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Christina D Brown / CB's avatar

My Datpiff log in is calling me, definitely gonna have to queue up some of these.

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Alex Lewis's avatar

Lmk if the site still works for you!

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alix's avatar

alex this is such a great list -- i kept coming back to read it this week! thank you for this! 🫶

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Alex Lewis's avatar

🥲🥲 I’m so glad you enjoyed it, thanks Alix!

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Elizabeth's avatar

ah so much nostalgia for this era, what a great list

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Alex Lewis's avatar

Right there with you. Thanks for reading, Elizabeth!

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Erin Ashley's avatar

Gosh what a time! We had so much good music! So many of these would be on my best of list too.

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Alex Lewis's avatar

Thanks for reading, Erin! What was your favorite project from that era?

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Erin Ashley's avatar

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"!

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biglittlemia's avatar

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 😂

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Alex Lewis's avatar

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 🫡

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Magnetic S.'s avatar

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

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Alex Lewis's avatar

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

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Magnetic S.'s avatar

True innovation lmaoooo that song goes crazy

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Kiani's avatar

what a time. forgot about having to locate the cover art! this was a nice walk down memory lane

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Alex Lewis's avatar

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

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Bradley Ellis's avatar

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

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