My Music........pt.2

Picking right up from the previous post, i have an older brother who is about 10 years older than me. So around 1988 or so i can remember the first time i heard my brother play this record called "The Show" by Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew ft. Mc Rickie D aka Slick Rick. I remember being around 8 or 9, and even then i loved what i heard, but i couldn't tell you why. My brother had classic taste when it came to rap. I'm talking The Real Roxanne, Doug E. Fresh, Dana Dane, Biz Markie, Marley Marl, Run DMC, LL COOl J, etc..... But the moment that rap really made an impact on me is when one of my friends brought N.W.A Straight Out Compton over my house and we listened to it, and the things that they were rapping about wasn't necessarily how it was where i lived, but i loved it! At one point and time had the whole thing memorized. I've been addicted every since. I found as i got older the music that my parents listened to resurfaced, because there became a period in rap were sampling was all the rave. So i would here old songs sampled that we had at the house. Even at the age of about 11 or 12 i had an appreciation for music that might have been a tad abnormal. And then............ when i was about 13 or so i began smoking pot(oh my god!!!) The music began to sound incredible!!!! I will never forget i had an older home boi who had a job and he got paid every tues, and every tues he would bring home pot and a new rap album every week! I vividly remember when he bought Wu-tang Enter the 36 chambers. He (my partner) rolled about 7 joints, popped the tape in, turned to a college basketball game, and it was on! The Cd sounded amazing. By the time i was 14 i had heard many of the classics Nas Illmatic, Enter the 36 Chambers, De La Soul, Reasonable Doubt, Black Moon, Epmd, Redman, K-Solo, Leaders of the New School, Outkast, etc..................... thats just to name a few, and that didn't include my own collection that mostly consisted of Kilo, Too Live Crew, Dj Magic Mike, Nemesis and so on.. This story and the one prior to this one serve as my music resume kinda.

My music.............

 Growing up my parents would have these house parties were my uncles, aunts, and friends of my parents would come thru, and have a good  time. Often these parties consisted of good music, plenty of drink, and occasionally what i would refer to as "those funny looking cigarettes." The backdrop for these parties was the music. I mean the good shit to!!! Sam Cook,  The Temptations, Johnny Taylor(oooh my momma loved some Johnny Taylor!), The Dramatics, Curtis Mayfield, Ashford & Simpson, and what liquor and pot filled party would be complete without Rick James! At the time i was only about 7 or 8, but i remember clearly being the kid that couldn't sleep, because i wanted to see what the grown-ups were up to. I'm not saying that i understood what was going on, but the seed was planted. And almost guaranteed the next morning was what i referred to as the cleaning party.  Saturday mornings my mother would open the front door, put on something to the effect of Smokey Robinson, or even some Parliment Funkadelic, and everyone in the house had to get up and clean. this was the case until my parents split up and eventually got divorced. We moved in with my grandfather, which meant all that secular shit had to go. So now we are listening to gospel, i mean that real salvation type stuff ya dig!!!!!!!! Bout this time i'm around 10 or 11, and one of my grandfather's favorites was Sam Cook! Every Sunday it was 'a change gonna come' or 'jesus gave me water' But occasionally i would go to see my kinfolk in the adjacent city and they would be jammin some Atlantic Starr, Zapp ft. Roger, or the like... Oh i forgot to mention i had an older brother who was totally into rap. I was getting music from all angles.

Introduction

My name is Keith, what my last name is irrelevant, but i wanted to start this blog, because i just have shit on my mind that is funny to me at least, and because i wanted an outlet to express some of the things that i find intresting and outrageous. This is completely new to me, so it will be raw until i get the hang of it, but if you follow i promise it will be fun, entertaining, and informative.