If you only knew half the stories from my days at KZSU Stanford with Kevvy Kev, I might make a lot more sense to you :) -meeting Lateef the Truthspeaker in 95 when he dropped The Wreckoning! -Catching footballs with Buckshot and Boot Camp... -posted up next to Marshall Mathers in late 98 (or early 99) right as My name is was starting to catch fire -witnessing the MURS vs. Insomniac battle... -tagging on stickers with Tame One of Artifacts ... -letting Pharoahe Monch borrow my mean streak and paint pens!! -watching RedMan roll blunts with Seany-Sean -Frank Red, Seany Sean injury stories -rushing to get headphones set up for EL-P and Big Jus to get them on the air before the show was over... -Sway and Tech co-hosting during the height of the Wake Up show -freestyle cyphers on air with Jihad of Third Sight -rhyming with Prozack Turner, ForeignLegion -Macklemore giving out his promo CDs in 99 or 2000 !!!?!? -listening to the ear-hustler hustle ears -Mike Nice, Jake, Andy, Summer, and everyone... -posted up with the FMK crew and some 40s it aint never gonna be like that again but in light of what I saw last night from Latyrx at the IndySF, and the new music from them, as well as Run the Jewels, J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Brother Ali, anticipating the new Pharoahe Monch, an Outkast reunion, Eminem, Freddie Gibbs... G-Eazy doing his thing and gettin down with Jay-Ant and IAMSU... Zion-I rockin with Bassnectar... Grouch and Eligh combining with Pretty Lights... J-5 on every major festival this year... and I wont even mention the hipster rappers, but... HIP-HOP IS BACK. You might still only be hearing radio rap (on the radio) but look around... as Sake-1 pointed out, we are in the midst of a new kinda Golden Era... SOAK IT UP, breathe it in, pass it around... Sharing is caring! Enjoy this underground classic from back in the day: youtube/watch?v=_ZlQdctqYZ0
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:00:19 +0000
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