What was the worst year in hip hop history?

[gman82]

'97.

It was the beginning of the end. Pac was gone for good, Snoop fell off, Dre left Death Row & Suge went to jail. In short, the west coast died! Biggie died, Master P, Puffy, and Missy took over the game and redefined hip hop music! This opened up the flood gates for the Big ad Pac clones and the standard of hip hop music was lowered. Also the hip hop producer begun to become bigger than the hip hop artist. This lead to consumers checking for production more than lyrics. Everyone wanted a timbaland or puffy (hitmen) beat ('97), or a swizz beat ('98), or a neptunes beat (99'), ect. After '97 you had to have a r&b singer on the hook of your single. This was also the year money trumped lyrics. Puff, Master P, and Russell appeared o the sources power 30, and it was a wrap. Whoever had the most money was the best.smh

 

[onepunch2]

The year Eminem took nuts in his mouth on T.V......gay rap music was officially started

 

[Already Home_17]

co sign with 2009. thats around the time i stopped fucking with hip hop and switched to disco, pop and big band. 09 was a low point. everybody was wack in 2009. even my favorite rappers on my GOAT lists dropped some dissapointing music that year. 09 in general was shitty now i think about it. fuck 2009. 2000-2008 wasnt all that bad though. matter fact i was sittin back earlier thinking about how 2002 needs to be mentioned in the same sentence as 1988, 1994. 2002 had dope music coming out every month a lot of rappers were just reaching their primes in 02. mainstream hip hop was tolerable and bumpable. the new wave of independent artist were arriving. the mechanics of creating hip hop music and marketing/distributing started to change in this year. 02 was the shit historic year. 03 was dope. 04 was another classic year. 2005-2006 booming innovative year. wont be appreciated for another decade. 2007 was eh to me. 2008 was better but 09 is when it all started to end. 2010 was wack. 2011 is wacker.

i kept reading, waiting for the jay-z insult but it never came

im disappointed

 

[its....JOHN B]

08 was weak

 

[EasyStylez]

Toss up between 97 and 2006 by far...leaning towards 06 the rise of the "Hip Hop is Dead" rap we dealt with until 2009

 

[its....JOHN B]

I honestly thought 97 was bad but 2001 was so forgettable outside of two albums.

01?? stillmatic, blueprint, the realness, blaktrash, infamy, broken silence, kiss the game goodbye, bulletproof wallets, disposable arts, revolutionary vol 1, john p kelly, bon appetit, against all odds..

 

[its....JOHN B]

How the fuck y'all gonna say 2006? I mean there was def wack shit but c'mon now.

2006, good or bad, had "King" (T.I.), "Doctor's Advocate" (The Game), "Big Bang" (Busta Rhymes), "Release Therapy" (Ludacris), "Kingdome Come" (Jay-Z), "Hip Hop Is Dead" (Nas), "The Blue Carpet Treatment" (Snoop Dogg), "Food & Liquor" (Lupe Fiasco), "The Inspiration" (Jeezy), "Laugh Now, Cry Later" (Ice Cube), "Blood Money" (Mobb Deep), "Fishscale" (Ghostface) and many more.

Y'all niggas is trippin'. I'd say '97 had more wack shit than good cuz that's when the whole R&B mixed with party rap shit became bigger in the mainstream. 2000-2001 was the years of singles more-so than albums (with a few exceptions) so i guess you can count those years. 2002 and 2004 was pretty boring overall too. Plus let's not even talk about 2007-2009 with the exception of a few joints like Kanye and so on.

agreed dont forget 4:21 the day after, 2nd rounds on me, the last stand, more fish, etc...

 

[Got iT Por Barato]

I would say in between 07' -09'

 

[Disciplined InSight]

1997 and 2006......