A Little Different: 90s Hip Hop

I was in high school during the late 90s. Hip hop was huge then. In a lot of ways, 90s hip hop replaced 80s metal on MTV. Think about it: the artists were larger than life. The videos were mostly big parties. There was a lot of action and fun.

Last night, I took a little trip down memory lane and listened to some of my old school favorites like TuPac, Notorious B.I.G. and Big Pun.

In December, my husband and I will celebrate 14 years of marriage. We've been together much longer than that, as we started dating in high school. During high school, he drove a lime green Nova with huge speakers. The car was kind of crappy, but it got us around and people always knew when he was coming: his speakers would bump for miles and miles! For a long time, hip hop was the only music he would listen to and even enjoy. To this day, we pop on a little 90s hip hop if we need a positive mood boost. When we got married, we entered our very traditional wedding reception to TuPac's "California Love." I'm sure no one really got why, but this song choice was a nod to our early days together.

With everything seemingly so nasty in the world right now, I decided I needed to take a little mental vacation and have some fun. I don't really care for any of the new hip hop or rap out today, but man, the old school stuff sure was off the chain. Here are a few of my 90s hip hop tracks. Do you have any faves?