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<blockquote> STARTER JACKETS: I didn't see anyone say this. One of my fondest childhood memories was going with my rich ass grandparents to Paragon up by Union Square to cop starter jackets. Remember when dudes used to get rushed for this shit? I'm not even talking just about in the city. I remember someone trying to take me off for my 3/4 length Knicks coat at the Quakerbridge Mall (Real Central Jersey Headz Know tha deal). BONUS POINTS: Triple fat goose worn inside out to show the goose pattern on the lining. Keeping tags on your starter hats. When the wool starter baseball caps with script lettering and the leather back strap came out it was just too much temptation for my 7th grade class and a boosting craze began...</blockquote> If I dig hard enough I might be able to find my LA Kings one. Yup, a suburban white kid from Merrick NY walking the mall in a LA Kings Starter jacket. I remember looking inside one of the NWA tapes and seeing this Compton hat for sale, and telling this Haitian girl in school I was gonna get one. She didn't really have much to say about it. <blockquote>HOT 97 WAS A DAMN FREESTYLE STATION: and the Ricans and Italians that I knew didn't listen to rap music. Especially the girls. </blockquote> Yes! 103.5 and 97.1 traded formats back and forth a couple of times right? Wasn't 103.5 the hiphop station way back? Hot 97 still played house late on the weekends after the changeover, Glenn Friscia, Tony Humphries, Hex Hector, probably some other djs that I'm forgetting. That all ended though. I got some good tapes from those late shows, they'd go an hour or two straight with maybe one commercial. <blockquote>DISCOVERING NY/NJ MIXSHOW RADIO: Probably the single most influential medium in my development as a music fan. Red Alert was the king, but also Stretch Armstrong, the show with GMan on WPRB in Princeton, The "Operating Room" with Dr. Dre from "YO" and Silver D, Chuck Chillout, Marley and Pete Rock and KDef, BLS "Thunderstorms", Wildman Steve and Riz out in LI (didn't Wildman Steve dissappear?). Bonus Points: Rude Bwoy David Levey "ROCKIN YOU ROCKIN YOU ROCKIN YOU", Jeff Fox "The FOx Who Rocks the Box", Prince Messiah (R.I.P.), The Hipanic Causing Panic...</blockquote> I'll never forget one late night in the summer, sometime in the mid '80s, maybe late '80s, laying in bed and I just start turning the radio dial to see what's on the low and high stations that I never checked before. Get down into the high 80's, (wound up being Adelphi's, 89.5 I think) and hear "Ya don't stop, a flavaflav y'all...you don't quit, a flavaflav y'all...". I had no idea who the hell it was, or how he got on my radio. I turned it off real quick on some "what the fuck was that!!!" type shit, then clicked it back on the next morning to see what kind of music that station played or if it was just static. It was something different (didn't know about college radio stations playing different types of music back then) which confirmed my belief that my radio was hijacked the night before by some local guy with a walkie talkie. I checked back again a few weeks later and hung in there this time, and it turned out to be Wildman Steve's and Riz show.

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