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

[CirocObama]

Hustlin
Push It To The Limit
Where My Money
Speedin
The Boss
Mafia Music
Magnificent
Money Makes Me Come
Here I Am
ETC.....

The Bottom line, Rozay Has a long consistent track record... and the reason why he came up abruptly over the past 2 years. is the fact that t.i. and weezy were locked up, and ludercris fell off ...
hence allowing him to automatically to fill the void..

Nigga please. I've been following Ross since Hustlin' came out even though i didn't become a fan until 2008/09 but i haven't really fucked with his music alot lately. That might be true with a few but let's keep it 100 dog you know the buidness, once niggas starts showing up on TV more and more and you keep seeing an artist name more and more niggas and bitches jump on it. Hip-hop is so much about populairty nowadays when it comes to fans and i wasn't even talking about niggas in here when i said it i just meant generally speaking.

 

[Smo-King Locs]

Naw, the 50 beef and Def Jam kept throwing money behind him unlike then which kept resulting in a loss. So therefore he decided to do a side deal for himself and his label at Warner cause Def Jam aint shit right now

C/S

honestly the 50 beef didn't affect either artists... Rozay survived cause he was dropping GREAT MUSIC while 50 was a sinking ship ...

 

[tupacfan35]

Great Back then.

 

[king hassan]

lol i feel you. one of the worst lyrical gimmicks ever. a couple of they joints were kinda raw to me though (east coast, straight from the sewer). and epmd was my favorite group at that time even over pe/nwa (though not by a lot).

I think so many people bit that style that it got ran rather quickly

 

[king hassan]

Lol you a OG though my dude but i think alot of people don't give them their props though.

I don't think so either, I did a whole EPMD thread that flopped harder than a fish out of water

 

[a_list]

have the mix shows been mentioned yet.......Marley Marl In Control Show, The Rap Attack, Red Alert and Chuck Chillout with the Master Mix......I remember falling asleep with the tape on record....They would play everything if you were known or not

 

[king hassan]

have the mix shows been mentioned yet.......Marley Marl In Control Show, The Rap Attack, Red Alert and Chuck Chillout with the Master Mix......I remember falling asleep with the tape on record....They would play everything if you were known or not

Aw man, we had WBMX here in Chicago. Friday and Saturday night mixes, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

 

[a_list]

Aw man, we had WBMX here in Chicago. Friday and Saturday night mixes, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

Crazy how we had to wait until the weekends to hear rap on the radio.....lol......i kno these young cats wont believe shyt like this.....

 

[son of 1973]

^i know right. plus you didnt really hear rap druing the day at all, somtimes that still trips me out how you hear explicit rap all day now. the weekends at 10 PM in philly thousands of fingers was on record lol. We had Lady B Street Beat and Mimi Brown Rap Digest( 80s), then Radio active with Colby Colb and DJ Ran/Kosmic Kev and the hip-hop revue with Jay Ski and Mike "Funky President" Elliot (early 90s).

 

[bigev240]

I used to be tired on friday mornings listening to stretch and bobbito and I remember on tuesday nights it used to be a underground show outta Princeton but can't remember the name of it.

 

[son of 1973]

I used to be tired on friday mornings listening to stretch and bobbito and I remember on tuesday nights it used to be a underground show outta Princeton but can't remember the name of it.

It was a college jawn I know what you talking about, i forget the station name too though. some of their mix shows are floating around the internet

 

[king hassan]

You remember that show that came on saturday nights wit disco dave and the other cat? It was on wgci

I use to record songs off that wit the tape deck on pause

Trying to rummage my brain for that one

 

[bigev240]

It was a college jawn I know what you talking about, i forget the station name too though. some of their mix shows are floating around the internet

On a good night I could get that station all the way up in Newark

 

[Mr. AJ]

Crazy how we had to wait until the weekends to hear rap on the radio.....lol......i kno these young cats wont believe shyt like this.....

In L.A. we had the nations first all hip hop radio station (1580 KDAY). All New York/Philly rappers out since early to mid 80's used L.A. as the test market for their music.

We was able to hear shit on radio throughout the day/week that New Yorkers could only hear in a club a few times if it was even given a shot to be heard in a club. Most of it wasn't even like the most popular or top 10.. a lot of what was played was very obscure even for back then.

