:: 25 Years Ago... 1988 ::

[WiCkEd22]

I turned 14 in 1988, easily one of the best years in Hiphop ever...

[Mindbender Futurama]

SO glad I was alive then.

It's actually worth fucking KNOWING, appreciating and having as much of this music as you can.

It's crazy how it CAN be argued that hip hop culture peaked with "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back".

The only higher I think we might have collectively reached, was with Wu-Tang in the 90's, or with Outkast in the 2000's.

Besides that? rap is some out of control

[Larry2times]

Kid N Gay, Spazzy Jeff & The Fresh Turd, Slob Base & DJ EZ Cock and Too Shart?? GTFOH with that mainstream fake garbage son!!! 14 yr old Wicked must have been a straight fgt, and thats just being real.....

That bullshit aint hip-hop, youve gotta be kiddin me!!!!

[glasshandralphie]

No Young Thug, tho.

[Spartan]

'88 will forever be remembered as the year Da Gawd A$AP Rocky was born. The real Rakim.

[Blockhead]

dat insignia, tho

[ChaMerZ]

Ultramagnetic is the only one out of the bunch that's listenable.

[step one]

Ultramagnetic is the only one out of the bunch that's listenable.

[seagrams hotsauce]

No Young Thug, tho.

[sleazy_j]

yeah but isn't it true that the vinyl singles of ultramag were better than the album versions?

[WiCkEd22]

The only higher I think we might have collectively reached, was with Wu-Tang in the 90's, or with Outkast in the 2000's.

PLEASE tell me that you're joking about that OutKast comment. Cuz if not... *shaking head*

OutKast had one really good album (their debut) and a good album (their 2nd album). After that, they went POP and only had good songs here & there. C'mon, son... we're talkin about Hiphop here!!

[Philaflava]

because when we're 13, 14 or 15 we just know what good taste is. i loved '88 but it wasn't until the 90s where i really listened to most of the music from that year or even knew how to appreciate it.

i listened to four horseman in its entirety before i did critical beatdown. i am almost positive i bought it first too.

[sleazy_j]

you kinda forgot LL Cool J in that collage. and his nemesis Kool Moe Dee.
you're giving MC Shan too much credit, too. his singles weren't as big sellers as the rest of the rappers in that pic during the year of 1988.
i'm definitely sure that Kool Moe Dee was getting more spins.

[ackbar]

the year i was 14 is up there as one of the best too imo

[Blockhead]

Man, I'll never forget where I was when i thought "Goddamn Outkast for going pop!". It was a cold day.

[observe911]

Fuck that list..it's all about this album



My perogative>>>>>>>>any rap song in 88

[Dusty Fingers]

94 close thread

[hellriser]

Ultramagnetic is the only one out of the bunch that's listenable.

only ultramag record and pe aged well from this list ,and maybe slick rick

[Blockhead]

Ultramagnetic is the only one out of the bunch that's listenable.

only ultramag record and pe aged well from this list ,and maybe slick rick

Jesus christ guys, get it together with these awful opinions.
Now I'm starting to feel like how Wicked must feel 24/7...with less asian fetish though.

[Dan]

you kinda forgot LL Cool J in that collage. and his nemesis Kool Moe Dee.

No, he didn't. Neither released any albums in 1988.

What I don't get is, why make a thread celebrating 25 years since 1988 less than a week before 2014 starts?

[zombie]

in 1988, I was 2 years old.

Bunch of dinosaurs on this site.

[LilLeftBrain]

i spent 1988 making rounds in a lazy river in the thick of a swamp in florida, bunch of fucks around here wouldn't know a durable tube from a seat of cat tails with their bottoms wet thinking that plank of woods a croc

[WiCkEd22]

What I don't get is, why make a thread celebrating 25 years since 1988 less than a week before 2014 starts?

FYI: I did NOT make that collage of album covers... I saw it on Twitter the night I made this thread and thought it would be cool to post. If I made it, I would not have used some of those albums as there were much better albums (in my opinion) then Audio Two, Kid-N-Play, Rob Base, Run-DMC and Salt-N-Pepa. Instead of those, I would have picked... JVC F.O.R.C.E. "Doin' Damage", Kool G Rap & DJ Polo "Road To The Riches", Lakim Shabazz "Pure Righteousness", Steady B "Let The Hustlers Play", and Tuff Crew "Danger Zone".

Damn, there was also Krown Rulers "Paper Chase" and Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud "Girls I Got 'Em Locked" that came out in '88. The only one I didn't know about and didn't have on tape back then was the Krown Rulers album.

[step one]

Threads like this are a timely reminder that attempts to discuss any rap released prior to Illmatic on the internet is bad idea*

(*outside of the DWG forum where the reverse is often true)

[hellriser]

Ultramagnetic is the only one out of the bunch that's listenable.

only ultramag record and pe aged well from this list ,and maybe slick rick

Jesus christ guys, get it together with these awful opinions.
Now I'm starting to feel like how Wicked must feel 24/7...with less asian fetish though.

relax this is wicked thread..

[Mindbender Futurama]

Man, I'll never forget where I was when i thought "Goddamn Outkast for going pop!". It was a cold day.

Man, I'll never forget where I was when i thought "Goddamn Outkast for going pop!". It was a cold day.

Man, I'll never forget where I was when i thought "Goddamn Outkast for going pop!". It was a cold day.

Man, I'll never forget where I was when i thought "Goddamn Outkast for going pop!". It was a cold day.

Man, I'll never forget where I was when i thought "Goddamn Outkast for going pop!". It was a cold day.

THIS HAD TO BE DONE CAUSE ISN'T ENOUGH FOR THIS ASS MUHFUCKIN ASS ASS ASS BULLLLLLSHIT

WICKED

[Mindbender Futurama]

if you guys don't like MOST of the music in the original picture... you're just as fucking as wicked!!!!!!!!!

I am seriously doubled over in pain, laughing at how WACK someone has to be to say something like "yo, 1988 hip hop is mostly garbage, son!"

hahahahahahahahaha wow y'all are fucked, word to

PEACE TO BLOCKHEAD

rap is out of control.

[Mindbender Futurama]

Fuck that list..it's all about this album



My perogative>>>>>>>>any rap song in 88

anyone who had good taste + ears in 1998 had this song in their life for a GOOD while

so tell meee tell meeeeee whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Mindbender Futurama]

wicked... I give people chances all the time. i'm still open to dialogue with thun. i'll talk to drizzle about things. anyone can drop a jewel.

but honestly.

YOU are fucking being serious? you are not calling Outkast hip hop? THEY sold out? The group that won 8 Grammys for the double album where each artist is completely fucking different from the other artist and there's like 20 genres of Black music and beats and singing and poetry and funk on those albums?

this is the fucking end of my trying with you. i give up on you having a mind open enough for the universe to inject some awareness into it

Outkast "went pop and had a few good songs here and there?" h, k, son.

YOUR "OPINION" DESERVES A

FROM HIFFOP! KULCHA

[step one]

In Wicked's mind, if its not 96bpm with scratching in the chorus its not real HipHop **shrugs**