AUDIO: Defining Hip-Hop's Golden Age

Red light grenlight 123!! Diamond D.

Act like you want it!!

Word is bond Diamond D remix!! With the cal tjader sample!!

then he got on watch the sound
this must be a diamond d set.

Thanks Smooth and Dj emskee

yo, I swear I'm ready to buy these suckas ass new urban pop producers a special ultimate breaks and beats/ break beat starter kit for christmas and send that shit to their managers.

cuz these new dudes, just blaze, scot storch, neptunes all of the plastic dudes whoever they are they're corny.

The HipHop sound pre Versace Wars forever!!!!!!!!

-Black People

damm....this is what i used to stay up in the late morning and tape on my cassettes....

Miss those days.....was fun when it lasted.
One day....the hunger will return...while it wont be the same....maybe we will hear the soul again....

PEACE

Definitive Golden Age Hip-Hop as always. By the way,how can I find that "Silent Treatment" remix. Not sure if its the Beatminerz or Beatnuts remix. Can someone help a brotha out. Thanks.

The Alliteration Mix CD: Cam'ron vs. Kwame Veir(freestyle edition) Dec'06.

Big shout out to Mr. Veir.
Much love Jay,keep doing what you do brotha.

I'm amazed that someone else besides me thinks that 1995 is the cutoff point (or is there a consensus on that?). I might have started it around 86-87, what with embryonic (or late trimester) Kane, BDP, Eric B, PE, Biz Markie, Ultra, etc. appearing around that time.

But why 95? Is it because it was the year after Bad Boy's arrival (and therefore when "thug" started its reign) and when fledgling artists began to put out their demos on labels like Fondle Em made famous by college radio, and when KRS released his last decent album?

Or is it because it's when my radio pause tapes started sounding, well, not so golden?

Recorded Hip-Hop, right? 1980-1987. Grandmaster Flash, Bam, Run-DMC, Juice Crew, Public Enemy, Enjoy Records, Sugrahill Records, Slick Rick...all their best stuff was recorded during those years. I really don't understand the idea of the "Golden Age" starting a year after that. Ironically, 1988 was when I STOPPED listening to Hip-Hop, and I picked up again in 1995- when Pete Rock, Primo and yes-Bad Boy, started producing their best stuff.

Hello everyone,

I'm James and I hail from MANHATTAN. I am a self-defined hip-hop EXPERT and want to let you all know the siginificance of the track at 35:37. This was Master Ace's answer track to Dre's "Ain't Nothin but a G thing." Listen to the background music CAREFULLY. Ace takes it directly from "Ain't Nothin but a G thing." Best part (not on this mix though) is the female saying "ain't nothin but a g thing . . . ain't nothing but a BROOKLYN thing." Haha. Much love to New York. And much love to the DJ: AMAZING MIX.