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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