Your history with Rap/Hip Hop?

[muzikfrk75]

When I first heard this. Yep I'm old lol

 

[Cole Cash]

I was very young and i would hear my older brothers and sisters listen to salt n pepa, kid n play, ice t and slick rick. I enjoyed some hip hop, but i was more into house music. my love affair didnt really jump off until i bought 36 chambers it just blew my mind. From 88-92 i would just listen to random hip hop shyt my family had, but 36 chambers, bacdafucup etc was just too intense.
Then one day i was in san francisco and i got introduced to the Ninja Tune label and i got into DJ Krush, it blew my mind, i never knew hip hop could be used in such a unique way, i never looked back. i still love house music (from 85-01 todays house is trash) but hip hop is my heart and soul

 

[Nomad1]

nwa, warren g, dpg, snoop, pac, above the law, etc is what got me into rap.

 

[Ill-Mind]

I grew up hearing Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, Rob Base, LL Cool J, and EPMD/Def Squad being played around the house. Later on it was Suave House, Death Row, and some Bad Boy. By the time I hit high school in the late 90s, I branched off on my own and I was mainly listening to Jay-Z, Nas, AZ, Bone Thugs, Mobb Deep, Outkast, DMX, and Scarface

 

[BigSteve]

I was 6 when Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg started their reign on MTV. I had to watch it at my friend's place because his brothers were older and they could watch MTV. From there it was a wrap. I wanted to know everything.

I can remember buying tapes. When I couldn't afford the whole thing, I would just buy the singles.

i bought the entire bad boy discography from selling warheads and jolly ranchers out of my backpack for 25 cents a pop

went to basketball and football camps growing up and all the older kids were into no limit and cash money (i was like 10-12 at the time). must have bought 400 degreez 4 times from losing it and letting people borrow it.

losing CDs was a thing of the past once my older friend showed me what a CD burner and cable modem was when I was 13ish. I got a computer with a burner on it, and napster access.

I started burning CDs for friends. I would do whatever CD they wanted for 5 dollars, then I had my own CDs that were basically mixtapes of mixtapes and new songs that I would find. I sold those for five bucks too. of course, in middle and high school, CDs were also an easy bartering system to get smokes, booze, or tree. or to just make sure you were always at the parties because you knew the best songs out.

by that time technology had caught up to me, so i didn't care about burning CDs anymore. poeple just knew that I always knew what was new or i could get new CDs weeks in advance.

crunk came around when I was a soph in HS. Crunk Juice came out when I was a Jr or Sr. Lil Scrappy, Trillville, of course Three 6 (before Stay Fly), Youngbloodz, TI. All of these things came out when i was in high school. wild summers, wild wild summers. smoking was also centered around rap at this time. three 6, bone thugs, any rap songs about smoking. there was a lot of that.

rap is my soundtrack for some of the wildest/best times of my life. in a way, it taught me my business sense. i've just always moved to it.

thanks for the trip down memory lane

 

[COQWAVE]

michael jackson fan as a kid then heard will smith, nas and snoop on men in black sound track

napster came out when i was 6 and my older sis downloaded it.

shyt was a wrap

 

[PIFF101]

My crew were like the only muthafukkas from NY bumpin Doggystyle from around our way. Grew up on Clue Tapes, Ron G, Harlem Music Hut, and bumping Wu, Nas, Big, and Fugees. Was on Tour with the YoungBloodz and Killah Priest for the Lyricist Lounge as part of a small label I was apart of. Being in Harlem you run into a lot of known ppl.

 

[KTD2]

Lost Boyz "Renee" introduced me. (You can laugh but at 10 I thought Mr. Cheeks was the GOAT.)

7th grade & It Was Written made me fall in love.

 

[Knicksman20]

My crew were like the only muthafukkas from NY bumpin Doggystyle from around our way. Grew up on Clue Tapes, Ron G, Harlem Music Hut, and bumping Wu, Nas, Big, and Fugees. Was on Tour with the YoungBloodz and Killah Priest for the Lyricist Lounge as part of a small label I was apart of. Being in Harlem you run into a lot of known ppl.

I ran into & spoke for a while with Sheek Louch at Flaming Embers in Harlem about 10 years ago.

