Born and raised in El Paso, Texas; AKA CHUCOTOWN; AKA Juarez TEX. At the age of 15--I truly found hip hop, the Gangsta shit is what I was accustomed to, which was still good but really didn’t inspire me like REAL hip-hop.

One day my moms took me

Born and raised in El Paso, Texas; AKA CHUCOTOWN; AKA Juarez TEX. At the age of 15--I truly found hip hop, the Gangsta shit is what I was accustomed to, which was still good but really didn’t inspire me like REAL hip-hop.

One day my moms took me to a local record store to buy a new CD. All the covers of the gangsta shit were all too graphic so she wouldn’t let me buy them. I finally came across an album cover that was very interesting and intriguing: It was a picture of a African-American woman, in the 1950's--drinking from a BLACKS ONLY water fountain during the “jim crow laws era” in the south. The artist of course is COMMON; i took a quick listen and the beats were so Dope i took it home.

I listened to that album and it inspir