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HIP-HOP TURNED 50 YEARS AGO BACK IN 2023. AND SINCE THEN I’VE BEEN REALLY WANTING TO PUT TOGETHER SOME SETTS TO CELEBRATE WHAT IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC AND LIFE ART FORMS TO EVER BE CREATED. WHAT STARTED AS AN AFTER SCHOOL PARTY UP IN THE BRONX WITH DJ KOOL HERC IN 1973, HAS IN 2025, BECOME A WORLDWIDE CULTURAL, MUSICAL AND ENTERTAINMENT POWERHOUSE. IN LOOKING AT WHAT HIP-HOP HAS BECOME OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS, IT CANNOT BE SAID THAT…ANYONE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO BE. WITH THAT SAID, THIS EPISODE OF MUSIC OF A LIFETIME WILL BE FOCUSING ON ENTRY’S 28 AND 27 OF THE LIST - #28 IS LL COOL J’S SPECTACULAR MARLEY MARL PRODUCED RELEASE FROM 1990, “MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT”. #27 IS PUBLIC ENEMY’S 1988 RELEASE, AN ALBUM WHICH HAS SHOWED UP ON MANY OF THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME HIP HOP LISTS, “IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK.” BOTH OF THE LP’S WERE RELEASED DURING WHAT MANY OF US WHO LOVE THIS MUSIC CONSIDER TO BE A GOLDEN ERA OF HIP-HOP, A PERIOD OF TIME THAT CAME IN DURING 1988 AND WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO 1992. THERE ARE MANY ‘GOLDEN ERAS OF HIP HOP, WHICH SOME BEING DEFINED AS…THE ERA OF GANGSTA RAP, OR THE ERA OF CONSCIOUS RAP. FOR ME THESE RECORDS CAME OUT WHEN I WAS OF COURSE, IN THE NAVY, BUT I BELIEVE THAT I WAS REALLY TRYING TO IDENTIFY WITH MYSELF, AND IN DOING SO, RAP MUSIC WAS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON ME, IN HOW I DRESSED AND HOW I LISTENED TO MUSIC AND HOW I BEGAN TO GROW AND LEARN AND BECOME MORE SURE AND STRONG ABOUT MYSELF AS A YOUNG, BLACK MAN, A BLACK MAN WHO WAS SERVING HIS COUNTRY IN THE MILITARY DURING THE REAGAN YEARS AND LATER TOWARDS THE CLINTON YEARS. PUBLIC ENEMY WAS STRONG, DEFIANT, IN YOUR FACE WITH THE TRUTH OF WHAT AMERICA WAS DOING, EYES FOCUSED ON BLACK AMERICA, WITH THEIR POWERFUL LYRICS AND BEATS. WHERE AS LL COOL J, WHO DROPPED IN FROM THE RAP STRATOSPHERE IN 1985 WITH HIS INCREDIBLE DEBUT RADIO, TORE UP CAR SPEAKER SYSTEMS AND DANCE FLOORS WITH HIS 1990 ALBUM, A TITLE THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS GRANDMOTHER. “MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT’ WAS LIKE A RAP LOVER’S DREAM AS IT HAD SOME OF THE DOPEST BEATS EVER PRODUCED FROM THE LEGENDARY PRODUCER, MARLEY MARL.

IM HOPING THAT THIS SETT WILL GIVE ALL OF THE REAL TRUE FANS OF RAP, OF HIP HOP, A LOOK BACK AT A TIME WHEN HIP HOP WAS STILL BRAND NEW, STILL FRESH AND STILL GAINING ITS FOUNDATION, AS A MUSICAL AND CULTURAL WAY OF LIFE.

MY MELODY (EXT) ERIC B & RAKIM

I’M BAD (JOEY KRASH EDIT)LL COOL J

BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR

OF CHAOS (TRAYZE RESIST EDIT)PE

BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR

OF CHAOS (DIRTY)PE

MICROPHONE FIEND (DJ DYNAMITE EDITERIC B & RAKIM

I’M BAD (DJ BACON EDIT)LL COOL J

MY PHILOSOPHY BDP

THE BOOMIN SYSTEMLL COOL J

NOBODY BEATS THE BIZBIZ MARKIE

STRAIGHT OUT THE JUNGLE

(DJ DYNAMITE EDIT)JUNGLE BROTHERS

DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE (DJ DYNAMITE)PE

REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE (DJ DYNAMITE)PE

BRING THE HORNSSTEZO

LOUNGIN (WHO DO YOU LOVE?)LL COOL J

AROUND THE WAY GIRLLL COOL J

MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT LL COOL J

WORDZ OF WIZDOM (CLEAN

BEAT JUNKIES SOUND EDIT)3RD BASS

EASE BACK (DJ DYNAMITE)ULTRAMAGNETIC MC’S

FIGHT THE POWERPE

BRING THA NOISEPE

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