It's June 15, 2024, 03:23:45 PM
i´m just wondering if there was any of this pre-hype bullshit back in the day? you know like these days you get all this hype about certain artists and what have you before they´ve even dropped their first single and since i´m prettty young(19)i´m wondering if this shit went on back in the late 80´s/early 90´s aswell. maybe it´s a stupid question but i wanna know or maybe we aint got heads that are that old to remember how it used to be.
the internet made it worse...back then all you had was like magazine and record stores to tell you the release date, and when something got pushed back...you never knew the reason....now we know what day the cd comes out as soon as the artist says so, then it gets pushed back for months of even years, all that is mixed in with stupid rumors of groups, cd's guests, mixtapes....then we can download songs months in advanced and all that other shit...back in the day you were pretty much surprised when some one's music came out, not you're surprised if you don't have the music on your comptuer 4 months before the cd comes out
The most notable hype for me back in the day was the release of Tupac's "Makaveli". The hype for All Eyez On Me was gigantic, the hype for Makaveli was even more gigantic.It was the first album released after his death (just 2 months after). Based on his death alone, the album was destined to be MAJORLY hyped, but then it was also rumored to be a "next level" type album.....meaning his deepest, most prolific, and outstanding album to date, an album for the ages that would outclass anything else coming out. Sure enough it lived up to that hype. AEOM was a great album, but it wasnt on that next level type shit like Makaveli was.I remember going to buy the album at midnight on release day at Tower Records, and the line was wrapped all the way around the block. They had got around 800 copies, and all were sold out within an hour. The album sold like 750,000 in its first week (which, back then, was the equal to selling over a million nowadays) and was selling so much, most places had a hard time keeping it in stock. I didnt even get my copy until the second week of its release. Did the album live up to its hype?? I think so. Often, huge releases are overhyped but with Makaveli I think it was justified. The album was just so different and mysterious in sound, and Pac's lyrics on it are still haunting to this day. Its a very dark and intense album, and when it first came out, I wasnt sure what to think of it......now, it has become what I (and many others) consider to be the greatest rap album from the greatest rap artist.You dont see that with todays artists, not even Eminem and 50 Cent. Sure they sell millions, but I dont see people lining up at midnight for their albums. At least not several hundred deep lol. 1996' and earlier was legendary, and it definatly isnt the same nowadays. I cant really explain it.
Yea, the album was very ahead of its time. So ahead of its time, it took a few years for even many hardcore Pac fans to appreciate it. Yet, its now widely regarded as being his best work. I think the fact it was such a drastic change from AEOM played a big part in it. He was spitting some mind-blowing shit, and back then some people had doubts but what they really had in their hands was a bonafied classic. No, it didnt change the rap game up forever like AEOM did, but it didnt need to. It was pure artistry, emotion, and lyricism....it didnt rely on classic collaberations/guest appearances, image, or famous producers. It was just GREAT FUCKING music. In some ways, this album did have more impact then Eyez did. "Hail Mary" is considered by many to be Pac's greatest song, and at the very least, it his most sampled. Jay Z borrowed from Me and My Girlfriend, and alot of the concepts influenced many of todays rappers. One thing is for sure, the first time I heard "Blasphemy", I was like ......I still consider that to be I guess the hype surrounding the album was different depending on where you were, but here in Los Angeles, it was pandamonium.
Quote from: ImmortalOne on August 12, 2005, 12:23:18 PMYea, the album was very ahead of its time. So ahead of its time, it took a few years for even many hardcore Pac fans to appreciate it. Yet, its now widely regarded as being his best work. I think the fact it was such a drastic change from AEOM played a big part in it. He was spitting some mind-blowing shit, and back then some people had doubts but what they really had in their hands was a bonafied classic. No, it didnt change the rap game up forever like AEOM did, but it didnt need to. It was pure artistry, emotion, and lyricism....it didnt rely on classic collaberations/guest appearances, image, or famous producers. It was just GREAT FUCKING music. In some ways, this album did have more impact then Eyez did. "Hail Mary" is considered by many to be Pac's greatest song, and at the very least, it his most sampled. Jay Z borrowed from Me and My Girlfriend, and alot of the concepts influenced many of todays rappers. One thing is for sure, the first time I heard "Blasphemy", I was like ......I still consider that to be I guess the hype surrounding the album was different depending on where you were, but here in Los Angeles, it was pandamonium.I was in the midwest so we didn't here alot of hype about the Makevelli record till after "Live And Die In LA" blew up, which was a month or so after the release... "Against All Odds" has been sampled as well by No Limit (C Murder), but then again most their catalog was sampled and influenced by Pac...Has "Hail Mary" been sampled?...It's a crime that Jay-Z was aloud to sample "Me And My Girlfriend", considering the Pac disses him on the album in "Bomb First".