Thursday, April 12, 2007

Tales from the record store . . .

Record Service, 1994, on release date of rap artist Master-P’s “The Ghetto’s Tryin’ to Kill Me” (following a series of cassette singles):

Teenage Customer (talking incredibly fast): “Do you have Master-P, whole tape?”

Clerk: “What?”

Teenage Customer (even faster): “Master-P, whole tape! Do you have it?”

Clerk: “Master P-hole?”

Teenage Customer (now surrounded by friends and speaking deliberately): “DO . . . YOU . . . HAVE . . . MASTER-P . . . WHOLE TAPE?”

Clerk: “Master P-hole? I've never heard of Master P-hole. There’s nothing in the computer for him – cassette or CD.”

The frustrated teenage customer leaves without the cassette version of the full length.

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