YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! I love this. Everything on it, My younger brother and sister calls me old school because of these. Love it you guys, I enjoy this site

Bill Clinton nver did much for the black community..
he’s 1st black president cos he went to a black show n payed a trumpet? whatever that instrument was
he signed laws that sent our kids to prison than any other president
when Barack Obama needed his support he showed his true colors..
Black folks kill me with this mass thinking attitude.
This is a case if great PR at it’s best.one person said it over n over n it stuck..ugh.no bueno

I was born in ’97 and I know all of this lol my mama’s been doing a fantastic job raising me if all of the things listed here are new for my generation… 

*Sidenote: we were watching Leonardo Dicaprio’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in English class, and I was the only one to recognize the music, like ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ and a cover version of ‘When Doves Cry’. I felt old and irritated with “youth these days”

the actual question is: WHY should people even have to know that kind of unnecessary knowledge? Except for the “black president” part, everything is just shallow, uninteresting pop-culture “knowledge”.
What about letting them know how to keep your credit score good, how to save money, be responsible with your cel phone bills, how to take it to/through college etc.?
Seriously, what’s wrong with you?

I was born in ’93, i’m 19, and we’re actually part of the same generation, believe it or not! “The Baby Boom Echo” generation is from 1980-1995, the ones after us, 1996-2010, are the “Millenium Busters” and I do believe that your post applies mostly to them.

Believe it or not, most of us know *most* of these things (at least the people I associate with). I find it strange that we’re viewed as an entirely different animal by you older “Echoers” (who aren’t really much older, but I digress) but in the eyes of the generation before us we’re ALL just ”youngin’s”. I would’ve agreed with you in regards to kids born in the late 90′s because I think they are way different from the way we (early 90′s) were. However, I don’t really think we can blame people for what they weren’t alive to see or understand, they don’t know because they weren’t alive then and were never taught. 

I thought this post was going to be about more substantial stuff, lessons that you (or someone else) has learned that you want to pass on, as opposed to general and somewhat irrelevant peices of information. It was still cool, but definately not what I thought it would be. Just my 2 cents though!

PS. In regards to the styles, ALL generations revive styles from years past and change them, and develop their own.

I’m really shocked at the kids who didn’t know the Titanic was an actual tragedy. My mother explained this to me when I was around 7.

being born in 1992, i would have to say that either these kids are really young(like 14 or 15) or just plain stupid. i remember in 1997 watching the original titanic film with my older cousins. 

This must be for really young people because I’m 19 and I know all of this. The people not knowing the titanic was real is just a shame because I know we covered that extensively in the 6th grade. We read the book and watched the movie (the Black and White film, not the James Cameron film). I think that most people know about sampled beats, they just never know what is sampled and what song was sampled. I was shocked out of my mind when not only did my best friend not know that that Hurricane Chris song  Playas Rock was a sample but he had never heard the sang is sampled (Earth Wind and Fire -Love’s Holiday). Maybe it’s because my mother didn’t allow my sisters and I to listen to rap (new age rap, she loved her some hip hop so we heard plenty of 2pac and what not) until I was 13 but I’m pretty good at picking up on the samples.