bone thugs n harmony east 1999 album mister ouija decoded

It’ s a celebration alright, but one with a bleak subtext about getting welfare checks and using the money to buy weed, 40s and coke. “First of tha’ Month” is explicitly designed to be a party song, except it’s completely not. Yet it wasn’t any sort of exotic desire for “the other” that drove our obsession. 1999 came sans the tribute to Eazy who had died after original recording had ceased, so at first Bone Thugs while still popular, were pretty much the province of the hip-hop kids. Of course, “Tha Crossroads” was partially responsible for the album’s astronomical sales but the original copies of E. 1999 Eternal sold six million and I’d wager that at least half were kids staggering through the mine-field of adolescence. An article that ran yesterday in the LA Times, claims that nearly half of teens didn’t buy a single one in 2007. You can’t exactly look at liner notes if no one owns the CD and no one buys CD’s. I imagine kids don’t do stuff like that anymore. 1999 Eternal and the mournful RIP message to Eazy who had died in March. 1999 Eternal on flimsy Discman headphones and flipping through the liner notes, baffled by the hazy mysticism of the Misterouija board, the street map of E. I even distinctly remember one day in my sweltering summer school computer class when a sub came and we spent the entire period listening to E. It was hard not to, the thing was everywhere, from the radio, to MTV and Rap City, to my basketball practices in the afternoon. In particular, I listened to “1st of tha Month” more than anything else. I’m still not sure whether it was supremely awesome or the worst summer of my life. In fact, all I really remember doing that summer was watching a whole lot of Small Wonder, playing a lot of Tony LaRussa Baseball, and listening to E. It was the 90s, this was perfectly common. tried on the infamous “if it don’t fit, you must acquit” bloody gloves, Jerry Garcia died, and really not much else happened. And of course, there was “1st of Tha Month,” a song that pretty much defined the summer of 1995. We got “Regulate,” and “Hip-Hop Hooray,” they got the Soulja Boy dance. I can’t even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would’ve been had I been forced to listen to “A Bay Bay” and “Low” everywhere I went.

Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today.

Bone thugs n harmony east 1999 album mister ouija decoded