22 thoughts on “No Country For Old (Rap) Men: The Selective Memory of Rap Fans”

  3. I can understand why the anniversary of Bushwick Bill was remembered as it gave the world Ever so clear. A truly fucked up song

  5. Dark Sun Riders never get mentioned anywhere.

  7. Glad that you mentioned the Dark Sun Riders album which is a true lost gem.

  9. To the East my brother to the East my brother To the East my brother
    To The Eeeeeeast

  11. Good one, Rob! With all the hoopla last year on Illmatic, It makes me think, next year is It Was Written’s 20th, will they throw a parade for that one too? And oddly enough, you would have thought with all the press Illmatic got, Puff would have had something major up his sleeve to milk the 20th anniversary of Biggie’s Ready To Die. Remarkably, dude fell back. Classy…

  12. All the X Clan talk got me wanting a PRT piece.

    Guess they keep on milking Illmatic cause it works. nearly every time I’m record shopping some fool is picking up a reissue..

    Id like to see a think piece on Constipated Monkey and Done by the Forces of Nature

  13. @oskamadison you not from Madison Ave in JC are ya? Know your from Greenville, thought it may be a play on words. I work with a young MC on Madison and Clinton..kid got serious skills

  14. I second the three requests 357nyc made in his second last post.

  16. Good article. A lotta rap fans do got selective memory. A million think pieces on Illmatic (good album tho) but albums just as good are forgotten like XClan. And I’m with 357NYC I want a PRT piece and where was these so called rap bloggers with their think pieces for Paris’s Guerrilla Funk!

  17. @357NYC

    Nah, I wasn’t from Madison but I have peoples that live in that section. JC has always had a lot of talent, heads just don’t support each other.

  20. True indeed, great article. It’s so Ironic because I just pulled out “to the east blackwards” a few days ago without even realizing the anniversary!!

  21. Actually come to think of it too many ‘classics’ will be having anniversaries about now. Should just can the whole concept or it will be overload!

    ….But the idea of a word life think piece does sound good.

    Hey what’s with this ‘thinkpiece’ concept anyway? Bet jeru never anticipated “20 years from now suckas gonna have themselves a think piece over this album. ..”

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