Sunday, February 21, 2010

Children of the 90s

Today instead of a quote I'm going to give a shoutout to the media of the 1990s for prevalence of sitcoms featuring black families. We were the first generation raised on as many predominantly black cast sitcoms as predominantly white. Ask a 90s kid of any age to sing the theme song of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he or she will be able to -- if not, slap them. You have my express permission.

A few favorites:
Family Matters
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Sinbad
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
Sister, Sister
Smart Guy
The Wayans Brothers
The Steve Harvey Show
In Living Color
A Different World

etc etc.



By the way --
In west Philadelphia born and raised on the playground you know I spent most of my days. Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool and all shooting some b-ball outside of the school, when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared she said "you're moving with your auntie and uncle in bel-air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and there were dice in the mirror if anything I could say that this cab was weird but hey man forget it yo home to bel-air. I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and i yelled to the cabbie "yo smell you later" I looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

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