Give a DETAILED Account on the *Moment* Your Fav Rapper BECAME Your Fav Rapper...

[CrimsonTider]

I just lost a Gucci sandal in the fukking ocean

 

[Cory MBA]

It was back in 1995, I was over my future-wifes home....it was after midnight and BET Uncut was playing.

Thats when I saw the video to AZ's Sugar Hill. The mannerisms, the voice, the personality, the clothing, and overall style mirrored my own. It was at that point that AZ became one of my favorite rappers.
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Also in 1995, I also saw Jay-Z's Dead Presidents on BET Uncut...and became an instant fan...way before he became popular. That off-white Lexus LS400....

(AZ was also in this video, at the monopoly table with BIG)

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My brother introduced me to Nas in 1994...He had just gotten a new car with the system that knocked. I would be in the passenger seat as he had Illmatic on repeat. This was also my first introduction to AZ, on the intro and on LAB...."You're sitting at home doing this..." The segue from Genesis to NY State of Mind....

 

[really]

Nikkas already talkin about Nas and Pac and such, so I'll talk about Mobb Deep

I actually got wind of them when they signed under 50, because at that time I was a huge 50 cent/G-Unit, so I was interested to see what they were about. I was a casual listener of rap, just liked whatever was on the radio back then. And I will admit, I was unimpressed . "Outta Control" was alright but I was like "Who are these two nikkas that joined G-Unit "

Anyways, as I got more and more interested in rap, one of my friends was bumping shook ones II and he was like "Aye listen to this" and I gave it a listen and I was like " this is dope! Who's this?" and he was like "It's Mobb man" and I was like "Mobb Deep? They did this? " My friend then gave me "The Infamous" on my flash and I took it home and bumped the whole thing...by the time "Party's Over" came on I was already a fan

After that I checked out Hell on Earth and I was even more impressed...it was really Heavy Metal for the black people Anyways, now I have all of their shyt, from Juevenille Hell to Infamy and beyond, and even their unreleased shyt. Mobb Deep is the GOAT duo

Ahhh dam..... I'm getting old....


Nice story tho "kid" ...... Mobb had to been in the game like 12 years by the time they linked up with fif.

 

[really]

When I was up at 12 midnite walking thru north Oakland and I was bumping 3X Krazy immortalized album on my walkman off a E pill..and everything Keak was saying sounded demonic and crazy..I was thinking in my head that them nikkas is really demented and crazy and I can relate to it..The E pill combined with Keaks raps felt like I could really do some sick shyt that nite...a week later I was off a E pill at nite again..and I took a BMX and put a baseball bat across the handle bars and rode to Berkeley looking for some fun,,someone to jack..that's how keak made me feel..

LOL if story is true

 

[A.V.]

In the whip comin from playin ball, my friend's older sister picked us up. he bought "illmatic" that day and he was playin it in her tape player. i was in the backseat eatin a bag of doritos (back when them shyts was only 25 cents a bag) and a quarter water and i heard "But not bisexual, i'm an intellectual / of rap i'm a professional, and that's no question yo", i thought that was the illest, most complex rhymin shyt i ever heard in my life. been a stan since that day.

safe to say u get on the court today, them knees is

I remember back in 98-99 it was all about Dmx Jay-Z Ja Rule Redman Pun etc Eminem was buzzin. I use to watch The Box or Bet whenever videos would come on. I remember seeing The Roots (The Next Movement video) my reaction was like get this upside down right side up video the fukk outta here . At the time I'm like 14-15 lookin for them hype williams videos to see some video hoes . Fast forward to 06' im in borders just listenin to Madlib Tribe Blackstarr etc. Cause my boy had put me on to Little Brother. And my other homie had me listening to Canibus, Royce da 5'9, and Sticky Fingas. I was jusy checkin for what I missed out on. Then I stumbled across (Things Fall Apart) by The Roots. I bought it. A nikka had the all at once. Like y didnt I give these nikkas a chance. Bought almost every album from them and hasnt looked back since. Black Thought is the most overlooked underrated lyricist of our time.

I the fukk outta this post. Black Thought is criminally underrated/unsung. Black, and The Roots as a whole should be in convos with the greats, to be honest.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

This thread is starting to look like a NaS appreciation thread

 

[Peter Parker]

*PIANO KEYS HIT*

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER, OOOOHHHH OHHHH OHHHHH, OHHHH OHHHHHH OOOOHHHH

was a big fan before then but thats the moment when he was officially the greatest of all time in my mind

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

As soon as I heard "I Gave You Power" it was done...

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I was like 10. Watching Rachel on Planet Groove

Who You Wit' came on.

I'm like....this nikka Jay is a funny ass nikka.

