amazing thread. goddamn!
i'd say back when i was 16, 17 and even 18... before i got into opiates. Just got a new car, had a 2-way pager, cell phone, new kicks all the time...it was the fuckin shit. especially in the summer time. ridin around, smokin Ls, rollin on E - good E back then not this piperazine bullshit thats around today, house parties, good raves (how good was drum and bass back in 2001 compared to today). Rocafella was killin it so hard too, unlike the bullshit Jay is on today. Every other song on the radio was prod. by the Neptunes too they were killin it also. Music was a lot funner, shit everything seemed a lot funner. Goddamn. I guess thats the whole point though. Shit was just special to me
Shit wasn't really that long ago too. 9-10 years ago... feels like a lifetime. lot of crazy shit happened in the 2000s decade to everybody i think especially with 9-11 and all that shit i feel that the whole world has been on one ever since. Either is me getting older, or the world is a lot more of a complicated place now.. gotta be a combo of both
Lacey not to dick ride but ur posts on here are always a good look. I feel you on the music thing too. Back in the time im trippin over i think the hood classic at that time was Styles P - Good Times (I get High) - remember that shit? back summer 02 u couldnt go no where without hearin that shit! Just hearin that song now will almost make me cry cuz i think about that time i cant even listen to it around ppl cus they'll trip
Woooowww, real talk yo--no joke.
"I get high, high, high...."
Every time i STILL hear that shit i automaticaly go and light up a newport, its the last thing I can smoke these days....
Damn, I remember those days tho, of course , and I do feel you on that emotion--I aint one to cry about anything really, but Iunno...Sometimes I hear somethin, that song, or some of the others than got a real serious reaction in my mind, and its like it all rushes back so hard all at once I catch this feeling like damn...The feelings of remembering first, and second, realizing and knowing that its gone and aint never gonna come back, and third the wanting it so bad even tho you know its impossible, it all just got a way of sending you into a straight up lil'bitch mode, want to start tearin up over some emotional back in tha day shit. Dont know why that song in particular--maybe Im just on some geek shit over analizing it, but I feel like even when it was brand new, it kind of had that "This song will be the soundtrack to you life, and youll look back on it years later" sound to it, am i wrong? Like when you heard it the firs time, you just KNEW it was gonna be one of them joints thats like a "anthem" or somethin, that it would stick in your mind and every time remind you of the days you had while it was always on the radio. Like, some self conscious nostalgia shit--you knew you would be hearin it and lookin back. Maybe just me, iunno, but it sure as hell did have that effect. I just think of puffin blunts in the hi-rise, poppin E pills, 16 years old out all night discoverin the world after midnight and all the crazy folks in it...Runs to newark, coppin pillz, pickin things up, droppin em off, didnt even have a cell phone yet back then--lol. I remember when I first got my first prepaid , feelin o so pimp, and me and my girl crystal rolled the fuck out, peepin the little graphics on it--it was one of them blue screens with the black letters, straight up no color nothing just the real old school shit, and it had this little animation of a alligator on it puffin a L (well, it was a cigar but we thought it was a L) and my girl wiled out the bitch straight up started talkin to the alligator, she goes "he said hes chillin like a villain" and all night long the broad is talkin about "the villain" lol. Wowwww, crazy shit, I almost forgot. Puffin mad blunts in the snow, the air like swirlin around in front of me cuz we been up for 3 days on a all you can eat E pill buffet....And singin along loud as fuck when that song came on the radio. Shit, almost 10 years ago, and how it seems like such a short time ago but so long at the same time....
There was so many times I can think of , it never ends...
And its like each year, I try to remember to always savor the flavor, u kno wat im sayin, becuz I know sure as clock work that once its passed Ima be wishin for that time to come back too.
