>(i knew him, horatio... *joke*)

no need for explain. i get those obscure references. (jokes for five people in the world).

>but as long as we're sharing...
>
>like maybe about 10 others here on okp, "rappers delight"
>was my intro to hip hop too. heard it first on the radio in
>my moms '76 cutlass,

not you in the cut'.

on the way to school (i missed the bus
>that day). i thought it was chic, but what came after the
>familiar intro was instantly mind-blowing. those nonsensical
>rhymes changed music for a little kid from oklahoma; shit
>was never the same after that. i remember listening to the
>radio all day, waiting for it to come on from the
>beginnining, and holding a tape recorder to the speaker.
>after that, "play/pause/play" until i had the whole thing
>transcribed in my spiral...

aww shit, you takin me back. an the tape recorders had the big chunky ass buttons that stopped with authority, like 'CLICK!'

but yeah, i was like a hip hop monk, too, transcribing all that nonsense. each hibbie, hip, and boogie.

necessary, cuz we'd spit lines
>at lunch and argue about who had the best ones (i was a
>master g double e kinda kid myself). after that...

dat ninja was the smoovest out of all of them. i give him props for that. wasn't nobody effin w/ Cowboy from furious 5 - i think he had the all time voice in hiphop. but master gee was the smoothest out of the sugarhill gang.


>well, i *was* in oklahoma. not quite the cultural crossroads
>back then, if you know what i mean. if the radio didn't play
>it, i couldn't hear it, so i got a few snippets here &
>there, "space cowboy", "the message", "perfect beat",
>"apache". a little kurtis blow, with a lot of 80's rock &
>pop and prince and george clinton to fill in the gaps. rap
>was just rap. i liked it. it was all music to me, but then-
>
>my mans, fat joe weeble webber, hit me with a tape. "d,
>listen to this..."
>
>popped it into my clunky sony knock-off jawn, and heard:
>"two years ago, a friend of mine..." wow.



>before "sucker mc's", rap was kinda corny. but these cats...
>they ushered in the "golden age" for me. they led in cool j,
>the beasties, utfo, the boogie boys, whodini, force md's,
>joeski love, slick rick, dougie fresh, shy-d, shan, kool
>moe, whistle, both roxannes, dana dane, krs, rakim, hell,
>even bobby jimmy. i even got to see most of them live and in
>color in okc. and it was beautiful.

word. remember the Fresh Fest? '84? WWFWT?

>as i type all of this in a figurative b-boy stance, i
>reminisce about these times; deejaying parties with weeble,
>tagging shit, manning the 808 at talent shows, seeing beat
>street and krush groove 20 times, ghostwriting for my boy,
>cheering on the lunch hour break crews... webber probably
>doesn't know this, but he tossed me head first into a
>culture. in a way, i've lived it, and loved it. it's mine,
>and it always will be.
>
>i just hope nelly and chingy and the ilk don't fuck it all
>up.

word. i think hiphop can survive them though. we got through the rappin duke. rob base. f*cking 'Turbo' or whoever that extra wack ni&&a was from SNAP. ("or i will atTACK/ and you don't want THAT") we can make it.


>this was waay too long, and i'm done now.
>
>******************************
>******************************
>doodle for sanity...

peace & blessings,

x.

"I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all." - Iron Mike