Best Hip-Hop album of 1996? AEOM? RD? IWW?
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Damn, 1996 was a good year....
Can't really choose but smh @ AEOM leading in the votes. That album was filler central.... -
thesynthesis wrote: »as of 2011, nobody still hasnt heard that tree,
u'd think ? wud go out and cop his so called classic by now....WTT will outsell RD (current figures) before the end of the year....Jay fans and even hs stans dont really care about that album, however much they PRETEND online lmao
AEOM and MATW are still selling
two classics in a year> one overrated album that nobody plays still to this day
have U heard it? -
All ? Eyez On Me
A Banger -
AEOM...followed by 7 Day Theory
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innercity99 wrote: »have U heard it?
RD of-course?
i was a teenager in 96, so i was listening to everything,
RD wasnt poppin anywhere, it got hyped up a little some years later and the hip hop revisionists/jay stans who were lil babies during the 90's think it was something special
even still it hit Plat status in 2003 and doesnt sell as much as Jays other albums, simply because majority of Jays fanbase dont ? with it, RD gets no plays in the real world, minus Marcey.
AEOM defines 1996, Pac had the "world" on lock down with Cali Luv, How Do U Want It, etc.....when i think of 1996 all i can hear is Cali Luv playing
7 day Theory came out end of 96, and then Hail Mary dropped in early 1997 and that was one of the biggest records of 97.
RD simply doesnt compare, -
That's not the point how can you claim no one was checking for it yet it went gold the year it was released
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That's not the point how can you claim no one was checking for it yet it went gold the year it was released
sorry gold is nothing special in 1996, when everyone was goin plat
jay also had biggy feature and biggy in his videos, yet he only found a small % of ? in NY to ? with him
after that album jay dumbed down his style cuz it simply did not sell, thus is why majority of jays fanbase prefer new jay to old jay. -
thesynthesis wrote: »sorry gold is nothing special in 1996, when everyone was goin plat
jay also had biggy feature and biggy in his videos, yet he only found a small % of ? in NY to ? with him
after that album jay dumbed down his style cuz it simply did not sell, thus is why majority of jays fanbase prefer new jay to old jay.
Or you can say he went gold despite not being on a major and with little national exposure. But it depends on your point of view -
Reasonable Doubt > It was written.
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Those options are ? ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!! 96 was a beautiful year for Hip Hop. Im going to go with my personal favorite Iron Man though...
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If I Ruled The World>>>>>Every Song on RD
What was RD even about ? bunch of songs about sellin ?
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thesynthesis wrote: »If I Ruled The World>>>>>Every Song on RD
What was RD even about ? bunch of songs about sellin ?
no substance
lol this is funny as hell
not to mention it was written was lyrically better. -
thesynthesis wrote: »If I Ruled The World>>>>>Every Song on RD
What was RD even about ? bunch of songs about sellin ?
no substance
Exactly what substance do you expect to get out of the era where Mafioso rap was popular in New York?....I agree Shawn Knowles followed the blueprint when he crafted RD, but what he released was close to perfection even though it went under the radar. "Can't knock the hustle" >>>> "If I ruled the world". -
thesynthesis wrote: »but 96 was the year when legends were made and broken, to me the final golden year
that time will never come again, that many dope albums in one year, impossible
I agree with you that in '96 Hip-hop was in it's peak and that's when I truly got into buying the albums. As far as the final golden I have to disagree with that, I would say '98 was the final golden year of Hip-Hip in terms of the quality. DMX drop 2 albums in that year his best ones imo, Outkast dropped Aquemni, & Jay came with Hard knock life. '97 was just a ? up year for Hip-Hop. -
y the knock on rd when legal drug money, ironman,and hell on earth did about the same commercially or maybe a little better at the time
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I remember 96 very clearly. That summer all i heard on the radio was "If I Ruled The World" from every car and radio. Lauryn's chorus used to be sang by girls all in PA where I was staying.
Props need to be given to Legal Drug Money, that album doesn't get the credit it deserves. Muddy Waters & The Coming were really popular amongst my fam that year. Mobb Deep had a dope album but they didn't too much attention from too many people that year.... which is a damn shame because Hell On Earth is a classic still.
Props should go to 2pac who definitely owned 96 in quality & quantity that year. It was terrible to lose him. My older cousin swore he would never listen to hip hop again that year because of Pac's death. The crazy thing about that is that hip hop began to decline that year.
Honestly, that was a great year for hip hop. Nas & the Fugees & 2pac were the soundtrack for that summer. I can't forget about ATLiens, Stakes Is High, & Beats, Rhymes, & Life either. -
JokerzWyld wrote: »I remember 96 very clearly. That summer all i heard on the radio was "If I Ruled The World" from every car and radio. Lauryn's chorus used to be sang by girls all in PA where I was staying.
Props need to be given to Legal Drug Money, that album doesn't get the credit it deserves. Muddy Waters & The Coming were really popular amongst my fam that year. Mobb Deep had a dope album but they didn't too much attention from too many people that year.... which is a damn shame because Hell On Earth is a classic still.
Nas & the Fugees & 2pac were the soundtrack for that summer. I can't forget about ATLiens, Stakes Is High, & Beats, Rhymes, & Life either.
that was my ? that year too. -
the top 10 biggest songs of 96
1. tupac featuring dr dre- california love
2. bone thugs- crossroads
3. fugees- killing me softly
4. junior mafia- get money
5. fugees- ready or not
6. nas featuring lauryn hill- if i ruled the world
7. busta rhymes- woo ha
8. ll cool j- doin it
9. westside connection- bow down
10. lost boyz- rene -
thats one hell of a play list, i can hear each song in my head as i read that list
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son of 1973 wrote: »that was my ? that year too.
Flipmode Squad Vs. Def Squad is still my ? . -
Goin with ATLiens on this one, but its close with RD.
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JokerzWyld wrote: »Flipmode Squad Vs. Def Squad is still my ? .
Mine too. Dope track... -
thesynthesis wrote: »RD of-course?
i was a teenager in 96, so i was listening to everything,
RD wasnt poppin anywhere, it got hyped up a little some years later and the hip hop revisionists/jay stans who were lil babies during the 90's think it was something special
even still it hit Plat status in 2003 and doesnt sell as much as Jays other albums, simply because majority of Jays fanbase dont ? with it, RD gets no plays in the real world, minus Marcey.
AEOM defines 1996, Pac had the "world" on lock down with Cali Luv, How Do U Want It, etc.....when i think of 1996 all i can hear is Cali Luv playing
7 day Theory came out end of 96, and then Hail Mary dropped in early 1997 and that was one of the biggest records of 97.
RD simply doesnt compare,
ok and with that being said how can u say nobody was checking 4 it back then if even U urself was checking 4 it enough to listen to the album and im not sure where u from but
im sure u dont fly around the country in ur G4 asking people for there opinion on the album so maybe where U were no one was checking 4 it but that doesnt make it a bad
album thats just like saying since everyone was checking 4 Vanilla Ice that Album was dope back in 1990 cause it sold 11 mill and u also saying that if pac AEOM aint sale 5 mill it
would have been wack?? ? u know u reaching and u just talking out ur ass like u always do whether it sales or not a dope album is a dope album... im sure everyone in here
who voted for RD aint from Marcy ? lls smh and the ? ? say about "well the only reason ? say RD a Classic is cause Jay says it yea ok just like the only reason ? say Wayne is the Greatest Rapper Alive is cause Wayne says it oh wait they dont... DISSSSSSSSSS ? smh -
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