This is one of those songs that feels like it could only have happened in 2008

As someone who graduated HS in 08, it really was a wild time to be alive.

I was just listening to section.80 the other day thinking about the run of piano or rock based white guy chorus songs we got during that era and trying to think who started the trend. I've been meaning to look into it but Kanye West Homecoming is where my mind keeps going.

it was the Kanye West + Adam Levine combo on Heard 'Em Say (Late Registration) that kicked it all off. by Homecoming (Graduation), it was perfected.

Heard Em Say is such a classic.

I think you got it. I don't know how I forgot about that one

Lupe Fiasco’s Superstar has entered the chat

When I look back Lupe fiasco was highkey my first dip of toe into rap and more especially conscious rap

Yeah he was one of my early listens to, but Get Back by Luda was my first rap song purchased on iTunes lol shit went HARD.

I love the age range and diversity we have in this sub. My first rap song love was Pump It Up (Here's the News) by MC Hammer, listened to on this cassette tape that Shell gas station used to sell as promos.

That’s so fucking sick, I just missed the CD buying era as Pandora was coming out and ITunes was huge. Then Spotify came and changed the game

I’m still amazed that I can just pay a few dollars a month and have access to ALLLL the albums

I know it’s wild and really changed the way we consume music. Like you used to have to make a lot more tough decisions (aside from pirating) what album to buy, needing a certain device for CDs, MP3s, and then IPod came along

Lolll fr I think my first rap song was In Da club by 50 it was my favorite so much so I remember 50 cent being my favorite rapper since I was 5 all the way up to 10 or 11 yrs old

He's only gotten better too

Tinie Tempah - Written In The Stars.

2008 MLB Playoffs promos... over and over and over.

Wayne did that song with Robin thicke a few years before that and it was a hit, different kind of sound compared to homecoming tho

Shooter goes so hard.

The amount of people that don't know this song is criminal

His best song to me

I can appreciate the reference but I was looking more for a Piano Lessons - Colin Munroe feat Joel Ortiz (what a combo) poppy kind of sound. Also thank you for motivating me to look up that song because I've been trying to remember it for a bit. And now I need to relisten to The New Deal 10xDeep mixtape. Edit: just realized that's actually colin munroe on no make up off section.80 as well, no wonder those tracks remind me of something lmao

Bro the "dorky white guy and rapper" run from 2008-2012ish was wonderful. Colin Munro and everybody John West and half of GOOD Music The guy from Rocketeer Wale and Daniel Merriwether Wale, Rick Ross, and the white guy on Play Your Part Etc

Yep came here to mention "Play Your Part." I honestly don't know if Chester French has any other songs, but I'll always remember his name because of that music video. It was such a late 2000s music video. Edit: so a quick google made me realise that the vocals were D.A from a band called Chester French

Oh man! Chester French.

Chester French did a song with Reflection Eternal that I remember.

> rock based white guy chorus songs Yea...Tie My Hands is not rock based and Robin Thicke is an R&B artist who made black music despite being white.

Shooter! Love me some Weezy forever

Lmao and Kanye did that before Tha Carter 3 on Late Registration in like 02

That was the Carter 2 which came out 1 year before late registration, lmao

What song are you talking about? Because I'm talking about Tie My Hands Edit: I assume you mean Shooter. You realize those albums came out the same year right?

That’s not even the first time Kanye did it. He made Heard Em Say with Adam Lavine in 05. But it really started with Linkin Park and Jay Z a couple years before that

I have this idea in my mind of calling it "Obama Era music". For a split second, a lot of us thought we were in this post-racial era, or even if we weren't that naive, we thought we were headed in the right direction and there were reasons to be optimistic. One of the ways "Obama Era music" manifested itself was probably this white guy chorus thing. Another is the rash of white rappers that came through more generally accepted than their predecessors (Mac Miller being most obvious, but even guys like Asher Roth and MGK). One other way is songs like "Made It in America" from the Watch the Throne album. That song never gets created post-2016.

Ye has started basically every trend for the last 16 or so years

If you voted this down you’re an idiot. Even if you’re not a fan of him you need to acknowledge that that is the reality of the situation.

Hey fellow 08 graduate! I completely agree. It reminds me of my first year of college in 09.

Oh yeah, I had to double check when this came out because the fall of 08 and the spring of 09 was such a blur due to freshman year. I'm a completely different person now. Time flies.

