Your history with Rap/Hip Hop?

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First rappers I was ever a fan of MYSELF was MC Hammer, I grew out my lil ducktail to go wit my box fade and put water on it just to resemble his:banderas:...woke up early,sat indian style eatin fruity pebbles in my draws waiting for his cartoon to come on,him actually being from the bay and cali made it that much bigger:to:....Also Digital Underground but mostly Humpty:pachaha:....i was actually :mindblown: over that shyt bein at the time what i thought was a "elaborate" and genius disguise "two different people?it cant be!":snoop:...And I remember spinning on linoleum floor to "Go Ninja Go" from Ninja Turtles...u cant ever question my hiphop status,at age 4 I was active in this shyt,embarrasing my peers in dance offs if they challenged me:ufdup:

Then I stepped off the porch:myman:...it really was nothing but west coast all day,i pretty much rejected all things NOT west coast outside of the occasional few like LL who I came into as a youngster,and later on Method Man...as I grew older I got away from just listening to whatever the family had in they collection and ammased my own collection including classics u all know,classics yall still sleep on,and straight duds:mjlol:...started off stealing music from family:lolbron:...then I grew a conscious and started stealin from the store....all the little money schemes,jobs and hustles I had as a boy just so I could stop having to hide the fact I had all this music knowing moms or auntee woulda asked me how I got it:usure:....I still lucky I got to come up while the bay area was at its peak almost right on que:obama:.....first with Hammer and Humpty being something a kid as young as I was could enjoy as just a kid....then later on in the early 90's when the bay was at its peak musically making classic after classic....greatest region of all time hands down....sucks getting older but for HIPHOP PURPOSES I had perfect timing:obama:
 

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I was born in Jersey City, NJ 1980
Me and hip hop grew up together

80s
Run DMC Africa bambataa Eric B. & Rakim...plus too many to name

90s
as an adolescent it was very important to be as gangster as possible
and think larger than life God Bodys, Dons, Kingpins,
we rubbed elbows with the stars we were grown
7th grade: the chronic
8th grade:doggystyle illmatic
1994:freshman year:Ready To die Tical Pirus from Cali teach me to defend against latin kings as a freshman
1995 :GZA fugees goodie mobb..so much shyt was poppin when i was 15 years old god damn
ruff times...the roots:illadelphalife 1995
PAC & BIG died im like 16 17...wilding Reasonable Doubt? My Bro come s home from Prison and teaches me that 5% knowledge
97 98 hip hop became as mainstream as it has ever been...Puffy shyny suits on mtv all day ...

2001:Aaliyah my akashic soul sis...returned to the essence on my 21st born day Aug. 25 2001
also copped jadakiss album that week: kiss the game goodbye


a week later

The towers fell...

Nas & Jay was beefing so was jada and beenie....because i watched the towers burn and fall
while that shyt was on my cd walkman ..

then shyt got real grimey the next few years ...
str8 pshyco ...

gangbanging, working at a job with slacks and a tie, dealing dope, & dropping out of college
coming to work with black eyes like it aint nothing lol on some fight club shyt.....
umm lil flip 3-6 and young buck stand out...lil jon


Joined the Army in 2005....and the rest is
HISTORY
 

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Playing settlers 2 as a white suburban kid from the netherlands...Radio talking about biggie and his funeral....after that they played Hypnotize...after that no way out and lad....goddamn...the best summers of my life
 

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My first rap album was Eminem's MMLP... and its a funny story behind it...

when I was younger I visited El Salvador to see family and old friends...:blessed:
I hear Eminem on the radio and told my dad I wanted this album. It was The Eminem Show lol

so when I flew back to Cali, I was patiently waiting for that CD in the mail... come to find out it's not the album I wanted and instead it was the MMLP...
I skipped through that dikk sucking skit:huhldup: and I remembering replaying track number 9 which if I remembered correctly, it was Remember Me? After that I bought G-Unit Beg For Mercy, Ludacris Chicken N Beer, and that greatest hits compilation by R. Kelly :laff:
 

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Moms was a huge Pac fan. She had the nose ring and everything. One of my earliest memories is of her blasting Hail Mary while she was cleaning.

I can remember not wanting to sing it out loud cause I thought the Hail part was a bad word.

I was never a big music person though. Music was music and it was all throughout my life but I wasn't a superfan of anybody. Now I'm more into everything but it was definitely just rap mixed in with the shyt disney put out. Wasn't til the internet hit my life heavy that I started really trying to look into more things.
 

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real young nikka in miami in the late 80s recording from the radio on cassette tapes Big Daddy Kane and Two live Crew :wow: are my first memories of hip hop. Going outside and having beat boxing contests and doing some ronald mcdonald ass freestyling :russ:

I was a dope freestyler at like 7, i could throw rhymes at the end of sentences like crazy that i remember the older dope boys used to come get me to spit for them and hook me up with a lil change. I don't know what happened to my lyrical gift :to: I peaked at ten :to:
 
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the first hip hop songs i remember hearing were
nas - hate me now
jay z - hard knock life
tupac's - changes

i remember hearing California Love a lot as a kid, too. i just remember sitting in front of the t.v and my mom always left VH1 on and I remember those videos specifically. i was young so those kid years are kinda blur lol

anyways...i didn't grow up listening to any of them like that really, tbh. i grew up listening to mostly dipset, g unit and three 6 mafia in my teens but what got me into other shyt was when I became friends with this girl who lived a street next to me and she introduced me to dead prez's "lets get free" when i was like 15-16. she got me into a lot of "white people" "backpack" and horrorcore rap ..Jedi Mind Tricks, Cage, La Coka Nostra, Non Phixion, Necro, Goretex, Gravediggaz.. she was REALLY into that type of shyt. she got me into Wu Tang, though, too.

