Another clash, this time it’s, what was your favourite year in Hip Hop? 1988 or 1994? Tough one, ’88 had Kane, PE, Eric B and Rakim. ’94, Nas, Biggie, and The Roots. Damn! Place your vote, top right.
The Real Frequency Playlist Sept 29th, 2008 (88 vs 94 Clash)
11:00-11:33 (Musiklee Inzane Presents 88)
Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half Steppin’
EPMD – You Gotz To Chill
Run DMC – Run’s House
Run DMC – Beat To The Rhyme
LL Cool J – Jack The Ripper
Jungle Brothers – Got It Like That
Kid N Play – Getting’ Funky
Biz Markie – Nobody Beats The Biz
BDP – Jack Of Spades
Ultramagnetic MCs – Ego Trippin’
Eric B. and Rakim – Microphone Fiend
Stetsasonic – Talkin’ All That Jazz
N.W.A. – Express Yourself
King Tee – Bass (Remix)
MC Lyte – Paper Thin
45 King – The 900 Number
Public Enemy – Night Of the Living Baseheads
JVC Force – Strong Island
Marley Marl f/ Master Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane – The Symphony
De La Soul – Plug Tunnin’
Ice-T – High Rollers
Eric B and Rakim – Follow The Leader
Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud – Girls I Got Em Locked
LL Cool J – Big Ole Butt
Kid N Play – Last Night
11:38-12:00
Homegrown: Michie Mee f/ MC Lyte – Victory Is Calling
MC Easy & True – Get Retarded
Public Enemy -
Big Daddy Kane – R.A.W. (Remix)
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
(DJ P-Plus Presents 94)
The Notorious B.I.G. f/ Method Man – The What
Nas – The World Is Your (Remix)
O.C. – Times Up
Il Al Skratch – Where My Homiez?
Saukrates – Still Caught Up
Black Sheep – Without A Doubt
12:00-12:33
Redman – Rockafella (Remix)
Craig Mack f/ The Notorious B.I.G. – Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)
Lady Of Rage f/ Snoop Doggy Dogg – Afro Puffs
Jeru The Damaja – Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
Jeru The Damaja f/ Afu-Ra – Mental Stamina
Jay-Z – Can’t Get With That
Jeru The Damaja – Come Clean
Keith Murray – The Most Beautifullest Thing
Craig Mack f/ Q-Tip – Get Down
Organized Konfusion f/ Large Professor – Stress (Remix)
Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
Slick Rick – Sittin’ In My Car (Remix)
Gangstarr – Now You’re Mine
Gangstarr f/ Nice & Smooth – DWYCK
The Roots – Distortion to Static (Remix)
The Crooklyn Dodgers – Crooklyn
12:38-12:50
Tha Dogg Pound – Big Pimpin’
Warren G f/ Nate Dogg – Regulate
King T – Dippin’
The Notorious B.I.G. – One More Chance
The Notorious B.I.G. – Machine Gun Funk
Common – Watermelon
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – In The House
The 12 o’clock hour play list is NUTS.
The 12 o’clock hour playlist is NUTS.
94 all the way son, even tho 88 was the year of ” evolution” of hip hop on my opnion u gonna have it to give it to 94. That was the year of the two greatest emcees to drop classic albums and of course the most slept on album of that year had to be Pete Rock and C.L.Smooth’s “The Main Ingredient” … I get physical was the joint!!!! And can’t forget “Return of The Boom Bap” which should be a 5 mic album! Great show as usual fellas get at me
With all due respect to others opinion I’m going to have to say the year of 88 was the year of classic foundation Hip Hop that paved the way for new cats to step on the scene, lets face it, if it wasn’t for cats like Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, Ice T, Run DMC, LL Cool. J, Marley Marl, Mc Lyte, Queen Latifa, KRS 1, Kid N Play, Salt & Pep-pa, Jungle Brothers, Stetsasonic the list goes on and one people.
These are the people that paved the way, but also this was the era of true Hip Hop, this was the time when lyrical content was meaningful, this was the time of consciousness and social political issues that were dealt with on wax, this was the era where MC’s stepped up to the plate to send out a message to Corporate America letting them know that Hip Hop was here to say when the media said it was a passing fad for those of you that remember.
Now I’m not saying all this to down size the year of “94″ This was also a great time in Hip Hop, cause truly we had crossed over cultural and racial boundaries, and Hip Hip became a world wide movement and force with the youth, and it also was the explosion of Music videos as far as production and creativity, and that’s what helped Hip Hop explode world wide in places like Japan, Africa, Europe, etc….
But what I’m really trying to say is that there would be no Biggy Smalls or 2Pac’s and so on if it wasn’t for the foundation of Hip Hop stars that paved the way for the new generation like, Nas, Jay Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Common, ect…
One love!
I still can’t decide which year I like best!
Excellent topic by the way – so much room for discussion/debate!
Hollerate!