that tunnel era was a good reaction to the bad boy stuff
dmx, the lox, camron etc, the harder new york stuff (and not totally divorced from bad boy either actually)
like a last gasp for new york
tbh i disliked a lot of that stuff at the time, apart from the songs i felt were 'hard' and 'real hip hop' (lol) like money power respect or get at me dog (it had an epmd sample lol) but i realised how wrong i was about 10 years ago, grime actually had a lot to do with making me check my assumptions