Favorite Hip Hop Tracks

When I was twelve I went to graphic school. In the US it's what you call high school. This was 1986. I went from my small city, Schiedam to the big city. Every day I went there by train. In those days Rotterdam suffered from a large amount of heroin addicts, dealers, bums and prostitutes. Their gather place was the front of Rotterdam Central Station. The place where this innocent twelve year old arrived by train to go to school. I have seen a lot there, drug use, fights, dealing and even some people dying on overdose.

As new as all of this was to me so was my school. There I learned about heavy metal. That time I mainly listened to rock music. There I first heard the sounds of Anthrax, Metalica, Slayer and Megadeth. Later we took a serious d-tour to death metal when the first album by band "Death" was released, some super awesome shtuff. The white kids mainly listened to metal and the black kids listened to hip hop. There was this one kid who was so into hip hop. He was always wearing a headphone listening to NWA, Ice-T and public Enemy. We always talked about music, soon we came to exchange our music on tape's. From him I learned this awesome music what was hip hop. Still pretty unknown and underground at the time.

I always loved metal, no matter what music I listen to I always come back to my metal. Same with hip hop. There are times I dont listen to any hip hop at all. Sometimes I wonder what it has become. There is rarely a hip hop track I like these days. I love the Roots and Rasco and I have to be 100% honest that I dont really get into the hip hop scene and know what is available in the underground scene but still. I dont think any hip hop produced today can blow me away like NWA, Paris or NWA did when i first heard it. Those guy's weren't out to become big stars and a commecial succes. Those guy's were telling about their lives, about what was bothering them, the injustice, their struggle.

Here are some tracks from back in the day that I love!

NWA - Straight Outta Compton
This is as rough as it gets. NWA showed what living in the bad part of town was about before Holywood took an interest in it. This made a big big impression on me, still does. This is as good as it gets.

Paris - The Devil made me do it
Some years later Paris hit the scene and blew me away with one of the most evil sounding rap songs in history. The devil made me do it makes you think about how the rich abuse the rest of us.

Ice-T - OG Original Gangster
Probably the man with the meanest face alive. Before his acting carreer he was actually one of the worlds best rappers. Immortalised himself when he started a hardcore band named Bodycount.

Bodycount - There goes the neighborhood
"Dont they know rock is just for white's, dont they know the rules?". The perfect marrige. Ice-T the singer in a metal band. It aint exactly hip hop but what the hell, these are my favorites ain't they?