I already knew who Jay-Z was through the radio and nikkas bumping him in my hood but I never really cared about having a favorite rapper. My favorite rapper at that time was 2Pac because that's who my mom listened too. I honestly was on My 90s R&B shyt before Hip Hop. I like Jodeci, R.Kelly and Michael Jackson. I fukked with everyone on the Bad Boy roster too, but to keep it 100 that east coast west coast shyt had me kinda shook like . nikkas is really dying over rap? I'ma just stick to my melodies, harmonies and dancing like MJ singing Black or White in the mirror It didn't help that my moms used to blast Hit Em' Up all the time when dropping me off too school so I really thought this shyt was real. My mom liked Biggie but being a young woman in the 90s she obviously gravitated to Pac's acknowledgment of her struggle....and he was a smooth ass nikka .

My mom was one of those 90s NY fly girl types and my pops was a DJ so I knew a little a bout hip hop, but at that time I just liked anything that sounded good. shyt, to be honest I remember getting an MC hammer doll for christmas and I thought he was the shyt.

I don't know what it was about that video that made me a fan but it did.




The beat came on and I was like .......

Ad libs came in I was like ....


nikka started spittin' I was like


By that "get money like i'm downsouth wednesday the 3rd" line I was like


Hook came on and I was on my shyt.


After that I bought the single on tape because that's all i could afford.

Ever since then I was just saying Jay was my favorite rapper but never really studied him until about 2 years later when Vol 2. came out.

The first album I actually got by him was Vol. 2 via the 12 CDs for 1 penny program.....I raped them multiple times..... I was to everything. But that's when I really started to truly idolize him and look up to him forreal. Plus he was from my hood so I really thought he was that nikka.

My mom bought me tickets to the Hard Knock Life tour and I witnessed Hova in person........nikkas couldn't tell me shyt.

The nikka inspired me in so many ways to get on my shyt and compete to be the illest at whatever I was doing. The way he rap made me think about my own thoughts deeper than the average kid my age, especially when I started listening to Reasonable Doubt.....which was after Volume 3 dropped.

Lots of nikkas don't like Jigga, but my journey with him has been somewhat personal, being that I grew up just a few blocks away from where he did and I saw him get out. Hearing him rap about it and then actually seeing him do it in reality really did something for my motivation growing up and even today.

 

[really]

This thread is starting to look like a NaS appreciation thread

Somebody need get my shyt off 1 star status though... musta been hatin ass nikka did that

 

[VBM]

It was at some point in 1993.

Some family traveled up to my uncle's in Ft. Worth for a get-together. I was talking with my cousin who was a couple years older than me. She told me she wanted me to hear this funny joke that was on a CD. I was 10 or so at the time.

So she throws this CD on her stereo.

I wanna ask you one question
If I had some nuts, hangin' on the walls
What did I have honey?
I said, "Darling, you'd have some walnuts"

She said, "Well, daddy, if I had some nuts
On my chest, would those be chestnuts?"
I said, "Hell, yes"

She said, "Well, daddy, if I had nuts under my chin
Would those be chin-nuts?"
I said, "Hell no, bytch, you'd have a dikk in your mouth

I'm at this...then I hear

Chiggie check
Microphone, check one
(Chiggie check)
Microphone, check two
(Chiggie check)
Microphone, check three
Check game from the notorious Compton G

I tuned out of Dre's verses. I was like that dude that introduced this Dr. Dre guy...is he on the album?

My cousin says yeah, listen to this...



"Wake up, jumped out my bed. I'm in a two-man cell with my homie Lil' 1/2 Dead"

After that, I wanted to hear every track Snoop was on.

It was a wrap after Doggystyle (Gin & Juice might still be my favorite track of all time ), but dude's storytelling and unique sound on The Chronic is what made me check for all of his subsequent tracks.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Somebody need get my shyt off 1 star status though... musta been hatin ass nikka did that

It's not rated one star anymore

 

[H.S.]

My parents sent me to live with my grandmother for the summer in Alabama, and they had Video Music Box (not the Ralph McDaniel's show, but the actual channel). I was a fan of the "Back To The Grill," "Halftime," and "It Ain't Hard To Tell" videos. But the video for "The World Is Yours" made me a true believer. The first time I caught it I flipped.

Fab Five Freddy's black and white cinematography.

Pappy Mason and Scarface references.

The Nautica windbreaker.

Pete Rock on the piano.

Then he dropped the remix!

Time is illmatic.

 

[H.S.]

double post

 

[JuvenileHell]

In the whip comin from playin ball, my friend's older sister picked us up. he bought "illmatic" that day and he was playin it in her tape player. i was in the backseat eatin a bag of doritos (back when them shyts was only 25 cents a bag) and a quarter water and i heard "But not bisexual, i'm an intellectual / of rap i'm a professional, and that's no question yo", i thought that was the illest, most complex rhymin shyt i ever heard in my life. been a stan since that day.

Nas has a knack for doing that kind of shyt, his verse on Life's A bytch is

"I switched my motto, instead of saying fukk tommorow
That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto"

"Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric,
Pack a 4 matic that crack your whole cabbage"

The way he delivers that shyt