When rap turned the corner...

I'm pretty sure this video signifies the exact moment that hip-hop/rap made a left at Lame Court and gunned it down Ignorance Drive. Or as my friend Neal would say, "Ignunce" Drive. :-) I'm not going to lie, this was my jam back in the day. I was 23 when this song came out, and everyone I knew at the time used to have this playing in their cars as loud as possible. And sadly, every single club we went to on Friday and/or Saturday nights back then (white or black) would play this at least twice throughout the night. Every time the DJ would put this on, EVERYONE would run onto the dance floor. Yes, by everyone I am including myself. Very sad, looking back on it. Many times it was a fun game between me and my friends to determine which of us could figure out WHAT THE HECK Juvenile is saying for goodness sakes!!!! And it all just went down from here. Master P, with his none-rapping self would surface soon after this with "Make Em Say Uhh" and other such "ignorance" that I spent my parents' hard-earned money on.

Anyway, I give you, "Ha" by Juvenile. Oh and for those of you Weezy (Lil Wayne) lovers, and there are ridiculously too many of you out there, you can spot him at 3:32. Yuck. (Sorry)

Basically 3:15 and forward has always completely cracked me up. "You better run Forest, run Forest, Run!" LOL! (Trivia below the video)



Do you know where the now acceptable by Webster's term "bling" comes from? The same place all of the other crazy slang terms come from...some crazy-looking rappers with nothing better to do. The aforementioned Juvenile and "Cash Money Millionaires" had this very popular song in the late 90's. Yes...it was my jam as well...dang it!!! "Every time I come around your city BLING BLING"