I got inspired to make this thread when somebody posted I Can't Get With That in another thread. The song on the other side, In My Lifetime, was on Doo Wop's 95 Live. I didn't think much of it at the time but that's when Jay Z started his run.
Anyway, for those that do not know, the mixtape scene in the mid 90s was similar to the way the internet works now. A mixtape would hit 125th st in Harlem on, say, a Monday. Inevitably a tourist would buy the mixtape that day and fly back home wherever he was from (Europe, Japan, California, etc.) I was living in Massachusetts at the time. It didn't take long for the mixtapes to reach Boston. We probably got them the same week they were released in NYC.
Anyway, for those that do not know, the mixtape scene in the mid 90s was similar to the way the internet works now. A mixtape would hit 125th st in Harlem on, say, a Monday. Inevitably a tourist would buy the mixtape that day and fly back home wherever he was from (Europe, Japan, California, etc.) I was living in Massachusetts at the time. It didn't take long for the mixtapes to reach Boston. We probably got them the same week they were released in NYC.
