Hip Hop Is Meant For Me

I spoke earlier of the day I've had today, but music has always been a refuge no matter what I have to deal with. 

That being said, the musical climate is vastly different from what us older folks remember from the 80s and 90s and well up into the 2000s. 

The music has changed, the climate for it has changed. The way the vast majority of fans listen has changed. 

Yet, right now, I jump on Spotify and realize The Game's new album dropped at midnight. He's one of the few artists that came around in the 00s whose music I still enjoy. 

I remember the first time I heard his music. It was early 2005 and The Documentary had just dropped. My sister had picked me up in her Toyota Celica at the bus stop and it was playing quite loud in her car. I remember her jumping back to the beginning of this CD so I could take it all in. We lit up a joint and rolled down into midtown KC and stopped at Texas Tom's to pick up some food on our way home.

I don't remember what we ate that day, but I still have a pure recollection of hearing the album for the first time. The one song of them all that grabbed me was Hate It or Love It, which is still a favorite almost fifteen years later.

So, I listen to his new album all the while thinking that less than a month ago Gang Starr dropped a new album, which was a big shot in the arm for the East Coast, and today Game's album dropped whick keeps with the Los Angeles hip hop legacy, all while sampling that Junior Mafia staple Get Money.

I normally rag about how much hip hop has changed, but today I'm reminded that it might be very much the same.