I fell in love from the start. It was the mid-80's bleeding in2 the late 80's. My older cousin used to get all the latest Hip-Hop cassettes and we'd chill in the basement for hours just listening 2 it...talking about songs, learning lyrics, dancing all silly. Run-DMC, LL Cool J, JJ+FP, MC Hammer, Heavy D + The Boyz, Digital Underground were amoungst the favs. Hip-Hop was just so cool 2 us and something that felt like it was made for us as younger kids. My cousins also lived in a more urban area and since that was my home away from home, i grew up living the best of both worlds...hence the saying under my avatar.