My Name Is Diana...(My name is Busta)

As if High School in the mid nineties wasn't hard enough (end of Desert Storm, Bush I, Clinton and his ugly family, hiding my rap tapes from my mom, etc.), if you had no access to some wheels, be it catching a ride or owning one, you were lower than dirt. Which in retrospect was kinda stupid for the simple reason that the school charged 100 bones for a parking pass. Ridiculous.

Anyhow, somewhere between running thangs in Intermediate school, getting shipped off to Russia, and starting football in the 9th grade, L.O.N.S. came out with their seminal album, A Future Without A Past. To me, this album came out right about the same time that I figured out that there was an organization who ran the entire school from behind a cloak of rumors and overall shady dealings.

Of course I speak of the Underground PTA. The militant wing of the booster club. Stuff would happen at school that was beyond explanation. The recent Richmond, VA law dealing with "sagging" pants was introduced the day after O.P.P. came out in my school. You got detention and shit. Not lying.

So with the UPTA doing it's do, the "Just Another Case Of That Ol' PTA" track on the L.O.N.S. album was right on time. The whole album spoke to what we were dealing with. The unfair policies towards Hip Hop Kulture, the crotchety old teachers (not like the ones today), the rules, the BS.

I recently found the original cassette copy that I bought through a friend and hid in my closet everynight so my mom wouldn't take it away. Quality is shot but the essence of that time period still lives on.

But my jam, "Sobb Story", really spoke to the original purpose of this post. I refused to take the bus and nobody in my immediate circle had access to a ride. Rain or shine, I'd hump the 2 miles to school. That or skip school altogether.

I did that once, then found out who ran the UPTA.

My mother.

Yikes!

Rap will never die!
-Furious

Sobb Story - L.O.N.S