NP loved it so much and so many on your list! Drake's Comeback Season, for sure. I can't even listen to Anita Baker's "Sweet Love" without thinking of "Think Good Thoughts." Definitely both "The Mixtape About Nothing" and "More About Nothing" from Wale, Kendrick Lamar's "Overly Dedicated," Dom Kennedy's "From The Westside With Love," Little Brother's "Chitlin Circuit," Lupe Fiasco's "Revenge of the Nerds" and J.Cole "The Warm Up"!
This entire post was end of high school & my college years and I forgot how much good music we had. I definitely risked my mom's work computer for Limewire 😂
SO much good music. Specifically, so much good rapping. Lots of wonderful verses from that time. And rip to all the family computers we lost along the way. We salute you 🫡
Still get that BAR off smh watching the movie made me like the mixtape more than I did when it first came out. Classic Wiz he had to just be stoned watching flicks one day and thought of that shit lmaoooooo pure genius
Bro I still need to see that movie 😭 that’s the endorsement I needed. Wiz really flipped Beyoncé “If I Were a Boy” and changed that shit into “If I Were a Lame” incredible
Burn after rolling era was CRAZY. Mixtape weezy untouchable , early chance- so many classics on this list. Incredibly nostalgic read & very intentional choices - great writeup
What a beautiful time for hip hop. I miss these days. (Damn, I think this means I’m an old head now.)
Me too, man. Discovering new music felt so exciting (and accessible) during that time.
Dat Piff hunting. What a time
My Datpiff log in is calling me, definitely gonna have to queue up some of these.
Lmk if the site still works for you!
alex this is such a great list -- i kept coming back to read it this week! thank you for this! 🫶
🥲🥲 I’m so glad you enjoyed it, thanks Alix!
ah so much nostalgia for this era, what a great list
Right there with you. Thanks for reading, Elizabeth!
Gosh what a time! We had so much good music! So many of these would be on my best of list too.
Thanks for reading, Erin! What was your favorite project from that era?
NP loved it so much and so many on your list! Drake's Comeback Season, for sure. I can't even listen to Anita Baker's "Sweet Love" without thinking of "Think Good Thoughts." Definitely both "The Mixtape About Nothing" and "More About Nothing" from Wale, Kendrick Lamar's "Overly Dedicated," Dom Kennedy's "From The Westside With Love," Little Brother's "Chitlin Circuit," Lupe Fiasco's "Revenge of the Nerds" and J.Cole "The Warm Up"!
This entire post was end of high school & my college years and I forgot how much good music we had. I definitely risked my mom's work computer for Limewire 😂
SO much good music. Specifically, so much good rapping. Lots of wonderful verses from that time. And rip to all the family computers we lost along the way. We salute you 🫡
Still get that BAR off smh watching the movie made me like the mixtape more than I did when it first came out. Classic Wiz he had to just be stoned watching flicks one day and thought of that shit lmaoooooo pure genius
Bro I still need to see that movie 😭 that’s the endorsement I needed. Wiz really flipped Beyoncé “If I Were a Boy” and changed that shit into “If I Were a Lame” incredible
True innovation lmaoooo that song goes crazy
what a time. forgot about having to locate the cover art! this was a nice walk down memory lane
I hated seeing the empty album cards in iTunes. I’d spend hours finding all the cover art and making sure everything was categorized correctly
No Charles Hamilton tape is crazy.
Looking forward to seeing your list
I’m just sayinngggggg 🙃
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https://open.spotify.com/track/5Rsz8QH4kzTgBWwvaWSlqM?si=76f4e0384cb740ea
https://open.spotify.com/track/2akdyoRDo68NCikd1ye9Ug?si=092c525a275c4e18
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zGblCBRbP3xWTAuDB1EHf?si=d43cdb94be594a0f
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ol7nmkrixCxYQBKpYCG1H?si=28d306ad417d451b
Burn after rolling era was CRAZY. Mixtape weezy untouchable , early chance- so many classics on this list. Incredibly nostalgic read & very intentional choices - great writeup