General Board: When was LA's Golden Era?

King Jehu wrote: Sup O. The Golden era of 03-06 had things off-site, like a bunch of us on MSN at the same time. I remember sitting at work giving ILLA some freestyled BARS on a group chat. Now we're friends on Facebook and he's a father too. There was a LOT of crew beef, and more battles than there are today. I went to audio engineering school because I got so heavy into the music. I made beats because of this. Audio engineering helped me get into video editing and got me jobs. My life might have taken a different trajectory if it hadn't been for this site. This is why I come back. That said, It's impossible for me to be completely unbiased because of that. I learned so much from Orion, Cuba, Perfecto and Stalin about flow, rhymes, cleverness, complexity, and weaving a tight narrative (and BiggStankDawg, who made me laugh out loud in battles more than anyone, and made the Renegade Productions logo). That said, while hanGing laid down the law back in the day, The Law and Cuba have done a great job at keeping this place running and building off the enthusiasm by being creative and giving people writing prompts to work those lyrical muscle. This is far from the time when 8 Mile made everyone wanna battle rap, and it shows. This Identity Crisis tournament is incredible. The topics, the verses, the voters, the creativity here shows there is much more enthusiasm for the writing and poetry of it, and it's not so battle-heavy. I'll echo what Stalin said: There's a much deeper bench of talent now than we ever had. We had people like Hectic/A-Clipz/frankwhite who weren't winning a bunch of battles, but they had a lot of heart and loved writing. Now anybody can get got out here in them battle fields. I didn't even know Neek was text-battling and he beat Beans, who has the craziest win-to-knockout ratio and 88 wins. There's a real audio section now, and that's great. We have technology to thank for that. There is a much lower barrier for entry into audio now. From what I've seen in the last few weeks, LA has had a renaissance, which seemed unlikely back before Scotty gave control of the site over to scorpia-king and even after. This renaissance may eventually be greater to objective eyes than 03-06, but I used to listen to Neek when I was on LA thinking "I wish I could make beats for Neek, Javid, Introspect, and Chincheck," and all four have laid down ill flows on things I've created. Aside from Neek, you may not recognize those names (or Hard Target, or Phatal, another outstanding dude back in the day), but the things that happened off the site for us makes that the golden era for me. Orion and I were making beats on shitty 2004 technology trying to send each other huge files on slow connections, and now we have a shared Dropbox folder with old beats and stuff that saved my ass when I had a hard drive die on me. I love what I'm seeing here, and I hope to be a part of it, as time allows, but my golden era was then, despite the open mic verses with no comments at times because of beef and battles.

Dvon Doom's idea..


"14??? God damn...i actually have a idea...a night of Legends like smack did. The legends of old versus the new wave. It would be epic"


That my friend is a ripe idea,i bet Trizzy could use that for BL4,as an
event,as i also feel this would be successful..Now as for a golden era,I
believe that's talk for the future,as long as LA is up and running it'll
always resemble the old British Empire,the sun wouldn't set over all its
territory at any given time,I think instead of era,the word period should
of been used,as era normally comes at the end,and we're not quite there
yet me thinks..peace.

SELF ACTIVATE wrote: The fact this is even a legit convo in 2017 is saying a lot. I can assure no other Rap site on the web is even debating this right now.