Old school doesn't mean any specific shit. it just means old shit. it is 2013. Most young hip hop heads today were 5-10 years old in 2000. so, for the sake of the thread, keep the Hip Hop to pre-2000.

Ice T - Colors
http://youtu.be/LI8Zx_QvNVU

This song came out 20 YEARS ago. If that is not old school, nothing is.

Snoop Dogg - Murder Was The Case
http://youtu.be/LC2OpFMBReg

Public Enemy - Shut 'Em Down
http://youtu.be/LB4D-GbQ9A4

Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five - Step Off
http://youtu.be/-_g7CZJMnJA

DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat
http://youtu.be/54yIMKjG048

Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick - The Show
http://youtu.be/bDkqz5C62SM

I can't live without my radio!

Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
http://youtu.be/tEM3dW2oWW4

RUN DMC - Hit it Run
http://youtu.be/z4dzA75ihR0

Full Force/UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne
http://youtu.be/KOTp3-jEMjQ

A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
http://youtu.be/WHRnvjCkTsw
(First thing we did when my crew visited NYC was go eat at the Square Diner, which was a block from where the bus from Philly chinatown drops you off in manhattan. Only while we were eating did we realize it was the same place Tribe filmed this video!)

Rappin Rodney
http://youtu.be/FLGxWPtgodo

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Brand New Funk
http://youtu.be/b5YaVisdujs

not oldskool according to SuchFriends, but still, Mama Knock You Out is such a dope album. ;)

In 1990 "old school" was what suchfriends described. However, Hip Hop has been around now for about 40 years, or as long as Rock n Roll was around in 1995.

and songs from the 80's are now rock n roll "Oldies"!

(This needs to continue)

Poor Righteous Teachers - Rock Dis Funky Joint
http://youtu.be/3s4F9BZiWj8

Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
http://youtu.be/h1vKOchATXs

Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
http://youtu.be/y9lNbNGbo24

The Pharcyde - Drop
http://youtu.be/co3qMdkucM0

Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin'
http://youtu.be/2l2O-JOXG_I

Special Ed - Think About It
http://youtu.be/ixYvr0s0E44

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - White Lines
http://youtu.be/HsTJaP2tC0A

Public Enemy - Fight The Power
http://youtu.be/2WHe5fxS3dA

Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump
http://youtu.be/BptQHAW2T5M

Yeah, but it doesn't change when or what comprised the foundation. By "
Old School" you're talking about "heritage" hip hop, and that is most definitely all rap before 1988. 1988-1998 is probably the high water mark, and 1999-2005 is probably a great era of soulful, semi-conscious hip hop in the mainstream, followed by the dreadful Kanye-Wayne-Drake era of rap from 2005-2013, when essentially, hip music in the 2000s compared to hip hop in the 80s/90s is like comparing 1980s terrible pop music with fantastic bands from the late-1960s-to-mid-1970s...

Plus, stylistically there is a world of difference between the sound, beat, and flow of rap music in the 1980s and 1990s, which is why I disagree and say that 1990s rap can't be considered "Old School" be like saying Nickelback is grunge..

it will all be oldies eventually. fuck it. and eventually it will all be forgotten.

That is true, but within oldies there are those Dick Clark wuhite folk oldies, there is that "rock and roll", there is that "soul", there is "Mo-Town" and "du-op" and all of those variations...

Hip Hop doesn't seem to have as many genres as rock music claims.

Dude, yes it does! There are like at least ten distinct different styles/eras of hip-hop and rap music, and they are all different enough from each other to become certified sub-genres for whatever that means to music critics who write about this shite

ten?

folk rock
stoner rock
heavy metal
psychedelic rock
shoegaze
emo
hardcore
punk
screamo
twee
nu-metal
pop rock
hard rock
noise rock
lofi
funkrock
doom metal
disco
progressive rock
roots rock
new wave
math rock
southern rock
surf rock
grunge
no-wave
etc etc


That is just off the top of my head. Hip Hop does not have anywhere near that many designations, not that they mean anything quantifiable, but in that hip hop is, in the underground, a very fluid expressive, ever-changing quantity, but in the mainstream, hip hop is sequestered into two or three categories that is all the record labels seem to want to push. Rock was allowed (maybe cuz it's made mostly by white boys and sold to white boys) to change and grow while using the mainstream.

BTW, Drake was on Degrassi High. did not know that...

West-coast beats
East-coast beats
Old School
Mobb music/hyphy
Gangsta Rap
Crunk
Dirty South
Northcoast (Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland)
Trap
Soul-Trap
Ghettohouse/Ghettotech
Underground
nerdcore
Conscious
Breakbeat
Horrorcore
G-Funk