Ahh an early adopter! Before all the big corporations turned it into marketing! I was a b-boy first and started writing in '84. Music was better back then too. So much innovation, creativity and diversity. Now it's just formulaic angry crap. Grandmaster Caz said it well: "Hip Hop ain't supposed to be like that, where's the fun at?"
Funny isn't it? All those raids and long stints in prison (a mate of mine went down for graf for longer than a guy in our town got for battering his baby so bad it had epilepsy and cerebral palsy) and now it's plastered up the side of a tube train in the name of marketing.
And don't get me started on Mr. Banks. Absolute charlatan!
Good to read all that mate. Same times different town.