cd's ruined everything

When Hip-hop became marketable it was on wax. Soon it was on cassette. The thing about these mediums is that you generally play them through. It's not too easy to skip tracks.......not as easy as a cd anyway.

so what's your point?

My point is that in the era of the cassette (in my opinion, when hip-hop ruled), you had to make a good album......EPMD had to make great albums.......Show & AG had to make a good album. These people had to make something that could be played straight through! If you remember back to the early 90's, playability was a huge selling point. We judged albums......whole albums...singles could be dope but if the album sucked, no point in picking it up.

With the dawn of the disc, we saw a single being placed in the middle of 12 other fluffy, fraudulent so-called songs. And people were buying it! HUH? That album is terrible, people still copp it for the 2 jams they wanna hear. Why is this all possible? Because you can skip tracks so easily that the masses don't mind paying $15 for an inflated single!!!

Now there's mp3's and it kinda takes care of the other tracks on a so-called album that stink, but it further kills the art!!!

THE ART OF THE ALBUM IS DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!