Lyrikhan
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I hit the gate and I hops on my Schwinn

Posted almost 4 years ago
I don’t think anyone ever really goes to other people’s pages to check out their self-made widgets, but it you happen to have been so lucky as to have perused my page you will have seen that I proudly state my first album as MC Hammer’s “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em” which I received for Christmas when I was 8. You couldn’t resist the Hammer back then, no matter what age (yeah, I had some parachute pants). Of course, an 8 year old first hearing a song like “Soft and Wet” will open up the eyes a bit, but I digress. About three or four years later I got my first taste of REAL hip hop when my older sister picked up Snoop’s “Doggystyle” and Biggie’s “Ready to Die”, which I would sneak from her CD collection to go listen quietly in my room whenever I could. Of course albums such as these deserve max volume but I was attempting to not freak my parents out too much. It wasn’t that they ever censored what I listened to, but at the time it seemed “parents just don’t understand” was a proper motto for what coming out of the rap game. “Doggystyle” swung me more to the west coast rappers, and my true Biggie listening would come a bit later. So soon I was listening to Dre’s “Da Chronic” and Pac’s “All Eyez on Me”, but it was the smooth vocals of Snoop (whatever happened to those, Snoop?) I loved most at this time, and I found similar silkiness in Snoop’s old 213 mates Warren G and Nate Dogg with “Regulate….G Funk Era”. I don’t think I knew anyone that didn’t know every lyric to “Regulate” back then. Well I don’t happen to see any posts about Warren G on MOG so I’ll pop it's cherry with “This D.J.”. Mount up and bump it.
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Comments (7)

  1. getafade
    getafade says Ahh...the memories. I was probably 10 when you were 8, but my experience mirrors yours with the exception that my first album (and by album I mean cassette tape) was "He's the DJ...I'm the rapper" (which you reference) and "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em" was probably like my 10th tape. I'll never forget the first time I heard "Nuthin' but a G Thang." It really was like a whole new era of music (even though we all later learned that it was just Parliament music :).
    Permalink posted 05/05/2008
  2. Bartleby
    Bartleby says I love those stories of how music comes to us... The smuggled kind seems to me be the best. I don't remember "borrowing" CD or vinyl from anyone until I was quite old. My first taste of rap and hip-hop must have been something like Public Enemy 's "Don't Believe". Then my interest for break-dancing led me to Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" and other stuff. Though I must confess, I've never been totally immersed in hip-hop or rap. That Warren G's cut is hot because of the vocals, smooth and soulful. Thanks for posting.
    Permalink posted 05/05/2008
  3. PopeyePete
    PopeyePete says Great track. And to keep the Warren G flow goin:
    Permalink posted 05/05/2008
  4. Lyrikhan
    Lyrikhan says aw jeea Funk On a whole new level The rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble
    Permalink posted 05/05/2008
  5. PopeyePete
    PopeyePete says Thats a perfect cruisin in the car track.
    Permalink posted 05/05/2008
  6. annieander
    annieander says My first album was the Grease Soundtrack...there is no shame in anyone's first album...stand proud.
    Permalink posted 05/07/2008
  7. MrFrost
    MrFrost says I think "regulators" is probably the smoothest hip hop record in existence.... I wish warren G woulda hung around a little longer. but then again rap is a young man's game
    Permalink posted 05/10/2008

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