Keeping up with the constant avalanche feels like running on a never-ending treadmill so every so often I need to get off the rappity rap blogs interwebs and go back to the good ol' days. Who knows why, but today I felt the sudden need to bump Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's classic 2000 album "Train of Thought", and I can't play "Train of Thought" without bumping the hell out of "Move Somethin".
You see, way back when there were these things called CDs, and they were expensive. So when you bought one you'd, for example, play it in your 1990 Pontaic 6000 LE until you'd memorized every word on the album. "Move Something" was definitely one of my go to tracks in the car - I still get a rush out of yelling "Shut the fuck up!" right after Kweli says, "Industry executives keep telling me y'all stupid."
I'm not going to get on some "hip-hop was so much better back then" shit. There's still plenty of dope music being made now, and plenty of wack shit that came out in the so called Golden Era, but I know there are some older citizens of RefinedHype Nation that are feeling this "Move Somethin" too. This one's for you my fellow '80s babies...because I fucking feel like it.