Lets get a big ****ing list of influential or significant moments/people/events/songs/albums/whathaveyou in hip hops history going here.

I'll start:

Moment - Invention of the sampler

Song - Nature of the Threat

Artist - LL Cool J

lets keep it going....

Lets get a big ****ing list of influential or significant moments/people/events/songs/albums/whathaveyou in hip hops history going here.

I'll start:

Moment - Invention of the sampler

Song - Nature of the Threat

Artist - LL Cool J

lets keep it going....

Moment - The Notorious B.I.G. killed

Song - Brooklyn's Finest

Artist - Biggie Smalls

Song- Dear Mama

Really a great song makes you appreciate your moms.

Song- Dear Mama

Really a great song makes you appreciate your moms.

While I love that song, for me there was one part which sort of took away from it...

Rhyming "Crack fiend" with "black Queen" was just too odd of a combination for me to deal with. :lol1:

moment - Eazy E's death..advised people that AIDS is here and it is foreal..

people - NWA, took gansta rap nation wide...although a cat in Phili started it.

events - Michael Jackson clownin Usher on stage & passing the dance torch.

songs - Jesus Walks...Religion rap going plat..

albums - MAKAVELI (may be spelled wrong)..no need for explaining

Moment - Run DMC teams up with Aroesmith for "Walk This Way"
Song - Rappers Delight
Artist - Rakim
Album - The Grey Album

Lets get a big ****ing list of influential or significant moments/people/events/songs/albums/whathaveyou in hip hops history going here.



Moment - Common Breakdancing on VH1(maybe not a big deal, but seeing my 12 year old brothers' reaction suggests that it actually may have been.)

Song - Momma said knock you out

Artist -Wu-Tang Clan

Album-Licensed to Ill

Moment - Release of 8 Mile
Song - Just Lose it
Artist - Eminem, duh?
Album - Encore

Encore was crap.

Moment- East Coast Rap Scene mid 90's
Song- New York State Of Mind
Album- Illmatic
Artist- Nas

Moment - Tupac getting shot
Song - Ice, ice, baby
Album - straight outta compton
Artist - big daddy kane

moment - ol dirty participating at a concert while having a warrant for his arrest, with cops just outside.... than managing to escape, only to get caught at a McDonalds.

Artist - The Rza

Song - the symphony

Album - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

moment - ol dirty participating at a concert while having a warrant for his arrest, with cops just outside.... than managing to escape, only to get caught at a McDonalds.
Artist - The Rza

Song - the symphony

Album - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Aka Dirt McGirt. Caught because he stopped to sign autographs for some kids. Loved that guy.

Moment - Chuck D collaborating with Korn essentially kick starting the cashcow known as nu-metal.

Artist – A Tribe Called Quest

Song - Ode to Oren Ishii

Album - Dr. Octagonecologyst

there are 2 moments that stuck with me forever.....how our community was affected when selena was shot and killed and the same when pac was gunned down.....the support that our streets showed to both legends was amazing....

the one song that really hit me hard listening to was "when im gone"....my lil girl cries to it because of the closeness to my life and hers in it.....

greatest album for me is always bone thugs _eternal

Moment: For me it was seeing Wordsworth bust the best freestyle Ive ever heard...maybe not the lyrics..just the wittiness and manner he went about it. It still amazes me when I hear it.

Artist: Jeru The Damaja

Song: Moment Of Truth - Gangstarr

Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous - Big L

Moment - LL getting an Unplugged show...

Song - "U Can't Touch This"

Artist - Run-DMC

Album - The Chronic

Event: Scott LaRock is murdered in NYC (BDP never the same)

Album: Paul's Boutique (most sample heavy album in recent memory)