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>Defined the end of my Junior and beginning of my Senior Year
>of High School, lol. Too many on there to list but I
>remember...
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>- running track in the spring of 97 and having the WU and Life
>After Death double cassettes on repeat.
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>- For whatever reason, Mary J's Share My World was the shit
>during the summer while doing summer practice for Football in
>the Fall, lol
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>- Busta's When Disaster Strikes had every damn HS band trying
>to do that beat (to varying degrees of success, lol)
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>Way too many honorable mentions so I'm not going to bother. I
>just can look at this list and get nostalgic. Hell, even TRU
>reminds me of working at Kroger, lol.
>
Ain't nuthin changed but my bank account. I'm still the saaaame!
The samples they used and how they used them on that album was a parade of hilarity. I always feel like somebody's watching meeeeeeeeee! Pop pop pop pop GOES MY NIIIIIIIINE! They sampled Candy too. They were relentless and no song was safe from Mo B Dick and them. Ridiculous. I can hear songs from that album and be back in college immediately. What a wild time. And I was already 'desegregated' hiphop-wise by then. So I was listening to everything I knew about and liked. Wu, Mobb Deep, Snoop/Death Row, Pac, Big, No Limit, Dungeon Family, UGK, Houston stuff of course, LL during like his 3rd run where he was doing more pandering to the ladies but would still bust people's ass out of nowhere on a I Shot Ya, whatever. Good times.
I also remember BEGGING PEOPLE to give JayZ's Reasonable Doubt a chance. People were hating on his voice. I was like 'LISTEN TO THE DAMN RAPS! THIS DUDE IS GOING IN!'. For a while, I thought Carter was doomed to fail. But nope...HKL hit and then it was on.
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