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CA 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...
Read Memory CA 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory Unknown 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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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