Think it was 10th grade history I started beatmaking on my desk and half the damn class started rapping this song on some high school musical s*** 😂 teacher was confused. Gucci and Jeezy was crazy hot in the D at that time.

I remember when Drake was the guy from DeGrassi

I woke up early to go to the store the day Graduation dropped so I could give it a full listen before my school day started

What a first listen after jamming the CTMN mixtape all summer

Oh for sure homie

I went to the watch the throne tour as an upper classmen in high school

i remember watching the video to Hey Ya on Yahoo with the family computer

Songs I had on my MP3 in 6th grade:

BEP - I Gotta Feeling
BEP - Boom Boom Pow
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Jay-Z & Linkin Park - Numb/Encore
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Selena Gomez - Magic
IYAZ - Replay
Jay Sean & Lil Wayne - Down

And the entire 2012 movie for some reason

Last line

I remember watching the Paris Hilton tape on RealPlayer

Crazy little party girl was a banger tho

Downloaded all of MJ’s hits on limewire when he passed also every single “crank dat” variation

Between my sisters and cousins, we had these same physicals for sure lol

First song I remember "owning" was when I recorded the debut of Gangstas Paradise off the radio with a cassette tape (piece of scotch tape covering the hole on top)

a lot of my fav songs of all time (are you that somebody, doo wop, no diggity, mo money mo problems, no scrubs) are due to the nostalgia I have around them listening to the radio while playing with hot wheels with my brother (RIP) in our basement back in chicago

remember making my sister play back hey mr dj by the backstreet boys over and over on her cd player on the drive to a vacation

bro I remember listening 2 XO Tour Lif3 on SoundCloud wit the lads

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First CD i ever bought was LR the week it came out, b****ass cashier wouldn’t let me buy it so I had to pay some high schooler $5 to get it for me worth every cent

Limewire viruses.

I remember watching the Turn My Swag on video when it first dropped on MTV at midnight.

Real

As a kid the main way me and my siblings listened to music was my Oldest brothe's iPod touch, or going to the public library and using one of their computers to play some of the cd's. Once my brother got a laptop though, the game changed
piracy gave us so many songs. yeah they were mostly old songs that you'd find in a public library but still lots of music i really latched onto and loved
also that's how i started listening to jazz music, they had a Miles davis Milestones cd
really blew my mind

I got the Eminem - Curtain Call cd for Christmas 2005 and I cut and glued pictures from the little booklet onto this project I did at school. I got an A