What was Hip Hop Like Back in the 80's and early 90's?

[moedays]

When pop dukes made me start working with him on weekends and I had my own money to spend, all I bought was mix tapes and albums. Every week, I was buying some new shit downtown Newark or Broad St. in Elizabeth. Nothing like the smell of a new tape when you 1st crack it open, then I would read the inside of the cover because some artists used to put the lyrics in, they gave their shout outs, you see who contributed what.

Everybody came with their best shit is all I can say.

 

[konceptjones]

I remember MCs used to danced in their own videos.

Word to Kid n Play, Big Daddy Kane and Heavy D.

what Hammer gets no love? lol

I will admit I got hooked to hip-hop when I copped the Above the Rim soundtrack, before that I listened to some (mostly the mainstream stuff like Hammer, Kris Kross... etc) but I was still listening to other genres, but once I heard Regulate it changed and it was all about hip-hop, I just did everything I could to gain more exposure to it.

Since I was in a city with little to no hip-hop exposure I had to order all my albums through those mail order CD clubs to get them and since it was a bitch to find hip-hop magazines here at the time I would pretty much order any rap album I found through there.

I ended up falling in love with certain songs and artists that still make me stop and listen when I hear them today. The other day I heard "Chief Rocka" by Lords of the Underground and just stopped in my tracks and enjoyed. It was like a great flashback.

First album Hammer? All day, I could see myself listening to that first album from start to finish right now. Anything after that? Nope.

 

[king hassan]

I remember MCs used to danced in their own videos.

Word to Kid n Play, Big Daddy Kane and Heavy D.

what Hammer gets no love? lol

I will admit I got hooked to hip-hop when I copped the Above the Rim soundtrack, before that I listened to some (mostly the mainstream stuff like Hammer, Kris Kross... etc) but I was still listening to other genres, but once I heard Regulate it changed and it was all about hip-hop, I just did everything I could to gain more exposure to it.

Since I was in a city with little to no hip-hop exposure I had to order all my albums through those mail order CD clubs to get them and since it was a bitch to find hip-hop magazines here at the time I would pretty much order any rap album I found through there.

I ended up falling in love with certain songs and artists that still make me stop and listen when I hear them today. The other day I heard "Chief Rocka" by Lords of the Underground and just stopped in my tracks and enjoyed. It was like a great flashback.

First album Hammer? All day, I could see myself listening to that first album from start to finish right now. Anything after that? Nope.

I saw MC Hammer in concert in 1988, that nigga put on show