West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: TraceOneInfinite on September 25, 2026, 03:43:04 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRwaCY4-DiA
Great music and Videos from back then and Live Show in place of the Artist interviews they usually did on RapCity. Just a day in the life for people like me and HighEyeCue who were old enough and used to live and breathe this back in the late 90's.
^^This is amazing the way battle rap used to be before it really changed until something else in the more recent era. The recent era is like technically way more polished but something way less authentic about it, like these artists really were freestylin' a lot of their battle raps, life was just so much more human, authentic, and raw back then. The farther we get from it now with AI in 2026 -- the more noticeable it gets the pre-internet age. Because even in 99' still the majority of people were offline rather than online.
Even the wack shit that was horrible back then like Ja Rule type shit that dominates this playlist isn't even as horrible as I remembered it, compared to what's out now, and then when the solid joints like Mos Def or Dre come in on the episode it's like Heavenly