A Hip-Hop forum from 1993

CorkMan

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/topics?hl=en&gvc=2&start=60040

Back when the internet was small, there was this Hip-Hop board from 1993. It has heads posting during a great era of Hip-Hop, and it is all cached. It goes a couple of years up from 1993 too, even has posters posting on the night 2Pac and B.I.G. got killed.

Boom_Bap

Cheers for that, i'll be stuck into this for a while now.

Boom_Bap

This is excellent, this is when me and my homies growing up started to really get into hip hop and we where discussing all the same stuff.

Some good memories here:
The talk of Dre and Cube's Heltah Skeltah project that still to this day has not surfaced:D

Blow by blow discussions on Yo! MTV Raps after it has aired. Me and the lads used to always meet up for Yo!, it was always on at silly o clock on a Friday or Saturday (before near the end when it was moved to midweek). We would always tape (VHS) the show and watch it back straight away and disect every song and try to learn the lyrics.....good times.

The talk about Snoop releasing his debut! album is great

Shhhhiieeettt, I'm gonna get back to rading some more, screw work

Makaveli

I love how you put VHS in brackets after tape and then I thought damn people that post here mightn't have even been born in 93.

charlemont

Ice t home invasion was first rap album I bought in 93, It was a great year for rap too.

CorkMan

The week Illmatic was released:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/topics?hl=en&start=57590&sa=N

The first mention of Biggie (as the main subject of the topic, a bit earlier a mention of him)

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/topics?hl=en&start=56250&sa=N

conor.hogan.2

Random enya http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/browse_thread/thread/968805a2c508e1b3?hl=en#

Da Shins Kelly

Great to read the reviews by some people about Illmatic, being all 'Yeah, the lyrics were good, but the beats ain't too great' and 'it was hyped up a bit too much', alongside comments from people who had just had their minds blown by the album. Reading that stuff with the benefit of hindsight is cool.

Some pretty good threads on there documenting Snoop's problems with the law, and also some threads dedicated to Kurt Cobain on the day he died. Pretty interesting to read about this stuff as it happened.

Great find, OP.

Boom_Bap

Makaveli wrote: »

I love how you put VHS in brackets after tape and then I thought damn people that post here mightn't have even been born in 93.

And i still got some of them tapes as well....shame i dont have a player to wathc them on

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Random enya http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/browse_thread/thread/968805a2c508e1b3?hl=en#

I remember reading something a long time ago about how Enya has had a major influence on hip hop, i must try find that again.

I'm just after reading this one:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/browse_thread/thread/c4666e4cdffeb9ca?hl=en#

About a year or 2 later he made his comeback in the Gravediggaz

It also interesting to read the stuff around the time of The Chronic, all the talk appears to be about Snoop and when his album is dropping, video appearances, arrests and multiple reports of his death. I remember hearing he died a few times as well before and after the release of DoggyStyle.

conor.hogan.2

Enya had a huge influence on hip-hop? Interesting and random.

Da Shins Kelly

Enya influence? Interesting. I'd like to read more about that.

Boom_Bap

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Enya influence? Interesting. I'd like to read more about that.

I've been trying to find the article on it, but cant locate it. Google has not been kind to me.

Fo Real

The only connection between Enya and hip hop that I can think of is the Mario Winan's song I Don't Wanna Know from a few years back. For the song, Winans sampled the Fugees classic Ready Or Not, which itself sampled Enya's Boadicea. Enya and her representatives became angry since Winans did not seek her approval for the sample, as he was unaware that the Fugees sample he had used had itself been a sample. So, a compromise was reached to credit the single as "Mario Winans featuring P. Diddy and Enya"

Boom_Bap

Fo Real wrote: »

The only connection between Enya and hip hop that I can think of is the Mario Winan's song I Don't Wanna Know from a few years back. For the song, Winans sampled the Fugees classic Ready Or Not, which itself sampled Enya's Boadicea. Enya and her representatives became angry since Winans did not seek her approval for the sample, as he was unaware that the Fugees sample he had used had itself been a sample. So, a compromise was reached to credit the single as "Mario Winans featuring P. Diddy and Enya"

Alot of her music has been sampled, the Winans being the most high profile. But there is something else that connects her. Just. Can't. Remember.

conor.hogan.2

Ye, the only connection I can think is the fugees sample in "ready or not", then much later the mario winans sample. I didn't know Enya got credited on the winans track I knew she had a struggle after she became aware of the fugees sample.

Da Shins Kelly

I knew about the Fugees sample, but when people say she had an influence on hip hop, I would have thought there'd be more than that.

conor.hogan.2

There is according to Boom Bap but s/he can't remember.

horsebox09

Wow, incredible find man nice one

PoppyRowe

golden, thank you