what do you miss?
haze25
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1-Ego Trip magazine (with todays rap climate this magazine wouldn't work, but still)2-Good record spots3-that feeling i got the first time i heard rakim, nas, eminem, big pun and canibus (but with todays rap climate, i don't think this'll happen ever again)4-my homeboy J, doing big time on some shit he should have learned long ago5-this huge box of ill spanish records my mothers friend gave her, every los angeles negros lp, jose-jose, camilo sesto etc.... moody loops for days, we threw it away after i grabbed all the hip hop 12"'s.peace,x
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2 - my g-ma. she's still here but dementia has her in it's icy grip.
4 - looking out my window and seeing mountains and smelling salt water
5 - youth
I miss when record spots didn't need to be filled
with raer to satisfy me. When 2 hours in the 50 cent
45 boxes would send me home with Question Mark & the
Mysterians and Al Green singles and I'd be stoked.
"I just got 20 sick singles for ten bucks!"
The seen it/heard it aspect of tha_game is frustrating.
2. having more time for records and things I like
3. small town living
4. traveling
5. working the day shift
2)affordable raers
3)racing with early birds
4)making and sharing music
5)people being good to themselves and/or others
6)honesty
7)childhood
the order of these won't really matter in time and there's more to miss
never missed what you got until it's gone (el shobey and co. on shout)
since when did this record average 30-50 USD?
2)My Aunt Lisa
3)My boys Ken "Spiderman" Hamilton,A*****y "Pawz One" ***z,A***n A*******n and J***s K*****y.All really great guys and it's a shame that they were taken at such a young age.
A couple of other things too, but not as much as the above.
R.I.P.
2) My childhood
3) Franco American Macaroni & Cheese
4) John Candy
2) Anna RIP too worried about everyone else and not her self
3)Community Radio in sydney in the 90's so many dope shows and so diverse
4)Boogie Down and Mofoniks mad nites in sydney that played the best of hop hop, Boogie and Breaks
5)Dj-ing regularly around town...
9)motivation
10)facial hair
11)hip hop
true.
also
Pre-ebay days
Old friends
The rest is just the usual list of mildly depressing 'getting older' related curmudgeonations.
2) Reggae Jams in the park that is now the new Yankee Stadium. It was my first exposure to larger than human size speakers and Concentrated Local Carribean EXP.
3) Lincoln Center (66th St.) Tower Records' Jazz section
4) Deep Sound - the local record store on 161st. They were mostly Reggae but had a gang of early Hip Hop wax. SugarHill,Enjoy, Vintertainment. This is where I saw B-Boys - Girls Part 2 in various colours and lost it.
5) Real Leather on Sneakers. This new pleather/vinyl bullshit is some bullshit. Nowadays, real leather is a luxury w/ these fuckin brands.
6) Creative McDonalds Commercials. I dont eat the shit but damn those old school joints were done well.
"Keep Yo Eyes On Yo Fries......" mid school hypnosis.
7) Black Consciousness amongst Local Black EXP. 14 year olds w/ a Nikki Giovanni book on the subway.
8) When Onion & Garlic was considered a new adventurous flavor.
9) Elegant Movie Theatres
10) Black News in the late 70's early 80's. They had a crazy funky intro song. "Ooooh-Hoooooo..."
Being enthralled by hearing more music. I still love music, and hearing new great stuff is a thrill, but it's similar to what SOI said. I feel like I look back at my younger self spending heaps of time digging for records that cost a dollar or less just so that I could hear things that were beyond my frame of reference. It's rare for my audible world to get shook up by a recording these days. Recommendations would be greatly appreciated.