I'm not sure when everything came out exactly, but around 1993 i bumped: Cypress HIll, Funkdoobiest, The Goats, Del, Tribe, De La, Black Sheep, Jungle Brothers, Gunshot, Krispy, Beatnuts, Wu-tang, Gravediggaz, Hiero, Mobb Deep, Keith Murray, Redman, Kurious Jorge, Ice Cube, Snoop, Gang Starr, the roots, heltah skelta / smiff n wessun, black moon, the pharcyde, Busta / LONS, Nas, Main Source, Masta Ace, hiphop will never be like that again, major labels with major talent on their rostas. up through to 96-97 was dope too.