Hip Hop You're the Love of My Life....
So the concert last night really got me to realize just how much I love music, in particular, how much I love Hip Hop!! I sat here for a while thinking about growing up in Roseland (far south-east neighborhood on the southside of Chicago) and how I use to sit on my front porch with my friends and listen to the radio. We use to play our tapes (or our older siblings' tapes) and take turns rapping along to the beat. It was the early 1980s when I first discovered that I loved this music. Like Sid Shaw asked the question in Brown Sugar, "When did you first fall in love with hip hop?"...for me, it was when I heard Roxanne's Revenge by Roxanne Shante. There was something about her being a young girl and being able to rap that was so fascinating, along with the fact that Roxanne's Revenge was the tightest response to U.T.F.O.'s Roxanne, Roxanne. Though I had yet to understand the significance of hip hop, I knew I would always love it! With that said, i thought I'd share with yall my top twenty hip hop albums (in no particular order)!
So sit back and reminisce...
BlackStar - Mos Def & Talib Kweli
Like Water for Chocolate - Common
Eyes On This - Mc Lyte
Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
Illmatic - Nas
SouthernPlayalisticCadillacMuzik - Outkast
It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Things Fall Apart - The Roots
Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
The Score - The Fugees
Paid In Full - Eric B. & Rakim
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)- Wu-Tang
Quality - Talib Kweli
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - Slick Rick
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
All Eyez on Me - Tupac
The Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
Criminal Minded - KRS One
6 comments:
The line-up is tight as fuck. All the hits, some of the all time greats. You sit back, you think about hearing those albums the first time... How they can still move you to this day... And you just gotta love hip-hop.
PS - I'm so glad that you had a good time at the concert yesterday. Sounds like it was wonderful.
I know, its so when hip hop was just that...hip hop. It amazes me how much the music makes me so nostalgic and kinda long for the days when life seemed so much simpler. Deep down I know its just cause I was kid then, but I miss that life so much. This getting older stuff...ain't no joke and when you have nothing but the constant proliferation of garbage clogging the air waves to contend with, you have no choice but to revert to somewhere else.
fuckin' mc lyte...helllllsss yeah.
whoa I thought I was the only one who loved All eyes on this. Cappacino was my favorite tune. That album was sweet.
I'm feeling that line up.
Oh yeah, can never forget the Lyte. I played that tape out! I also had a Lyte as Rock. Cappucino was my jam, as was Cha Cha Cha and Paper Thin!
someone's been peeping my record collection lol. got into hiphop in the days of my youth in nigeria. "paid in full" attacked my ear drums and the whole universe changed. still got the tape somewhere.
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