Semi-off topic: TonyVanDam, did you ever listen to any New Orleans Bounce Music?

What did you think of that scene? Who was in that scene? I kept hearing that term thrown around by different magazines when they described the dance/booty music that was coming out of that region around the middle '90s.

Mara said:

DJ Jubellie - Monkey on the Stick.

how could y'all forget this cover, it was in the booklets for about 2 years that has to be the only reason it charted number 17 on the pop charts.





Or what about the GOAT No Limit album cover.

Damn, nobody wanted to use their real names on those albums.

"A-Lexxus" on the Mercedes album....

This was some of the shittiest music ever made. I remember the time well. Every week there was another No Limit album at the top of the charts, and each one was a fainter carbon copy of the last. Pathetic.

VoicesCarry said:

Yep. Not defending it, but it was more reflective of an underground culture, one that still exists in "The Dirty", that was never intended to be chart-topping music.

And as stated earlier, 1998-1999 marked the demise of my interest in mainstream/chart-topping music as well. Other than the No Limit, Cash Money, crap it marked the surge of hip-pop with DC3, Usher, N'Suck, Britney, etc.

TonyVanDam said:

I hate both No Limit and Cash Money. Those were truly the dark ages of rap. When I first got down to NOLA for college, I thought all that crap was amusing. Then I got home and saw "Bout It, Bout It" on BET. Then that shit blew up! OMGWTF?!

That being said, that DJ Jubilee song ("talk that stuff, now roll wid' it") is still one of the funniest things I've ever heard. And yes, I still remember most of the dances.

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AlexdeParis said:

Every region has its "regional shit." You know, stuff people bump around town that's locally known. MC Hammer at one time was "regional shit." He used to sell his stuff out of the trunk of his car in Oakland. He had street cred @ one time. He blew up. People hate him now.

Egyptian Lover, LA Dream Team, World Class Wrecking Cru and the A-side of JJ FAD's Supersonic cassette was techno-rap (an urban thing that was hot in L.A. in the '80s) -- it got no play in New York and it stayed regional, though. Lots of trends just bubble under the surface and don't make it, some do -- like a lot of music trends. New York hip hop happened to be a successful one, Rock 'n' roll music in Cleveland in the early '50s, Northern Soul, disco was some black/gay party thing that took off, house was something going on in Chicago that grew roots, Techno @ one time was a regional Detroit thing, go-go, New Jack Swing, Seattle Grunge, etc. etc.

I mean, for the most part a lot of things start off regional. Whether or not they get huge is up to listeners. I don't blame No Limit/Cash Money or any of that for "fucking up hip hop or whatever" because it was valid for a scene that was definitely going on down in NOLA -- and hip hop is allowed to have different sounds, and people sure as hell have different experiences. It just got mainstream and influenced a lot of other scenes and the result of that (mixed with Miami Bass/Orlando/Atlanta Quad) is a lot of the Snap/Crunk/Hyphy/Do It stuff you're hearing on urban radio these days.

I can't super-hate on it, but it's a product of something folks were digging. For instance, I was really into bass/booty music back in the '90s and I bought 95 South's One Mo Gen, 69 Boyz' 19NinetyQuad, Magic Mike, Quad City DJ's and 2 Live Crew's As Nasty As They Wanna Be @ the time, too, so I guess I'm part of the "problem"[?] Or is it a "problem."

*Just throwing this out there, not speaking to you directly. Just stuff I'm thinking about in my mind.*

Mara said:

TBH, I hated that freaking scene! Every bounce record had the same Drag Rap (Triggerman) drum pattern sample, with cheap corning ass cants (they weren't real rap lyrics at all) added to it. It's a very disappointed genre than never caught on outside of Louisiana.

And to make matters worse, Lil'Jon would actually steal this formula and slow it down to create Atlanta Crunk (another genre that I hold responsible for turning hip-hop to a total shit-hop state that it is in today).

I forgot to mention that most of the New Orleans bounce fanbase were mostly black women & black trannies! This was consider a bad thing to some hip-hop fans that felt bounce wasn't gangsta. Pretty strange considering a small percentage of the hip-hop community have a few gays & bisexuals on the Down Low.
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LittleBLUECorvette said:

I remember Mercedes (AKA Adina Howard wannabe). Master P made all No Limit fans wait over 3 years before finally releasing that album. In retrospect, he should have burn the master tape because that R&B album was freaking wack.

Mara said:

I wouldn't lump bass music in with this stuff. I wasn't a big fan, but I didn't hate it. (And besides, there were quite a few hilarious moments, like "Dunkee Butt.")

One of the reasons I hate No Limit/Cash Money is the assembly-line feel. Motown kept churning out classics, but these two kept churning out crap at a breakneck pace.

BSK3478 said:

lol i thought it was funny n stupid at the same time.i liked it.



and yes i remember almost all of these album covers from back then

AlexdeParis said:

oh that was my song!

and ice cream man...

AlexdeParis said:

And I suspect not one track was left in the vault. Part of his marketing plan was to have more tracks on each CD so buyers felt like they were getting their money's worth.

Cinnie said:

Exactly.

And this marketing plan was very successful for No Limit Records until Cast Money Records came along as the alternative.

i remember us getting in trouble in school for doing that grunt noise master p use to do

So glad that The No Limit reign is over! I'm a fan of rap music but I could never get into anything from Master P n'em.