Old School Friday: Latino Edition

You guys probably don't know who Kid Frost is. He is a legend mainly in southern California and Texas. "La Raza" is the song that he is most known for and when I listen to this track I usually feel like doing a drive-by. So watch yo ass sucka!!!!

Return of the Lynch Mob

"You gets no love and I thought you knew it
Fool, you know how we do it"

In High School my friends were literally that... "High"! Always trying to get me to join in their little reindeer games of getting faded without getting caught by the teachers. I however was all about the music.

Believe it or not I really only listened to this stuff during my H.S. years.
You wouldn't know nowdays based on the stuff I listen to, but I was a huge Ice Cube fan back in the day. Slow beats with great flow and rhymes. However my parents didn't appreciate me listening to this stuff due to the violent nature of that culture back then.

But every time I hear the high pitched whine in the background track it takes me back to a simpler time. A time when my cousin thought he was black, and I would go over his house to swim. We would make cool-aid before swimming and since his parents didn't give a shit we would put as much sugar as we could in the stuff until it was almost syrup and then go swimming and see who could do the dummbest shit. (Dive off garage into pool. Do gainers off the rickety slide into the deep end. Dive off house into the shallow end)

Yeah those were good times.

Bone Thugs Friday

Fo Tha Love of Money
Since today is Bone Thugs n Harmony Friday I am blessing you with one of their best songs. I don't know if you guys remember this or not but Bone's music talked about of course smoking weed and also some paranormal shit. Example, they had a song called Mr. Ouija. I had a friend who told me he had a friend who played their CD on a continous loop while he slept and when he woke up, he had scratches all over his face. I remember being like oh shit I better not play this shit. In retrospect I had some pretty stupid friends.


Mr Ouija...oh no they're gonna get me!!!

This back in time moment is brought to you by one scared little bitch ass white boy in the 5th Grade!

So the day that Big B. gives me an invite to post about the Old School Friday videos, I see this special on MTV2 today titled... "1988: The Year That Hip Hop Broke"

"Run-DMC (Who's House... Run's House)", NWA, Salt N Peppa, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Ultramagnetic MC's, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markee, Eric B. and Rakim... Just to name a few...

What they broke or if they were trying to say "Broke Out" I don't know. I do know that there were so many artists and matching videos on YouTube that I almost went nuts and posted all of them as they aired on the show. However I leave you with a video from an artist that got me into trouble. I was a skinny white kid who didn't fit in with the Chicano's and didn't like the prep scene. I sure as hell wasn't going to mess around with the scary black folk either. 1988 brought on some bullshit between me and a girl and all I remember my mom being worried about when I was at school was that I didn't do drugs or hang out with those that did.

Another thing that I remember was the movie Colors came out and all I can remember about that era was worrying about not wearing the wrong fucking clothes either by color, or the fucking label. Remember BK (British Knights) shoes. "Don't fucking wear those to school, they stand for Blood Killers" said my friend.
So I tried my best and managed not to get shot or get my ass kicked for wearing the wrong shit.

So back to the video. I had a cousing (Super Whitey Chick) who listened to this music and first introduced me to it by letting me listen to Too Short's Cusswords. WTF was she thinking. Anyway another CD tape that she had was N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton and I remember really REALLY liking this song.

Enjoy,
C.B.