New Music: Beeda Weeda: "Baserock Babies"

At Hip-Hop in The Park yesterday, The Blue Scholars gave a shout out to 90s babies. The fact they even got a shout out was surprising, but the resulting cheers left me perplexed and wondering, are 80s babies old? So to make myself feel better I grabbed a nutella, strawberry and coconut crepe and decided to post an 80s baby anthem.

Beeda Weeda pays perfect homage to the Reagan-era over a funky slumper from DJ Fresh. "Baserock Babies" is a fitting soundtrack for a license plate-rattling jaunt through The Town on a beautiful day like today. 

Beeda celebrates his generation, but he isn't romanticizing the crack era we came from either. The fall out of crack addiction has severed a generation of youth and parents in a way that no force in history has ever managed to. To let Darrick Smith, Co-Director of San Francisco's June Jordan School for Equity, tell it, we have weathered wars, slavery, poverty and disease, and yet none have crippled the realtionship between old and young like crack. This of course can be debated, but there is a point to be made here. A point that Beeda acknowledges:

"They call my generation crazy, crack babies gone bad

They dont know how these streets will drive a young boy mad 

Turn a young girl out forced to choose the wrong route, 

Cuz nobody really showed us what life was all about."

So marinate with that while you slap this.


DL: Beeda Weeda: "Baserock Babies"

Orginally spotted at Thizzler On The Roof