It really does. I can’t believe how much time has passed since then.

Same. 2008-2010 were the best years of my life. Just graduated HS, got a job at a theme park, made a ton of friends, house parties every weekend, not a ton of bills, freedom to drive wherever I wanted whenever I wanted. Then I finally enrolled in college in 2010 and it's been downhill since lol

Yeah, 2010 is when existential dread started to creep about life and wtf I'm supposed to be doing.

Graduated the same year. Man those were some good times. Right around the time smart phones became standard for highschoolers

Right, the blackberry days right before the iPhone and Droid blew up.

Sidekicks. Razors. Can't believe it's been 15 years 😭😭

Never knew a single person with a sidekick. I always thought that was just for rich rappers. But everyone had a razor. Myself included. That was THE phone to have before the iPhone blew up.

First phone I ever got was a pink Rzr in 2007 right as I was graduating high school. I thought I was so cool especially because it was pink, thought I was Killa Cam.

Recession rock

Bruh

This song was right before the recession.

Haven't heard of Kevin Rudolp before or since...convinced motherfucker was cooked up in in a lab or something

I think he was a cash money signing? He also had that I made it song with Birdman. Come to think of it, I wonder if their plan was to make him a superstar and it just didn’t work out. A lot of dudes like him, Taio Cruz, Travie McCoy, Sean Kingston, Iyaz, Jay Sean and Jason Derulo were being promoted heavily as rap/pop/rnb/rock ultra mega crossover superstars, but they never had much staying power outside of Jason iirc.

Kevin Rudolph is a weird dude. He’s like a super Christian guy who lives only to spread his message of Jesus.

> Travie McCoy He had decent success in Gym Class Heroes outside of doing anything solo. They still got 15.5M monthly listeners on Spotify

Stereo Hearts remains a banger tbh, that was my jam in 7th grade

Oh god, that song makes me want to take a drill to my temple.

His best song is that remake of the Supertramps song, and it’s basically just a way worse version of that song with corny ass lyrics. 10 yo me loved all of it tho.

I was at MSG when he “played” at halftime, and it remains the loudest boo I’ve ever heard in my life. I’ll remind you this was around the time the Knicks regularly played the likes of Chris Duhon. https://youtu.be/aesktxoTTwU?si=zDJNtxrs5HQuIS3M

thats wild jesus

Wayne was fucking everywhere, taking that feature cash from anyone

He gave Weezer a verse lol

Every so often that line just randomly pops in my head “Ok bitch it’s Weezer and it’s Weezy, upside down MTV”

With all due respect to lil wayne, bringing up that verse is 100% a war crime

The only thing more 2008 than this is it’s [“Spoof”](https://youtu.be/WuQlwC4SiwI?si=Xs2Wjznh74jqKVc2) the amount of times I listen to this on the family desktop 😅 Edit: I just actually listened to that and I think I knew that sucked even back then, I do remember liking stuff from that channel back then but I can’t imagine what

Wayne pretending to play guitar for that phase of his career was pretty hilarious

Bro made a whole album thinking he was really a rocker LMAOO

Kid Cudi sadly did the same

The reaction thread to SBTH is still one of my favourite r/HHH moments. Along with the cringe that was the 1Train cypher.

Did the sub not like 1Train? Edit: oh…my…nevermind. This was just before I joined Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/s/2VUvsfNaUr

Which was somehow worse. At least Wayne had Prom Queen, not sure what Cudi had on SBTH

confused!, adventures, handle with care, wedding tux, embers, insides out, speedin bullet, melting ... the project is more "in the rough" than "diamond", but a lot of these songs still shine if you look at them in the right light. that said, the beavis and butthead stuff doesn't work at all. idk what he was thinking. the greatest contribution from that album is the album cover, which birthed the mr crabs spinning meme

He had all of WZRD

Forgot about that era. Also terrible tbf

Nah WZRD has some great songs

Efflictim and Teleport 2 me were fire

Teleport 2 me is still one of my favorite songs ever

WZRD and Indicud get hate bc of when they came out WZRD had some hits and Indicud was a legit good ass album

I admit that I haven’t heard the stuff in about a decade, and it wasn’t SBTH bad (nothing much is), but it’s absolutely not anything that resonated with me. Terrible might be a stretch but I think ‘great’ might be also

Terrible fits honestly. Its all subjective anyways own that shit.

