Your history with Rap/Hip Hop?
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BComplexed1
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i'm young so my history with hiphop started with pac, in 95-96. I would hear my mother playin Me against the world around the house & I remember the Dear mama video especially 
"And even tho I act craaaazy, I gotta thank the lord that she maaade me" 
"And even tho I act craaaazy, I gotta thank the lord that she maaade me" 
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
my dad was a drummer and made beats. had a studio in our basement so i would always see local rappers and people coming thru to spit.
shyt was just naturally within me.
shyt was just naturally within me.
king_of_all_cacs
Rookie
I liked dance music as long as I could remember. Freestyle was big and on a more accessible level because they played it during the day. I was about 4 with one of those Fischer-Price radios and would always have it on the dance station which was 103.5 and I remember when they moved to 97.1 because it confused the hell out of me. My Mom liked dance music, too, so we would listen to it in the car. On the nights we'd be coming back from my grandparents' my mom listened to Rap because I liked it. She liked Disco, Freestyle, Soul, R&B so it was a natural progression. My Dad, not so much.
Now that I'm typing this, I'm realizing how much my Mom encouraged me. She would rush us home from school to catch the last 20 minutes of Video Music Box. On Wednesdays I had a half-day at school (yeah, Catholic school) so I could really enjoy it. She would take our knock hockey or whatever that game is called into the living room and me and my brother would break dance to the videos on it. I was crazy about breaking back then but I could never dance as I got older.
Seeing the graffiti in the Bronx on my way upstate to visit my cousins blew my mind.
When I got to about 9 years old I started playing with my remote controlled car with an older neighbor of mine. Our mothers were good friends. He was 14 and put me onto a lot of stuff that I wasn't hearing...people who didn't get a lot of radio spins, stuff that got played late at night. He was a big bro to me when it came to music -- dubbed everything for me as soon as he got it. Except Enta da Stage because I saved up to buy it myself.
There was no "defining moment" to me becoming a fan, I just always liked it. It's fun to reminisce on the early days because we all have stories.
Now that I'm typing this, I'm realizing how much my Mom encouraged me. She would rush us home from school to catch the last 20 minutes of Video Music Box. On Wednesdays I had a half-day at school (yeah, Catholic school) so I could really enjoy it. She would take our knock hockey or whatever that game is called into the living room and me and my brother would break dance to the videos on it. I was crazy about breaking back then but I could never dance as I got older.
Seeing the graffiti in the Bronx on my way upstate to visit my cousins blew my mind.
When I got to about 9 years old I started playing with my remote controlled car with an older neighbor of mine. Our mothers were good friends. He was 14 and put me onto a lot of stuff that I wasn't hearing...people who didn't get a lot of radio spins, stuff that got played late at night. He was a big bro to me when it came to music -- dubbed everything for me as soon as he got it. Except Enta da Stage because I saved up to buy it myself.
There was no "defining moment" to me becoming a fan, I just always liked it. It's fun to reminisce on the early days because we all have stories.
Warren G - G funk era.. the rest is history
Regulate was my gateway song
36 Chambers was my gateway album
my teenage cousin who used to babysit me...introduced me to WEBB 1360 am, the only station that played hip hop, every night, basically since i can remember
listened to that station from the time i was in 3rd grade all the way until freshman year of high school when they went off the air
listened to that station from the time i was in 3rd grade all the way until freshman year of high school when they went off the air
My musical background is somewhat diverse...
My parents were playing all kinds of shyt in the house when I was young.... everything from hilife (Ghanaian music) to Simply Red. So I had a wide base. I didn't get into rap until I was 5, my first CD was 'Hammer Please Dont Hurt Em'. I dibbled and dabbled but shyt didn't really get crazy until we moved back to NYC in 94. I was ~11 and I started making friends and branching out. I got deep into the music from there. Started rapping and producing when I was 12.
College really opened shyt up for me again though.... I went to college in NYC and a lot of my roommates put me on to all kinds of shyt. Then there was the re-releasing of a lot of old post punk stuff sparking that revival in the mid 00s which was good as rap was starting to die off by then.
Now I kinda don't fukk with rap at all.... I watch the characters and stories but the music is generally basura compared to what I grew up on and love.
My parents were playing all kinds of shyt in the house when I was young.... everything from hilife (Ghanaian music) to Simply Red. So I had a wide base. I didn't get into rap until I was 5, my first CD was 'Hammer Please Dont Hurt Em'. I dibbled and dabbled but shyt didn't really get crazy until we moved back to NYC in 94. I was ~11 and I started making friends and branching out. I got deep into the music from there. Started rapping and producing when I was 12.
