90s Rewind

If you’re under the age of 13…you shouldnt even read this

and if you do, you should not repost this.

Just because you were born in ‘97 doesn’t mean you’re a 90’s kid.

It’s not like you could remember the original Simpsons. I am sorry but
three conscious years of the 90’s just wont cut it.

You’re a 90’s kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
-Gargoils

You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!”

You just cant resist finishing this . . . “Iiiiiiin west philidelphia
born and raised . . .”

You remember:
-LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE!!!
-Step by Step
-Family Matters!!!
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World!!!!
-Wild and Crazy Kids

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at
school.

You remember reading “Goosebumps”

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence . . .
not

when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
-skunk in the barn yard
-ms. mary mack
-big mac a tea a tea

when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your
FAVORITE song of ALL time.

“Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” was both a game and a TV game
show.

Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger,
were meant to be together.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos .
. . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull
the pranks on “intruders”

You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow
-and Ghostwriter on PBS

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where’s Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-Animporphs
-ghost busters

you remember watching…
-my little pony tails
-gummi bears
-tail spin
-goof troop
-chip n’ dail rescue rangers

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

If you remember when every thing was “da BOMB!”

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND
tacos.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting
your life with them.

You played and/or collected “Pogs”

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it
everywhere.

one word. . . . . . . . Furbies.

You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja
Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always
sold out

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop’s song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

Everyone watched the WB and yelled at people who interupred them.

You collected all the Troll dolls

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

You know the Macarena by heart.

“Talk to the hand” . . . enough said

You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”

You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

Before the MySpace frenzy . . .

Before the Internet & text messaging . . .

Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .

Before MIKE JONES . . .

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .

Before Spongebob . . .

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded
stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our
walkman.

When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish
from the library was THE cool thing to do.

You had slap bracelets!

You remember when you tried to sing with headphones on for the first
time.

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you’d miss the 90’s so much!!!!!

I own Labcabincalifornia & Bizare Ride to the Pharcyde. 

The 90s Pharcyde foursome dominated my CD-player and tape deck from 1992-1996.  Musically the talent was pretty evenly dispersed among the 4.  I can recite lyrics from all of the original members of the Pharcyde, but my personal favorites were Fatlip and Slimkid3 (Tre) so you can imagine my disgust when I heard Fatlip was kicked out of the group.  Tre went his own way about five years after Fatlip was cut.

I heard about fatlips departure about the same time I noticed they had an album called “Plain Rap” come out:

It was anger that made me not buy the album or even try an jack the songs off the Internet (to be honest I’m still mad about the break up and its been fuckin’ 10 years since Fatlip left).  I’ve got to say that as a fan who grew up listening to the Pharcyde, the more I know about the circumstances that split them up, the more pissed off I get about the whole thing.  Fatlip appearently got kicked out at Slimkid3 insistance:

Fistfights and arguments between Tre and Fatlip convoluted the creativity somewhat, but the group still managed to deliver a solid work of art.

Imani further explains the reasoning behind their decision to let Fatlip go his own way: “Tre was the driving force behind Fatlip not being in the group. He made it clear that he couldn’t be creative with Fatlip there. Fatlip was more accomplished as far as lyrics and beats and we knew he could handle things on his own..”— daveyd interview

Fatlip apparently starting doing cocaine and extasy: 
— delicious vinyl - Spike Jones documentary (highly recommended for pharcyde fans!)

I don’t want to take anything from Imani & Romye (booty brown), the remaining members of the Pharcyde, but it is NOT the same.  I suppose that much is obvious.  Don’t get me wrong, they are good as a duo.  Even alone Romye tore some shit up when he contributes on the Gorillaz song “Dirty Harry” BootyBrown - on Dirty Harry (gives me the chillz). And I  heard a little taste of Imani’s up coming solo album “Blaque Star Dust” (sic, man).  But the soul of the original Pharcyde remains broken in three parts. When I listen to Drop on Labcabin (lol which a tight ass hip-hop album),I listen to “Knew U” one of their more current songs as a duo.  Knew U is good but the the synergy that made Pharcyde off the charts is not there.  Knew U by the way is a must hear for fans.  Listen to Imani’s lyrics on Knew U and its clear he is talking about Tre Hardson abruptly leaving.  Imani and Tre were actually good friends before the Pharcyde even existed. The ODBesque raw talent of Fatlip, the other worldly abstract poetic rythm of Tre, the shrill energic tenor of Booty Brown and the steady foundation of Imani… that synergy is gone (for good?).  The skills of each is what made the Pharcyde “the Pharcyde“… at least for me.  So I am ever reluctant to buy their new album.

FATLIP
Fatlip waited a long time to release his solo album which was noticed on the underground but broke no ground above (its too bad, the guy is good the album is a level of integrity you only hear on the early Slim Shady albums -rare in hip hop): Fatlip is crazier than I could have ever imagine.  I love this guys honesty and courage.  He seems to explode with creativity but has no means of releasing it on his own.. no structure and that is a real shame. 
Then again what the fuck do I know.  He just did some shit with the Chemical Bros:

its… different.  I bet its even better if your on some sort of medicinal herbs.

He needs to put out more material. 

Tre Hardson
I guess Slimkid3 is doing his thing under his given name, Tre Hardson.  I’ve heard his stuff and it sounds cool (no surprise here).  He’s got a level of style I wouldn’t have expected.  He spit some stuff on a Free Mumia song (eclipsed by the likes of underground militant bad asses like Immortal Tech).  He’s definitely grown musically.  No denying it.

“The press tries to make us out to be the bad guys and Tre to be the good guy. The only people who are really suffering are the fans – because they give a fuck. The least he could do is give them the real.” — Imani (Daveyd - Interview)

At this point, the way I feel is who ever has the best music will get my ear [period].  I disagree with Uncle Imani’s statement, Its not the fans loss… its their’s (all 4 of the original Pharcyde).  They could have been as legendary as Run DMC.  They could have been a house hold name like the Beastie Boys.  

Fuck ‘em.  I’ll listen to Jurasic 5.

Imani was right about one thing:  “I’d love to do a show and have Fatlip and Tre open for us with their own music – so people can see who’s really holdin it down.”

The Pharcyde duo would obliterate fatlip and slimkid on the stage: