Black Moon "I Got Cha Open"

This is the one that started my real fascination with hip hop. Prior to this song it was just casual listening to Too Short, NWA, early beastie boys and even MC Hammer (sad but true). Its was what the kids were listening to at the time and I was following blindly like a kid would. We had one of those big ass satellites that was supposed to get a million channels or what not, but it really didnt get shit other than some spanish stations. It did however get BET. and on BET was a certain show called Rapcity. All rap for like an hour or 2. back then it was the greatest show ever. I would record it while I went to play basketball and come back and watch all the videos when I got home. BET being headquartered on the east coast played a majority of east coast artist. Anyways the first time I watched this show was late at night. It was a rerun. I had no idea what I was about to experience. This video came on and right from the sampled horns I was hooked. Right then I knew the shit I had been listening to was meaningless. I had never known hip hop like this and from then on all I wanted to hear was this branch of it. I was the kid that would call radio stations and request these songs not fully realizing at the time they wouldn't play shit not on their playlist or on the top 40. What a crock of shit the radio is. The person answering the phone would just say " you got it" and my dumb ass would proceed to sit there and wait for hours waiting for it to come on. Maybe I should have asked for some PM Dawn. I don't know maybe the music people enjoy whether it be rap, rock, metal, jazz, etc... doesn't hit them as much as hip hop does me, but this really has played a part of who I am. Maybe it shouldnt have, but it did. I also remember the first time I went to New York and Hugo and me were waiting in one of the 100 lines you have to wait through to get to the top of the Empire State building and I happen to be wearing my Boot Camp Click shirt, which is like the affiliation group Black Moon is in. The guy working the line noticed it and told me "way to represent Brooklyn! Where you from?" "
"Man I'm from California- San Diego" guy was stunned someone from California would be rocking the shirt. I just recently purchased another shirt from these guys- its the Duck Down Man shirt, little dude in the front running with a target, which still to this day most people out here have no clue what it is. I'm keeping it short as I have hopefully my final interview at Matrix Direct morning and I'm tired from embarrassing myself at basketball tonight.