My goodness my guiness. Yesterday here in Philly I was listening to the “Old School Lunch Buffett,” a radio show that comes on at lunchtime to keep yer head bobbin’ while you grub down. Always droppin jewels it’s a no brainer from 12 to (about) 12:40pm. Anyway, i heard this classic track played yesterday and MAN did it bring me back. Just to paint a lil’ picture of when i first heard this…..
August of 1991. I’m at my family’s beach house in Ocean City, NJ. Chillin’ with my homies Steve and Keith. Just kickin’ it outback my homie pops out this new disc he just copped. Now he was on the cutting edge of technology. I’m not gonna lie we were sweatin’ his tech. After showing us this CD called Cypress Hill by the group of the same name. Obviously we wanna listen to it. So my homie Steve pulls out his totally sweet yellow Sony Discman. Removed the headphones and proceeds to pop in some external speakers to the discman. This was so F’n hightech for us. He was rollin’ phat, no question. Amazed by what we were hearing we immediately hit repeat and repeat and repeat. As if the music alone wasn’t enough, we ran inside where we turned on The Jukebox (think pay-per-view MTV) to see what the hell was going on with the Cypress Hill cats. Latin dudes from LA??? What!!! Cypress went on to becoming a powerhouse of true school Hip Hop over the next few years and an all around fan fave.
Thanks for strollin’ with me down memory lane. Hope you enjoy this here little jewel.