when rappers say what year it is

What are some good examples?

Like 50% of rap records ever.

also:

FRESH for '88 you SUCKAS...

is classic beyond classic, obv.

[Boogie Down Productions - "My Philosophy"]

And the worst would be Busta Rhymes yelling THERE'S ONLY FIVE YEARS LEFT. And counting it down on every album until he hit 2000.

Nine-tre, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...
I don't wanna say nine-tre
cause my man Extra P said don't say the years
So, it's for eternity, know what I'm sayin?

This is how we chill from '93 till..

^^ fucking perfect song

If it's in 50% of rap records ever, then it shouldn't be hard to list a single example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Nine-Nine-Nine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/You_Gotta_Believe.jpg

NINE TEEN NINE TEE, MOTHERFUCKIN' TWOOOOOOO!!!!

HE'S JAM MASTER JAY
THE BIG BEAT BLASTER
HE GETS BETTER 'CAUSE HE KNOWS HE HAS TA
IN EIGHTY-FOUR HE'LL BE A LITTLE FASTER
AND ONLY PRACTICE MAKES A REAL JAM MASTER

This is weird: Ice Cube's "Don't Trust 'Em" (from '93's The Predator) contains this rhyme:

In 'ninety-ÞóÇ®¼, shit ain't quite the same/Bitches got a brand-new game, yo".

That indecipherable/unreadable bit is, in fact, the word "One" played backwards. In other words, the track was recorded wayyy back "In '91..." and Cube apparently wanted to conceal its age, so he simply reversed it to disguise it. But if that was indeed the case, why couldn't he have just taken it back into the studio and punched-in the more timely "3"? Wouldn't that have been much easier? Like I said: weird.

1993 exoticness

NINE-TEEN EIGHTY NINE
The number. Another summer.
Sound of the funky drummer..

There's an NWA record with the line "it's nineteen ninety motherfucking one"

I’m just gonna sit here laid back to this nice mellow beat, you know
And drop some smooth lyrics
Cause it’s '‘88
Time to set it straight

I don't bug out or chill or be acting ill
No tricks in '86, it's time to build
Eric B easy on the cut, no mistakes allowed
Cuz to me, MC means move the crowd

Credit to the Nation - Pressure

'94 for me, what can I see?
Credit standing strong
and the people wanna flee

(or something like that)

Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Back

BLACK

it's 7 in the morning.

that's right i'm rich, i'm that bitch, that's right, i'm about to show y'all how to pimp this shit, i'm fuckin' niggas in the face, the game is mine 2003, fuck that, fuck all y'all haters, fuck all y'all bitches, get a life, you got too much time on your hands, i want y'all bitches to get a job, up your game, pimp your game up baby, it's all about me this time, fuck that

fuck a dime, ~i'm a silver dolla~, holla

catch me when i come off tour, fuck y'all, i'm out

(trina - b r right)

Tupac:
I wrote this song a long time ago
A real long time ago
Way before Slim Shady was in demand
Way before we dropped baloney on Afghanistan
I wrote this song in '94

lol

Uhh
99, like 2000
Ruff Ryders
Dru Hill
Swizz Beats
Eve
Comin for that ass

Uhh

IT'S NINETEEN NINETY FIVE!

Now that I'm older, stress weighs on my shoulder etc.

been in the game for ten years makin rap tunes
ever since honeys was wearin sassoon
Now it's '95 and they clock me and watch me
Diamonds shinin lookin like I robbed Liberace

I think I like it better when rappers reference the year after what year it is, like Jay-Z used to always do ("Friend Or Foe '98" in '97, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" in '02).

i started a thread on this years ago and cannot find it

something about hip hop artists instantly dating themselves anytime they do this

cash money records taking over in the 99 - 2000

It's on for the Two-Triple-Oh.
Comin' real it's the next episode...

I like it better when rappers reference the year after what year it is

well you never know when label shenanigans are going to hold it up right? and if they don't, it's got this patina of exclusivity, like a 2009 model car

Special Ed-Ready 2 Attack

Well, it's 1990, '89 has ended
Now it's time for all those who pretended
To settle and cease with the noise
You and your boys - it's time to put away the toys
Christmas is over and this is my resolution
To stop the confusion
Let the fresh get fresh and the stale get staler
And throw em in a pale of
Trash with the other trash and smash down the lid
For all the weak shit they did

"Nine-tre, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...
I don't wanna say nine-tre
cause my man Extra P said don't say the years
So, it's for eternity, know what I'm sayin?"

