This stack gives you a glimpse of just how special 1995 was. I realize I’m missing a few releases too. I just have a lot of these on vinyl or cassette tape. Labcabincalifornia, Sittin’ On Chrome, E. 1999 Eternal, Operation Stackola, Curb Servin’, Temples of Boom, Season of Da Siccness, Brothas Doobie, even the Jamal and Miilkbone debuts. 1996 was great too, but ’95 was the last year in the 2nd golden era IMO. ’96 hip-hop greatly changed and then by ’97 the jiggy-era had begun.
# 5 could easily have been AZ, Big L, Fat Joe, G Rap, 2PAC, etc
Cause Mic G is just a personal around the way favorite (and it is actually a really well put together album) and it's impossible not to have GZA in there. LS is a favorite obviously but I loved a lot of records that year. Just impossible to not have it on the list.
g rap's album would have been much better if he replaced the regular versions of "fast life" and "it's a shame" with the "fast life" buckwild remix and "hey mister mister"...
Yes, great year! All those are my favorites. Back when artist made it a point to not only put out classic material but create a sound that would define the NYC experience and vibe to the rest of the world. I remember feeling like the Mobb, Smif N Wessun, Kool G Rap, Show & A.G. and Group Home albums evoked the gritty NYC street vibe.
Anyone else surprised at how dark the Show & A.G. Goodfellas album was in comparison to Runaway Slave? I know I was.
I remember going to an in-store for Liquid Swords and meeting GZA, he signed my copy of Words From The Genius. In comparison to 93' Til Infinity, I remember feeling underwhelmed by that Souls Of Mischief sophomore LP when it came out. I need go revisit that one and see how I feel now.
I always say '95 was the last great year for FM NYC radio. You had two Pete Rock and Marley Marl shows, Stretch & Bobbito, The Awesome Two, Evil Dee, Mister Magic & Mister Cee, Funkmaster Flex, and New York Live all on each week. I remember being in a state of confusion as to what show I was gonna tape.
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Kool Max Power wrote:gza, rae, mobb deep, goodie mob & smif n wessun
g rap's album would have been much better if he replaced the regular versions of "fast life" and "it's a shame" with the "fast life" buckwild remix and "hey mister mister"...
Imagine a song like Hey Mister Mister coming out today?
AZ - Your World Don't Stop O.G version
Biggie - Who Shot Ya?
Biggie - One More Chance remix
2Pac & Dr. Dre - California Love
Luniz ft. Dru Down etc etc - I Got 5 On It remix
J-Live - Braggin' Writes
Chubb Rock, OC & Jeru - Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers
Blazhay Blahzay - Danger
BTNH - Thuggish Ruggish Bone
Common Sense - Resurrection remixes
D&D All Stars - 1,2 Pass It
DaBrat ft Biggie - Da B Side
Dr Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin
E40 - Sprinkle Me
Fab 5 - Blah/Leflah
Frankie Cutlass - Boriquas On The Set
Ill Al Skratch - Don't Shut Down On A Player
Jemini The Gifted One - Scars And Pain EP
Kamakaze - Spread It
Kool Keith/Beat Terrorists - Big Willie Smith EP
La The Darkman - As The World Turns/I Want It All
Pudgee, Biggie & Lord Tariq - Think Big
Redman & Method Man - How High
Rakim - NY To Cali and all those bootleg joints
Redman - Can't Wait remixes
Slick Rick - Sittin In My Car
Smif N Wessun - Nothin Move But The Money
SOP - Styles
Ten Thievez - It Dont Matter
+ a ton of good R&B too.
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Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) wrote:Best non-album single cuts of 1995:
AZ - Your World Don't Stop O.G version
Biggie - Who Shot Ya?
Biggie - One More Chance remix
2Pac & Dr. Dre - California Love
Luniz ft. Dru Down etc etc - I Got 5 On It remix
J-Live - Braggin' Writes
Hmmm. What else?