I heard OB4CL before I heard 36 chambers :yeshrug:

she had OB4CL in her car one day when we were going for a blunt ride and It was playing and I gave her the ":ohhh: who's this?" and then she told me and I stole the CD from her when she switched it to some polish punk shyt lol

then I just really discovered shyt myself from there..

we aren't friends anymore, but last I knew she was still really into all into that backpack rap and I got more into other shyt she showed me

my history with rap is pretty all over the place lol
 
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Since I could remember ...listening to grandmaster flash and sugar hill gang in the early 80s..then run dmc

That's what started it for me. I have 4 older brothers & they were immersed in the culture & that's what brought me in. After hearing the artists you listened above I saw this as a kid & I was hooked:



After this it was LL, Kool Moe Dee, BDP, Slick Rick,BDK, Rakim, G Rap,EPMD, on down to Biggie. I'm thankful my brothers put me on to the foundations of real hip hop & the culture. I can say pretty much I was raised in hip hop from the time I was born. My parents used to like it during that era too which made it easy for us to listen to it 24/7.
 

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For me it started with sugar hill gang... My pops used to DJ so I was always around music. you know i.o.u, padlock, white lines, the message ....

it was until DR ICE from UTFO was at our house 1 night and he was cutting and scratching Sucker MC that i started fukking with it heavy.. started cutting and scratching myself. then I started rhyming..

What got me into graffiti and break dance was when my father bought home beat street on VHS .. the story touched me so much I started taggin'...

But back on topic... My pops and I would go to beat Street (downtown), Birdles (I think its spelled that way, they're gone now) and B's everyone saturday and he get 2 of the latest records out ..

He DJed spmetimes at empire skating rink in the early 80s..I remember he let me do a mini 15-20 minute set ... Being 11 and DJ a club back then .... what a feeling ... When he died in 87 all my DJing sort of fell back ..
 

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the first rap song I actually remember hearing was Kurtis Blow's Christmas Rap. Uncle and mom were DJs, Sisters used to throw wild ass parties, because according to my mom "I wouldn't let them go to the club, so we brought the club here."

As much as I can claim to love the shyt, it really just seemed like background music up to about 2001. That includes the mid-90's.

I did a bunch of drugs and listened to Common's Resurrection album through some headphones and it changed my perception of music permanently, like someone hit a light switch.

Like before that point, I was only hearing music, but I wasn't listening.

I went back and listened to everything I had ever heard. was buying like 600 dollars worth of CDs at a time. Now I truly love this shyt.

And I love hip hop/rap because it's a collage of all the musical genres that I love.
 

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the first rap song I actually remember hearing was Kurtis Blow's Christmas Rap. Uncle and mom were DJs, Sisters used to throw wild ass parties, because according to my mom "I wouldn't let them go to the club, so we brought the club here."

As much as I can claim to love the shyt, it really just seemed like background music up to about 2001. That includes the mid-90's.

I did a bunch of drugs and listened to Common's Resurrection album through some headphones and it changed my perception of music permanently, like someone hit a light switch.

Like before that point, I was only hearing music, but I wasn't listening.

I went back and listened to everything I had ever heard. was buying like 600 dollars worth of CDs at a time. Now I truly love this shyt.

And I love hip hop/rap because it's a collage of all the musical genres that I love.

The first Kurtis Blow track I remember:

 

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Growing up in Atlanta and having an older cousin and sister I always heard rap around me. Kilo Ali, Pac, Biggie, Bone Thugs, all that shyt from the mid 90s. My mom didn't really let me and my brother listen to rap growing up though. I'll never forget me and my brother pooled our Christmas money together and bought Word Of Mouf, because our cousins had it. Unbeknownst to us we bought the dirty version, while they had the clean version. If you remember the first track on that album that joint "Coming to America", it starts like: "The royal penis is clean your highness, thank you, KING shyt!" Momdukes found the CD and scolded us.
"DON'T BRING THIS GAH-BAGE IN MY HOUSE" :sadcam:
After a while she softened her stance and couldn't stop us from listening to rap. In 2004 (age 14), my homie put me onto Ares and it's been a wrap ever since.

I am truly child of the P2P/internet era, a lot of my collection was obtained via downloads. But then again I have a pretty large collection of physical music as well. :yeshrug:

Since then I've really delved myself into the history of hip-hop as a culture and I can confidently carry on a conversation about rap from all eras and regions. Now my brother is a studio engineer and works with all your favorite rappers and I've dabbled in different gigs throughout the entertainment industry, it's a beautiful thing.
 
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On the real brothers lynch season of the siccness was my introduction into hiphop. I was living in sactown at that time and my older brother used to always bump the cassette tape. I was like 10 at the time. Didnt really get into hiphop until jr high though
 

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I was born and grew up in 1600 Sedgwick Ave. hip hop was birthed in 1520 Sedgwick ave. I was born into this sh!t!!!!
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