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Decade Retrospective: Year 2000

I was 14 in the year 2000. Bizarre. And as a 14 year old, I made a lot of decisions that were slightly regrettable. I wore Timberlands to school a lot, along with Polo jeans and hoodies. Every fucking day. Seriously. Also, at one point, I had braids in my hair, because I idolized Allen Iverson and thought that my racial identity was up for debate. Never mind my suburban home or my insurance salesman father.

As a result, 14 year old Casey’s album of the year is none other than the greatest of all Cash Money Records releases: The Big Tymers “I Got That Work.” Holy shit this album was awesome. Tits. Money. Platinum football fields. I think there are a few anal sex references in there for good measure. Continue reading…

Decade Retrospective

Good day, all. It’s the end of the decade, so everybody is making lists. Well I hate fucking lists. They’re corny as all hell and they usually read as a pretentious way to measure whether or not you’ve been cool for the past ten years. So I’m not going to do that because, unlike everybody else, apparently, I haven’t been cool for the last ten years. Some would argue that I’m still not very cool. It’d be hard to dispute that.

So my decade retrospective will begin next week and, as you’d expect, we’re gonna do things a bit differently here at Hood Rich City. I’ll walk you through my top albums of every year with a slight twist: they’ll be picked by how I would’ve picked them at the time. Like a lot of our readers, at the beginning of this decade I was just a young babe, covered in acne and jacking it to the Sears catalog. I was listening to a lot of music that, today, is a bit embarrassing. As a result, my 14 year old self in 2000 wouldn’t have picked the album that was making all the critics pop bobos.

If that means I’m going to make a decade retrospective that leaves out Radiohead’s Kid A, then so be it. After all, everybody knows that album is fantastic. You don’t need another list to confirm that. So tune in next week, where we’ll have an entry every few days. First up: 14 year old Casey explains his top album. (Spoiler alert: I listened to a lot of Hot Boys. And at the time, I thought Lil’ Wayne was the weakest member. Now look at him. I’m a fucking idiot.)