Q-Tip, The Chase, Part 2

CIBO MATTO 1999!
I'm Miho Hatori, straight outta purgatory..

1991, always on the run,
7 years ago we wrote this one.

Anthrax - I'm The Man

Not exactly on topic but this is a two-fer of year shout outs:

'Don't Believe the Hype' was said in '88 by the great Chuck D,
Now they're tryin to fuck me
".. with No Vaseline
Just a match and a little bit of gasoline.."
It's a great day for genocide (What's that?)
That's the day all the niggaz died
They killed JFK in '63
So what the fuck you think they'll do to me?

Ice Cube- When Will They Shoot?

something about hip hop artists instantly dating themselves anytime they do this

it's more like vintage years for wine

that lexus the new one that come out in 2001 with the frog eyes
i got that bitch on dubs

It's '89, not Beethoven's fifth or sixth
It's a throwdown, i'm conducting it
Because like a highrise, i'm constructing it

Maestro Fresh Wes, "Let Your Backbone Slide"

We be the crew, guess who, and itll be
The jayou, ninety-five a.d.

^^ not released till like '97?

Nine-tre, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...
I don't wanna say nine-tre
cause my man Extra P said don't say the years
So, it's for eternity, know what I'm sayin?

-- PappaWheelie V, Friday, June 27, 2008 4:26 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

"Nine-tre, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...
I don't wanna say nine-tre
cause my man Extra P said don't say the years
So, it's for eternity, know what I'm sayin?"

Q-Tip, The Chase, Part 2

-- ablaeser, Friday, June 27, 2008 3:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

nine-five plus four pennies add that shit up

0.04 the year 95.04

NINE-TEEN EIGHTY NINE
The number. Another summer.
Sound of the funky drummer..

Impossible to top this.

86 in the mix and you know it's greater
what's my DJs name?

KUT KREATOR!!!

Throw your hands up in the air
If you love sex I know you're out there
Safe sex that is,ya gotta be careful with this 88 sex biz
But that's another song (SEX!)
Girls,move your bodies sexy and the brothers will come along
Homeboys,move in on that butt and say!
Girl, Let's Get Butt Naked And Fuck!

Before i go I'd like to say a few things. this album was completed on january 15th 1991. By now the war has probably started and a whole bunch of people have probably died out there in the desert over some bullshit. there's a war goin on right now in my neighborhood but i can't really determine which one is worse..I think the one that we are all fightin is fucked up and that's the war inside out brains you know. but uh i feel bad about all the brothers and sisters gettin pulled right out of their neighborhoods all the citys and small towns in america that go over there and fight for that bullshit. that most of them don't really have anything to do with. So i gotta send peace out to em. Also peace out to all my homies in jail brothers that are dead locked up right here on earth..talkin about the brothers in solidad, san quetin, all the way up to pelicans bay, tracy, chino, and all my homeboys out there in the east coast lockdown facilities. Im talkin about clinton, rikers, jolead, you know every prison in the whold fuckin world man, that's like you know all bullshit you know. they say slavery has been abolished except for the convicted felon yall need to think about that. that lets you know what the fuckin constitution is really about you know. a lot of my homeboys have been locked down
My whole entire career and that's some bullshit. So for them from the Rhyme Syndicate and Ice-T I'd like to send this special shout out...Fuck the police, Fuck the FBI, Fuck the DEA, Fuck the CIA, Fuck Tipper Gore, Bush and his cripple bitch this is Ice-T im out of here, told ya you shoulda killed me last year..

The year is cited as 3030 a few times on the Deltron 3030 album. Which wouldn't be a problem except that they treat it as if it's still a new millennium; we stopped doing that for this one in about 2001.

WAKE YOUR PUNK ASS UP FOR THE 93 SHOT

KICKIN' A STYLE FOR NINETY SIX!

In 19-motherfuckin-93
I'm fuckin up every nigga known in the industry

Snoop - "Pump Pump"

And we gonna party like it's 19