To celebrate hip-hop's 50th anniversary, rappers, producers, DJs and industry figures share 50 songs that helped define the culture.
Apollo Brown recalls how, when he was in college at Michigan State with friend and fellow producer Bronze Nazareth, music store Sam Goody would open from midnight to 1 a.m. to sell the new releases that came out on Tuesdays. “We used to go every Monday to go get whatever we were going to get and get it before everybody else. So we went. We both grabbed ‘Supreme Clientele.’ And this was after hearing ‘Apollo Kids’ and ‘One.’ We’re like, ‘We’ve got to get this album.
And I’ve never had that feeling about an album since, not even my own albums. It’s just that album right there for some reason, gave me this specific feeling that went through my bones and my body and my muscles and my hands and my veins and whatever that I’ve never been able to duplicate ever again. … I don’t even get that same feeling from [Black Moon’s] ‘Enta da Stage,’ even though that’s my favorite album of all time.
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