We need to clarify age round here: Come in spit wat era of hip hop u came up in.

[Big Mel]

I post my age all the time. 36 in June. Been listening rabidly since 1983-84.

All that post death row/bad boy sellout shyt you kids liked was just that. Sellout, pandering to radio bullshyt.

It's not your fault though. You don't know any better.

 

[observe]

79. When I was 5 or 6 I begged my mom to go to a RUN DMC concert in Richmond ca. She said I was way too young.

There was a shooting at that concert.

Glad I didn't go.


I was a LL Cool J fan, so my mom would let me out my bedroom at nite to watch LL perform at music award shows then send me back to bed.

 

[blackslash]

Born 92..

Was on dat MJ, Boys to men, 90's soul as a kid

transitioned to hip hop first song I remember hearing that got me hooked was "hard knock life". Was also the first hip hop album my mom bought for me. I remember as a kid I thought it was real and it took me years before I found out that it was bootleg

 

[Jaewon]

I'm 29. My first album (cassette actually) was Ice-T's O.G.

 

[Day_Walker]

If you're 25, that means you was 13 in 2000.....which means your opinion on rap before the 2000s doesn't mean shyt.

If you only started listening to rap around the age of 13 then don't ever mention "real hip hop" or anything along those lines cause chances are you're most likely just a nerd that likes to criticize any rap that ain't "real hip hop"

 

[Day_Walker]

depends on which era you really grew up in.

90-95 you have shyt like ATCQ, Ice Cube, NWA, PE, De La Soul, Redman, etc

95-00 you have Wu (and solos) , Bone Thugs, Pac, Black Star, Biggie, etc

a lot of them had classics or great albums in both eras but overall i would say 90-95 has it because the late 90s is generally thought of as the beginning of the fall off

92-97 > both those options plus or minus 1 year

 

[Doctor Wily]

Born in 1981

Heard what it was in the late 80's.

started following in 1992

 

[HendriX]

28

first hip hop i really fukked with was e1999/7day theory back in 96. back when all we had was tapes..none of this fancy ass iphone/ipod shyt.

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

25, born 1987.

Heard Bustas verse on scenario

my brotha came home with a tape with machine gun funk on

went and bought its dark and hell is hot

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

oh and for me, 95-99 was the best ever. Me against the world by pac was probably the most influential album ever (to me). That shyt was too powerful

 

[Heretic]

Born in 86 but was fully into rap by the age of 5, already memorizing songs amd such. So by 91-92 I was a hip hop head. I was one of them kids that was watching rap city on video tapes that my cousins recorded on after I watched cartoons. That was my everyday routine.

 

[The Piff Gawd]

If you're 25, that means you was 13 in 2000.....which means your opinion on rap before the 2000s doesn't mean shyt.

dont really agree. born in 89 and i feel like i have an authority on 90's hip hop. my first hip hop memories are with the wu around 97-98. 36 chambers was the first album i ever bought. my friends older brother had all those cd's lying around and we got our education from that. i then preceded to cop all those joints

dont really kno why but all i copped and was listening to til my early or mid teens was mid-90s shyt like wu, biggie, mobb deep, nas, pac, dogg pound, dre. dont even think i caught up on modern rap til like 2002 or 2003 with with GRODT, blueprint, stillmatic etc. i was a weird kid

 

[Art Barr]

I am thirsty six.

my first piece of rap vinyl was, the double Dutch bus.


Art Barr

 

[NVious]

Just turned 29, got into hip hop around '92 when my neighbor had a cassette of The Chronic. My mom was so mad when she heard all those cuss words.

 

[BigF]

I came up in the early 90's.

Native Tongues was my shyt initially. My sister put me on. First tape I copped was by the Jungle Brothers then De La Soul '3 feet high and rising', A Tribe Called Quest 'People's instinctive travels' and 'Low end theory'.

Then I heard NWA 'Straight outta Compton' and never looked back.