I came to the realization one day that I grew up listening to Kanye and looking at his bio, I related to him more than Kendrick
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When I heard The Eminem Show for the first time on my 13th birthday and, after feeling the widest range of emotions I had ever felt at that time from music alone, realized that his Greatesrt Hits album wasn’t just full of flukes
2005 or 06. when the I Left My Wallet In El Segundo video hit on demand on Music Choice. It wasn't my first time hearing Tribe Called Quest, but that was around the time I knew they were my favorite, and still are.
Before them it was Cash Money era Wayne, and Black Album Hov.
first time i heard foreign exchange
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When he had a rant over Lids workers. That’s when I knew he was toeing that fine line between crazy and genius, Kanye style.
Transphobic GOAT
I had a ghetto boy bop, a Jay-Z boycott
'Cause he said that he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti
I'm thinkin golly, God guard me from the ungodly
But by my 30th watchin of "Streets is Watchin"
I was back to givin props again and that was botherin
The way Lupe flowed on Hurt Me Soul was something else
When my mom said when we get home she’s gonna whoop my ass n I started crying and Flashing Lights came on the radio
Tears coming down my eyes made all the streetlights and s*** all neon n vibrant felt like I was in a movie. Went home n got cooked but never forgot it s*** was like a lullaby otw to my impending doom
I was high listening to Almighty So and thought that i was being transported into another dimension.
Nights beat switch August 20 2016
5 days later I saw Bruce Springsteen play for literally four hours in New Jersey
Overwhelming week
Paul McCartney was my first concert in 2011… knew as I was walking out that something in me changed forever
And when I first heard Joni’s “Song for Sharon” on the radio… stopped me in my tracks like no other song had before or since