90s Culture Appreciation vol. Intro

Starter jackets, Marvel/DC card collecting, super soakers and Nerf, going outside and actually seeing other kids playing in the streets, real anticipation for a wide variety of music (especially the variety in hip hop at that time), fantastic sitcoms, loved this era growing up. Man, though there's still a lot of current music I listen to, I don't wanna think about if the core of my music influence growing up was Fetty Wap, Ilovemakkoken, and a lazy underwhelming Jay-Z.

I love YouTube, but I blame them for drawing attention to and sustaining wack *** music from these wack *** artists.
 
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CASH MONEY 1999 said:
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scream was :pimp:

Bulls/indiana series
was epic , asked my grandma and got the taxi 12's .. crazy enough I think Sears had them :pimp:

First super bowl I remember was patriots packers :pimp:

TLC no shrubs , they all looked :pimp:

SMASHMOUTH all star :pimp:


JT MONEY who dat :pimp:
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No one really rock kicks unless they were into the culture. Sears, and JCP had them for days. I remember getting the kicks on clearance via checks through Eastbay :lol:
 
Born in '87

I still remember sitting through Hurricane Andrew. Not the funnest of times 
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Yelling out in the house that you were going to use the internet to make sure nobody picked up the phone.

Picking up the phone to spite my brother when we would get into arguments.
 
wj4 said:
No one really rock kicks unless they were into the culture. Sears, and JCP had them for days. I remember getting the kicks on clearance via checks through Eastbay :lol:
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There was no "culture". People bought shoes just to by them. No collecting, no limited, they just liked the way they looked. No internet telling them what was "cool" so people had to, gasp, make their own personal decisions. The cupcake kids of today would just instantly explode at the thought
 
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There was no "culture". People bought shoes just to by them. No collecting, no limited, they just liked the way they looked. No internet telling them what was "cool" so people had to, gasp, make their own personal decisions. The cupcake kids of today would just instantly explode at the thought
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By culture I meant influence. I was mesmerized when I saw MJ in the 11s on TV in the 4th grade. I began listening to rap music at the same time and noticed how popular kicks were in that segment.

Yes. No one collected back then. My mom didn't even get my kicks at retail. I beat the crap out of them since I was only allowed one pair per semester.
 
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BLASTERCOMBO said:
There was no "culture". People bought shoes just to by them. No collecting, no limited, they just liked the way they looked. No internet telling them what was "cool" so people had to, gasp, make their own personal decisions. The cupcake kids of today would just instantly explode at the thought
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damn smh & whats crazy all the kicks we thought were cool end up over time being the "cool" kicks 
 
90s baby here...1990 to be exact. I know I was just a pup in the 90s but I remember a lot of great things from the decade. 90s tv, cartoons, movies, sports, fashion, and music were the GOAT!!!!!!!! Idc what anyway says 90s >>>>>>>>> any other decade. The only thing that has gotten better is technology.

If yall not doing nothing check out this full episodes playlist of VH1s "I love the 90s" 1990-1999 :smokin
 
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TiDE619 said:
How are we talking about the 90s with no mention of Michael Jackson?!

I remember they did a special countdown before the release of this video:




and then when HISstory was about to drop, the commercials were everywhere





and there was a special making of the Scream video leading up to the release of this video:








and let's not forget the MJ x MJ Jam collabo video:

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Mike had FOX, MTV, BET, and VH1 on lock when it was time to premiere his short films. I remember watching "Black or White" and "Remember the Time" after the Simpsons. MTV had an "MJ Weekend" damn near every other week lol Good times...
 
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Easy to get a shoe u really wanted back then...and if u wait, it most likely will go on sale eventually.

Sports cards - upper deck, then fleet ultra.

Music videos weren't as convenient to access, so u appreciated it when it came on tv. My friend sometimes called me (at my home phone of course) to tell me when a specific video was on.

Sports - gretzky, lemieux, jordan, tyson(ok not much of the 90s for him), etc
 
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^I remember I had hair like those dudes back in the days, slicked back with bangs hanging on each side and sometimes even dyed gold. 

Some things from my 90's childhood:

Clothing: Cross Colors, Guess overalls, Girbaud jeans, Z. cavaricci pants, UMEN clothing, Starter jerseys and parkas, FILA jackets

Shoes: Vans, Sperrys, Dr. Martens, Ellesse, Reebok pumps, Jordans

Music: DJ Quick (first time I ever heard  anyone cuss in a song), OG Dr. Dre and Snoop, Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD, TLC, SWV, All-4-One, Salt-N-Pepa
 


BRUH 
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In the 97' everybody was on the WWF wave. Young or old, dudes knew bout Austin vs Mcmahon. Back when The Rock was us youngins hero and all dat. Back when The Undertaker used to make you hide under the blanket and all dat. Back when you was in elementary school going around doing the DX chops saying suck it and all dat. 

And the video games, who you tellin;  WWF War Zone, WWF Attitude, WWF WrestleMania 2000, WWF No Mercy, WWF Royal Rumble, and WWF SmackDown! Some was released in 2000 but the hell with that, it felt like the 90s. Playing them as soon as you woke up. Haven't washed up, pissed or nun. And getting them taking away for bad grades, 
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Childhood was tight. Greatest era to be a kid.
 
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