New School vs. Old School

Necromancer · 05-21-2011, 01:12 PM

If I had to choose my favorite era and style of Hip-Hop, it would defiantly be "old school". The Beastie Boys, LL Cool Jay, there's just so many good tracks and artist to choose from..lol..

Phzed · 05-21-2011, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by VocalsBass

If I had to choose my favorite era and style of Hip-Hop, it would defiantly be "old school". The Beastie Boys, LL Cool Jay, there's just so many good tracks and artist to choose from..lol..

Officially that's classed as New School hip-hop, but I think nowadays most people think of it as Old School.

Old School: 1978 - 1983
New School: 1983 - 1988
Golden Age: 1986 - Early 90s

Those are only rough timelines (from Wikipedia)

Necromancer · 05-21-2011, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Phzed

Officially that's classed as New School hip-hop, but I think nowadays most people think of it as Old School.

Old School: 1978 - 1983
New School: 1983 - 1988
Golden Age: 1986 - Early 90s

Those are only rough timelines (from Wikipedia)

Yeah, I guess the Beastie Boys did start out as a Hardcore Punk Rock band in '79, and didn't make the transition to Hip-Hop until around '83, and Cool J didn't get his career started until around '85. Going on 30years ago, I can see why people would get it confused and consider it old school vs. new school. I don't always hold 100% of value with what Wikipedia states anyway.
(But hey, thanks for the info Phzed)!

That's good to know.

05-21-2011, 01:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	If I had to choose my favorite era and style of Hip-Hop, it would defiantly be "old school". The Beastie Boys, LL Cool Jay, there's just so many good tracks and artist to choose from..lol..