Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most likely, it started last summer when Grand Puba's first solo single was slammin', and it appeared that he was going to be one of the all time great hip-hop artists. But then his album came out, and it was undeniably weak. Things haven't been the same since...
...hop music is in the midst of one its longest creative dry spells since its birth in 1975. The past year has not produced a single album which could be called truly influential or innovative...
...There are possible exceptions. De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate and the Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde come to mind. But De La has always worked on the fringes, and their ability to influence the hip-hop community is limited. I'll get to the Pharcyde later...
Onyx, House of Pain and Kriss Kross (I won't even get into the whole West Coast "gangsta" genre) have little to offer to people who think hip-hop means more than just wearing baggy pants and jumping around. And when Cypress Hill's latest album Black Sunday marked their full transformation from edgy hip-hop innovators into cartoonish potheads, A Tribe Called Quest seemed to be one of the last hopes for the hip-hop nation...
Usually one of hip-hop's most creative lyricists, you'd think Q-Tip could come up with a better line for the chorus of "Sucka Nigga" than "My style is kind of fat, reminiscent of a whale...