First Rap album you ever owned?

[its....JOHN B]

This is the first cd I ever owned

 

[gum989]

Ice Cube - "At Will"

Tried to buy "Kill At Will", but it was a grocery store, so I ended up with the "clean" version.

 

[Nechesh358]

LL Cool J -Mama Said Knock You Out

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

copped em the same day at the mall when i was 8 or 9

 

[bkkbully]

 

[englishdude]

Doggystyle.

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

I lived off the bootlegs pretty hard. 1st official cassette I bought was The Lox - Money, Power, Respect.

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

First album I bought with my own money was

Lupe Fiascos the Cool

Jay-z-American gangster

Freshman year of college. Played them shit until my white roommate got tired of them shits

 

[D.D.S.]

Kings of Crunk - Lil Jon

That shit had some bangers. Like Diamonds and Knockin Heads Off

 

[5 Grand]

These are the first albums I owned, actually me and my brother shared them. I don't remember which one we got first.

In retrospect that shit was wack.

It was wack. I remember they had a couple of songs that were dope, including The Message, so we copped that album, along with The Wildstyle soundtrack with our Christmas money.

That Grandmaster Flash album was just like the Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow albums. They were produced like R&B records and had ballads. As it turned out the record label execs didn't think anybody wanted to hear an album with rapping all the way throughout. Then Russell Simmons came around and made a fool of those record label execs.

 

[englishdude]

These are the first albums I owned, actually me and my brother shared them. I don't remember which one we got first.

In retrospect that shit was wack.

It was wack. I remember they had a couple of songs that were dope, including The Message, so we copped that album, along with The Wildstyle soundtrack with our Christmas money.

That Grandmaster Flash album was just like the Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow albums. They were produced like R&B records and had ballads. As it turned out the record label execs didn't think anybody wanted to hear an album with rapping all the way throughout. Then Russell Simmons came around and made a fool of those record label execs.

 

[5 Grand]

These are the first albums I owned, actually me and my brother shared them. I don't remember which one we got first.

In retrospect that shit was wack.

It was wack. I remember they had a couple of songs that were dope, including The Message, so we copped that album, along with The Wildstyle soundtrack with our Christmas money.

That Grandmaster Flash album was just like the Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow albums. They were produced like R&B records and had ballads. As it turned out the record label execs didn't think anybody wanted to hear an album with rapping all the way throughout. Then Russell Simmons came around and made a fool of those record label execs.

I'm one of the few people on the IC that can remember what rap was like on Day 1.

 

[bears2248]

Colors soundtrack

 

[bigev240]

First tape I bought with my own money.

 

[givezero904]

I copped them altogether so

Luda- word of mouth

Fab- gehtto fabolous

Wayne- 500

 

[Splackavelli]

First album I bought sophomore year in high school

 

[Ghostdenithegawd]

Bootleg version of luda first album from the maintenance dont remember what version wit was tho the original or the re-released one

 

[Lou Cypher]

I bought mmlp, stankonia, and chronic 2001 at the same time. First albums I ever bought

 

[Turfaholic]

Bootleg version of luda first album from the maintenance dont remember what version wit was tho the original or the re-released one

I remember my nigga P-Nut brought that Luda to a high school football game and was playing "Ho" in the stands. That shit was live as fuck.

 

[thagreat45]

10th grade, feb. 2000, Record Archive, when it used to be one on Mt. Hope Ave. on the south side in Rochester, NY. Every time I had $10-$12 hopped the RTS Bus, the 8 Genesse Park Blvd to Strong Memorial Hospital to the record store across the street from the hospital.

They stayed wit Cash Money Classics. Had a desk in my room with the long flat front drawer. Open it up you'd see all they cassette tapes in chronological order. From BG True Story on down. That's all I fucked wit in high school was the Hot Boy$ and Big Tymer$

 

[pachá12]

I couldn't Runnin Man enough to this tape...