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Post by watergod83 on Sept 13, 2020 17:16:46 GMT 10
By "bling era," I mean when rap songs became less about life on the streets, or gang violence, or drugs and more about cars, chains, women, and mansions? It seems like the general consensus is that the east-west coast hip hop feud was over by around 1997. Furthermore, in the late 90s, there were a lot more artists dominating from other regions of the US, not just the east and west coast but also the midwest and south. It seems like just a year before that, in '96, you still had boom bap in the east and g-funk in the west. In fact, it seems like '96 was one of the best years for hip hop. Not the case with '97. The midwest and south were of marginal importance (except for Outkast with their seminal sophomore album "ATLiens", IMO their best album). But what do you guys think?
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Post by John Titor on Sept 14, 2020 2:42:24 GMT 10
By "bling era," I mean when rap songs became less about life on the streets, or gang violence, or drugs and more about cars, chains, women, and mansions? It seems like the general consensus is that the east-west coast hip hop feud was over by around 1997. Furthermore, in the late 90s, there were a lot more artists dominating from other regions of the US, not just the east and west coast but also the midwest and south. It seems like just a year before that, in '96, you still had boom bap in the east and g-funk in the west. In fact, it seems like '96 was one of the best years for hip hop. Not the case with '97. The midwest and south were of marginal importance (except for Outkast with their seminal sophomore album "ATLiens", IMO their best album). But what do you guys think? around the time of shiny suit rap in 1997, but if you are talking about the 2000s bling, it was 2001 and 2002 school year when it was in every music video and had spinning rims in it, this is also when throwback NBA Jerseys got big @ the same time.
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Post by #Infinity on Sept 14, 2020 11:14:09 GMT 10
1997 was when hip hop made a screeching shift towards flashy consumerism more than anything else. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy and Mase was the big #1 hit that instigated the change. Granted, bling rap had its roots in mafioso rap, which was popular around 1995-1997, but the entire tone of hip hop became very different once the Puff Daddy era started.
Meanwhile, hardcore gangsta rap was far from over, but it moved squarely towards the Dirty South, beginning with Master P's No Limit Soldiers, then expanding to Cash Money Records around 1999. It did migrate more across the country again with Dr. Dre's comeback at the dawn of the new century, and gangsta rap as a whole was dominated by Aftermath Records throughout the early and mid-2000s. Gangsta rap died as a mainstream genre with the failure of 50 Cent's Curtis album, though in my opinion "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone was the final major gangsta rap hit.
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