Saturday, July 16, 2011

GET IN WERE YOU FIT IN ?

I REMEMBER IN THE EARLY 80'S WHEN I USE TO RIDE THE # 43 BANCROFT BUS TO SAN LEANDRO HIGH, THERE WAS THIS GUY WHO SOLD HOMEMADE RAP TAPES ON THE BACK OF THE BUS, HE SAID HE WORK AT RADIO SHACK IN THE EASTMONT MALL AND HE GETS FREE  TAPES TO RECORD HIS MUSIC !  I WENT HOME AND PLAYED THE TAPE HE RAPPED ABOUT EAST OAKLAND, GIRLS AND  HUSTLING  I KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE BIG. HE WAS RAPPING ABOUT EAST OAKLAND AND THE STREET CULTURE HIS NAME TODD SHAW B.K.A TOO SHORT !  BAY AREA PIONEERS TO ME IN RAP MUSIC ARE- TOO-SHORT, MAC DRE, RAPPIN 4 TAY, DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, TUPAC, MASTER P, E-40 AND THE CLICK, PARIS , ASKARI X,  HAMMER AND SPICE-1, BUT THE THREE SONGS THAT I LIKED THE BEST FROM TOO SHORT WERE THE GHETTO, SHORT BUT FUNKY AND GET IN WERE YOU FIT IN, BECAUSE IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS I HAVE MADE PEACE WITH PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN FOR 20 TO 30 YEARS AND IT WAS A BLESSING, BUT THEY LET ME KNOW ON NOT WHAT THEY SAY BUT HOW THEY ACT  TOWARD ME AND THAT IS GET IN WERE YOU FIT IN AND THE SAME GOES TO US ALL !

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