![]() ![]() So Oliver Hart kind of fell to the wayside until summer. My editor and I played that song a freaking bunch. If you haven’t heard their song, Glass Danse, you are seriously missing out. I was actually much more taken with The Faint album I heard that night, which I also received a copy of. So I knew it sounded different and it had potential to be an album that I could like. The point of that winter night was hanging out and talking and not listening to music. He had been playing it in the car that night, though it was kind of hard to hear since it wasn’t that loud. ![]() It the night that Randy K (not his real name) handed me a silver CD-R with the name Oliver Hart, scribbled in black Sharpie, across the top of it. Nothing was ever the same after that night. The Real Beginning:The end of college is when it all happened. So where does the story really begin? When did everything change? ![]() Regardless, I still wasn’t anywhere close to where I am now. Dre’s The Chronic 2001 as loud as I could while living in the dorms. ![]() My freshman year, I very much enjoyed playing Dr. By the time college started, hip hop was a regular in my music rotation. It was a genre on equal footing with the others out there like jazz, pop and rock. I didn’t really seek out hip hop music in high school, but I was okay if it found me. DMX, Master P, 2Pac, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Dr. I had too many friends that liked it and it’s such a silly reason to discount an entire genre. The Walls Come Down:By the late 1990’s, I had gotten over my initial hate. It was the genre that broke stuff and caused pain. I know she didn’t want her speakers broken. I don’t remember if they ever actually blew out any speakers while doing this, but I know it drove my mom crazy. My siblings and their friends would play it obsessively on the large speakers we had in the front room. Bass was everything. I hated the very albums I adore and praise today when they were first released. During the early 1990’s, I straight up hated that c rap. Unfortunately, my affair starts with a lot of hate. The Beginning: Every great love affair has an equally great beginning. ![]()
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