i am always curious how cats got into hip hop?
PS this is a long posting
i am reletivly young i am 23 right now
so you can imagine that in 80´s i was much younger.
about 9 or so, coming from a township i could not understand englih let alone what the rapers were saying ha ha,
so i heard 2live crew and i would run around screeming shit like
"f*** bin a nigga f*** bin a nigga"
ha ha shit was funny as f***...
my uncle was bumping all that 2live crew, Eric B and Rakim, PE, LL "Radio",
so i was "hearing" hip hop in the 80 but not really listerning coz i could only understand very little..the od "f*** the police" and that typa shit
in the ninties 1990 to be exact i guess thats when i really got into hip hop
i was 13 then
AmeriKKKa´s Most Wanted by Ice Cube
Mamma Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J
Wanted: Dead or Alive by Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
To the East Blackwards by X-Clan
were my first tapes i loved these motherf***ers to death, i still have the tapes, in my shrine
then frm then i was checking for shit
from then i bumped this shit
The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest - 5.0
De La Soul is Dead by De La Soul - 5.0
Organized Konfusion by Organized Konfusion - 4.5
To Whom it May Concern by Freestyle Fellowship - 4.5
Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill - 4.0
All Souled Out by Pete Rock and CL Smooth - 4.0
The Chronic by Dr. Dre
Mecca and the Soul Brother by Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Don´t Sweat the Technique by Eric B. & Rakim - 4.5
Business Never Personal by EPMD - 4.0
Dead Serious by Das Efx - 4.0
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan - 5.0
Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest - 5.0
Doggystyle by Snoop Doggy Dogg - 5.0
Enta Da Stage by Black Moon - 4.5
Black Reign by Queen Latifah - 4.0
Return of the Boom Bap by KRS-One - 4.0
Reachin´ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) by Digable Planets - 4.0
No Need for Alarm by Del the Funky Homosapien - 4.0
Resurrection by Common Sense - 5.0
The Sun Rises in the East by Jeru the Damaja - 5.0
Illmatic by Nas - 5.0
Word...Life by O.C. - 5.0
Stress: The Extinction Agenda by Organized Konfusion - 4.5
Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G. - 4.5
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik by Outkast - 4.5
Six Feet Deep by The Gravediggaz - 4.5
Do You Want More?!!!??! by The Roots - 5.0
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon - 5.0
The Infamous by Mobb Deep - 5.0
Liquid Swords by Genius/GZA - 5.0
Labcabincalifornia by The Pharcyde - 4.5
Me Against the World by 2Pac - 4.5
Endtroducing by DJ Shadow - 5.0
ATLiens by Outkast - 5.0
Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z - 5.0
Illadelph Halflife by The Roots - 4.5
I have all this shit on tape
i think after 1995 i started to bump less of the new shit coz
it was like all the cats dropping albums sounded exactly like all the shit
i had heard already
till Funckcrusher plus...i was like :-o
then it was rawkus ..i was also like :-o
they came with genuinly fresh shit and i think thats when i deviated and started following the so called backpacker movement...blackstar, wordsworth, el-p, sole, some anitcon, jedi, J-live, J-Zone,cage, non-phixion, rise, apathy etc etc
right now i am so heavy and deep into the the underground scene that i hardly know much else about what is bumpin out there
imagine when someone told me recently that Boot Camp click just dropped recently i was like what the f***..
i am a perfect example of what has happened in hip hop, there is so musch shit out that heads ..real heads is now bumping different shit...blah blah blah
8-)
