Yeah I probably should be grading papers LOL and I am...hehe..but I have this topic in my head so I am going to start talking about it now.

Most of you know I lived nearly all of my life in Southern California.  I was born in Compton, lived in South Gate until I was 5. At the time my life was threatened by my best friend because his girl friend liked me so he threatened to have his older brother kill me. (that was back in 1977).  So my family decided to move to the suburb (Riverside).  I lived there until I got a job at Earthlink in 1998/9.  I then moved to Temple City (suburb of Pasadena) and stayed there until I moved to Phoenix in 2004. 

During that time, I tended to listen to rap/house, R&B, and dance/disco music. It was what was most popular, execpt when I was in Junior High School when I really liked hard rock/metal music.  It wasnt really until I started attending That 70s show that I really became attracted to Classic Rock and oldies.

I have a soft spot for Rap Music.  Most people consider rap's golden age until about 1993.  I think it went until about the time TuPac and Biggie died (1997- .  I can see both dates as viable though.  After about 1994 there was a clear change with the massive infux of gangsta/sex lyrics.  That is not to say there was that prior.  Heck, off the top of my head I can name 10 artists that glorified that type of lifstyle prior to 1994 (All of IceT, Too Short, NWA, BWA, Geto Boys, etc etc - you get the picture) but things changed after the Chronic Album of Dr. Dre. Anyway, that isnt my point! LOL

One of the things I really enjoyed about Rap music was its lyrics, the tunes that they sampled (espeically before it became illegal), and especially the remixing.  I was so knowledgable about it that when I worked at Earthlink I was asked questions about obsecure rap trivia LOL.

Right now I am listening to a rap music remix of James Brown's the Payback!  That is one of the major plus's is that it exposed another generation of both black and white youths to music such as James Brown and Booker T and the MGs and other!  I also really enjoyed DJ mixes, those were the best like Funk Master Flex, Richard "Humpty" Vision, Bad Boy Bill, Frankie Knuckles!  Those guys rocked and had some CLEAN mixes.  I totally need to get my CDs out of storage LOL. 

But right now I am just going to jam to the Old School show and listen to Rodney O and Joe Cooley's everlasting Base!

I am posting this because of the song - not the video


Warren G - Regulate (uncensored)


Master Grimm - Indosmoke

Now if you don't know what they are talking about in this song, you probably don't know what the Chronic is either! LOL

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