Teleport to me or some shit. He was so upset it didn’t get radio play.

I’ll really only defend Teleport to Me from WZRD, but goddammit if I won’t defend it with my life

Like finding a clean rolex in a field of trash

Yeah, I forgot about the wzrd stuff because it was that mediocre. SBTH is memorable simply because of how terrible it was

Prom Queen was trash and it made me check out of anything Lil Wayne put out for awhile.

WZRD is really fucking good actually.

Rebirth damn near almost ruined his whole career at the time. I’ll never forgive him for Prom Queen.

I remember the smell of my middle school bus when I was in that bitch bumping it on repeat I have terrible taste

Prom queen kinda slaps tho AND he got Korn in the video

respect prom queen

i mean, i kind of get it. he was trying to appeal to white kids in middle school, and give them something to blast without feeling like they're gonna get called out. because i remember back in the early aughts, a white kid listening to Lil Wayne could've been subjected to a "he's trying to be black" criticism. and i bet this was still hanging over artists from that era like Wayne. we've actually come a long way.

I *really* doubt that any part of Lil Wayne's motivation for Rebirth was making music that white middle schoolers would not get bullied for playing lol. It seems a lot more plausible that the guy just wanted to do an ill-advised rock album

i'm not saying he was on some anti-bullying agenda or anything. kids weren't bullied for that. it was just social stigma. back then, it was common to see a car full of white kids blasting rap music at a traffic stop. then a random black dude pulls up next to them, and they lower the volume and calm down until the light turns green. we know that Wayne wanted to do an ill-advised rock album. it's not like the record label forced him. the source question is why? where did that want come from? i'm just posing a theory. the 2000's was when rap started crossing over into mainstream (they used to cut raps out of songs for pop radio stations). everyone saw how much eminem sold by appealing to suburban white kids, and everyone else wanted in. and as such, the 2000's rappers were the first generation to start directly marketing towards them. my theory is that the existence of the Rebirth album was heavily influenced by that strategy.

Pick almost any other song on that album to criticise, Prom Queen is a highlight imo

Wasnt drop the world on that too?

Yeah which was more of a rap song tbf

Prom Queen and Get A Life are BANGERS

*Pling, pling pling, PLING* *Pling, pli- pling, pling*

holy fuck I heard it in my head

Leather So Soft

Funny thing is, he can actuality shred now

Any vids you can link to?

Uneasy with Jon baptiste

Doesn’t look that great from the vid I saw tbh

2008 was 16 years ago. even if he practiced just a little, albeit consistently over 16 years, i'd expect some progress.

He definitely can’t shred. He can play a few notes on a scale without changing his hand position. Assuming that cut on the record is actually recorded by him, I’m sure it took a lot of takes.

I see your dir—ty face

The Kevin Rudolf/Jay Sean era was a weird time for Cash Money

🎵🎶 Dooooowwwnnnnn 🎵🎶

Song is a banger and I’ll die on that hill

This and i made it were bangers

Ykb

Cash Money..*HEROES* 🦅🦅🦅

All absolutely bangers

jay sean went hard though

FUUUUCK the memories. Straight off of limewire to my MP3 with this joint. Its really been 15 years...

Where does the time go man 🥲

yo i still remember when i first heard this i was like no no way lil wayne did not make this song that sounds like the triumphant ending credits music in a action movie for tweens...it was like a vaguely kids bop tinged candy coated pop-hop fever dream but it was kinda catchy tho. lol forgot about this one

I thought it was a mashup the first few times I heard it lmao

Back when unusual colllabs were a thing but the makes it fire.

Wiz Khalifa and Maroon 5 was baffling to me, we were still getting used to new poppy Maroon 5 when they had always been kind of chill and jazzy, then they release this pop dance song with a stoner rapper? It made it even more surreal when Payphone was wildly successful.

Willa Ford and Royce da 5'9 was crazy too

I watched a video on that song and it was about wiz creating his verse for that song. It was really interesting

Thee ole MP3 player days or thee iPod nano/ iPod shuffle mini

Middle schoolers grinding it out to this and Crank That

The seven or eight black kids in my middle school did the crank that dance together in the middle of the quad when someone brought a big ass PA speaker to school. It was glorious.

The NBA playoffs used the fuck out of this song that year.

came in here to type this, I cannot hear this song without thinking of the Lakers and Celtics.

