I had a lot of leeway with the music I was allowed to listen to as a kid and teen. In seventh grade I actually asked my parents' permission to listen to Ozzy Osbourne. I remember my mom saying, "you get straight A's on your report card. I'm not worried about what music you listen to."
It was around that same age that I discovered the 2 Live Crew -- a few years before you. We were on a school field trip and someone in the rear of the bus had a boombox and some of the 2 Live Crew tapes with song titles I can't even mention, hah. Let's just say by the time my parents thought I was ready to discuss the birds and the bees, Luke Skywalker, Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis had already explained things pretty well.
I was one of those weird teens that listened to everything. I was always a metalhead and liked lots of alternative music too, but my love of 80s rap opened the door to gangster rap. Around the time I graduated was when Ice-T and NWA blew up. The thought of my kids listening to those tapes today would shock me but back then we knew all the words and strutted around rural Oklahoma singing songs about Compton, which might as well have been on Mars.
While my mom never confiscated any of my tapes, I had a few concert t-shirts that featured the f-bomb that somehow got lost in the laundry and also somehow reappeared when I moved out. :)
I had a lot of leeway with the music I was allowed to listen to as a kid and teen. In seventh grade I actually asked my parents' permission to listen to Ozzy Osbourne. I remember my mom saying, "you get straight A's on your report card. I'm not worried about what music you listen to."
It was around that same age that I discovered the 2 Live Crew -- a few years before you. We were on a school field trip and someone in the rear of the bus had a boombox and some of the 2 Live Crew tapes with song titles I can't even mention, hah. Let's just say by the time my parents thought I was ready to discuss the birds and the bees, Luke Skywalker, Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis had already explained things pretty well.
I was one of those weird teens that listened to everything. I was always a metalhead and liked lots of alternative music too, but my love of 80s rap opened the door to gangster rap. Around the time I graduated was when Ice-T and NWA blew up. The thought of my kids listening to those tapes today would shock me but back then we knew all the words and strutted around rural Oklahoma singing songs about Compton, which might as well have been on Mars.
While my mom never confiscated any of my tapes, I had a few concert t-shirts that featured the f-bomb that somehow got lost in the laundry and also somehow reappeared when I moved out. :)