This post is about two things that maybe could be humorous but actually aren't. Ilana and I just read a book about Hip Hop history called "Can't Stop Won't Stop" which we both found illuminating; both of us living through these times and both of us not being aware of the events and certainly not understanding the context. Go back to times when I having real troubles with her brother. Maybe think when he's 16 and she's 12. That would be 1998 or so? He would sit in his room and play gangsta rap really loud. Really loud. With all of it's violence and foul language. I'm not somebody who freaks out about profanity but this stuff was truly offensive. "Don't you remember?" she said "He had this song that starts with a gun being cocked and then shot 'Click click bang BANG,' and then the rap would start. And he would play that starting part over again and again, really loud. Click click bang BANG, click click bang BANG!"
No wonder I was going nuts. Something like that brings it all back. The actions of the acting out kid. And the effect on the younger siblings. Here's a 12 year old having to listen to all those violent sounds. Myself as a parent certainly NOT wanting thing in my house but feeling powerless to stop it.
But, in a way, kinda comic. Kinda funny. That this stuff and his stuff could throw a household into disarray. Click, click bang BANG!
I'm going to ask him about the song. Maybe he remembers it and I can feature it on this blog. He probably doesn't remember.
Make you feel for the 12 year old.
Here's a later version of Thug Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CjOG6pA63s
Danny told me it was a collaboration between Tupac and Bones n Harmony. He remembers these things. This is a 2005 remix. Click click bang BANG!
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