Summer Series: Best Song Of The Summer of '97

[_Lefty]

Wu tang was on that lyrical wizardry, and triumph's video made the song so much iller. I love them wu niggas, but Bad Boy absolutely obliterated that summer.

 

[rahrahrah]

Popularity.....that's for the billboard charts...but my whip, was nothing but "I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies, and hypothesis can't define how I be dropping these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robberies....."

Let me just go and cry right now.....Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang.

When they said they would "return like Jesus when the whole world needs us...", I believed that shit, impressionable youth.

 

[5 Grand]

Wu tang was on that lyrical wizardry, and triumph's video made the song so much iller. I love them wu niggas, but Bad Boy absolutely obliterated that summer.

Bad Boy had the summer on lock, but I'm tellin you when Busta dropped "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" niggaz thought Bus had next.

I was living in Harlem in the summer of 97 and this is what was getting played on Hot 97, mixtapes and cars driving by*

Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See - Busta Rhymes

Its Been A Long Time - Rakim

Its All About The Benjamins - Puff Daddy and Family

Mo Money Mo Problems - Puff Big and Ma$e

Been Around The World - Puff Big and Ma$e

I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy

We'll Always Love Big Poppa - The Lox

Feels So Good - Ma$e

De Ja Vu - Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz

Guantanamara - Wycleff feat Lauryn Hill

* For some reason you'd always hear "Older Gods" by Wu Tang when somebody was driving by but they never played it on the radio.

In fact, there's a classic mixtape called Face Off by Doo Wop and Funk Master Flex. It came out in the summer of 97 and features pretty much all the songs I just listed.

 

[dalyricalbandit]

 

[700]

Aint no south on the list

 

[clairvoyance]

Popularity.....that's for the billboard charts...but my whip, was nothing but "I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies, and hypothesis can't define how I be dropping these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robberies....."

Wikipedia....

Despite limited radio/TV airplay, and a lead single that famously clocked at nearly six minutes with no chorus, Wu-Tang Forever debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 612,000 copies sold in its first week.

No Way Out was a significant commercial success, particularly in the United States where it reached number one on the Billboard200 in its first week of release, selling 561,000 copies.

Triumph and All About The Benjamin's were my favorite and Benjamin's(Biggies verse especially)still rocks in the club today and Triumph is still a classic as well....Wu-Tang even headlined Hot97 Summer Jam that year.....

I can't call it...

 

[5th Letter]

Aint no south on the list

Where is Missy from?

 

[5 Grand]

Popularity.....that's for the billboard charts...but my whip, was nothing but "I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies, and hypothesis can't define how I be dropping these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robberies....."

Wikipedia....

Despite limited radio/TV airplay, and a lead single that famously clocked at nearly six minutes with no chorus, Wu-Tang Forever debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 612,000 copies sold in its first week.

No Way Out was a significant commercial success, particularly in the United States where it reached number one on the Billboard200 in its first week of release, selling 561,000 copies.

Triumph and All About The Benjamin's were my favorite and Benjamin's(Biggies verse especially)still rocks in the club today and Triumph is still a classic as well....Wu-Tang even headlined Hot97 Summer Jam that year.....

I can't call it...

Wow, so Wu- tang outsold Puff Daddy. That 612,000 is really 306,000 but since it was a double disc they counted it twice.

 

[spayspay]

"Triumph"