I LUDiSh!t Pt. 1

Hip hop, hip Hop...............I have been listening to hip hop since 1985 and at 10 I knew this would be my second love in life. I remember in the 90's when albums like "Enta da Stage", "Ready to Die", "Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers" & "Infamous " album brought street dudes together. It wasn't at the time all about who had more or who's the hardest it was about how to get it. Nowadays it's all political like what sells what sounds like this or that who is the flashiest, who's the most negative. Rap music it's nothing you can relate to. Hip hop on the other hand is all real if you listen you can hear the tales of your mothers,fathers,sisters,aunts,uncles,friends,bosses at work,etc. They tell all and hold nothing back. Everybody has a struggle, a triumph something to over come and when you hear another black male with the same opinion it hits home. When Biggie came on the scene I first saw him in a Super Cat video and from his presence knew he was a gift. And even before that EPMD put people on to a way of thinking and who to watch out for. Public Enemy, KRS-One, and even N.W.A. let you know about our government. The rap music that you see on TV and hear on the radio is poisonous. It has weak beats and no soul in it and half the time you don't understand the words. Hip hop is a message, a way of thinking , a mentality even. Everybody doesn't have money and cars with suicide doors or spinning rims coming straight in the game without telling you there story first. Me personally I can't get with that. Rap / Hip Hop is the category for all this music we love but those who know and salute the past can distinguish between the two. The legend James Brown is the one who most of us all say started this game. With the beats and inspiration of his feeling is why the hip hop started. James Brown (R.I.P.) spoke on the times and of the issues that effected us in our community black or white. He did so much for others through his actions and song. The first tape I ever owned was "Paid In Full" and I remember in Edmonson Village the older cats where listening to Biz Markie, the girls to MC Lyte. We all had our preference and I did hear what shorty doing listening to Eric B. & Rakim! I loved that. I used to sit in my living room and press pause when the radio commercials came on and when the music came back on un-pause jumped up started singing,dancing, or pretending to scratch on the turntables again. I used to do this shit every night. The Rapping Duke "Duh Huh Duh Huh" was my favorite shit. Then when Lord Finesse came out I heard his metaphors and got introduced to others in D.I.T.C. Next it was Showbiz & A.G. on to Diamond...Big L .DJ Premier & Gang Starr, these groups kept the essence of the DJ and MC going. Even today you can buy all there new and older music on albums, you don't see today's radio rap music on no album. Then you had the boot leggers so Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth had to let it be known that they see that and you about to get your shit busted when I catch you. Quoted from the song about this issue "& let the management work for me" nowadays you have mp3's out before album release dates. It could be the record industry or a plot from them by releasing it first over seas before we get it at home. Who the hell knows it's bigger than all of us so continue to support what's real before it's gone. Like the saying goes...you don't know what you got 'til it's gone, I don't want this hip hop shit to ever stop. The music we love is the most downloaded because the fans of it are the most educated compared to the younger or brain washed music fans that exists. Even though this it what we are facing I'm glad to see Brand Nubian, D.I.T.C. through all of there adversity, KRS,Pete Rock,Kool G Rap,Rakim who I probably never heard curse,Marley Marl, & all the DJ's still making music today.