Now , Ill name some of my own scenario, becuz yall know it always changes--
1. Its March, I met my boy S-dot (RIP brother) for the first time in March of 08. We met up outside his methadone clinic and I bought some ESPN bags off him. It was 9 am, early, and me and my man drove home happy as hell--We had been off diesel for a while, hadnt done it more than here and there for a good amount of time, and couldnt wait to fuck with these bags (they was fire fire)....Remember that track that hit the radio only for a few weeks, Gnarls Barkley "Run"....It was a weird lil joint but theres a part where it goes "Oh yea its still the same/Cant you feel the pain/When the needle hit the vein/ Aint nothin like the real thang" and then "if you dont run right now, ya best get ready ta die, good lawd" and I remember speedin down the road so ancious to get home and get high. LOL--Back when I still was scared to drive on diesel cuz Id be too high. I look back thinking how it all progressed from there and how long it been, how shit changed so hard and fast, how I dove head first into a quick sand whirl pool 200 feet deep of heroin , needles, and hand cuffs....And think about how two years later, hes gone, in the ground. Damn, 24 years old, *SMH.* Shits real yo....Sure do wish I could re live the beginning before it all went to shit.
2. A second world away is a few months later that same year, when I started beauty school.....I was hooked on dope no doubt, but I was only shootin a bundle a day, a manageable pretty small habit. I use to love to shoot up in this one bathroom in the school. it was old fashion, like a regular bathroom--Yellow tile floors and walls, yellow porcelin toilet, a little window looking out onto the streets of Paterson below, and a lil chipped mirror. I use to gete high in there like 3 times a day. Mornin during our break, before lunch, and after lunch before goin back to class. It was the most peaceful little place. The summer light filterin in thru that shit on the glass that you stick on so its still see thru but it makes it fuzzy so only the light come in--privacy glass I guess--the quiet feeling, i never turned on the light just chilled in the sunshine....No noise, everybody tired after lunch, studying their booksor sleeping...And I would just nod off in there...Come out witha smile on my face...Til I got caught taking too long in there with blood on my sleeve and they found my set in the bathroom once after I lost it there. That was the end of that--the bathroom, and my education. Wish i could go back, lost my financial aid funding, thats a wrap on that one.
3. Last summer-09....I was a wreck, no doubt--on probation for one charge, waitin for sentencing on another one, weekly probation visits,and still using at break neck pace....Summer and dope is the best, no question, and I spent plenty nights asleep on the back porch, nodded out til the sun came up....The electric rhythm of the city in the summer cruisin the blocks, nextels bleepin, Serani-"She love me" was my song of the summer...Every time i heard those echoing notes bangin out the back of somebodys whip down on the block its like the vibrations went thru me and I could just smile with the high, feel the rush comin over me and the heat all around sun beatin down and just feel it, u feel me? Damn, I knew it was trouble, I knew it wasnt the care free all good phase no more--i was messed up. Too much hustlin, too much shady schemes and not knowing where tomorrows high is comin from, too much close calls, to much to risk gettin popped again, too much piss tests and VOP's, too much voice in the back of my mind always reminding me that i was too far in trouble to keep on doin this and riskin it all, that i was on a tightrope walk and about to fall, never could just chill and forget about the bullshit, drama, legal problems, but i could for a minute when the rush hit and when i leaned back in my seat with a newport in my hand watchin the city pass by my window. but i guess i enjoyed it so much BECUZ i knew everything was wrong, but didnt care....
4. Last winter-09...Before I got popped the 3rd time I loved bein on the block in winter too..everybody in their big NOrth Faces, hidin under my hood walkin up the block to the dope spot, steam on my breath, the cold air a million times colder from the sickness thats runnin thru my veins but as soon as the D was in my hand i got warmer...Or better yet, when i had a ride, me and my man gliding thru the hood sealed off from the world , windows up and just cruisin thru the night high as a kite. "day and night" echoin over the radio, my favorite song at the time was "aint like we" by shalone, it was a perfect winter in the ghetto dope boy type vibe on the track. We blew 11 grand in a month and a half, real talk. We would each cop a brick to our head and it would be gone by 36 hours later at the most, 25, 30 bags a day, just lost in that heroin bliss. Prolly made a thousand cig burns in my clothes, skin, bed sheets, car seats, around that time. That was the time before arrest #3 made me realize it wasnt all good, and so I thought it was for a while, shit was just a dream-life for a while there and you can never re capture the perfect reassurance of a junkie who aint scared of shit. the ignorance is bliss for sure...money was fine, never a problem of funds...had a new (used) car, ran great, always had a ride...dope boy was always pumpin out the fire....It was the perfect little bubble , of course til it busted, but before that happened it was pure cloud 9 baby....That time, dont know how much Id be willing to pay If i could just go back for one day, shit...