Posts for Tag: hip-hop

The Ride Home from 8th Grade

Everytime I hear this song, I am reminded of the route home from school in 8th grade. I would constantly hear this song on 102.5 KDON. It also reminds me of...
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Santa Cruz Friends

Everytime I hear this song, it reminds me of my 8th grade classmates (who will always be like my family to me, no matter how they treated me). I would hear...
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Help Me Cope

I used to frequent warehouse jobs often. I still do the odd bit of hard labor here and there, and I don't mind it sometimes, but I have worked in some very...
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I Got to Interview Lupe Fiasco

This winter I had the opportunity to meet and interview Lupe Fiasco for a publication I write for. I was always a fan of Lupe's intelligent lyrics and humble...
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Benderrr!

I remember when this song came out. That summer it got played at every single house party, keg party, bender or whatever it was that my friends and I would...
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Street 2 With Mike

I remember the summer when NBA Street 2 came out for the PS2. My friend Mike went to the mall and bought it and we used to play it once in a while at his...
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Moving On

Last spring I met a girl. There is something about the spring where human nature seems to bring people together. I won't mention her name, but when we first...
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I got to Interview Onyx

I recently started writing for a web site that catches up on old hip-hop artists. I decided I would contact Onyx. I figured it may be a long shot to talk to...
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Party House

While I was attending college I still lived at home so I never had the experience of living on my own or on campus during my college days. But during the...
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Interviewing the Beatnuts

A few years ago when this album came out I had the opportunity to interview The Beatnuts when they came to town. A magazine I write for set up the interview...
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Workin' at the Gas Station

For a number of years towards the end of high school and the beginning of college I worked at a self-serve gas station near my house. It was alright. It was...
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Rap Traxx

I remember when I was a kid one day I found this cassette at my dad's hardware store called Rap Traxx vol. 3. He used to sell those cheesy compilation...
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Re-Instillin g My Faith in Hip-Hop

I think after about 2003-2004, I really became tired of hip-hop. At least the mainstream stuff I was being fed on the radio and on television. It was...
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Late-Teens

This entire album, and this song in particular, really signifies an era in my life. When Chronic 2001 came out, I was in my last year of high school. I...
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Y2K

Thinking back, the whole Y2K scare was such a joke. Were people really so paranoid that the world would go haywire because no one prepared for all the clocks...
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Winter Mornings

Moment of Truth was my first Gangstarr album, and is greatly considered to be one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all-time.The entire record is very...
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DarylG

Loganville, GA

Play that funky music white boy

I have been passionate about music for as long as I can remember. I grew up in Southwest Atlanta and went to a very conservative private school. In 5th grade...
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She Made Me a Mix Tape

Towards the end of my college years, I was slacking a bit. In my program, taking two general education classes of your choice was mandatory – and so...
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Jishi-Girl

Ogden, UT

Car Ride

I first heard this song on a roadtrip to Chicago with one of the richest girls I had ever met. We were driving to Chicago from our college in Ohio, for job...
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Austin

Gainesville, FL

My Roots

Last year I went to a concert performed by The Roots. A cuban friend of mine, who just so happened to be the girl I was unsuccessfully wooing at the...
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