At what age did you become a hip-hop head?

[N*E*R*D]

I really dug into rap in the late 90s when I 12 or 13 years old. My family had just bought our first desktop PC. Once I got the internet it was a wrap...I found a site called Audio Galaxy 2G or something like that. It wasn't even mp3s at the time they were real audio files with a lower audio quality. This is around the time I first listened to Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt. Previous to finding this site I would just go on Ohhla and read the lyrics to songs on illmatic and reasonable doubt. AOL chat rooms also introduced me brand new artists I never heard of before. I remember East Coast cats yelling Big L's name all the time as one of the best. Which lead me to checking out Lifestylez ov da poor and dangerous.

 

[Apex]

U only listen to cacs and culture vultures, real nikkas not relatable enough for u?

I don't know where you're getting this info from. I listen to one white rapper.

You trying too hard to get some daps. Take this L.

 

[Bugsmoran]

Not just rap on the radio or on TV, but like really dug into classics and started to listen to discographies of GOATs.

Honest to God truth, when I became a HipHop Head there was no rapper discographies yet

 

[Apex]

COLE WORLD

 

[Danie84]

When I first heard Slick Rick's Hey Young World at 4

...Hey young world The world is yours

Lowkey, The Great Adventure of Slick Rick still sounds Illmatic til this day

 

[kingdizzy01]

8... first tape ever had was The Chronic.. stole it from my older brother

pretty much same here. 8, saw dre day video goin at eazy somethin serious, was hooked ever since. shout out to big bro for puttin me onto the fukkery

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I hardly can remember the songs i listened to when i was 8.
And y'all already where heads at that age?

 

[big bun]

Always been as far as I can remember. My older brother was playing the early stuff in the early/mid 80s...if I can pinpoint the exact moment it was when I was 8/9 years old and big bro bought me Paid in Full and Goin' Off tapes for Christmas.

EDIT: I was 10 years old.

 

[CarltonJunior]

music was always around
but around 12 I downloaded limewire and went apeshyt*

 

[Ineedmoney504]

It really clicked for me in 2000 when my big bro played jayz "where I'm from" for me. shyt was like a soundtrack for our hood

 

[GhettoNintendo]

around 14/15 I'm 19 now

 

[god shamgod]

Like 12-13 I was the nikka wit a big ass box full of tapes(albums,dubbed tapes,homemade radio mixes) and it gradually got bigger thru high school nikkas use to always hit me up to dub tapes or to find out the names of rappers/songs.I was like the encyclopedia for them I grew up in the goat era so I lived thru all the greatest rappers discographies.

 

[YeLovesBoston]

I was born into a classic era

this

and unfortunately

this

A bunch of posters in the booth are not even hip hop heads.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

It really clicked for me in 2000 when my big bro played jayz "where I'm from" for me. shyt was like a soundtrack for our hood

so your from Marcy?

 

[detroit devil 3]

5-6.