DJ SPANISH FLY... DJ PAUL & LORD INFAMOUS... THE BIRTH OF MEMPHIS HIP HOP
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People say I know a lot about music. And it’s true, I do. But so do you. And there are certain people who know so much more about music than either of us that it’s not even funny. It’s like a long staircase where you think you’re near the top, but there’s still several more steps going up, disappearing behind an ethereal mist… you start to count them, in an attempt to assess the situation… five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty… the mist briefly subsides, revealing at least seventy-five more steps, receding upward to a point past visual perception, each step representing just a little bit more musical knowledge beyond the last one, each next step quite accessible… but can you go thirty? Forty? Eighty? And the mist keeps moving and rearranging, now thickening, now hiding all but just the next two or three steps... but wait, it’s not that simple either. Because sometimes you run up the stairs two at a time and miss entire histories. Sometimes you’re on a step for just a minute or two, and think you get it, but you don’t. Not even close.
DJ SPANISH FLY... DJ PAUL & LORD INFAMOUS... THE BIRTH OF MEMPHIS HIP HOP
DJ SPANISH FLY... DJ PAUL & LORD INFAMOUS…
DJ SPANISH FLY... DJ PAUL & LORD INFAMOUS... THE BIRTH OF MEMPHIS HIP HOP
People say I know a lot about music. And it’s true, I do. But so do you. And there are certain people who know so much more about music than either of us that it’s not even funny. It’s like a long staircase where you think you’re near the top, but there’s still several more steps going up, disappearing behind an ethereal mist… you start to count them, in an attempt to assess the situation… five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty… the mist briefly subsides, revealing at least seventy-five more steps, receding upward to a point past visual perception, each step representing just a little bit more musical knowledge beyond the last one, each next step quite accessible… but can you go thirty? Forty? Eighty? And the mist keeps moving and rearranging, now thickening, now hiding all but just the next two or three steps... but wait, it’s not that simple either. Because sometimes you run up the stairs two at a time and miss entire histories. Sometimes you’re on a step for just a minute or two, and think you get it, but you don’t. Not even close.