Tom Brady, arguably the NFL G.O.A.T., officially called it a career today after 22 years and 7 Lombardi trophies with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Brady is such a mainstay in the league that it's hard to imagine what the game was like before he entered as a 6th round pick, and what it will be like after exiting on his own terms without showing any sign of slowing down.

We couldn't help but wonder, what was the state of Hip-Hop like when Brady was the 199th selection in the April 2000 NFL draft?

The hottest album

Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP

It's hard to remember a time when Eminem was actually facing the possibility of a sophomore slump after his powerful debut, The Slim Shady LP. However, The Marshall Mathers LP proved it wasn't a fluke. He sold 1.7 million copies the first week — more than twice as many copies in its first week than the previous rap record holder, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle (800,000 copies).

In total, the album spent eight weeks at number one. By the end of 2000,The Marshall Mathers LP had become the second-best-selling album of the year with over eight million copies sold.

The hottest song

"Baby if You're Ready" by Doggy's Angels featuring LaToya

Missy Elliot's "Hot Boyz" dominated the charts in 1999 for 18 consecutive weeks. While songs like the 504 Boyz' "Wobble Wobble" and Lil' Bow Wow's "Bounce With Me" were all hits, it was, in fact, Snoop Dogg's trio of Big Chan, ,Coniyac, and Kola Loc who hold the distinction of the biggest song of 2000. "Baby If You're Ready" sat atop the charts for 8 consecutive weeks.

The hottest verse

André 3000 on "Ms. Jackson

“Ten times out of nine, now if I’m lyin’, find/The quickest muzzle, throw it on my mouth and I’ll decline/King meets queen, then the puppy love thing/Together dream ’bout that crib with the Goodyear swing/On the oak tree, I hope we feel like this forever/Forever, forever ever? Forever, ever?/Forever never seems that long until you’re grown/And notice that the day-by-day ruler can’t be too wrong”

The "what could have been" release

Big L's The Big Picture

Big L's posthumous record remains a reminder that Hip-Hop is full of emcees who we never got to see evolve due to tragedy. Featuring production by Lord Finesse, Preemo, Ron Browz, Showbiz, and Pete Rock, Rolling Stone said in their review, "The Big Picture reveals an MC who is more alive in the grave than most rappers are onstage."