My fam on my dad's side is from NY, so he would periodically go out there and grab random music. Not that he was looking for rap in particular, this was the early 80's....he's one of those guys that just collects music in general. So around '83 or so he came back with all kinds of tapes of rap shyt, electro, "Planet Rock"....various stuff that he'd play around the house. I heard it like

and been into rap ever since.
For the record I'm not trying to paint my dad as some super duper rap head....he's the first person that played "The Show" for me but he wasn't like

"this is the jam!"....he'd be just as likely to play Credence Clearwater Revival as he was to play Above The Law.
Fred.