Kanye West VS Common - Freestyle Battle from 1996 (Rare/Audio link inside)

[Lazar]

Dope battle 

http://www.zshare.net/audio/40754981b6a27a/

[TRG]

props that was cool

[TraceOneInfinite]

I'm not a Kanye fan... but damn!!!  He came tight!! 

This is classic...... everything from 96 was classic.. that was the last great year in hip-hop when everything you heard sounded creative, origional, and way real.   I loved the references to 96 they really took me back, like when Kanye dissed Common and made fun of him cause fellow Chi-towners Crucial Conflict went gold that year and sold more records than he did.

[Hey Ma]

I'm not a Kanye fan... but damn!!!  He came tight!! 

This is classic...... everything from 96 was classic.. that was the last great year in hip-hop when everything you heard sounded creative, origional, and way real.   I loved the references to 96 they really took me back, like when Kanye dissed Common and made fun of him cause fellow Chi-towners Crucial Conflict went gold that year and sold more records than he did.

you didn't like chronic 2001? that was in 99 and i thought there was some really good hip hop that year.

[TraceOneInfinite]

you didn't like chronic 2001? that was in 99 and i thought there was some really good hip hop that year.

Yes, 99-2002 were also nice years in hip-hop.  The underground scene and the focus on lyrics started to come back in a big way, conscious artists were getting some of the spotlight (like Talib and Mos became popular in those years), and Aftermath was holding down the mainstream.

Even still, it was nothing compared to 96.  In 96 you could still turn on your local radio station and hear new cuts that blew your mind every few weeks.  Something like "Hay" by Crucial Conflict would come on and it was a sound you'd never heard before, make you high just hearing it... same thing with "Elevators" by Outcaste... or you'd hear a really hard cut like "World Is A Ghetto" by Scarface bumpin on the radio, or sentimental joints like "Crossroads", or even player joints like Kriss Kross "Tonight's The Night" or Dogg Pound "Let's Play House"... and ohh yeah, the Fugee's were even holding down the mainstream with black consciousness, "Fu-Gee-Lah" was all over the radio.

I could go on forever, nothing can fuck with 96.

[M Dogg™]

you didn't like chronic 2001? that was in 99 and i thought there was some really good hip hop that year.

Yes, 99-2002 were also nice years in hip-hop.  The underground scene and the focus on lyrics started to come back in a big way, conscious artists were getting some of the spotlight (like Talib and Mos became popular in those years), and Aftermath was holding down the mainstream.

Even still, it was nothing compared to 96.  In 96 you could still turn on your local radio station and hear new cuts that blew your mind every few weeks.  Something like "Hay" by Crucial Conflict would come on and it was a sound you'd never heard before, make you high just hearing it... same thing with "Elevators" by Outcaste... or you'd hear a really hard cut like "World Is A Ghetto" by Scarface bumpin on the radio, or sentimental joints like "Crossroads", or even player joints like Kriss Kross "Tonight's The Night" or Dogg Pound "Let's Play House"... and ohh yeah, the Fugee's were even holding down the mainstream with black consciousness, "Fu-Gee-Lah" was all over the radio.

I could go on forever, nothing can fuck with 96.

I like 1994 better. But I'm sentimental about hearing Regulate the G Funk Era and Doggystyle back to back well they are still new.