Old school rap music generally refers to music made in the 80’s and 90’s. Generally, most of the music made after this time isn’t worth the paper that its written on. Back in the 80’s and 90’s music was a real art, and rappers had real talent.

There was real meaning and lyricism behind everything that was written and said. The music was about the skill of rhyming and the lyrics spoken rather than the beat that its on. This meant that if you didn’t have any real rhyming skills, you wouldn’t make it far. This was a time of battle rap and freestyling which meant everything had to be authentic, creative and have an impact!

Back then rap music was an expression of how people felt and what was going on at the time. There was a lot of good party music made, but in addition to that a lot of the music spoke on social issues that were surrounding the times. They weren’t afraid to stand up for injustices and call things how they saw it. This music was something that could bring people together and unite them from all over.

Old school rap is a term referred to by people who can’t stand the music of today; and those people (us) are also referred to by many as old school hip-hop heads. I don’t mind this name actually because to me it means I respect and listen to good music; so, I’ll take it!

The biggest thing to take away about old school rap is that no matter who or what style of rap you listen to from those years, or even whether or not rap music was your type of music or not it was 100% REAL!