TimeOut

So, I'm in the deli of my local grocery store buying some sausages, and the very nice young Gen Z serving me has the nametag "Eric B". And I couldn't help myself, I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, I had to ask him "How's Rakim?". And, of course, he just looked at m... 

It's a GenX thang

My employee walked up to me yesterday and opened up the box full of cannoli. "Would you like one"? I instinctively quipped back: "But do I have to leave the gun though?" An eerie silence and awkward looks ensued as if I were from another planet...

. . . has been diluted in recent years. The arguably funniest film of all time is Blazing Saddles. It couldn't be made today. 😐

. . . with an affected, "Well." I replied, "Channeling . . . . . . Jack Benny?" "Jack who?"

Okay, my first television had tubes in it and a timer switch to not burn out the tubes. Even I barely remember Jack Benny.

. . . said, "Paul who?", in response to a comment I made about Paul Newman. And Paul was still alive at the time.

I was listening to music at a party with a friend who is 20 years younger. I told him the vocalist on the track that was playing reminded me of Mick Jagger. He asked “who’s that ?”

. . . 29.

They only listen to dance music.

. . . The Dancing King? 😕

Was playing at the Naval Training Center San Diego … With Si, Sy, Su Cazalea

Luckily i switched the kinds on to 80’s funk and the are familiar with the “classics” lol. I guess you could say what classics.

you're Paid in Full, you don't need their approval

But if you like to listen to any modern-day rap or hip-hop, all the artists today owe a debt of gratitude to the artists of the eighties who founded this genre of music. And one of the earliest and most influential duos were Eric B & Rakim.

any hip hop head would have gotten the joke

Who? Tone Loc?