That was the point of the example I presented when i posted vids in my earlier post. New York was sleeping on their hip hop artist (radio stations) and so a lot of their first airplay was in L.A.

On top of having a 24 hour disco, funk, soul turned hip hop station in the late 70's throughout the 80's... we had the Friday and Saturday Night Mixmaster shows where they would spin a lot of new and upcoming obscure artist of the time along with those that made it big for 3 hours from 9pm to midnight then they had this after hours (midnight) mixdown of hip hop and that electro type music (egyptian lover/kleer/wreckin crew etc...) non stop commercial free. DJ's scratchin, cuttin, bridges & breaks etc...

Heres a little something about it from Wikipedia

KDAY AM 1580. During the 1980s KDAY featured a plethora of R&B, Hip-Hop and 1980s L.A. Disco/HI-NRG, and became the first station in the world to go 24/7 Hip-Hop. KDAY also helped bring into prominence the West Coast rap scene, and for that matter, the global rap scene.

 

[Paul Hate.]

In L.A. we had the nations first all hip hop radio station (1580 KDAY). All New York/Philly rappers out since early to mid 80's used L.A. as the test market for their music.

We was able to hear shit on radio throughout the day/week that New Yorkers could only hear in a club a few times if it was even given a shot to be heard in a club. Most of it wasn't even like the most popular or top 10.. a lot of what was played was very obscure even for back then.

That was the point of the example I presented when i posted vids in my earlier post. New York was sleeping on their hip hop artist (radio stations) and so a lot of their first airplay was in L.A.

On top of having a 24 hour disco, funk, soul turned hip hop station in the late 70's throughout the 80's... we had the Friday and Saturday Night Mixmaster shows where they would spin a lot of new and upcoming obscure artist of the time along with those that made it big for 3 hours from 9pm to midnight then they had this after hours (midnight) mixdown of hip hop and that electro type music (egyptian lover/kleer/wreckin crew etc...) non stop commercial free. DJ's scratchin, cuttin, bridges & breaks etc...

Heres a little something about it from Wikipedia

KDAY AM 1580. During the 1980s KDAY featured a plethora of R&B, Hip-Hop and 1980s L.A. Disco/HI-NRG, and became the first station in the world to go 24/7 Hip-Hop. KDAY also helped bring into prominence the West Coast rap scene, and for that matter, the global rap scene.

^Damn and LA rappers still ended up being mostly hot garbage anyways..lol...

 

[white715]

Found some of these joints on youtube if anybody knows of any other shows out there let me know where to find them

[video=youtube;qXMBZyROT5Q]http://www.youtube.com/v/qXMBZyROT5Q[/video]
[video=youtube;JgtalWZ6SuM]http://www.youtube.com/v/JgtalWZ6SuM[/video]
[video=youtube;nAiEB1seol4]http://www.youtube.com/v/nAiEB1seol4[/video]
[video=youtube;XgLctKVC1lA]http://www.youtube.com/v/XgLctKVC1lA[/video]

 

[king hassan]

I know most cats started off as dj's. Then when cats got on the mic and started mc'ing the crowd everybody started rapping. Nowadays I see everybody want to be a dj smh

 

[king hassan]

WBMX mix. They mostly played house on that station but they'd mix in hip hop too, thus "Hip House" was born [video=youtube;EvLHmU6EvPA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLHmU6EvPA&feature=related[/video]

 

[blackdemo]

So i mean how big was "soundtrack albums? back in the day" cuz i know niggas used to go n cop em. i looked up the movie "New jersey Drive" n they had mad joints in the movie itself so i look it up n i figured out theyre album went gold. U dont see many soundtrack albums anymore, last one i seen was for "2 fast 2 furious"

 

[704Hustla]

So i mean how big was "soundtrack albums? back in the day" cuz i know niggas used to go n cop em. i looked up the movie "New jersey Drive" n they had mad joints in the movie itself so i look it up n i figured out theyre album went gold. U dont see many soundtrack albums anymore, last one i seen was for "2 fast 2 furious"

soundtracks were big back then like mixtapes now...the above the rim soundtrack went double plat in 94 and a lotta big hits in the early mid 90's came off soundtracks in rap and r&b that's why everyone copped them