Which Individual Year Could Produce The Best 79 Minute Mixtape?

[5 Grand]

A CD holds 79 minutes.

If you were going to make a CD from any year, which year would you pick?

Personally I remember 1984. That was a great year. You had Run DMC, Whodini, Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 releasing albums. You could fill up a CD of music from 1984 with heat.

But there were probably 3X as many dope albums in 1988

And then 1994 and 1995 were incredible.

1998 was an incredible year too.

2001 produced The Blueprint and Stillmatic along with other classics.


But if you only had 1 blank CD and you could only pick music from 1 year, which year would you pick?

 

[Natural Born Sinners]

1998....
X, Jay, Lauryn, Missy, meth n red, lox, Ja, LL, Outkast, Puff n Mase were still lingering, Nas, Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Lil Kim, Foxy

 

[5th Letter]

1996

 

[The Lonious Monk]

This seems like a veiled version of another "which year was the best in Hip Hop" thread, but I'll bite. I'd say 96 easy. Here is just a sample of the albums that dropped in 96

ATLiens
Ironman
It Was Written
Reasonable Doubt
The Score
Nocturnal
Beat, Rhymes, & Life
Hell on Earth
All Eyez on Me
Illadelph Halflife
At the Speed of Life
Ridin' Dirty
Muddy Waters
Legal Drug Money

My CD would be full off just taking a couple songs from each of those albums and there are actually a lot of other good albums I didn't even mention.

 

[BRIAN B.]

A CD holds 79 minutes.

If you were going to make a CD from any year, which year would you pick?

Personally I remember 1984. That was a great year. You had Run DMC, Whodini, Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 releasing albums. You could fill up a CD of music from 1984 with heat.

But there were probably 3X as many dope albums in 1988

And then 1994 and 1995 were incredible.

1998 was an incredible year too.

2001 produced The Blueprint and Stillmatic along with other classics.


But if you only had 1 blank CD and you could only pick music from 1 year, which year would you pick?

 

[God_Body]

2009.

1. Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y - The Checkpoint
2. Rick Ross - Rich Off Cocaine
3. Clipse - Popular Demand (Popeyes)
4. Royce Da 5’9” - Something to Ride To
5. Fabolous - I Miss My Love
6. Raekwon - New Wu
7. Jay-Z - Real As It Gets
8. Skyzoo - The Necessary Evils
9. Drake - Uptown
10. J.Cole - Hold it Down
11. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
12. Slaughter House - Move On
13. The Alchemist - Smile
14. Jadakiss - Letter to B.I.G.
15. Cam’ron - Get It in Ohio
16. Wale - Beautiful Bliss
17. BIG K.R.I.T. - Home Town Hero
18. Ghostface Killah - Paragraph of Love