What Does "Old School" Mean?

[5 Grand]

So I'm watching "Old School" videos on MTV. They're playing Country Grammer, Lean Back, and Slow Jamz.

I understand those songs are 15+ years old, but I wouldn't call them, "old school". When I think of, "old school" I think of Grandmaster Flash, Kool Moe Dee and Run Dmc, not Nelly.

Can somebody break the eras down for me?

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[Loquacious]

Those are definitely not old school.

 

[GO843]

Those videos existed before iphones...Yes, they old school...

 

[Love]

They’re old school now

 

[Mooney]

I think drop the term old school changes every ten years
Although some may not recognize it as old...the music and sound has changed dramatically since the "country grammar" days..i think that was circa 2001..we in 2019... its old ...i think the terms needs to be updated as "Golden Age" has been adapted to 80s and early 90s music so i guess mid 90s to early 2000s has now adapted the old feel to how music is currently..

 

[JUDAH]

If smart phones werent around when the song dropped, it's old school.

If the main medium for consumption was a cassette/CD when the song dropped, it's old school.

 

[5 Grand]

So if we're using iphones as the turning point, what about rap songs that came out before cordless landline phones?

Or songs that came out when people still using pay phones. What is that era called?

 

[OGDirtyD]

Whats old school to a 40 year old is not going to be the same as old school to a 20 yr old. Who cares shit I'm 30 and I refer 90s rnb as old school.

 

[Leon'rdo Yung]

Unfortunately anything before September 11th.new generation every Dub

Puff Daddy,Tupac, Snoop, DMX. Now considered old school

 

[1/2]

i think the term changes depending on the age of who's saying it

"old school" and "back in the day" usually refers to teen/very early 20's no matter the age of who's talking

my back in the day aint the same as @Cain and @konceptjones

 

[Old Man Cain]

Anything before Rakim is old school for me

 

[konceptjones]

Anything before Rakim is old school for me

technically this, but I can stretch it to anything before '92-93-ish. I mean, 1993 was 26 years ago. Cats my age grew up, had kids, and might have grandkids at this point.

 

[CeLLar-DooR]

Lol these kids think 50 is old skool fam

 

[DOS_patos]

according to this lil niggas

anything before last tuesday

 

[CeLLar-DooR]

Imo old skool is a term like classical, it refers to a specific time period. It doesn't just mean older music

 

[Fatdre]

Anybody that was out when krush groove the movie came out

 

[Goldie]

I would consider anything 15 years and older "old school"

 

[5 Grand]

I would consider anything 15 years and older "old school"

By that logic, 50 Cent is old school.

So then what is Run Dmc? Surely you agree that 50 Cent and Run Dmc are from different eras.

 

[Lucas]

It all comes down to how old you are. My "Old school" is not the same as my father. His old school is not the same as his father....etc.

A couple of decades from now the music we listen to today will be considered old school if you ask the next generation growing up when they are in their 20s.

 

[GO843]

If you're 40 years old....You could vividly remember typewriters and having to learn how to write in cursive as a child...Desktop computers became popular in your adulthood...So those don't seem old school to you...To someone under 25, all that shit is old school...It's about perspective....The older we get, the more outdated and obsolete the things we grew up with become....