Your history with Rap/Hip Hop?

[NamelessPimp]

Best Concert I've ever seen was the Eminem and Jay-Z 9/11 concert a few years back at Yankee Stadium. Had crazy people show up to perform from G-Unit, to Drake and Nicki Minaj, to Beyonce, D12, Dr. Dre, Kanye West thought he was the main act of the concert, and a bunch more.

Method Man and Redman are fireeee in concert. Redman made it through 90% of the concert before he went backstage b/c he was too fukked up, but Method Man made up for it after.

Lupe Fiasco sucks in concert. I saw him twice, he was terrible both times and I'm a big fan.

Snoop Dogg was fire in concert too.

 

[Blankthawtz]

was walking with my mom down broadway when I was 12 and saw a dude hustlin this on the sidewalk....

begged my moms to cop it for me (she didn't know what was on that tape).....

i fell in love with rap soon as i pressed play....the rest is history...

 

[NYK Loyalist]

My first experience with hip-hop was Run-DMC and Aerosmith Walk This Way video then Yo! MTV Raps in 88'. Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane and Special Ed were the coolest shyt I'd ever seen. I started buying tapes in 90 or 91.

 

[Nino Soprano]

Home videos show me when I was like 1-2 years old standing in front of the tv watching Eric B & Rakim Paid In Full video in amazement lol...I guess that's where the seed was planted

As I got older I fell in love with Wu-Tang, Death Row era, Biggie, Tupac...me and my cousins used to draw Wu logos on everything....used to see who can remember the Incarcerated Scarface & Triumph lyrics the best lol....Biggie was my favorite rapper growing up tho....I cried when he was murdered

I remember my brother playing that Pac/Bone Thugs- Thug Love cassette tape and was like ....sh1t was beautiful...that's when I got into Pac music

Teenage years I started listening to more Jay, Nas, Mobb, Cube & Scarface and started binge listening to their whole catalogues...Gunit early run was dope to me too....Dipset also...I loved the Rocafella movement...Beans one of my favorites

Now presently I'm a stuck in the 90s nikka

Rap was so pure back then....the memories

 

[darius19]

Blueprint is what got me into it heavy...I remember it dropped on 9/11 and my pops knew a few people who died that day, just a sad time in the household and neighborhood for that matter...that album was my escape from that I guess

from there I grew a real appreciation for the music, and branched out into all the legends and classics

 

[DaveyDave]

me and cousins used to draw Wu logos on everything

EVERYONE used to do that shyt at my school

 

[FuckAllY'all77]

Seeing Public Enemy 'Give It Up', NWA '100 Miles and Running' and LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out' videos when I was like
9/10 years old, after that it was a wrap I knew what kinda music I'd be listening to for the rest of my life

Plus my brother was heavy into Native Tongues and got me into Tribe and De La around this time

 

[newworldafro]

close thread :lol12:

Comeon ........ race has nothing to do with this.... people around the world got introduced to hip hop/rap one way or another......

One of my favorite line is when Busta says "My Zimbabwe nikkas bangin my joints up in they Acura Pssh, OOH!" .... this was like '97 from When Disaster Strikes album... made me realize how international this shiit was ....

My first introduction was just the radio, I dont' know if there was particular song...most of my cousins were from Philadelphia, so when they would come down to N.C. I would hear some of the stuff that was being played but my first real cognizance was being over my grandparents house watching BET and MTV and hearing Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, the Fat Boys (I was young as hell and saw the movie), Heavy D and the Boyz, KRS-One, LL Cool J and of course the R&B/Rap type tracks of Bel Biv Devoe, Bobby Brown etc....and then went to MC Hammer and then South came into view with the booty shake type music of 95 South and so on... I remember around this time Snoop Dogg had his court case and the whole Gangsta Rap was getting alot of attention. This is important, because for a good year or so, there was almost no hip hop on the radio in my area. I mean it was all R&B, but very very little rap in my neck of the woods, so I found myself listening to pop radio stations and classical and oldies but goodies stations........but the very first album I purchased was Lost Boyz first album, the Fugees, and Wu Tang's first album 2 years after it came out......from there ALL MY MONEY through high school went to buying CDs..... ... good times...

 

[The Dust King]

shabba

 

[Im Kemet Rocky & I like penis]

grew up listening to ugk,trick,trina,outkast,8ball&mjg,goodie mob,tupac,scarface,uncle luke,southern playas,geto boys,jam pony,etc.

all my kinfolk is hoodrats so they partied around my house alot with hennessey and shyt..

so yeah..

 

[Mikeatris]

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

I can 1 up you and still pull out this tape but I won't do it lol. I still have this and tons of other stuff on tape which includes The 1st Fat Boys, all the Just-Ice's, 1st couple of Run DMC, 1st couple of LL and the Infamous Purple tape from 95, not the re-release and they are all in mint condition. Just never got rid of them.

 

[just4purpose]

LL Cool J's RADIO was the first piece of vinyl that started my hip-hop collection back in the day...

I got into an car accident wit my boy(who was driver) in Atlanta 1995....in a coma for 10 days, woke up and proved I didn't have brain damage by reciting the words to like 10 hip-hop songs to the nurse...LOL

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

Cant remember really as i was from a soul/rnb background anyway but remember hearing dear mama on tv and fell in love with pac. Big poppa aswell was big in my youth. Wrote my first rap to a mase song in 97, i remember love the no limit/cash money album art as a kid. Been listening ever since 94 id say.

 

[bangbreh]

my fam also have some struggle vids of me break dancin @ my cousins wedding back in 85
the whole rappin concept came w/the fresh prince.
back then cypress hill and beastie boys were popping off w/different crowds. then dre dropped the chronic and things took off.
i however, was on the other side of the spectrum. i had to buy c.r.e.a.m on a MAXI single from musicland on special order. i actually had the purple TAPE. on a skiing trip w/my sunday school i was in the back listening to gravediggaz 6 feet deep on my walkman
it's never stopped, just tastes morphed considerably w/age and life experience

 

[MMM]

get rich
after that became obsessed, getting any album that looked good in xxl
watching mtv/channel u all the time, brother gave me shyt too