What Made Yall A Fan Of Hip-Hop/Rap?

[BrilliantRapscallion]

Hip-hop was around me all my life, way before I even realized what it was and what it was supposed to sound like. Like I walked into a room and seeing my sister crying over Biggie being killed, I didn't know. Way later it was weird revisiting certain albums at 14-15 years old like The Score and realizing that I already heard it and how much I loved that sound. Then around the mid 2000's I was in middle school, early high school and I got fucking sick of the shit they played on the radio. I knew that there was much more to Hip-Hop than the Soulja Bois, Mike Jones's, and Rich Boys of the world. SO i dug deeper, I copped albums, I looked up names, and I read the history and watched documentaries. I fell in love with it, because it represented so much more than what our people at the time were putting out and i never looked back.

 

[Trollio]

I was a nl soldier

 

[memphis2sacnicc]

I been listening to rap since da mid to late 80s. I couldn't tell u what da 1st rap song I ever heard but I do remember always singing kool moe dee's wild wild west back in da day but I damnly sang anything I heard on da radio. I know I didn't become a true rap head till nwa and geto boys came out. When i first seen da video my mind is playing tricks on me, I was instantly hypnotized.

 

[Antwuan89]

I was into the mainstream Hip-Hop around 1997 & 1998 I was a young kid at the time. But after hearing Ready to Die in 2003 & Illmatic in 2004 I became an even bigger Hip-Hop Head.

 

[whatevathehell]

being born black...

might sound stupid but any black person born in the late in 70's till now on that isnt or hasnt been a fan hiphop is an anomaly to me. its like that shit ingrained in my dna. Just when Im about to give up on it something or someone will come out thats changes my mind.

 

[white715]

Been a Hip Hop head my whole life, I'm one of the youngest in my family so my older cousins and siblings got me into the culture. My first memories start around 1990, the early 90's was a great time to be introduced to Hip Hop Ice Cube, EPMD, LL Cool J, P.E., Digital Underground, Geto Boys, Das Efx, Lords of the Underground, Eric B and Rakim, Kid N Play, Salt N Pepa, Native Tongues, Luke etc.

When I was in eight grade my social studies teacher told me about Napster and that's when I started going back and listening to the older stuff from the 80's and even back to the 70's. I really started getting into the history of the culture (B Boying, graffiti, DJing) that just furthered my love/connection to Hip Hop.

 

[AggieLean.]

Got into Hip Hop around the late 90's, early 2000's. First started listening to rap with my big cousin. He was a big fan of the Hot Boys and 3 6. I just remember riding with him and thinking to myself, mane I like this right here. What got me deep into hip hop was I just loved to hear these niggas stories. I was curious to see how niggas in the A lived, how niggas in Memphis, NO, H-Town, the Lou, the Chi, and the West Coast lived. Rap was a way of me finding this shit out. I'll never give this genre up

 

[eternal soldier]

I lived in Newark from birth till I was 13. Hip-Hop is basically all I knew comin' up even if I didn't know the rappers by their names until I was like 9...the first song that I can remember me enjoying was Keep Ya Head up by PAC. So to answer the question, as long as I could remember

 

[water ur seeds]

Fresh Prince & Jazzy Jeff's 'Boom Shake The Room' I think I was about 6, my brother was listening to it in his room and I just kept listening to it B-)

And also Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' it was one of the first CD singles I got, I used to rinse that CD haha

I was a fan of any hip hop on TV or in movies as kid really and didnt even really know it, it was just music I liked... Its different for kids these days, they like what ever their friends like, or what TV or radio tells them to like...

 

[R2_163]

=kp

 

[BobOblah]

Dope thread.

First song that made me a fan was Gang Starr- Work.

The kids I grew up with were skaters and graffiti writers. I heard Work in this skate video I had on VHS back in the day.

We also watched Style Wars and Wildstyle about a hundred times by the time we were 14 because we were into the graffiti element of it, but those gave me a crash course on the history of the culture from before I was born.

First album I was heavy into was Reflection Eternal Train of Thought. Then I started digging into classics, once I discovered 2pac and Ilmatic it was over.

 

[GorillaWitAttitude]

Dope thread.

First song that made me a fan was Gang Starr- Work.

The kids I grew up with were skaters and graffiti writers. I heard Work in this skate video I had on VHS back in the day.

We also watched Style Wars and Wildstyle about a hundred times by the time we were 14 because we were into the graffiti element of it, but those gave me a crash course on the history of the culture from before I was born.

First album I was heavy into was Reflection Eternal Train of Thought. Then I started digging into classics, once I discovered 2pac and Ilmatic it was over.

That's cool to know man. Hopefully more people will come into this thread and tell their stories.

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

ATCQ - Bonita Applebum

X-Clan - Verbs of Power

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks

NWA - Niggas4Life LP

all those between 1990-1991.

Gotta give it to Video Music Box, Yo Mtv Raps & Rap City. Throwback Wednesdays was the shit to me. Lil nigga doing his hip hop homework. Hearing the shit I missed out on.

Like Archie said, Those Were The Days.

 

[5 Grand]

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

ATCQ - Bonita Applebum

X-Clan - Verbs of Power

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks

NWA - Niggas4Life LP

all those between 1990-1991.

Gotta give it to Video Music Box, Yo Mtv Raps & Rap City. Throwback Wednesdays was the shit to me. Lil nigga doing his hip hop homework. Hearing the shit I missed out on.

Like Archie said, Those Were The Days.

I GOATed you. You just described my Senior year of High School.

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

@5Grand those days had to be the shit back then. I can imagine