Music is such a part of the fabric within my life, I couldn't imaginate life without it. Funny thing about how the sountracks to my life have changed throughout the years.
Early teenage years- Hip Hop, Reality Rap or what has often been referred to as Gangsta Rap. I thought MC Eiht, MC Ren, and Ice Cube were gods.
Young adult years- I started appreciating wordsmiths such as Nas, Wu-Tang, Boot Camp Clik, those years formed an appreciate of the wintertime and rainy days. To this day, I enjoy Autumn and Winter moreso because of NYC Hip Hop.
Young man years, ages 17-mid twenties. Started working in Tool & Die Shops, and other manufacturing settings. The white boys were the majority so they controlled the radio, and in hindsight I'm glad. Exposed me to Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, Deep Purple, amongst others. You know I was actually somewhat scared to listen to Black Sabbath initially? Eventually I started digging modern bands of that time such as Rage Against The Machine, Tool, and Queens of the Stone Age. My mother used to criticise me saying Jehovah's spirit wasn't upon me because I was too busy raging against the machine.
Late Twenties, I'm angry and irritated and Hip Hop is still in an ignorant Southern phase, and party phase. Meanwhile I have urges to hurt people, but I'm ignorant of the fact that its this religion that has me so angry. Bought a mixtape one night full of early UK82 Punk, exposing me to The Exploited, GBH, The Crack, and Discharge. Greatest thing to ever happen to me. Eventually it led me into The Misfits, Bad Brains, and Black Flag.
As of lately, I'm starting to mellow out, and I'm listening to the music that I was probably concieved to, ya know, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, and I've gotten back into Hip Hop surprisingly.
