Gang Starr - Just To Get A Rep

Leavin the Bodega I Say Suave'

We have this chalkboard in our kitchen. Sometimes we leave love notes, sometimes reminders, once in a while just a statement appears there in the morning. When I went to get a bowl of cocoa krispies this morning it just said "hip hop". Todd must of wrote it this morning so in keeping with passin' notes I replied "is the soundtrack to our lives!"


It is so true with the exception of the past few weeks while we have been watching Lost (streaming from our Wii to our TV.... so dope) that hip hop is playing in the background. Our taste is not always the same but it's still all love. I will never get enough of Das Efx and The Lost Boys, I don't care what you think about it but I love both of those groups to death. He wants to listen to anything with a message. New, old in between my husband is "conscience brother" I am a party girl and our worlds can always meet on a Guru/Gang Starr track. As long as it's not Dwyck, he loathes that song, most any Guru track is a hit in our Bed Stuy crib. The past couple of weeks I have been playin' Guru and Erykah Badu's Plenty so of course I felt a little more connected to the news yesterday because his voice has been a constant at work playing the song over and over (i'm like that).


It is always sad when our beloved hip hop looses a pioneer. What I am grateful for is that there was no violence or police brutality involved in his passing. Guru will be missed. RIP