RodeoSchro said:

Nirvana killed rock. Rap killed pop. Sampling killed musicianship. So I'm not a fan of the 90's.

Although, country music was very strong in the 90's.

Perhaps that's no coincidence.

Your right. Grunge killed the hair bands. I think Rap killed R&B, even though I liked the rap and r&b blends of the 90's. I just feel every r&b song doesn't need a rapper on it. I think country is probably stronger than ever...even though I'm not a big country fan. Country and R&b very similar. i think record labels ruined all genres of music. I think the 90's is the best era hands down for R&B and Hip Hop. Even though r&B was great in the 60's and 70's....the 90's is when I was in the clubs.

MadamGoodnight said:

brooksie said:

Hip Hop's Golden Age...the 90s?! Nah son, that's when the DJ was totally overshadowed by the MC....I mean people forgot that the DJ even existed!

Hip Hop's Golden Age was the 80's to me, RUN DMC, Whodini, LL, Eric B. and Rakim, Public Enemy, E.P.M.D., N.W.A., The D.O.C., KRS 1, Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh, MC Shan, Kool G. Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Afrika Bambaata, Ice T., MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante, U.T.F.O, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious 5,....... I'm leaving out a lot.

I couldn't stand those that I bolded. I was into stuff like this, most of which started in the early 1980s and some of it bled over into the late 1980s:

Soul Sonic Force

The Jonzun Crew

Newcleus

Twilight 22

Egyptian Lover

Pretty Tony

Freestyle

Kurtis Blow

The Sugarhill Gang

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

Run DMC

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde

Wuff Ticket

Divine Sounds

Rockmaster Scott and The Dynamic Three

The Disco Four

LA Dream Team

Whistle

Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew

The Megatrons

The 2 Live Crew

Afro Rican

The ones I highlighted in your post, I never could stand. They remind me of the infancy stages of what the 1990s and today became.

vainandy said:

MadamGoodnight said:

Hip Hop's Golden Age was the 80's to me, RUN DMC, Whodini, LL, Eric B. and Rakim, Public Enemy, E.P.M.D., N.W.A., The D.O.C., KRS 1, Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh, MC Shan, Kool G. Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Afrika Bambaata, Ice T., MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante, U.T.F.O, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious 5,....... I'm leaving out a lot.

I couldn't stand those that I bolded. I was into stuff like this, most of which started in the early 1980s and some of it bled over into the late 1980s:

Soul Sonic Force

The Jonzun Crew

Newcleus

Twilight 22

Egyptian Lover

Pretty Tony

Freestyle

Kurtis Blow

The Sugarhill Gang

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

Run DMC

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde

Wuff Ticket

Divine Sounds

Rockmaster Scott and The Dynamic Three

The Disco Four

LA Dream Team

Whistle

Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew

The Megatrons

The 2 Live Crew

Afro Rican

The ones I highlighted in your post, I never could stand. They remind me of the infancy stages of what the 1990s and today became.

But Public Enemy where far from gangster rap, in fact there music wasn't really ever charting. They had nothing to do with shit-hop

Gunsnhalen said:

vainandy said:

I couldn't stand those that I bolded. I was into stuff like this, most of which started in the early 1980s and some of it bled over into the late 1980s:

Soul Sonic Force

The Jonzun Crew

Newcleus

Twilight 22

Egyptian Lover

Pretty Tony

Freestyle

Kurtis Blow

The Sugarhill Gang

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

Run DMC

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde

Wuff Ticket

Divine Sounds

Rockmaster Scott and The Dynamic Three

The Disco Four

LA Dream Team

Whistle

Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew

The Megatrons

The 2 Live Crew

Afro Rican

The ones I highlighted in your post, I never could stand. They remind me of the infancy stages of what the 1990s and today became.

But Public Enemy where far from gangster rap, in fact there music wasn't really ever charting. They had nothing to do with shit-hop

Yeah, but it's that stripped down slow to midtempo stuff. Rap started out as mostly a 12 Inch single dominated genre and 12 Inch singles back in the 1970s and most of the 1980s were for dance/club stuff only. When rap stopped being club party music, that's when I started absolutely hating it because simply talking over a slow beat bores the hell out of me.