Back when I was younger I was very impressionable because I had cooler older brothers, they had all the friends, the clothes, the girls and the music.
All I had was a couple gospel hand-me-down tapes from my mum and a Elvis Presley greatest hits casette. Yes this was my humbling introduction to music!
You may think it is sad but I think it’s given me a sound foundation for my musical journeys. What I wasn’t prepared for RAP music.
I lived in Lagos, Nigeria so the bets we got was tapes if you didn’t have cable TV (Or did but didn’t have NEPA). We knew about MTV and especially Yo! MTV Raps.
This show was seminal in regards to my formative years of hip hop but I think that can be said for everyone in the 90’s and late 80’s.
It’s one of the references of JUST JAM and is by and large a chronological record of the birth of hip hop.
What has since become the largest and most popular genere of music in the world.
Back when MTV was for the kids and really was about subcultures.
Back when rappers were conscious and with a message, there was Yo! With Dr Dre and Ed Lover.