College really opened shyt up for me again though.... I went to college in NYC and a lot of my roommates put me on to all kinds of shyt. Then there was the re-releasing of a lot of old post punk stuff sparking that revival in the mid 00s which was good as rap was starting to die off by then.
Now I kinda don't fukk with rap at all.... I watch the characters and stories but the music is generally basura compared to what I grew up on and love.
my cuz introduced me to his e. 1999 eternal tape, i was like 7 when it came out
Cheesy
All Star
European whiteboy, listened mainly to metal untill I was 16 or so, never liked the hiphop I heard on the radio or saw on tv. Then when smoking weed with a classmate he introduced me to Immortal Technique and I was like 
'so there is actually a message in some of this shyt'. It took of from there I guess.
'so there is actually a message in some of this shyt'. It took of from there I guess.
Figured all this shyt on my own. First rap album I ever copped was Capital Punishment. Then, 6th grade version of me got GTA 3 turned on game radio, heard
and it was a lock from there
been
since 01'
EDIT: older Cousin burned me tape with that Scary Movies track on it, started stanning Royce soon thereafter and posting over on his forum when it still existed, ended up from there on SOHH
and it was a lock from there
been
since 01'EDIT: older Cousin burned me tape with that Scary Movies track on it, started stanning Royce soon thereafter and posting over on his forum when it still existed, ended up from there on SOHH
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When I was younger, I couldn't really listen to the more gritty hip-hop because my parents usually played the Heavy D and the Arrested Development types (on top of Haitian Kompa and Jamaican Dancehall... but that's another story).
It was these three albums that made me get into hip-hop heavy
The Score by the Fugees... the very first hip-hop album my mother let me play... and I jammed that entire album endlessly.
Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliott - when I first heard "Beep Me 911", that was like at that beat. Plus, Missy is VA born and raised so my mother had to support her. Had me walking around as a youngin shoutin "hee hee hee hee hooooooow"
When Disaster Strikes by Busta Rhymes - this album almost caused a meltdown in my house. My mother bought it for my older sister, I listened to it like crazy. But when my sister started going into that "teenage girl rebellious stage" my mother snatched the CD up and smashed it with a hammer
It was these three albums that made me get into hip-hop heavy
The Score by the Fugees... the very first hip-hop album my mother let me play... and I jammed that entire album endlessly.
Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliott - when I first heard "Beep Me 911", that was like
at that beat. Plus, Missy is VA born and raised so my mother had to support her. Had me walking around as a youngin shoutin "hee hee hee hee hooooooow"When Disaster Strikes by Busta Rhymes - this album almost caused a meltdown in my house. My mother bought it for my older sister, I listened to it like crazy. But when my sister started going into that "teenage girl rebellious stage" my mother snatched the CD up and smashed it with a hammer
BlackDroog
All Star
LL, Public Enemy and Run DMC in the late 80's made me a hip-hop fan as a kid. before that I was too young to really care about music.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
always been into hip hop. "me myself and i" was my jam as a little kid, then it's a blur, then i start remembering from '91 on: hammer, 2pac, early death row, arrested development, ATCQ, ice cube, mc lyte, salt n pepa, heavy d, a whole bunch of Bay shyt...........and onward. i was too young to really absorb a lot of it pre-1996, but it spoke to me nonetheless. i love this shyt
My older brother, bein' a teenager in the 80s, was fukkin' with hip-hop heavy. I was only about 4 or so and we shared the same room. Also, he had to take me with em sometimes when he would go to the mall or the movies. So by all that, it just naturally trickled to me. I always wanted to know about the records & tapes he bought, I'd always hear the stuff he recorded off the radio. Matter fact, the radio was always on in my house growing up. If it wasn't him listening to rap, it was my mother or sister listening to the mostly R&B radio station.
My brother had the room wall-to-wall with posters of his fav rappers- LL, Run-DMC, PE, Whodini, Salt n Pepa, Eric B & Rakim, etc... I remember hearing him rewinding songs like "LaDiDaDi" and "Eric B is President" over and over when they were new... I saw Beat Street and Krush Groove when they came out on VHS... watched Friday Night Videos every week... and from there I just kept goin' on my own.
My brother had the room wall-to-wall with posters of his fav rappers- LL, Run-DMC, PE, Whodini, Salt n Pepa, Eric B & Rakim, etc... I remember hearing him rewinding songs like "LaDiDaDi" and "Eric B is President" over and over when they were new... I saw Beat Street and Krush Groove when they came out on VHS... watched Friday Night Videos every week... and from there I just kept goin' on my own.
Durrbrowski
Durrbrowski
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