I spent a week in San Jose during that summer and heard that on the radio all the time. Back home, I’d only seen the video on BET here and there. I hear it now, it takes me right back to listening to the radio out west for that week.

Songs like that, that I heard a decent amount back then and associate with a specific memory, and then never heard again for many years until it became possible to play anything at anytime.

Another example would be Ja Rule’s first album....I rode back from senior skip day with a couple girls and they played that damn album and Q-Tip’s first solo the whole way. Now Tip I listened to on my own at times, and would go back to that album over the years so if I hear it now I don’t really associate it with the time period as strongly. Where Ja Rule - I never listened to that album again and really haven’t heard the singles or anything very often either since ‘99, so if I were to hear “Holla Holla” or something, it takes me straight back to that car ride.