I've been listening to lots of 88-96 era hip-hop lately and have realized there are a lot of common topics that are no longer that common, such as:
- Robin Givens
- statements about not being Keith Sweat and therefore asking not to be sweated
- one's level of Asiatic-ness
― joygoat, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
rip arsenio hall
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
nas said "bring back arsenio" on untitled :D
being swayze
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
sneakersbeing "fly"boomboxes
― henry s, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
wayne had a robin givens line on "damn i'm cold"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, when did 'sneakers' stop being rapped about?
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
some relics from the mid-decade:
spinnerstvs in the headrestsidekicks
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i think sneakers are still rapped about
beepersdecrying the fact that somebody is on one's "jock"half-stepping
― henry s, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure spinners/rims are, too?
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
well rims are, but not spinners
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the gasface
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lincoln navigators
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
40s?
― bnw, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't heard "opportunistic" since Young MC. That's not really a thing.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
running new york
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
skeezers
― 51|)e|-|4x012z (ojo), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
skimmers/Kangols
― henry s, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the construction "like my name was"
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
long standing slang on the endangered or extinct list: maxin', lampin', hittin' skins
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
africa chains
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
afrocentricity in general
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Buggin'
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
three wheel motion
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is making me nostalgic.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Def OJs.
Clientele.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what exactly was an OJ?
― henry s, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.youheardthatnew.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/oj_da_juiceman-bday-bash.jpg
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
was a car from O J, a fancy car place
selling out
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
comparing people to Lou Rawls
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
great thread btw
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
E&J, the economy brandy
― antexit, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
being on an independent
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
parents
red lobster
― Brio, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
pagers
― antexit, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
bozack
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
you not stopping
― róisin bran (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
word up magazine
― Brio, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
jammy
(as in, "...and when I pull out my jammy get ready cause it might go BLOW!")
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
slammin various things like onyx
― tbrrprint (2) HD (zvookster), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
CATCH WRECK
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
good thread
have you ever went over a friend's house to eat and the food just ain't no good?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
pumping it up
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
jimmy hats
― solid yet bouncy (herb albert), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't heard much about Chuck Taylors lately, or maybe I'm just not listening to the right rappers.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
its pretty funny how drinking 40s in rap is now code for taking it way back instead of, like, drinking disgusting amounts of malt liquor
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean what new rappers rap about 40s
that arent, like, joel ortiz
checking yourself so as to prevent wrecking yourself
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
iggidy
― the first circus ringleader in space (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
enquiring as to what time it currently is
― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
do rappers still insult each others' mothers?
― soulless orange bimbo (res), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
obama
― uptown churl, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
bums on lips, fred durst and that other one.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
RACIAL INJUSTICE AND HOW IT IS STILL A PREVALENT ISSUE IN THE WORLD HENCE CAPS
never
― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
dip dip diving, so-socializing, cleaning out your ears, and opening up your eyes-n
― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
someone had a good lyric that mentioned Macy Gray(someone refresh me)
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
fishthe breaks (i'm sure someone has already said this)
― Captain Ahab, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Kangols
― henry sK'naan dropped a Kangol ref. last year.
Alzo: "accidentally hooking up with crossdressers" LOLz : ran across this nugget ("Funky Cold Medina") recently; me & Mrs. Stagger were sent into gales of uncontrollable laffter at its awfulness. Nostalgic doesn't necessarily mean you want to return to 1989, does it? Cuz then, no.
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being ill and/or illin'
― Bashful Johnny C. (staggerlee), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
anything with the words altered to include the interjection "iggedy"
― mike a, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
One's records not being played on the radio. (Honorable mention: the suckitude of radio DJs.)
― mike a, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Allen IversonBeing like MikePee Wee Herman
― Jake Brown, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Duckets.
― mike a, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Ricochet Rabbit
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
housing
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
last black house on the leftgirl I'll house youkicked out the house etc
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
man i housed a bunch of stuff today
― m@tt h (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
doom had a ricochet rabbit line on mouse and the mask
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
lol m@tt
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the weight of automatic weapons
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Thursday, 24 June 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
lampin', warm or otherwise
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:32 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"Call me ricochet rabbit 'cause I click and spray 'matics. And my n****z straight savage "
jim jones
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Sunday, 27 June 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Being rough, rugged, and/or raw. Seems like most rappers these days are totally bitchmade.
― Almighty & k.d. lang (lpz), Friday, 16 July 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
when was the last disc to use the word "gaffle" or "gaffling"? I know Eminem used it on Slim Shady LP....
― the master of unlocking (San Te), Sunday, 22 August 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Jeeps
― Count Scrofula (corey), Sunday, 22 August 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lifestyles of the rich and famous/robin leach
― Moreno, Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmmm.. Kanye's verse in "Us Placers" starts with the line "Lifestyles of the rich & famous" but that was in like 2007.. Okay by the time I finished typing that sentence I realized it wasn't that recent. Carry on.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
grocery bags
― symsymsym, Monday, 23 August 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Uzis?
― Fool's Bauble (Eazy), Monday, 23 August 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
being in full effect
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 23 August 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
5%, Gods & Earths. Though I'm sure Killah Priest is still out there, somewhere.
Plenty of rappin' bout your DJ if you listen to mixtapes. Never went away.
Can I start an alternate thread about stuff that's oddly not rapped about, despite prevalence?
1. Tattoos / ink.
― paulhw, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Killah Priest is still making albums, but I don't think he's rapping about Five Percentism anymore. TBH his religious views were always kind of a mystery to me... There's the Islamic stuff, but then many of his tunes are also heavily influenced by Christian mysticism, and IIRC on one track he claims to be an atheist.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
4/29/1992
― the day the Marc Lois took over (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
02/26/1993
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
missing the bus
― the day the Marc Lois took over (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't killah priest one of those weird black hebrew space jew types?
― king boy swag (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
attn paul:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9aKeRYVqk
― king boy swag (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
loling at 'space jew'
― the day the Marc Lois took over (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
jumping and/or jumping around
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
rev, here's the priest getting his old testament on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERSnyGZwMG4&feature=related
<3 killah priest, genuine nutcase!
tho, he seems too convoluted and weird to just be tagged 5 percent
― underrated klaatu albums i have loved (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"coke and a smile"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Imp the Dimp
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 16 September 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Being a promiscuous 'teenage rebel'Oscar WildeIdle youths in mise-en-scènes suggestive of cinema's French new-wave
― John Lennon, Saturday, 17 September 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
Doing the Bartman
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
no one brags about cell phones anymore now that anyone can easily go and buy the coolest & best cell phone
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 October 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
early 2000s rappers bragging about two ways has not aged well
twitpic dat
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 21 October 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Hanna-Barbera cartoons no longer in perpetual syndication
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link