I wanted to begin writing this about a month ago, but I couldn’t. For some reason I couldn’t put the words together the way I really wanted to with so much time between then and now. I needed to wait and see if this would really come to be. Well, the time is now and Barack Obama has been elected as the 44th President of the United States.

On Monday, October 6, 2008, VH-1 will be airing the 2008 VH-1 Hip Hop Honors in recognition of Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Slick Rick, Naughty By Nature, and Too Short. Yes that Too Short. After taking a longer look at things, I suppose it isn’t that much of a surprise after all.

When I was a kid, I used to want to be a rapper. The older kids called me Tiny Tim, so when I started rapping they called me MC Tim. I had another name as well and that was DC, which stood for Devastating Chris. Me and my friends would be at school putting on little shows at recess and such.

Where were you when it happened. Given the date, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. What types of thoughts went through your mind? Fear? Disbelief? Anger? Happiness? As the day progressed, what types of things did you see happening around you? Just wondering.

That’s how many days I’ve been living. You can find out how long you’ve been alive at anomalies-unlimited.com (link). Anyways, my birthday is coming to a close, and while I didn’t really do too much out of the ordinary…I’d say it went fairly well. I was looking at this poem that I wrote a few years ago about my conception and such.

*edited June 2008*
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The Ruff Ryders compilation album had just come out a few weeks prior to my high school graduation. I drove my dad’s truck up to the school and I bumped this most of the way there, along with Juvenile and Drag-On’s “Down Bottom”
Anyways, graduation goes on without [...]

Stylin’ On You

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This song came out when I was in the sixth grade. That was me in the sixth grade. I think this song was one of the first songs were I started to notice how [...]

Buyer Beware (089:366)
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I believe I was either nine or ten years old when this song came out, and they premiered it right after The Fresh Prince of Belair went off (I think). I think it’s just one of those feel good songs that never really gets [...]

Back In The Day (120/366)

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I believe I was around 11 years old when The Chronic came out. I begged my mother for the money to buy the tape (yes, tape) when we were at the mall. [...]

My title comes from the name of a music store that I went to when I was back home.
Anyways, at the risk of sounding too recycled, I’ll be brief. I really enjoy listening to music. We all have our own likes, dislikes, guilty pleasures and so forth. More than likely we all have those songs [...]