Has this ever happened to you?
Ever been in a waiting room or riding on a city bus (for you broke people) and there's always one person that wants to talk loudly so that everyone can hear their conversation? And the topic is always something where they can non-chalantly let everyone else know specific details about their life.
For example, they may make comments about their new Hummer or new house. Talk about what they do for a living or how much money they make. How they met with the president last week and will be traveling Europe in the spring.
These people disgust me to the point where I want to puke on their spam sandwiches.
Well, not really. What is spam made of anyway? Someone send me the ingredients.
Back in the day, did you ever record songs off the radio? Of course you have! But have you ever recorded a song and then the dj comes on talking over the last bit of the song. So when you listen to the dope tape you just made, you always have that one song that ends with the dj saying, "hot ninety-seven blazin' hip hop and r&..." or "ninety-eight point..."
You would try to edit the tape by rewinding it really fast and then recording silence for a few seconds to create that "space" in between songs. But sometimes a hot song would come on and you wouldn't have much time to edit so the "mixed" tapes never came out perfect. That was the beauty of it all. And what about when you got to the end of the tape and the song would cut off- but if it was a funky dope song you just flipped the tape over and starting recording the rest of it on the B side... Anyone still have one of these tapes? I do. And I might sell them on Ebay.
But what about when you would make these tapes and got so used to the order of the songs that whenever you heard one of the songs somewhere else you would immediately start to sing the song that came after it! And this would happen years after the tape is long gone...
- or you would at least hear it in your head.
Have you ever listened to the Biggie song, Unbelievable and start to sing the R. Kelly song, Your Body's Calling?
Have you ever went to buy shoes but didn't want to try them on because you suddenly realized your socks are filthy?
Wait. That last one has actually NEVER happened to me. But I must say, it's really sad when the shoe salesman brings out a clean sock so you won't mess up their sneakers...
For example, they may make comments about their new Hummer or new house. Talk about what they do for a living or how much money they make. How they met with the president last week and will be traveling Europe in the spring.
These people disgust me to the point where I want to puke on their spam sandwiches.
Well, not really. What is spam made of anyway? Someone send me the ingredients.
Back in the day, did you ever record songs off the radio? Of course you have! But have you ever recorded a song and then the dj comes on talking over the last bit of the song. So when you listen to the dope tape you just made, you always have that one song that ends with the dj saying, "hot ninety-seven blazin' hip hop and r&..." or "ninety-eight point..."
You would try to edit the tape by rewinding it really fast and then recording silence for a few seconds to create that "space" in between songs. But sometimes a hot song would come on and you wouldn't have much time to edit so the "mixed" tapes never came out perfect. That was the beauty of it all. And what about when you got to the end of the tape and the song would cut off- but if it was a funky dope song you just flipped the tape over and starting recording the rest of it on the B side... Anyone still have one of these tapes? I do. And I might sell them on Ebay.
But what about when you would make these tapes and got so used to the order of the songs that whenever you heard one of the songs somewhere else you would immediately start to sing the song that came after it! And this would happen years after the tape is long gone...
- or you would at least hear it in your head.
Have you ever listened to the Biggie song, Unbelievable and start to sing the R. Kelly song, Your Body's Calling?
Have you ever went to buy shoes but didn't want to try them on because you suddenly realized your socks are filthy?
Wait. That last one has actually NEVER happened to me. But I must say, it's really sad when the shoe salesman brings out a clean sock so you won't mess up their sneakers...

1 Comments:
Smurfette here. Had to comment!! Had the mix tapes. Same exact thing happened to me. Always sing the next song that was on the tape even if I'm listening to the song elsewhere. Have a mix tape with Unbelievable and Your body's calling on it. I have a mix tape that I've been looking for in my house for years and years and still can't find... it went something like this....
Back Seat of my Jeep (LL)... Slam (Onyx).... What's up Doc? (Shaquille O'Neil and Fu Schnickens).... Diddy (Paperboy) Weak (SWV) Crossover (EPMD)... 360 degrees (Grand Puba)..... They want EFX (DAS EFX).... One Woman (Jade) and I believe thats it .. well side A.. I don't think I listened to Side B or didn't record on it. at any rate I really want to find it. Tried to download all of those songs and came up with like 3 of them, very upsetting.
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