Does anyone remember the 90’s? I read a blog today that was all about the tell tale signs that u are a 90’s child. It was refreshing because at 20 I’m beginning to feel a bit out of touch with the youth these days. Its nice to know that there’s other people that remember things like cheap plastic lunch boxes and those fucking screaming saucer candies that made ur mouth blue for a week straight… haha and then later they found out that they might cause cancer or polio or some shit (thank god I didn’t eat too many of those bitches). How bout the original Mortal Combat, or Streetfighter? Remember when the kid who had Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis was the most envied of all kids at school? How about Regular ass Nintendo… u remember that shit? When Mario Brother 3 came out nobody left their home for months! And Power Rangers,... I used to watch that show religiously, They even made a fuckin movie about it! They made two fuckin movies about that shit! Holy cow! I went through a lot of different phases in the 90’s… When I was really young it was just about playin street hockey on the block and watching the WWF, which is now the WWE. My favorite wrestler was the Ultimate Warrior. That guy was the ballz yo! My favorite music was that of the ever legendary Weird Al Yankovich. I had all his tapes and I knew every song off by heart. As I made it into the later years of elementary school I became a very easily influenced young pre-teen. I was full of anger due to some rather fuct up circumstances I had to deal with at a young age, and so began my juvenile delinquent drug binging phase. I was smoking weed and cigarettes and dropping acid before I even got drunk for the first time. I acted like a little gangsta thug but most of what I listened to was grunge and alternative rock. I remember when Kurt Cobain died and we all brought nirvana tapes to school to play in music class. I got in shit for giving the teacher my tape all cued up to play “rape me”. Haha, she was such a polite teacher. She was in shock when that song started playing and I think she made me tell my mom what I did. Then I flipped her the finger when her back was turned and this kid that everyone called Indy500 tried to blackmail me by saying that he’d tell on me… haha, I told him to go ahead but I don’t think he ever did. Then I went on to Junior High. That’s when I lost touch with a lot of my friends (mostly because I was making an attempt to steer clear of the drugs) and became fascinated with punk and metal music. (if ur wondering why I relate everything to music ur answer is: BLAH!) I bought a dilapidated old skateboard off one of my sisters friends, started dying my hair odd colors and spiking it in odd directions and dreamed of having a leather jacket full of studs and offensive patches and buttons. This is when Tupac and Biggie were having their beef, the Wu-Tang Clan was making their mark on the east coast and rap music was in its prime. Unfortunately I didn’t discover rap until a few years later. I was too busy going to see local punk bands and listening to my Survival of the Fattest CD. They invented Middle School right after grade 8 so I spent one year in junior high and then went straight into senior high. I missed out on the whole middle school thing (I wonder what that was like…hmmm) The major problem I faced in this transition was that all the punx and skaters got cross boundary transfers so they could go to this new school on the other side of the tracks in South Side bronx, but I decided to stay with my friend carlos and go to WPHS on the North Side. The result was two very different schools. North was the Hip Hop School and South was the Punk school. I was the only punk at white plains, so this distanced me from my peers even further. I began to find friends outside of school and eventually I joined a dive clique called the murda squad. The essence of the m.s was basically to beat up pussy punks and Goths and anyone else that was giving us real punx and metalheads a bad name. I never really participated much in any of these dealings. Being the youngest of the crew (most of whom were in their 20’s). Me being 15, I found my role to be following these guys around doing whatever drugs they would offer and spray painting my graffiti tag wherever I felt fit. In due course I was eventually ejected from the gang on account of my age and the mutual decision made, that I had too much potential to be fucking up my life hanging around with lowlife washouts like them. I was told that Id get a boot fuck if I ever showed my face again and that was encouragement enough for me to be on my way. I realize now that those guys saved my life and I will forever be in debt to them for that. All of a sudden I’m in the middle of grade eleven and I haven’t a single friend. I struggled my way through the rest of that year as a complete loner. The only person who would hang out with me was a native girl named Meghan and she has to be one of the most genuinely real girls Ive ever met. (I wonder how shes doing these days) Anyways.. Meghan was a rap head, like everyone else in that school and one day she lent me her Outkast CD. The album was Aquemini and I took it home and made a copy of it for my walkman. I was amazed that there was such a thing as rappers that had brains. At the time Eminem was just about to blow. He just came out with “Hi my name is” haha, and I wasnt too impressed, but Outkast… these guys were fuckin dope! That summer I watched BET everyday to see if there was any other good rappers out there and sure enough… there were quite a few… I fell in love with Lauryn Hill and I went and bought her CD. She won somthing crazy like 8 Grammys that year for her Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album. I listened to that shit and my Outkast tape like crazy that summer. I started reading hip hop magazines, buyin all kinds of CD’s from The Boot Camp Clique to the Outsidaz and the Fugees. When I came back to school the next year not only did I know more about rap than any chump in that school.. I could out rap any one of those so called rap heads. I wasted no time in making some new friends. We started a rap group and we performed at school dances and shit that year. Most of those friends are still like brothers to me today. That was grade twelve and it was 2006 everyone thought the world was gonna end 06/06/2006 I guess nothing happened huh? Well, looking back as soon as the year 2000 started it seemed like rap and punk both began to die. Pop music took over and it began to influence everything. Rap and punk both became pop music (something I never thought would happen) but I stuck with the music I knew was good. You better believe I was bumpin Tupac in that limo on grad night and I woulda been bumpin Code of Honor and Screeching Weasel too if my friends weren’t all into rap. oh well, I had cleaned up my life and I graduated in the summer of 2006 and that would just about do it formy high school days. I got a little worried after that. Seemed like the kids were listenin to some pretty lame shit. I was worried that the world would be over-run by preppy little shits listenin to 50 Cent and Sum 41, but lately I’ve seen hope for the generations to come. There is a new movement and its just below the surface where it should be. I think shits about to get crazy. I predict a new sound thats gonna change the face of music forver. …and Im gonna be the pioneer muthafuckas!!! haha. Yeah, the 21st Century has been pretty cool so far. My life certainly hasn’t been any less challenging. I've honestly lost count of how many times I've been inches away from death, but life was never intended to be easy. At times I feel like Ive seen too much and grown up too fast. Maybe that’s why I feel so burnt out sometimes… But u know what? Im only 20! And I still got a lotta youth in me and Im not gonna hold nothing back from now on… YEA!!! Say it with me .. FUCK THE WORLD!!! …(ya I dunno.. sorry)