Just Ice, Biz Markie, Damn I could go on forever- but i wont bore you all with that stuff.

Yup.

[metalboxproducts]

Pete Rock, EPMD, Gangstarr, Public Enemy....maybe I'm just an old bastard.

I am an old bastard as well:)
Man I love those artists as well bro. I also like alot of the new stuff - but there were some great moments in music back then.

I was just listening to Ice Cubes -"Amerikkkas Most Wanted" Last nite.

All the other acts mentioned in this thread are the ish in my book as well.

Some others that I dont think were mentioned that I love and loved are- Showbiz and AG, Black Sheep, Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, X Clan, Diamond D, Lord Finesse, Das Efx, Fushnickens, Lords Of the New School, N.W.A. , Digital Underground, Tha Alkoholiks, The Souls Of Mischief, Digable Planets,
Main Source - " Smashing Atoms" wow (Nas's debut!), Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap,
Schoolly D. Just Ice, Biz Markie, Damn I could go on forever- but i wont bore you all with that stuff.

God finely gives a shout out to all his peeps.

Sleeve notes

[dogdaze]

dunno if they were mentioned already but i was listening to em last week



classic album, funky & very funny

[mudda]

Waaaay too much good stuff to even start listing!

PR & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient

The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

The current climate in Hip Hop doesn't get anywhere near that of the artists people have been mentioned. Its too much of a commercial entity.

Black Sheep didn't talk about the same things Chamillionaire does now.

[kozee]

For me it was 93'! shit was crackin on both coasts! although when I first heard JayDee's (2001ish) production it really sparked me back to loving hip hop.