1990: the worst year in hip hop

This post started out as an ode to the Hadron Collider and why i dont care about people whining about them black holes the things may cause. As i looked through these internets, I came to realize something.

1990 was one AWFUL-ASS year in hip hop. P-U. Really.

Awful 1990 Video: LL Cool J: The Boomin System.


Bad video. Nay, TERRIBLE video. Video games and road warrior in a song about a car stereo? Methinks this "plot" was LL's attempt to get some chicks into the outfits from the "walk the dinosaur" video. As if ANYONE would want to resurrect that.

Despite the bottom feeding video, the song itself is pretty good. Really good in light of the fact that it came out in 1990. Ill go down swinging saying that 1990 was the WORST year of hip hop: the year Cant Couch This, Ice x 2 baby and MSKYO were hits. The year I heard hip hop at my junior high school dance. The year Rap met Chess King. The year everyone who was once good rushed out to make a record that was complete shit. The year Yo Mtv raps became awful.

Aside from a few notable exceptions of course 1990 was LE PITS. I can hear you grumble about the good records of 90. That one you are thinking of is good, but can we really think highly of the year puffy became an intern? The year SnP released "lets talk about sex"? The year that Slick Rick done fucked up?

I cant. Maybe you can.