Your history with Rap/Hip Hop?

[SmokinNLiftin]

Well being like age 7 I can vividly remember the day I first listened to The Eminem Show outside with a walkman walking around my backyard just jammin. Beyond that I didn't get into rap till like 2011 (Being like 15-16), and then only in the past year had I really gotten heavy into rap, some underground elements, hardcore, etc. Before this year I was usually just listenin to real commercial/mainstream rap and hot singles and shyt.

Typically the only rap I find myself interested in despite listening to underground or commercial is stuff like Juicy J club kinda music or some real gangster/aggressive shyt. Only rappers I typically like are the lone-wolf characters, guys who kinda said fukk everyone else. Def top 3 are DMX, 50 and Old Em, truthfully the rappers that appeal to me most are white rappers who are typically underground, successful and maintain a hard image, its awesome to see dudes like that breaking the mold of having dudes like current Eminem in rap or some bytchmade tryhards like MGK and Mac Miller. Have underground guys like Diabolic, or Slaine or groups like La Coka Nostra

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

Had "License to Ill" and "Fat Boys" on tape when they dropped and then just kind of steamrolled from there. Couldn't really get the exposure I wanted until Yo! MTV Raps came out and then I definitely never looked back.

 

[DaveyDave]

Hammer & Vanilla Ice were the shyt back when i was about 8 i guess. mum got me the Vanilla Ice tape but soon found my cousins tape collection of Punk & Hip Hop. i wasn't feeling the punk shyt but i was hooked on Ice Cube, Public Enemy, etc. it went from there, NWA, Snoop, Bone, Wu, never got into other genres that much. neither of my parents are that heavy into music, i don't remember dad ever owning any tapes or cd's so i didn't get any influence from them.

GAWT DAMN there's some young c*nts in here lol and old too, i'm in the middle, a few years too young to be groovin to Run DMC & LL but way too old to have Eminem Show as my first album

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Warren G - G funk era.. the rest is history

 

[Techniec]

The Chronic

before that i was an immigrant kid who listened to whatever i could catch on the tv...earlys 90s...new kids was popping, alot of house./dance music...alot of the rap at that time was very rough to my ears...i couldnt vibe to it

nothing but a g thang and deeez nuts changed everything

 

[chazultra]

I started at the album Graduation by Kanye, ended up at the song p*ssy Ass bytch by Young Thug. Where did my life go lol

 

[NSSVO]

I had two sides of the neighborhood, one was Mexican/white, the other side was the nikkas. I liked both rock and rap growing up, until I hit about 13 and realized bytches dance to rap. Plus I started to indentify more with the music. The rest is history.

 

[Matt504]

growing up in New Orleans everything was No-Limit and Cash Money..

the good old days.

 

[GollyImGully]

i was like 4 an i remember my moms and my 2 aunts would always play biggie..so i liked the beats ( i remember i wrote a rap that was was basically remaking bigs get money hook )..so big was def a favorite coming up....moms had hypnotize single with story to tell on the bside..i remember us playing the hell out of that being from bedstuy BIG had shyt on lock




my aunt had it was written, reasonable doubt, the infamous and anytime i went in her room she was playing them...i remember the message and if i ruled the world getting a lot of play...

the first rap album i ever had to myself was ma$e - harlem world, i used to think puff daddy was a legit rapper ("its a hell up in harlem, fukk it another day another dollar..."), but i didnt really started studying this rap shyt once i had jay-z - vol2 when hardknock life dropped

 

[ch15x]

 

[Self_Born7]

when I used to listen to Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on KISS FM and WBLS.

 

[patscorpio]

kool moe dee....dude was one of my dad's favorite rappers and he used to play how ya like me now alot..moe dee was the coolest cat to me with that album cover

 

[usopp]

i was a cac growing up and listened to rock and metal mostly, a friend introduced me to the first wu-tang album and gza's liquid swords when i was about 17 and it grew from there

are you still a cac or did you out grow it??

 

[Danie84]

My history with Hip-Hop starts out with this song being the first to make an impression on me



...then Pac, Snoop, Nas, Wu, BCC came thru crush the building, and the rest is history

 

[Loyal2mySoil]

I heard Too Short - The Ghetto on my cuzzin's jeep banging loud on two speaks. Was hooked ever since. I was probably on that Big Daddy Kane/LL shyt before tho. Can't remember.