What made you listen to rap, back when?

[Complexion]

To clarify:

What I'm saying is what was the track and time that drew you in and made you a head. What made the rap habit stick so you, of your own accord, went searching for a fix.

I heard a freestyle over a Madonna beat and was amazed that a) you could jack someones track like that and b) that this wasn't singing but but putting together words to build mental pictures. That was it. As a jit I simply had to find more of this artform and the rest is what it is.

What about you? What made you think "This is something I can get jiggy with".

Bonus rep if anyone catches the poll reference.

 

[JuvenileHell]

50 cent's debut album

 

[Gritsngravy]

Listening to the radio as a kid

 

[BulletProof]

Neighborhood

 

[F*ckthemkids]

I dunno. I was just raised in the 80's/90's...Although I don't listen to it now as much as I did when I was younger.

 

[Fill Collins]

My dad used to be a DJ and obviously that's what everyone around me listened to most of time

Felt like I had to as a kid

 

[Bop Gun]

Super Rhymes, and Beggin Billy, cuz Billy likes to beg

I'm Old School

 

[Lonj]

Had Rob Base's whole first verse memorized at 6 years old. To this day I remember it word for word. RIP DJ EZ Rock.

 

[MuzzyP]

90's kid in a mostly black school and neighborhood. It was just what was listened to. Rap, r&b, and gospel were the holy trinity. I wasn't as heavy into it as others though. Was more into r&b. Outside of pop, I didn't branch out into different genres until I was 18.

 

[Po pimp]

Because I’m black and I wasn’t even close to being an adult in the 80s. I say that because a lot of older black people cant stand rap.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

everybody has been listening to rap for like 4-5 decades unless you live under a rock lol

#asamericanasapplepie

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I had a tape of MTV smuggled to me across 2 continents like it was a brick. It was late 80's pop count downs mostly but it had 2 rap videos on it. The first raps I ever heard Public Enemy - Don't believe the Hype and Salt-n-pepa Push it.

The one song made me feel like I was listening to Alien language and sounds. Nothing like Bomb squad of all things to intro rap. It was chaotic jarring and the Flav hook stuck in my head. Salt n pepa video made my young body feel tingly inside.

 

[BaKardi Slang]

Probably my older cousins born in the early 80s. Growing up, I remember them always playing hip hop and r&b when I was a baby/child in the 90s. The first song I remember from my childhood is Ready or Not by Fugees; I was 4-5 years old. After that, the genre just stuck with me as I grew up - always gravitated toward hip hop

 

[The Pledge]

Adults told me not to.

 

[BEN23]

Had Rob Base's whole first verse memorized at 6 years old. To this day I remember it word for word. RIP DJ EZ Rock.

Same...i was raised in it...my neighborhood is legendary