There was this store in Little Five Points that sold custom-embroidered skullies--just a word or, at most, two across the front--and I remember my friend Katie's little brother Josh rocking a purple one that said the word "P**NIS" on it to coordinate with his purple Pumas.
That may have crossed the line from hip-hop fashion into some sort of other fashion.
Doggystyle, Midnight marauders, ummm....i think i had a spice one tape. C-bo. Umm..Domino, Rappin 4 tay? thats all i can really remember, and i think the only one i really went out and bought was doggystyle. I was pretty young too.
i had this Cypress hill tshirt with their first logo on the front (red one, cartoon style) and "the phunky cypress hill shit" on the back.
both prints were fucking huge, as was the shirt.
i thought i was the bees knees.
anyway, headed into the city one night and this big Tongan dude decides he liked my shirt, so he steps to me and smacks me in the head, then trys to pull my shirt off Happy Gilmore style over my head, im bleeding all over the place, cant see shit and just start swinging, ended up connecting and then kicking him in the sack, then running away... weeks later, dude rocks into the record store im working in (wearing the shirt- told you i thought i was cool) and asks me if he can order the shirt!?!
we ended up hanging out and swapping cds for weed.
Of course all of this play occured in my bedroom or in cassette deck in the car. Even though i first heard "Reign of the Tec" on the FM station here before i became aware of them (beatnuts).
If my memory and years of these releases are correct;
Freestyle Fellowship - Inner City Griots Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Wu-Tang - Return To The 36 Chambers Black Moon - Enta Da Stage Del + Souls of Michief A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Black Sheep - Non Fiction Gang Starr - Hard To Earn Pharcyde - Bizzare Ride 2 KRS-One - Boom Bap Akinyele - Vagina Diner
I was still bumpin' Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Ice-T, NWA, Too $hort, MC Eiht and a lot of west coast shit back then...
Wu Tang The Chronic Snoop Geto Boys Black Moon Ice Cube Scarface De La Soul A Tribe Called Quest Black Sheep GangStarr Masta Ase UltraMag KRSONE Fat Joe Pharcyde Beatnuts Yo-Yo Alkaholiks
I was cranking: Doggystyle, Midnight Marauders, Baccdafuccup, 19 Naughty Three, Snow - "Informer," Da Brat - "Funkdafied," Nirvana - In Utero, Green Jelly, Primus - Pork Soda.
I too was in elementary school at the time, cut me a little slack. Usually these were in the context of borrowing/stealing friend's older brothers tapes, as i mostly had cassingles and mixtapes i had dubbed off the radio.
It's funny that deej mentions being "scared" by Wu-Tang. While I wouldn't go that far, I distinctly remember clowning that tape mercilessly for some reason. It wasn't until I heard their solo material that I went back and reevaluated it.
While I wouldn't go that far, I distinctly remember clowning that tape mercilessly for some reason. It wasn't until I heard their solo material that I went back and reevaluated it.
You must have been a very sophisticated little dude--I wasn't "reevaluating" much of anything at 13.
my parents didn't let me listen to rap, i had no money, and we had no tv plus growing up in hawaii you wouldn't hear none of this shit beyond dre and snoop
While I wouldn't go that far, I distinctly remember clowning that tape mercilessly for some reason. It wasn't until I heard their solo material that I went back and reevaluated it.
You must have been a very sophisticated little dude--I wasn't "reevaluating" much of anything at 13.
While I wouldn't go that far, I distinctly remember clowning that tape mercilessly for some reason. It wasn't until I heard their solo material that I went back and reevaluated it.
You must have been a very sophisticated little dude--I wasn't "reevaluating" much of anything at 13.
Well I probably wasn't using that word at the time, but you know what I'm saying.
Compton's Most Wanted - Music To Driveby (yeh 92, but the album knocked) Ice Cube - Lethal Injection (disappointed, but I pretty much bought anything Ice Cube up to that album) Detroits Most Wanted - Tricks of the Trade (local experience) MC Breed - The New Breed mainly because of the collab with 2Pac 2Pac - Strictly
Was the Street Fighter soundtrack out then? or later? That was a "dope" soundtrack.
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That may have crossed the line from hip-hop fashion into some sort of other fashion.
Doggystyle, Midnight marauders, ummm....i think i had a spice one tape. C-bo. Umm..Domino, Rappin 4 tay? thats all i can really remember, and i think the only one i really went out and bought was doggystyle. I was pretty young too.
I really thought the production on this album was great(QD3 and Baker Boyz)
It's quality still holds up for me.
1995
both prints were fucking huge, as was the shirt.
i thought i was the bees knees.
anyway, headed into the city one night and this big Tongan dude decides he liked my shirt, so he steps to me and smacks me in the head, then trys to pull my shirt off Happy Gilmore style over my head, im bleeding all over the place, cant see shit and just start swinging, ended up connecting and then kicking him in the sack, then running away... weeks later, dude rocks into the record store im working in (wearing the shirt- told you i thought i was cool) and asks me if he can order the shirt!?!
we ended up hanging out and swapping cds for weed.
93 was sweet.
Even though i first heard "Reign of the Tec" on the FM station here before i became aware of them (beatnuts).
my bad.
The longterm effects of the weed is starting to show.
You couldnt escape this album.
lol... you could be right my friend, it does all seem to blur together.
Yeah, but even though it was only two years later, it's really from a whole other era.
Freestyle Fellowship - Inner City Griots
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Wu-Tang - Return To The 36 Chambers
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Del + Souls of Michief
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Black Sheep - Non Fiction
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
Pharcyde - Bizzare Ride 2
KRS-One - Boom Bap
Akinyele - Vagina Diner
I was still bumpin' Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Ice-T, NWA, Too $hort, MC Eiht and a lot of west coast shit back then...
Wu Tang
The Chronic
Snoop
Geto Boys
Black Moon
Ice Cube
Scarface
De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
Black Sheep
GangStarr
Masta Ase
UltraMag
KRSONE
Fat Joe
Pharcyde
Beatnuts
Yo-Yo
Alkaholiks
DOPE
whatever, i was like 12.
Nah I wasnt comin at you. I'm just hattin on the wrod dope.
He hadn't gelled yet.
I also had a philly blunt shirt. Which is funny because I didn't try weed until a good 5+ years later.
and yo
rap bandit
I too was in elementary school at the time, cut me a little slack. Usually these were in the context of borrowing/stealing friend's older brothers tapes, as i mostly had cassingles and mixtapes i had dubbed off the radio.
It's funny that deej mentions being "scared" by Wu-Tang. While I wouldn't go that far, I distinctly remember clowning that tape mercilessly for some reason. It wasn't until I heard their solo material that I went back and reevaluated it.
Had the chaperones sweatin' bullets!
You must have been a very sophisticated little dude--I wasn't "reevaluating" much of anything at 13.
plus growing up in hawaii you wouldn't hear none of this shit beyond dre and snoop
Have been? He's still a sophisticated little dude
Well I probably wasn't using that word at the time, but you know what I'm saying.
thats right, you know, sometimes it takes people more time.
Compton's Most Wanted - Music To Driveby (yeh 92, but the album knocked)
Ice Cube - Lethal Injection (disappointed, but I pretty much bought anything Ice Cube up to that album)
Detroits Most Wanted - Tricks of the Trade (local experience)
MC Breed - The New Breed mainly because of the collab with 2Pac
2Pac - Strictly
Was the Street Fighter soundtrack out then? or later? That was a "dope" soundtrack.