Joy was an understatement when I pulled a poorly taped together package out of the mail Thursday.
Inside that box and literally wrapped up in a napkin was my missing BlackBerry I thought I'd never see again but that euphoria quickly subsided as I began to take inventory on what I'd received in the mail from a small North Carolina town.
All my pictures, ringtones and most importantly, music, were gone! Not just wiped from the system but replaced!
What kind-hearted monster would do this? Have the decency to give my BlackBerry back that they attained under unknown circumstances but send it back as a shell of it's former self.
Gone were the entire discographies of Nas, Outkast, Jay-Z and The Roots, in was The Spinners, Mtune, Dionne Warwick and Aaron Neville?
I'm all for "Juicy Fruit," and the subsequent hit "Juicy" by Biggie sampled from the same song, but damn! Surprisingly intact, the A&T fight song.
I have nothing against Peabo, Atlantic Starr, Natalie Cole, "big" Luther or the Chi-Lites, but I'd rather hear the The Cool Kids or Dilla beats when I'm wandering around the grocery store.
What makes things weirder are the songs that surprisingly survived the mass destruction. What music head makes an effort to leave Gucci Mane and Wacka Flocka Flame's mixtapes intact but adds gospel like Donnie McClurkin and Fred Hammond to the mix? Were you going to put "Bricks" on a playlist right next to "Never Would've Made It?"
I'm not knocking his choice in music just the fact that dude deleted my gems for it. Whether it was mixtapes or tracks from local artists and producers, unfinished beat sketches by people trying to get my opinion on them or underground albums I can't get my hands on anymore and that's what sucks the most.
But hey, at least Moms just got a whole lot of new music to compliment that Prince on her iTunes.