Thoughts From The Threshold Of The 21st Century/*Wed 6/24/09- Twitter

So the year is 2000. We just got this huge entertainment system: big screen tv, cd player, dvd player, huge speakers the works. It was a magical time; I watched the first episode of 106 & Park on that tv, Common was the musical guest if I'm not mistaken, which started my Common craze that year(accompanied shortly by me trying to convert to Islam). Anyhow, this was the first time I'd actually had a chance to watch a DVD, those having came out only a few years ago. I heard a lot about em, but I didn't get what was supposed to be the big deal. We rented "Dead Presidents" (at that point I had only seen a few parts of the movie on tv I think). Man, let me tell you... That shit fucked my head up. It was like being at the movies at home. The speakers and picture was soooo fucking boss. So believe me when I tell you that the music was BUMPIN'. After watching the movie, I had been particularly smitten by "I'm So Tired of Being Alone" by Al Green. the scene in which the song (and subsequent Soul train performance) appeared helped ingrain that song into my soul. At that point in my life, we were already fans of older music. Our child hood was filthy with old school influence from what my mother played, to movie soundtracks to cartoons like California Raisins to tryna find out what song was sampled on any given rap song, so it wasnt like we didn't already like older shit. But this was the first time in our lives that we actively decided to go find sold school shit to listen to. Napster had JUST started gettin sued real big time some months before thi, so a lot of newer music was being removed, but the older stuff wasnt being touched. This was a year or so before Napster completely shut down for a hot sec, so we were getting any and everything we wanted. We started with "I'm So Tired Of Being Alone" and just started tryna find shit (we hadn't heard since we were kids. Later, we got the first volume to the "Dead Presidents" soundtrack which would be my first real introduction to Sly Stone via "If You Want Me To Stay"). One of the ways we found most song names and shit was by going back through movies we had seen and looking up the music we liked from the movie. But it all started with hearing (and seeing) "I'm So Tired Of Being Alone" on that DVD of "Dead Presidents". We were like mad dogs after a truck load of bones. Lets face it, there's a lot more older music than newer music, realistically and literally speaking. when we decided to embark on this mission of hearin as much of it as we could, we discovered a WHOLE SERIES OF UNIVERSES. I could go on and on and oooooooon...but who cares? Done ranting....