Chicago Style (Time Traveling: Circa '87-'00)

I met Ice-T at the Rainbo Roller Rink 5 years later, I was rhyming at Lower Links And Alcatraz, Avalon, and the Double Door I’d walk around and the ciphers I would explore I got my start as a writer at the Fly Paper Caught in the Middle, was created two years later And I would go to dope shows thanks to Duro Like Born Naked, O Type Star, All Natural Sista Ang (Ang13) was one of my favorites And Gramaphone is where I would pick up the latest hits Ram and Spin, so smooth when they mix and blend 33 1/3, he was a linchpin Kinetic Order, Mental Giants, The Molemen East of the Rock, Rubberoom, Stony Island Nuti Pack, No Home Training, Icon MCs D 2 Tha S, Rhymefest, Verbally Diseased Spalaney Macks, Immortal Griffen, Verb and Thawfor There was an Avalanche coming around ‘94 Or 95, when I saw Primeridian live And JP Chill had it locked on the southside The first tape I ever bought on the streets Was Rhyme Poets, ’89, it was proper release George’s Music Room, First Lady, and Mary Thatcher 312 magazine, Statik, Mars and Casper JPC, HPK, CRX, NUR Triple X, Lit Ex, Project Roots, and The Yard DA Smart, Jaquan Styler, Lo Tech, & Reese T Aztec, Mary Jane, No ID, Peanut Gallery Cee Rocks, G Most, THIG & Fully G RIP Disco Dave, Pinkhouse and 3D Verse 2: Jesse De La Pena, Dos Ciferos, Mixx Massacre Trixter, Queen Mother Productions, Fere & Zore Decipher The Verbal Sniper, Vinyl Addicts, & Fuse Blase Blase, Garden Music, J-Bird, & Chrewd The Ultimate Weapon SWAN, Qwel, Devine & Dug Infinite Underground Solution, AHX, & Crucial Conflict The Grass Is.., Children of Reality Stedy Serv, Ten Tray, the 40 Thievz Alltruisms and the Monkey Wrench Factory Monastic Cipher, Psychodrama, and TSP Outerlimitz, Twista, Mr. Greenweedz The Nacrobats, Vakill, Cayex and CMB Off Da Wall, Nappy Heads to Whatnoxic And when it came to freestyles rhymes, J.U.I.C.E had no losses Black AG, Tha Chamba and Krashman Rhyme with the ‘Warriors Ink’, and Atomic Ants Larry Milla with ‘A Man, My Brother & Me’ Chi Rock, Booney Flawless, Mack Thorne, LA.Z Sharing Needles, Unknown Elements, & Judas Breed Family Jewels, Scam Artists- Ill MC’s JP Schmedrick, Alterboysterious, & Cyanide 3 Stones from the Sun, 90 Proof, and Slaughter House 5 Titan Clash and Powerful Juvenile And Iomos played drums while he freestyled Go peep the flow of Dirty (MF) and SPO at the ELBO No Pity Committee, M.A.T.S and Qualo Universe, Discover, Grav, & Mind Space I used to love when the Brickheadz were in the place Tribe X, Dem Dare, Chicago Tribe Boogie Boy, Jackboy, White Boy Mike The Platter Pirates, 101 Crew, Quick Silver Cooley Sudden Def wrote a rhyme like a crime movie Third Rail & Intel dropping Mixtapes The Pacifics, Bag People, MC Zulu, & F.A.T.E Earatik Statik, Kingdom Rock, Mass Hysteria At least one Ill State Assassin is in the area Prodigy & EQ…G-Q…Smooth Lou OCU and the Sauce Crew Chicago Rocks, Artistic and Upski Dzine, Slang, the Knomadz, & Pumpin Pete… …and DJ Heather, Costume, Highruallahaz PCP Twilight Tone, and of course, the man, EC More Love: Ramonski Love, Risky Bizness, IFO, Rob Benavides, Abstract Essentials, Sean Doe, Them Badd Apples, Pugzlee Atomz, Brother El, Galapagos 4, Villain, Presence, Single Minded Pros, Manifest Destiny, Frontline, Organic Mind Unit, Hourglass, Sidewalk Skolaz, Time Travel Radio, Rage Hotline, He Who Walks Three Ways, Larry Mondragon, Luke of Law, DR Groove, Diamond Kut, Black Fist, Unorthodox Rhyme Pattern, Euphonics, Hip House, Red Dog, Beat Parlor, Metro, It’s Yours Magazine, Long Shot, Erica 312, Shazam Bangles, Longshot, Diverse, Seven, Psalm One, Chips Pentium, Rift Napalm, Meaty Ogre, Offwhyte, Centric I.E., Record Playas, the great DJ PNS, and on and on...