While offering his thoughts on a lyric from his “Bars” record, New Jersey rapper Redman spoke on what the 90s have done for Hip Hop.
According to Redman, who rapped “I’m a 90s nigga so of course I think my era the best,” the 90s was the most pivotal era in Hip Hop. During his “Verse Behavior” segment, he referred to that era as the “middle kid” of Hip Hop, before speaking on the impact those in the 90s had on Hip Hop commercially.
He says they were the ones responsible for making Hip Hop as commercially viable as it is today.
“I think the 90s era is the most pivotal era of this Hip Hop culture…We the middle babies,” Redman said. “You got the eras before us and you got the era now. So, where does that leave us? In the middle. And everybody knows that middle kid is always fuckin’ spoiled. And always think he the best. And the 90s era was—I don’t know. It was the era where we was branching Hip Hop over to the commercial scene. When we had it it was large. We elevated that bitch…All the heavy hitter commercials. All the heavy hitter brand names. And they started adding elements of Hip Hop to be the cool guys on the block with they brand. So, we kind of—Our era brought that over to make it, I would say a universal language.”
In addition to speaking on Hip Hop’s impact commercially, Redman also revealed that the genre helped other cultures better understand our culture.
“I can say that our era helped other cultures understand what our culture was about through Hip Hop at that time. I think our era’s the best and that’s just what it is,” he said.
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90’s hip hop is the back bone of hip hop, it wasn’t too soft and 90% of the cats were shining lyrically.
True that. 90s era is untouchable.
true hip hop owes alot to the 90’s .coz the artists of that era took hip hop to an unprecedented level in pop culture history,they took hip hop global.plus it also peaked both commercially nd artistically in the era when making great albums was the pinnacle in an m.c’s career,now its all about having dat one hit single coz albums dont sell much.the only side effect in the commercialization of hip hop,damn the market forces are killing the art form
These are Factz not opinions 90s wasddefinitely the most impacted are in Hip Hol music from record sells, fashion, lyrics etc. I was listening to Hip Hop since 79 and I have to agree some of the best classic record’s to great emcees came out the 90s. The 80s is basically open the doors for the 90s and so forth.
i remember the “whack” MCs in the 90s, but man those MCs compared to todays rappers isnt even close..the 90s bad was and still is better than todays..not all of todays, but most
Vince Staples is an idiot for his views on this subject. Dude is WACK!!!
I agree Easily the Best era hands down that where most of the Hip Hop classic songs and albums came from. In the 80’s there was only a handfull of Emcees that stood out. In the 90’s Nas, Jay-z, DMX(at the time), Wu-tang, Naughty By nature, Mobb Deep, C-N-N, Biggie, Tupac, Snoop, Dre. This more than Proves my point most of our Legends are from and originated in the 90’s Redman Nailed it 90’s is the best and always will be for hip hop.
I beg to disagree greatly, I think in the 90’s you might have had more acts that cared more for the art actual mc’s that were doing numbers…Im in my early 40’s I ve lived through the 90’s and I think right now…Hiphop is the dopest its ever been. My case in point..Now you have A GENERATION OF MCS WHO DONT WAIT TO PUT OUT MUSIC ON A MAJOR LABEL. and as a result there are literally thousands of independent mcs who are making music, releasing music and touring successfully without major label influence. New York still has the dopest mcs and I’m not from there..I run into new artist all the time online or Ill listen to someone and here a feature and buy it…Skyzoo just dropped a classic, Torae is dropping this month, I listen to sean Price everything that Jamla and 9th wonder put out, Jadakiss just dropped Fabolous is still making great music Joey badass, Bishop Nehru and mfd. dropped a dope cd. Vince staple,kendrick lamar, Phonte, so many dope boom bap rappers in 2015 so many trappers from the south are dope the game is diverse as hell now..I love going on band camp and other digital retailers and listening to music and deciding for myself that the artist is dope enough to purchase their music I’ve completely tuned out the influence of the major label and the radio
i agree i find new and fresh hiphop everyday plus theres still some 90’s mcs that are still consistent …the way i look at it is the 80’s were all pretty simple rhymes and it seemed to get more advanced as we moved through the decades ….mcs like decon tha villain and that crowd, brown bag allstars , blu , mello music group , and plenty other very talented mcs that people dont appreciate instead they get looked over and commercial hiphop skyrockets
Redman > Kendrick Lamar. All Day
i dont know man i bet you kendrick would destroy him in a battle
No
sean price skyzoo torae guilty simpson evidence jedi mind tricks outer space dizzy wright ect …theres always better verse then what your hearing
i feel like every mainstream rapper fell off in 2010 , the begging of this shitty era …unless you know where to look cuz you aint finding dope lyricists by word of mouth anymore
The 90s were great but definitely not Hip-Hop at its peak. Much love to Redman though.