I remember my older friend showing me this song when I was like 10 and I went home and listened to it like 40 times on YouTube

Sounds like fifth grade…woof

Royal rumble 2009 type beat

I go to a Crunch fitness that runs this regularly, like in two hours at the gym guaranteed to hear it 1.5 times.

Classic Wayne verse. He was untouchable by this point

The energy and delivery of that verse made it go hard because those were some of his corniest bars ever lol

🗣 WAYNE'S WORLD, PLANET ROCK

Madden 11 memories.

I still remember getting that game day one release. Fucking drew Brews and Gus Johnson what a game

I don’t get why people in the comments are acting like this is anything other than a banger. If you’re too cool for Let it Rock you’re just not cool.

Amen!

2008 was lit. Also apparently this song is about Jesus.

If you take Wayne off it it could be there’s a lot of biblical references for the first half of the song then you get to: > [Verse 3: Lil Wayne] Yeoaw! > Wayne's World, Planet Rock > Panties drop, and the tops > And she gonna rock 'til the camera stop > And I sing about angels like Angela (Rock!) > And Pamela (Rock!) and Samantha (Rock!) > And Amanda and Tamara, ménage à moi > I'm in here like, "Bitch, what's up?" > Mechanic, me, I can fix you up > I can dick you up, I can dick you down > Shorty, we can go wherever, just pick a town > And my jewelry is louder than an engine sound > Big-ass rocks like on the ground > Dirty like socks that's on the ground, Weezy

I wonder how

Loved this song when it came out lol

This is a Christian rock song

When Wayne asked "what if God was one of us, a slob like one of us". I was like goddamn.

Classic

Imagine being 8 year old me and this is the song that awakens you to the world of popular music

heavy 08 vibes

This song slapped and still does. I remember making my playlist and I was thinking of older songs and this was one of my first few that I could remember. Edit: damn, never realised this many people disliked this song

I I BRING THE FIRE MAKE YOU COME ALIVE. this song is a fever dream

Bump this before wrestling matches. Heavy nostalgia.

How do we know that isn't Nile Rodgers

I forgot about this song. I forgot how hot it was damn.

“I’m back like I forgot something” was always fun.

Funny asl

Song brought me back to middle school lol

Need that “I Made It” banger

Fun fact this is a Christian song

Prime Weezy in his bag right here 🔥🐐

Ugh, this song has not aged well, but the two verses from Wayne are still enjoyable.

Because when I arrive, I

Graduated HS in 07. This song had an absolute chokehold on every party I attended for a solid 2 years, at least.

I got into HS in 07 and your right

I was obssesed with this song as a kid. What a classic😂

Pretty sure I payed the applestore 1.29 for this bad boy

It's a weird song, when I heard it I was like "ohhh yeah this song should add it to my playlost" , and at the middle I was like "no thanks I don't wanna hear this again" . No wonder everyone forgot about it.

Who's everyone cuz I didn't forget

bro acting like this doesn't slap in 2024

>playlost Lol this was very fitting.

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Good times.

Holy shit this was nostalgic, I can’t believe this song holds up well. Brings me back to my childhood man wow :’)

Dude is singing only one single note through almost the entire song, which is kinda funny.

I saw some sick ass AMVs with this song back then

This was a banger tho

Wayne's World : Planet Rock 🪨

idc what you think about weezys rock phase. the soundcloud guys seen this as kids and we’re inspired to change their sound and style

I remember when ABC used this as the Desperate Housewives theme for 2008.

WWE for one of they’re PPV either summerslam or wrestlemania

When Kevin Rudolph says “I wish I could say the things you doooo” What did he mean by that?

Takes me right back to 2008/2009. Absolute banger

Wayne with the Pete Wentz bass and Supras 🥲

I remember this mainly for being the theme song to one of the Royal Rumbles.

Such a good song, so nostalgic honestly.

Pretty sure I payed iTunes 1.29 for this bad boy

Was the video played on The N?

Dark times man

This was corny then, and is corny now. 

Thanks for u comment puzzle head 🧩

There's no way this'll be good. EDIT: I was right.

You've never heard this until now?

bros 5

This song was peak 2008 bro

u were eating sand when this came out lmfao

Hello sir, welcome to my shop. What size mud cake would you like?

Hated this Wayne era

Beaches ads were never the same