Hip Hop Movement in Austin
I have been intrigued with rap since I heard 2 Live Crew’s “Me so Horny” from As Nasty As They Want To Be when I was about 12 years old working as a bus boy at John’s Southern Kitchen in Jacksonville, TX.. It was not the first song I heard, but it was the first one I recorded via my tape deck. All of their music had an illegal appeal and that probably got me started on the road through trying to find out why I liked it so much and my parents hated it. Body Count was my next copy that I made and my quest to find the difference between hip hop and rap really started. I was always under the impression that Hip Hop was more like MC Hammer, Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice. Rappers were like Ice T, Snoop, Dre, and Public Enemy.
I am about to turn thirty and I want to dedicate this site to those who come up after us in an attempt to educate anyone seeking to find out more about what the Hip Hop Movement is all about. There is always more than meets the eye to those who choose to see rather than to be shown.
I have noticed a fall off from the music that used to be on the streets here in our capitol from when I moved here in 1999. I used to work at the Aquarium, (where the Steamboat resided for 15 years) and I never understood why I would get so many middle fingers and curses from passers by during the first year of the Aquariums existence. When I found out that the Steamboat was a huge landmark for live music in
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