April 16, 2012

The Collection Vol. 15 (Spring 1999)





Side A

Lauryn Hill-Superstar
Nas-It Ain't Hard To Tell
Seal-Whirlpool
Phil Collins-In The Air Tonight
New Radicals-You Get What You Give
Nirvava-Come As You Are
The Prodigy-Firestarter
Poe-Angry Johnny
Primus-My Name Is Mud
Seal-Violet

Side B

Infamous Syndicate-Here I Go
Lauryn Hill-Lost Ones
2 Skinnee J's-Riot Nrrrd
Korn-Got The Life
House of Pain-Jump Around
The Beatles-Come Together
Isaac Hayes-Theme From Shaft
Ricky Martin-Cup Of Life
Toni Braxton-I Don't Want To
Sixpence None The Richer-Kiss Me
Jay-Z feat. DMX-Money, Cash, Hoes
Lauryn Hill-Tell Him

Once a week in Spanish class at school, we would go to the audio room in the Foreign Language department. We had several rows of cubicles and in each one was a cassette player with headphones attached, which had an intended purpose for exercises and such. During these weekly trips, I often let some of my classmates listen to my mixtapes, mainly because when you're a teenager, you want to do anything besides pay attention in class. I would always have at least a few on me at a given time, so it became a bit of regular thing for people to expecting me to have music. I think they mostly fast forwarded to the album tracks I had from some of the hip hop albums of the day, but it was still gratifying in a way to have my peers come to me for music.