Hip hop came to me and I took it all. I wanted to know, hear and have more in high school. Here's a little story that must be told.
One day I was hanging near the high school lounge and heard a song that blew me away. I asked the guy that brought the tape to school for the name of the song and the group. He knew neither. I was left to fend for myself and remembered hearing the name Jennifer, Oh Jenny. The group was still unknown. I got my answer when I went to Dutchy's Record Cave and saw a pink 12" with three guys doing landscaping. The group name was De La Soul.
They looked nothing like any of the rappers of the day. They had no gold chains. Their rhymes & songs were as varied as the samples they used. Something about them and those songs called to me.
The Jenifa 12" was among the three first hip hop vinyl purchases of my life. I would later buy nearly all the De La Soul 12" I could find for 3 Feet High & Rising and in my folly sell them. When I got back into vinyl a few years ago, I realized what a colossal mistake it was to part with my De La Soul vinyls. My quest now is to find them all, those I had before or not, and guard them with my life.
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The Suite Delight February 18, 2014 Playlist:
1. The Incredible Bongo Band - Let There Be Drums
2. The Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
3. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
4. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again
5. The Souljazz Orchestra - Rejoice Pt. 2
6. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
7. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
8. Asheru & Blue Black of The Unspoken Heard - B-Boy
9. Roc C - Don't Stop feat. Oh No & Pox Dog
10. De La Soul - Potholes In My Lawn
11. Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud - Do The James
12. Master Ace - Go Where I Will Send Thee
13. Koncept – Aspirations feat. Soul Khan
14. Abdominal - T.Ode feat. Notes to Self
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