Mad Skillz- Skillz In 95
Artifacts- Who I Am
Common Sense - LP/Extra P Remixes
Alkaholics - Next Level Diamond D Remix
Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) wrote:Best non-album single cuts of 1995:
AZ - Your World Don't Stop O.G version
You mean this sick-ass Buckwild remix? That's the real OG version to me, not the album version.
And if *you* like this song, I honestly will end my hatred for you.
This song is a fucking hip hop prayer from the gods and its one of the few 90s songs I NEVER stopped play religiously.
Best of 95 for me:
Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia (A GOD DAMN MASTERPIECE THAT SHOULD WENT DOUBLE PLATINUM. So shitty to see what Pharcyde fell apart into becoming)
AZ (The NYC King that never got officially crowned. 'Mo Money, Mo Murda, Mo Homicide' shoulda been a trilogy with Prodigy and Cormega in the sequels)
Big L (Don't make me shed a tear for Lamont. AGAIN.)
Onyx - All We Got Iz Us ('Last Dayz' is a fucking masterpiece of 90s NYC New World Order paranoia)
Alkaholiks - Coast II Coast (Tash really shoulda reigned for a few years, J-Ro also is a LA rap king)
KRS-One - his self-titled solo album was really good, actually. Nowadays, I can't stand what he's become. But at the time, this album meant the world to me. 'Aw Yeah' & 'Free Mumia' still matters.
Left out the because... well it's obvious. Every Wu-Tang album added a level of power to my existence
Also both Shabazz The Disciple 12 inches - Death Be The Penalty and Crime Sage were next shit.
Nearly cried when I finally heard 'Death Be The Penalty' in full. God damn that record was REAL AS FUCK
1995 WAS the LAST real year of mostly immaculate conception hip hop. Before Death Row raped rap.
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Albums
The Infamous
OB4CL
Liquid Swords
Doe or Die
Lifestylez of Poor & Dangerous
Non-Album Songs/Singles Akinyele - Break a Bitch Neck feat Kool G Rap
Stretch & Bobbito - Freestyle feat Big L & Jay-Z
Big Pun - Rhyme 4 Rhyme feat Cormega
Common - Resurrection '95/Resurrection (Extra P Remix)/
Company Flow - Corners '94
Crooklyn Dodgers - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
Jay-Z - In My Lifetime
Kaotic Style - Mad Hardcore feat Heltah Skeltah, Cella Dwellas, & MOP
Q-Ball & Curt Cazal - My Kinda Moves
Kool Max Power wrote:gza, rae, mobb deep, goodie mob & smif n wessun
g rap's album would have been much better if he replaced the regular versions of "fast life" and "it's a shame" with the "fast life" buckwild remix and "hey mister mister"...
Imagine a song like Hey Mister Mister coming out today?
Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) wrote:Most underrated:
All We Got Iz Us
Yep. I was guilty of this. Think I gave it a spin and left it gathering dust. Never thought in 1995 that this album would be one of my favourites in 2018.
step one wrote:Smif N Wessun - Nothin Move But The Money
This was '96. I had to check Discogs on that because it was one of the first non-album singles I thought of Better than anything on Dah Shinin', imho. Shit, might be my fave BCC song of all time, tbh.
Another 12" only fave from '95:
Redman - Can't Wait (Remix 2)
This is actually the original version which was supposed to be a Tonite's Da Nite sequel but later came out on the Dat Undaground Shit!!!! EP as a "remix". Much prefer this to the stodgy Dare Iz A Darkside version.
Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) wrote:Most underrated:
All We Got Iz Us
Yep. I was guilty of this. Think I gave it a spin and left it gathering dust. Never thought in 1995 that this album would be one of my favourites in 2018.
& 'Free Mumia' still matters.
because... well it's obvious. Every Wu-Tang album added a level of power to my existence 
Better than anything on Dah Shinin', imho. Shit, might be my fave BCC song of all time, tbh.