OOPS UPSIDE MY HEAD

Here’s the deal: this song changed my life. It wasn’t the first hip-hop song I ever heard but it was the first one that really made me want to find everything I could that sounded like. It was my gateway drug into hip-hop which would irrevocably change everything else I’d come to pursue later on, whether journalism, scholarship, DJing and of course, records. But see…for the longest time, I credited the magic of this song (besides to De La Soul and Prince Paul of course) to the Steel...

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