UNDERCOVER HIP HOP HEAD

Is that what I am?
I love the old skool
RunDMC
Rakim
Gangstar
LL
KRS1
UTFO
MC Lyte
Mary J Blige
Heavy D
Whodini
Grandmaster Flash
Public Enemy
Folks like Wutang
Tupac
Biggie
Roxxane Shante!
Was Teena Marie the first female rapper
or was it Blondie?
I still don't know the answer to that question?
But I can remember where I was and what I was doing
when I hear most of that old stuff
much of this new stuff doesn't compare to
There are some who recapture the magic
like Missy
Timbaland
Digable
Fugees
Busta
Music from
Tall Black Guy
Foreign Exchange
9th Wonder
City Nights
Maylee Todd
and Jabig with so many other noteable deejays
(Thank GOD for Youtube!)
Spotify
and Pandora
or I wouldn't even know about
so much of the good music out here
that the radio stations won't play.
I grew up on hip hop
will never forget
that music of
a simpler time
that got me through
some difficult times
and when I hear it now
all I can think of is sunny days
long bus rides
icecream cones
banana or apple nowandlaters
APPLE KOOLAID
Tang or
Grandmas tea and bread pudding!
Mommas banana pudding
Sega Genesis
Bionic Woman reruns
old Bugs Bunny
Tom and Jerry cartoons
along with the first time I saw Fantasia
(and it was on a big screen!)
Cartoons with kung fu movies on Saturdays
Godzilla or Planet of the Apes marathons on Thanksgiving
Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Claymation style Frosty the Snowman/Rudolph Christmas specials
and all the while
hip hop was there mixed in
in the background
providing soundtracks to my life
accompanying all those R&B classics
Chaka Khan
Stevie Wonder
James Brown
and the Thrillers
David Bowies
and Tears for fears
then it all came back around full circle
NWA and them
Phyllis didn't wanna change the world but she did it anyway God rest her soul
Ojays and Queen Latifah teamed up for New Jack
Heavy D was just coolin with Levert
Guru brought it with N'Dea
and so many more in
Jazzmatazz
Robert Glasper brought it with Yasiin Bey
on Black Radio
Who can forget these girls
Janelle Monae
Jill Scott
Miss Baduizm
They seemed to come out of nowhere
to take the world by storm
as they spread their wisdom musically?
All this and more
is why I will never forget hip hip
even as it evolves
as long as they keep making the soul
people (like me) will come
(even if I am
the undercover hip hop head)