mentioning the current year in hip hop tracks

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what a great way to immediately date and age your album.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck the illusion of timelessness.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

but you don't have to advance the aging process. let the music do that on its own.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic - it's the artist staking a claim to a time, and it's a reminder that the music is about keeping things fresh. Plus it's really handy if you can't remember when a track came out.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

1989 - the numbah, another summah!...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think a piece of music being timeless has nothing to do with citing the actual date. I mean, "1969" by the Stooges still sounds timeless to me....despite it beating the fact that it's now 34 years old into the ground in virtually every verse.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus it's really handy if you can't remember when a track came out.

Or confusing, if it's Dr Dre's 2001!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

handwringing about whether it's ok to mention certain details in a song - C/D

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

handwringing about whether it's ok to mention certain details in a song - C/D
-- Al (hoteloper...)

Classic...it's what ILM is for, like duh.

― ddb, Friday, 16 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It depends on the year.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Souls of Michief: 93 til Infinity

― ddb, Friday, 16 April 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

infinity turned out to be way shorter than they thought

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Mentioning the current year several times over the course of a single album - C/D?

Introducing yourself several times over the course of a single album - C/D?

Making sure the mic is working several times over the course of a single album (of course it's working!) - C/D?

All classic, of course.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic except for the rash of tracks that mentioned "Y2K," that shit got old fast

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It's 2004, but God I still love it when Lil' Kim goes '2000-fucking 3'

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it when Dizzee Rascal says Two Thousand And Two at the end of I Luv U but it sounds more like Two Thousand And Flu.

― scg, Friday, 16 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe we could mutate this into our FAVORITE uses of the year on an album.

First nomination: ODB at the beginning of Triumph on Wu Tang Forever:

It's Nine---It's 1997
aight my niggas and my niggarettes
Let's do it like this
I'ma rub your ass in the moonshine
Let's take it back to seventy niiiiiine.....

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 16 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha I like on Mr. Lif's "New Man Theme" where he's like "they're tryin' to pay me 6-what?, I'm a man of the 90s B...[pause]...oh my bad, 2002 new millenium", like he was totally baked and forgot what DECADE he was in.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan and Ryan Adams own the small section of this thread that is not hip-hop related.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay party people in the house...
This is something you never witnessed before...
Yes, it’s the incredible doug e. fresh...
With his partner, the grand wizard mc, ricky d
D, and that’s me in the place to be.
We goin’ to do it for ’85, kick it live, allright?
Cuz you know, you’re all sick of all these crap rappers
Biting their rhymes because of they’re back steppers.
But when it comes to me and my man doug fresh here,
There is no competition ’cause we are the best, yeah.
But as impress, which we approve
And yeah, we realize that we are on the move,
So listen closely so y’all don’t miss
As we go a little something like this, hit it!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe we should do this chronologically

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fight the Power" by PE
"Skills to Pay the Bills" by the Beastie Boys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1998 and the blues is back.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely C every time form Folk Songs about news stories to HipHop to whatever! Temporal context rules!!

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

hope this isn't to crawly/shameless/whatever:

Hi, It's the Mountain Goats. It's the Seventeenth Of December At Nine Thirty-four in the morning… and uh, this is called No I Can’t
you can hear, uh, Mr Darnielle check the time: Magnificent.

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

thirty-first of august...nineteen ninety-six...

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

NO PRAISING OF MR. DARN1ELLE ON THREADS WHERE HE'S ALREADY PARTICIPATING PLEASE AS IT MAKES HIM FEEL VERY UNCOMFORTABLE OK THANKS

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

NB one need not lapse into abuse of selfsame mr darn1elle as a tonic neither k thx

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit you stole my post.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

you gotta get up pretty early in the morning of April 16th 2004 Ned don'tchaknow

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

WAH! (Besides, I was up at 5:30, gimme a break.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

thank God, the pinefox isn't on this thread.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't get it

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Cibo Matto 1999!
I'm Miho Hatori straight outta purgatory
ai ai alright?
I'm passing on your right
don't get snobby with me
no aioli surely no moby
obiwan kenobi told me in the lobby...

etc...

― incrediblyhipnick, Friday, 16 April 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

my second one was a PF one and I didn't want to have to abuse him, to make it OK.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I am pleased that you capitalized "God"

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

thank God, the pinefox isn't a hiphop artist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't get it.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

there's that Tribe track where Q-Tip is about to say the year, then stops cause Large Professor told him to not do that.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

In the one-nine-nine-nine
(generally classic, but that song is kind of lame)

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

PF/etc. records are the most hip-hopping things, in my collection.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

if it wasn't for hiphop records i wouldn't know what year it is.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

would you know what time is it?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

flavor flav wore the clock so you could know the time.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Humpty-Hump: "Here in the nine-whatEVAH"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Favor liked to let you know what *decade* it was:

"we got to let 'em know that this is the 80s
and we can get all the ladies
and in the back yard we got a fly Mercedes...

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

my favourite of these is when redman shouts "nineteen-ninety-muthafuckin'-TWO!" at the start of "whut..". yeah - classic! if the album benefits from the context it was made in being appreciated, this helps2 evoke it.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Most misleading time check? I vote Missy Elliott. I mean is she still in Da Real World, in the year 3000? Vice Versa??

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's hiphop's answer to Welles' War Of The World broadcast.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's true. All the East Coast Rappers tried to flee the 22nd century. Easier than it sounds.

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Exit: pursued by Jeff Wayne.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

[When not causing awkwardness and CAPITALIZATION i can also be found making gross, gross errors in simple mathematics underpinning smart-arse comments. In the same Thread.]

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The best is when a rapper mentions artifacts of the time.

"Sega Genesis, man, I couldn't picture this."
-Biggie on "Juicy"

― djdee2005, Saturday, 17 April 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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mentioning the current year in hip hop tracks - C/D?