I slept on Royce for damn ever! I knew he was nice but I was busy chasing elsewhere. But, damn it, he is one of the greatest.

Wait let me explain!!!

I was generally underwhelmed at the time with the G Funk era. Namely because my dad was heavy into funk and I thought it was just easy recycling of music I knew really well. I felt like he was doing what Puffy was doing sampling super recognizable beats.

It wasn't until the Chronic 2001 did I start to recognize the production value of what he was doing. Actually Death Row released a live instrument album before that and I started appreciating the musicianship of Dre.

That's all.

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Besides being aware of Pump It Up, I've never actually heard anything else he's ever made. It wasn't until I started listening to the podcast and was in the gym one day that I decided to give his playlist some run. Can't believe it took me this long

before that i just knew him as the pump it up guy. haven't checked much for him since either but man he killed that shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekG1Ci_RSbE

How About Some Hardcore came out on the House Party 3 soundtrack. I figured 'how hard can these guys really be?'. Then I heard 'Worlds Famous' on DJ Clue's Spring Break mixtape.

I've been doing penance ever since

My boy had Reasonable Doubt back in '96. He loved Jay but I just couldn't get into it. I'm usually behind the curve on shifts in music and Jay's style and East Coast specific beats were too much for a St. Louisan to swallow in high school.

I kind of went back and listened to Reasonable Doubt at some point in my mid to late twenties and really liked it. His energy on the mic was undeniable.

Because I was a backpacker, looking back, I didn't really get into Jay-Z until The Black Album. At that point, ?uest and The Roots gave him some cred that I didn't he deserved but on the strength of their record, I bought the album.

It was really dope to me. I think I respected Jay's lyricism but his production always seemed lackluster to me, at least the more pop songs, I listened to which he released to that point.

I still didn't like Change Clothes but by then I bought the album and dug Dirt off Ya Shoulder and 99 Problems.

I've bought songs off of every Jay album since. Kingdom Come was a bit of a step back but there were songs on there that I really liked and the same with The Blueprint III. 4:44 was dope too.

I also dug a lot of his features from Kanye and Freeway and Beanie Segal from the mid 2000's.

Charles Mingus was another great artist I slept on. My dad is really into jazz but he didn't play Mingus at all. I didn't learn about him until I was doing some digging into the influences for Kid A where Thom Yorke mentioned a song of Mingus' was an influence for The National Anthem.

Later in my early 30's I think, Ken Burns released his Jazz doc and Mingus had a collection of songs sold as a CD. I picked it up and was awed by the versatility and artistry of the songs. One of the virtuosos of the 20th Century.

I kinda slept on Biggie as well.

I was big into Death Row, which looking back was kinda odd since I was a teetotaler as a kid when Death Row was hittin. Anyway, while I respected Big's talents, I never really listened to him like I did the Death Row artists.

But later on in my 20's I got into Ready to Die. It would be some time until I got into Life After Death. (Truth be told, being a backpacker prevented me from listening to some dope music when it dropped.)

That album is too long, but there are some dope cuts there.

This sounds like me..

Backpacker who came around circa the Black Album.

and I'm a big Sonic Youth fan (one of their main influences). How much I like the music...almost makes me feel stupid (if that makes any sense)