Your history with Rap/Hip Hop?

[TheBEASTCOASTrevival]

When i first rappers spit lyrics i was like this music is meant for god's ears only
never really listened to rap like that until last year when my big bro told me about how fire rick ross Rich Forever mixtape was then i just started listening to everything. i had my 90's listen were i listened to at least 3 classic albums a day. nikkas like MF Doom, Outkast, Raekwon. Wu tang, Biggie, Hova , Tribe called Quest, dre, Nas, and old school kanye (not 90's ik)
I listened to a little rock too and old school reggae and R&B.
inspires the shyt outta me when i hear some dope ass lyrics brehs

not a cac tho

 

[DaveyDave]

Who thinks its better to go on your own or have older siblings or even parents now playing that shyt and giving it to you? All my boys were into hip hop when I was a kid but I never had a big brother or anything to guide me through it. Only older person I had was a cuz I saw maybe once or twice in 5-10 years so I didn't get much off him

 

[mozichrome]

no overly detailed story, i heard rap song back then and wanted to hear more. shiit caught me and i was entertained.

now i fukk with any genre of music, i have give a lot of shiit a chance.

 

[Pazzy]

it was always around me. i remember hearing songs like survival of the fittest, shimmy shimmy ya, bring the pain, my world, and etc as a kid indirectly but i wasn't into it. that changed when i was 12 when i started to get into it. that's when i started to know who was who. funny because i remember being all shocked when i first heard the infamous back in 2000 when i heard survival of the fittest. i was like "that's the song that i heard 5 years ago".

 

[Pazzy]

it was always around me. i remember hearing songs like survival of the fittest, shimmy shimmy ya, bring the pain, my world, and etc as a kid indirectly but i wasn't into it. that changed when i was 12 when i started to get into it. that's when i started to know who was who. funny because i remember being all shocked when i first heard the infamous back in 2000 when i heard survival of the fittest. i was like "that's the song that i heard 5 years ago".

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I remember hearing rap when I was real young at friends houses or the radio but I wasn't into it that tough I was still on my kid shyt, plus I was listening to the shyt the older people around me listened to. It was my brother that put me on which was '96, played Hit Em Up off the How Do You Want It single and from then I was hooked.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Who thinks its better to go on your own or have older siblings or even parents now playing that shyt and giving it to you? All my boys were into hip hop when I was a kid but I never had a big brother or anything to guide me through it. Only older person I had was a cuz I saw maybe once or twice in 5-10 years so I didn't get much off him

Older siblings help. I mean no way a 8 year old girl goes to cop illmatic or doggystyle herself, but having older brothers, I heard it all

 

[Alexander The Great]

down here we would hear booty/bass music all the time, 2 live crew, Uncle Al, etc. I remember my cousins playing Supersonic when i was a jit. But what got me into hip hop was 2 songs by the GOAT



and




and my 1st hip hop tape was

that I recorded from a friend who had the actual tape. I had to keep it hidden so my mom wouldn't find it

 

[Taadow]

Who thinks its better to go on your own or have older siblings or even parents now playing that shyt and giving it to you? All my boys were into hip hop when I was a kid but I never had a big brother or anything to guide me through it. Only older person I had was a cuz I saw maybe once or twice in 5-10 years so I didn't get much off him

Definitely was better. All of that shapes you U.O.E.N.O. it...

My pop had a spot where he had a jukebox so he had vinyl. Gobs of it.
Mom used to listen to the oldies station everywhere she took me.
I had 3 older sisters who had ALL the new music between them. They never "guided" me or anything like that,
but they were always bumpin' some ish.

 

[DeuceCypherUno]

I first heard hip hop primarily through my older cousins. My fam is Dominican so it was only Spanish Music being played in their houses for the most part. I thought rap music was bad before due to al lthe cursing. The first year i really paid attention and began to like hip hop was 2002.

The singles that put me on were Oh Boy, Without Me, Move bytch and Hot in Herre. However, I also loved some of the shyt from conscious rappers too, like Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5 and The Roots. I was only 10/11 at the time. However, I couldnt explore beyond what was being played on MTV/BET/Radio since i didnt have internet until in my house till 2005 (smh). After that tho, it was a wrap.

 

[DaveyDave]

Definitely was better. All of that shapes you U.O.E.N.O. it...

My pop had a spot where he had a jukebox so he had vinyl. Gobs of it.
Mom used to listen to the oldies station everywhere she took me.
I had 3 older sisters who had ALL the new music between them. They never "guided" me or anything like that,
but they were always bumpin' some ish.

True, we had one older guy who used to buy EVERY rap cd that was at the store. One of my boys loved down the street so he had the hook up for dubs. Other than that I would just go to the store and see what was there. They only had one little rap section and it wasn't "urban" or rnb or anything, just had RAP up the top. See what The Soure and Rap Pages said was hot, we all cop something and hand it around to dub a tape. Until I had money to start buying all to CDs I wanted half or more of my collection was tapes I copied from my mates.

 

[Illuminatos]

I first got into it when I got GTA SA. Only station I listened to was Radio LS. Mom never really let me listen to anything that wasn't gospel and I never liked that crap so I never listened to music outside of my games, though I knew what songs were on the radio and who they were by.

I finally got my iPod Shuffle in 07 though and the rest is history. Aunty just sent it out of nowhere as a surprise. It legit changed my life.

Learning how to download songs, finding out new songs on YouTube, figuring out how LimeWire and ITubes worked.

I remember starting out with 12 songs on my shuffle and just watched how my library grew every week.

 

[LucaBrasi]

As a immigrant kid in the late 90's living only with my moms I used to spend a lot of time watching tv specially Music channels like MTV vh1 and the like.

I remember I would mess with a lot of different genres when they came on but nothing got me like when I heard Men in Black by Will Smith and Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z and Runnin by Pharcyde back to back to back I was 7 and I remember after I heard those songs it was a wrap.

Fast forward to when I was 12 nd I started downloading albums off Limewire. That's when I really started listening.

 

[JCalli]

Dope thread.

Everyone fukked with Hammer, dabbled with LL but on some real shyt it all started with Ice Cube. That man was the shyt to me.

My pops, he was hard on dubb plate and reggae. My step pops though, he was hip hop. He was playing Amerikkka's most wanted in the car, i was secretly eating that shyt up. I was only 10 or 11 at the time, but that shyt just sounded hard as fukk to me.

Went to the record store, looked for Cube (i didn't know the name of the album), but it was actually Death Certificate i purchased. I had to get someone outside the record store to buy it for me because i looked too young . It was a wrap from there on. That album remains the most played album of all time for me. From there got Cube's back catalogue

I had to listen to it in secret though, mum would have had none of it.

I heard Chronic, Doggystyle, the CB4 soundtrack all for the first time in my step dads car.

My friends put me on to the east coast ...... 36 chambers and Ilmatic. Special times. We all names ourselves after a member of the clan and had to spit their respective verses

From then, everything Deathrow, Pac, Nas, Mobb and the rest is history....

 

[BigF]

My older sister put me on to Native Tongues. 1st album I copped was 'Done By the Forces of Nature' by the Jungle Brothers on cassette.