I remember while Snoop was being charged for murder around 1993 - 95 (acquitted in 1996) and "gangsta rapper" was all the rage in the media (Tupac, Tipper Gore, C. Delores Tucker), the only radio station in my part of Eastern North Carolina that played R&B and hip hop...really only black station on FM it seems at the time....Kiss 102 FM....stop playing hip hop or at least the slightly harder stuff during that whole period or longer it seems. I actually feel like they put out a PSA saying they wouldn"t be playing "gangsta rap" anymore. Which is probably why I never heard a lot of rap artists on the radio mid 90s....plus I didn't have cable for Rap City/Yo MTV Rap. They put a purge/censor on "gangsta rap"....but the sexual stuff stayed on the radio.....
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MC Hammer, Sir Mix a Lot, New Jack Swing artists, etc were doing just fine.
Because I got tired of listening to the same damn song over and over again, I moved the radio dial over to the pop, rock, and even oldies station....that's right...when Eric Clapton "Tears in Heaven" or "Laila" was on the oldies station you couldn't tell me shiiit....
I got my first rap cassettee and any genre in December 1995, the single of Lost Boyz's "Lex, Coups, Bimaz and the Benz" and that would be the beginning of my CD and Tape Cassette Empire
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