Hip hop peaked in the mid 90s

[Cavvy]

Thats why I can put a track like this on and it shits on anything released in the last 15 years. I guess its kinda like Hendrix and the Beatles for rock music in 67 , or Davis and Coltrane for Jazz. Not dissing the scene now at all

[Cavvy]

back when Nore wasnt a joke

[Cavvy]

In 2012 Prodigy and Havoc might be a punchline
In the early 90s they were one of the illest duos ever, this beat is one of the best ever, plus Prodigy lays down one of the coldest verses ever
Even Havoc rips it ""for every rhyme I write its 25 to life"

[Cavvy]

Lil Bruce!
Mobbin in my old school

[doggfather]

don't forget about Onyx:

[The Predator]

Lil Bruce!
Mobbin in my old school

Never heard of this before, shit be boogying.

[Hack Wilson - real]

rap music peaked sept 13th, 1996

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

[bouli77]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/h_6_5hfptk8" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/h_6_5hfptk8</a>

[M Dogg™]

Nah, Hip-Hop peaked in 1988, but was at it's best between 1986-2004. Everything after has just dragged been in the fall out of a great era.

[Dikteta Dax]

Hip Hop peaked in the early-mid 2000s, after Luda/DTP, 50 Cent/G Unit, The Game (After The Documentary) & The Diplomats (After Diplomatic Immunity 2 or More The Music) started losing steam.  Hip Hop was at its best from 91-99, but I think it was still actually pretty good up until around 2004/2005.

[bouli77]

Hip Hop peaked in the early-mid 2000s, after Luda/DTP, 50 Cent/G Unit, The Game (After The Documentary) & The Diplomats (After Diplomatic Immunity 2 or More The Music) started losing steam.  Hip Hop was at its best from 91-99, but I think it was still actually pretty good up until around 2004/2005.

word... actually it makes sense to say that artistically it peaked somewhere around the end of the 80's/beginning of the 90's and that as it become a force commercially, the rise of gangsta rap made it deviate from its original format (from a "way of life" to a livelihood where rappers wanted to cash in on who were the hardest). however, even if rap allegedly declined after the demise of death row and the death of biggie, in retrospect, i think the 00's had a fair shair of very good mainstream and non mainstream rap, but it was nowhere as crazy in quantity and quality as the 90's or the 80's

[Will_B]

Hip Hop peaked in the early-mid 2000s, after Luda/DTP, 50 Cent/G Unit, The Game (After The Documentary) & The Diplomats (After Diplomatic Immunity 2 or More The Music) started losing steam.  Hip Hop was at its best from 91-99, but I think it was still actually pretty good up until around 2004/2005.

Bang on.

[Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation)]

back in the day when u had to call Pete Rock to do a remix for ur b-side,,

that was probly the peak creatively , so called "golden era", hiphop was still fresh/ innoventive  as a music-genre, wit unconventional (not to mention talented) groups like Das EFX, naughty by NAture n Fu-Shnickens on the forefront,,  and then came the wave wit boombap n lyricism wit guys like O.C., Wu, BCC, Jeru n Nas etc etc.
 and every kid read the Source MAgazine or Rap Pages, no such thing as intenret

98 was teh startin point for its peak commercialy, when the industry understood that money could be made as a francise off of rap. Death Row were very succesful, but nobody did it like Master P when he came through and taught ppl how to get paid wit No Limit when he oversaturated teh game wit a perfect distirubtion deal (for its time),,,, and Def Jam raped the game wit 2 backtoback triple-plat albums from DMX that year (which was incredible). not to mention Bad Boy/Puff, Cash Money etc.
after that, u had the Eminem/aftermath-era.
and then the g-unit era.. so on n so on

[Hack Wilson - real]

i miss buying CD singles just to have the b-side songs