“I hope you’re all enjoying the circus” - Noir

sounds like a personal problem, maybe do something about the racist posters on this site

When will the edumist and vibes beef end!!! Enough is enough

Nah keep going thread needs to get to 50 pages

What is there left to talk about at this point?

terminally online activities lmao

bro said im on here all day every day and yet he can remember and recall something some dude said from literally months to years ago

niggas got some problems man

blud needs to die

So in doing actual research for this question, so I'm not just shooting from the hip, I'm talking about the output from acts like these who had classics early in the decade but weren't putting out their best work by the end of it:

Nas (Nastradamus)
GZA (Beneath the Surface)
Raekwon (Immobilarity)
Mobb Deep (Murda Muzik)
De La Soul (AOI)
Tribe (Love Movement)
Public Enemy (had fallen off long before)
AZ (Pieces of a Man)
Jeru (Heroz 4 Hire)
O.C. (never followed up Jewelz until 2001 and that was terrible)
Onyx (Shut Em Down was a dropoff but they really fell off with the next one)
KRS-One (I Got Next was OK, The Sneak Attack wasn't)
Busta (never topped The Coming but didn't really fall off until the 2000s, his late 90s releases were solid just not quite as good)
Masta Ace (disappeared until 2001, then had some more great projects)

Part of it is that some of these acts were just out of steam by this point, others were in a transitional period and would go on to be great again, but things were definitely changing during that time.

My favorite rap albums during those years were coming from Outkast, Goodie Mob, Three 6, Common, The Coup, Jurassic 5, Tommy Wright, Quik, Dre, Blackalicious, Dilla and Slum Village, etc but if I'm talking 1990-1996 there was more of an NY stranglehold in terms of my rap taste.

Of course it wasn't all bad. DMX, Mos was dropping classics, Pun had his, Fugees and Lauryn were on top, Ghost put out Supreme Clientele. But yeah a lot of the acts who helped to establish NY dominance either weren't dropping or not at their best anymore.

@Vibe

he's very weird and clearly not doing well mentally

i've pretty much checked out of ever posting about ignance ever again, he doesn't exist anymore

Damn that's Ignance? Actually explains a lot now that I'm putting it all together

this isn't true btw

I actually never had issues with ignance, he does this to everyone

if you ever see him in a thread just notice how 9 times out of 10 he's arguing and lashing out at somebody

yeah

Busta dropped ELE which had some of his most iconic songs on there.

KRS One was like a decade in by this point.

Murda Muzik was positively received when it dropped

The Love Movement was positively received.

The only one off this list who was really trashed badly when it dropped was Nastradamus,

And even then NY had a resurgence with all the artists I named prior.

And even when some of the artists you named here faded out of relevance by the late 90s, new stars took their place.

And some of the artists you named like Dilla were explicitly inspired by NY guys like Pete Rock production wise.

This is what @localblaccmane was talkin bout when he said y’all missing context lol

The Love Movement wasn’t positively received, Andre 3000 had a whole verse about how let down he was by it and how he wouldn’t keep going like to fall off like that

Basically that album is the reason Andre stopped putting out music

idk why but her take on california rap made me so heated even tho Cali haven't been putting on like that for years

How so

It wasn’t as acclaimed as their earlier work but it still had good feedback I remember The Source giving it 3&1/2 mics.

I think the fallout came from it not being up to the standard of their earlier work

this site will be much better once kendrick stan’s realize that they’re just as bad as drake stan’s, and stop trying to act like they don’t be doin the same s*** they call out drake stan’s for

what happened to Ryan Destiny? :/

Azealia might as well join hip hop twitter or ktt the way she gives her unsolicited opinions on rap while being wild disrespectful

She's right about kdot tho.....

talking bout some I f***ing won

won what??

i wanna thank all of y’all. it was a rough night at work but this thread has brought me some much-needed laughs. i love ktt

OP won, almost 50 pages