There's a lot of great new music blogs on blogger like Sub-Radar Mike's, D4's and Lee Lee's and listening to the music out now it got me thinking about how I don't really keep up with music anymore. I still love music and listen to it all the time but I guess I'm stuck in a past era like most people who get older. Nowadays, I just listen to my old school rap on KDAY and various rock on JACK and it's good enough for me.
When I was younger, I always had to be up on the latest jams. I was a huge hip hop fan and when I was into it (1993-2005), it was a golden age for rap. From the Wu-Tang Clan to Group Home to Mobb Deep, The Dawg Pound and Snoop and Dre, rap was great and I loved it all. I got so into it I even started producing it myself! My mom got me a Roland Groovebox for my birthday when I was 19 and it was on from there! I started producing my own music along with a friend of mine and pretty soon we got a song on a demo by a rapper called Knoc-turn'al. We weren't that talented but my buddy was his brother in law so we got hooked up. I even got a chance to meet Dr. Dre when Knoc-turn'al later started working with him. I got a bunch of songs that we made back then that I soundclouded and I'll put them up in another post if you guys want.
When I first started listening to hip hop, one of the first album's I bought was A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders. I loved this CD so much especially this song...