tompetrez3;c-10089528 said:Im tellin yall. So much hip hop history/music was lost in the digital age from 1994-2003. I guess hip hop sites didnt forsee the value of backing up their sites
Like jon b telling yall about the smij mixtape cover. It has vanished in air. Its like it never existed. I been looking for years for the cover. I can find part 1 cover with jay z and nas by the towers but i cant find part 2 with nas lyrics.
Also i wish someone can find the stillmatic commericals. Thats the proof that ETHER came out before Dec 4. In the stillmatic commercials nas is sitting in the dark talking about the win over jay z. In the other commercial nas is in the booth and says he is ready with ETHER playing in background. I dont care what nobody says. I remember These commercials were playing on college football championship weekend. That was the first time i saw them. I clearly remember my whole dorm was talking about nas and jay z beef when we watched applewhite blow the game for UT against CU That was on dec 1 2001. The end of Our return week from thanksgiving break. Im not lying, bullshiting or misremembering shit. On a monday morning (im swearing it was nov 26 01 idc idc idc) Hiphopgame.com was the first website to have ether in the world. It was a radio rip not the studio version. That was around 830am. The real player application crashed if you tried to listen to the song and then hhg webpage went down.Then All the other websites including this one kept updating their pages talking about the diss was been uploaded. Ether was front page news for every music related website that monday morning
The wayback machine and other cache sites dont pick up this history. I have even thought about going into the deep web to see if any thing is out there.
Here's some mix tapes from that era. I have them in my possession. One of them is advertising The Blueprint album for September 18, even though we all know it was released on September 11, 2001. So this mixtape seems official.
Somebody try to work the net and find these two mix tapes. If you can't find them then show me how to do it and I'll upload them.


