Hip-hop from back in the day
I have become what I loathe.
I’m one of those music curmudgeons who complain that Music Was Better Back Then. For me, music (meaning alt-rock and hip-hop) reached its zenith in 1992, slowly declining before falling off a cliff in the late 1990s.
Fortunately, I’ve found a blog that indulges my close-mindedness. When They Reminisce… offers links to classic records from when hip-hop was still considered art rather than commerce. I’ve found albums such as Main Source’s “Breaking Atoms,” which has been out of print for more than a decade; Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs’ “Life of a Kid in the Ghetto,” from which “Bug-A-Boo” was a staple on The Box back in 1991; and UMC’s “Fruits of Nature,” an excellent, light-hearted party record that I had no idea even existed when it was released in ‘91.
If you like hip-hop, you need to bookmark WTR. It’s right in my musical wheelhouse, which helps me overcome the ethical quandary of “downloading” music.
