On October 23rd, 1993 I was in the 8th grade and was 13 years old with nothing but rap music on my mind. Once school ended that afternoon, I grabbed my backpack and walked down and up a huge hill so I could get to the UTC mall in San Diego. Too $hort’s new album dropped that day and I needed to buy the cassette. I had a problem though. I was a tiny white kid and that parental advisory sticker on the album meant I wasn’t old enough to buy it.