Muzikal hIstorektaMie (Hiztorie?) part 1

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Having a muzik blog, I feel that my first responsibility is to discuss the kinds of muzik and artists that I am personally interested in, and growing from that, I have decided to talk a little bit about the history behind my sense of euphonia (not euphoria, thats another day, another conversation).

Really, where you grow up and who you grow up with have a gigantic effect on who you are as a young child. Nowhere is this more apparant than in musical tastes, and I was an explicit example of this. Growing up in inner city akron Hip-Hop was what I knew, it was what I identified with. Yeahp I was just another white boi, talkin the street talk, carrying over sized stereos down the street, break dancing, and wearing umbrella pants. Well I did talk street atleast... I was pretty good at it by 13. Good enough that my parents (particularly my dad) didnt want me falling into the streets any deeper and responded to this whim by promptly picking up, moving, and sticking me in the middle of an all white, boring, cultureless middle school in an all white, boring, cultureless town called Norton. The product of 'deep country' raped by 'upper middle class suburbia', Norton seemed to have an unholy hatred towards me and everything I respresented. Needless to say, it took me a little while to fit in. The whole time I stayed true to the culture I grew up in, the culture I was raised in. Not the culture my family raised me with, but the culture my music raised me with.

Reflecting back, I really can tell that music has always been one of the most important things in my life, because during that transitional period it became such a solid part of my identity that no-one could ever tear it away. I felt like it was my responsibility to carry Hip-Hop in my soul until I could return and seek its beauty when I was once again among the like-minded. Little did I know that...

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Love,
Haci