 

[re'up]

I was 12-13 in 1997, seems like the genre itself was at it's height in terms of popularity and I went to school in the hood, which compounded that, the first shyt I got into was what the local pop/dance radio station would play, 'Only You' (remix), all the Bad Boy stuff, 'California Love' too, I was out in San Diego, but the Bad Boy wave was so dominant on the radio and tv, it was got me into it….Songs like Ginuwine 'Same Ol' G', and Jay 'Sunshine' just started me on what would become a life long love, 'Harlem World' was one of my first purchases….Back then the radio wasn't polluted with empty calorie shameless pop music, it had heart to it, so you could get a sense of the game from the radio….I remember LOVING the remix of 'Rappers Delight' and copping the compilation album it came out on, 'In Tha Begninning There Was Rap', 'Ruff Ryders Anthem' came out thats summer too….My second fam down the street his older sister had all the new cd's, I loved 'No Way Out', and yes 'I'll Be Missing You' was my shyt…..lol, and 'Changes', it was just the start….By 99 I had Jay-Z posters on my walls, and leather-bound album collection of all Jay, DMX, Nas Black Rob, Puff Daddy, Mase, NORE, Mobb Deep, the Lox, and Memphis Bleek 'Coming of Age' was my theme music…..and at school my interests just expanded, buying cd singles of TQ 'Westside', Silk, Nate Dogg & Warren G, Snoop Dogg….When Juvenile 'Ha' hit, I was all Cash Money…it's been a big part of my life and I'll never forget those memories or the ones after, and it's funny seeing people now who were really just into 'rap' because it was popular at the time…. when for me, it was the music that defined my feelings, my ambitions, my strengths and everything, the storytelling, the arrogance, the layers of depth attached to the stories and lines of drugs, money, and murder, the vulnerability and grit in tracks like 'NY State Of Mind II' and 'A Week Ago'….the defiance and celebration of 'Hate Me Now'…..and R&B did the same thing to me, in the same ways….You could never wash the rap shyt, the street shyt off my heart and mind

 

[nairdas]

I liked rap from an early age, but didn't have a favorite rap artist until Bone Thugs n Harmony. I was pretty much hooked on them and only them for a long ass time. Then in like late 2005 Lil Wayne tha carter ii was brought to my attention and I was feeling it and I had to check out the dedication 2 mix tape and I found my second favorite artist. Listening to Wayne allowed me to branch out to other artist as well.

 

[Consigliere]

First rap record I ever really listened to was LL Cool J Walking With a Panther. Before that I'd seen the little bit of rap that was in rotation on MTV: Run DMC, Tone Loc, Young MC, Beastie Boys, Fat Boys, Heavy D.

Was too young at the time to really appreciate rap like that at the time, but obviously as a kid, Big Ole Butt was in heavy rotation. The first record I bought with my own money was either Humpty Dance or Skee Lo's I Wish. Don't remember. Weird enough, I can remember beat boxing and free styling in the lunch room as far back as 2nd grade but we didn't consider it rap at the time.

I went from being a casual fan to a Hip Hop head in high school. Went to the record store religiously on Fridays and Tuesdays to cop new releases. After high school I worked at a new and used record store, did promo for some DC clubs, got some turn tables and started DJ-ing. The first gig I ever did promo for was Kool Kim from the UMCs birthday party at a spot on U Street. Started rapping not too long after. DJ-d some house parties and club events in Philly. Did graffiti, freestyled relentlessly, recorded an EP, watched DCs rap scene go from ignored and shunned to replacing GoGo.

Currently still involved in Hip Hop on a number of levels with no plans to profit from it. Might release a mixtape before the year is over featuring some DC and Philly rappers I fux with. We'll see.

 

[Formerly known as...]

Snoop Dogg's 'Doggystyle' was my first hip hop album i listened to....My cousin had the album and me and my other younger cousin would listen to it because of all the cursing, then we heard that skit in the school 'I wanna be a motherfukking hustler, you better ask somebody' and I was GONE..Literally from to to

 

[Leti Cook]

Started with Makaveli 7 day theory when I was 10. Had no idea who Pac/Makaveli was so I was confused as shyt. He had just died and the kids in my class were crying and shyt. No bs, I remember this kid telling me "Big Poppa killed him". People were saying Makaveli and Pac weren't the same person. Nevertheless, my homeboy gave me the cassette and I was hooked. From there I got heavy into NoLimit. My mom got me Unpredictable by Mystikal for my bday. First albums I bought with my own money were Charge it 2 da Game by Silkk and Life or Death by C-Murder. I had my headphones on one morning, rapping along to "Throw yo Hood Up" by Snoop and Silkk..grandpa overheard it and I caught the ass whupping of a lifetime. Rap was banned from the house. But I would save report card/yard money,buy everything I could, and sneak that shyt in. Had a loose floorboard in my closet, I would stash cds under. Good times. DMX, Ja, Lox, Twista, Bone, Color Changin Click, Swisha House, Mr. Lucci, Mr. Pookie, Nolimit, Cash Money, 8ball & MJG, Three 6, Hov, Big, Puff,Mase,UGK...thats my childhood

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Heard 30 Days by Run DMC on the radio at eight y.o. My peopls didn't play much music around the house so this was the first time I sat down and listened to music. Started rapping almost immediately and started asking older kids around the way for tapes. I love H.E.R. desparately. I consider my Beloved to be whole and complete. Classic HipHop is in the bucket. 1973-2003. Great run. This new s***, Contemporary, is something different. Some who like the new s*** can't stand the old s***. And that's okay.