See, I asked in a post and some people say it doesn't matter. Sorry, but that shit matters to me. If you can pinpoint in your life when you "fell in love with Hip-Hop" we probably were destined to not be friends.
Well, the exception is if you were alive and self-aware enough to witness the birth for Rap. In that case, you'd be my mentor or someshit.
Vanilla Ice - To the Extreme, and MC Hammer - To Legit to Quit and Please Hammer don't hurt em - a relative bought them on cassettes from SE Asia or something....they got so much play
2 in a Room - Wiggle it
Sir Mix A Lot - Baby got back
Thankfully, I discovered WU Tang, Cypress, Biggie ect not long after that
The Man Right Here! - Mystikal
Not only did the 5 star general of rap introduce me to the genre, at the time I didn't even comprehend I was listening during the "peak era" in my opinion:
Rappers like Busta Rhymes or DMX were truly one of a kind.
I know Busta still releasing new content but it simply doesn't compare to his old stuff when he was rapping aggressively and not holding back with the fast rhyming.
Idk, well my 1st concert was kriss kross when I was in 4th grade and yes I wore my clothes backwards to the concert. I also had Amhad CD with the old song that goes " back in the day when I was young I'm not a kid anymore but some days I still wish I was a kid again" anyone remember that song?
ETA: the one that made an impact n made me start to really love rap was seeing Bone thugs video thuggish ruggish bone on the box back in the day, who remembers that (the box music channel I mean). In my city if u didn't have cable was the only way to watch the box n you could call n pay like .99 to play a song. Thuggish ruggish bone was played back to back on there
Damn I didn't know they put out a greatest hits from the box. We never had cable growing up so me n my friends stayed watching the box when we were at my house! N making mix tapes off the radio with cassette tapes lmao. The good ole days!
Juicy was the first track on the album (I looked it up because it was bugging me). It was called Big Phat Ones From Hip Hop. It also had Regulate, Bring the Pain and (one of my all time favorites) Flava in Ya Ear.
No we didn't. Me n my friend used to also make VHS mix tapes with videos. We would stay up late to see the videos on BET that they couldn't play during the day.
Picked up the FAT BOYS debut album with some Christmas money when I was about 10 years old, not having any idea what hip hop was. So, the first song in that album, JAILHOUSE RAP, was the first hip hop song I ever heard.
Jailhouse Rap was the first song for me too. I was about 7-8 and got a bunch of tape cassettes from a cousin. One was FAT BOYS. Only tape I remember from that whole box.
I don't remember which was for sure the first, but the first one that left an impact for me to remember was Tupac - California Love.
When it was played at Kendrick's Pop Out, I hadn't listened to it in like over 5 years probably, still knew every line, had that thing replayed to DEATH when I was 12.
Nuthin' But A G Thang- GTA San Andreas, Radio Los Santos, 2004. I was 11.
Also Alwayz Into Something, La Raza, It Was A Good Day, How I Could Just Kill A Man.
And The Message from Vice City.
First rap song I remember and honestly I think the first song of any genre that I remember hearing and loving was Ruff Ryder’s Anthem by DMX. Came out when I was 3
The songs that introduced me are probably stuff like "Can't Touch This" or "Ice Ice Baby", but that would have been quite young. The song that hooked me was Elevators (Outkast) in the 7th grade.
I dunno what the first song I heard was, but The first song that I wrote out and memorized the lyrics to was Dr Evils version of Just the Two of Us from Austin Powers lol that's what really got me hooked.
I have a cousin who is like 5-6 years older than me and I remember hanging at his house during the holidays and always wanting to go through his CD collection and listen to his rap albums.
Listening to It's Dark and Hell is Hot when I was like 7 or 8 was probably my first hip-hop memory. I'm 33 so it has just come out around that time and was something he always had on.
A bit later on when I was picking my own music, I was a huge Dipset fan in the early 2000s. Me and my buddy plaid our friends' older brother to drive us to the record shop so we could copp Purple Haze.
Luniz (I Got 5 On it) being on the first CD I ever owned - Now That's What I Call Music! Volume 33 or The Fugees (Ready or Not) which was a massive hit alongside Killing Me Softly and No Woman, No Cry on UK Radio stations.
It's worth noting I didn't know I was listening to HipHop at that time, however by the time Puff Daddy dropped Missing You we all began learning about the Genre....
Meanwhile in the UK - 1996 was a Massive year for Music for me as The Prodigy and Oasis were bubbling to the top.
I remember my older brother listening to a lot of dmx, bustah rhymes, ludacris and a lot of rappers of that time. But atmosphere is the first hip hop album I bought myself without anyone telling me about them. I just knew one song off the album and I needed change for the public transit as they only accepted exact change. I instantly fell in love with it and how there’s some many different styles
I remember hearing Shook One's Pt. II for the first time. When the beat kicked in I was like "wtf is this?!?" I liked hip-hop after that but I didn't really become a head until I heard Atmosphere when I was like 15 lol.
I remember walking home from third grade the half a block with a copy of Creeping on a Come Up on cassette, playing No Surrender every single day.
To jam to Me Against the World on CD at home cuz who the fck had a discman back then. it Ain't Easy always been my favorite song.
No-oo-O-oo-O No SurRENde-rr-err
Edit: Before that it was Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
Will Smith - Men In Black then I asked for Big Willie Style for my 7th birthday. Also the Space Jam soundtrack from the 90s was super influential. And any hip hop that was ever on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack.
First time hearing hip hop is when I heard teenagers bumping “Lady Venom” by swollen members in grade 4.
What sold me on hip hop was seeing a trailer for American Gangster in grade 6 which had “Heart of the City” by HOV as the soundtrack. I went and bought all of Jay Z’s albums on CD as soon as I could.
The first was probably something commercial like Heavy D’s ‘now that we found love’, Hammer’s ‘can’t touch this’ or Ice’s ‘ice ice baby’.
The one that made me aware of a whole culture, where rap is just an element off, was ‘violent’ from 2pac. Heard it first around ‘93/‘94 and was hooked, even as the youngin I was.
In all honesty… I bought a CD Single of the Men in Black theme. (I know, I know). The ‘B-side’ tracks included a track with ‘snippets’ of other songs from the soundtrack album - including Snoop, Nas etc.
That snip of Nas - Escobar ‘97 flipped something in my brain.
Guilty Conscience by Eminem and Dr Dre. I listened to that track to death when it came out and have not been able to listen to it since then. Think I'll go listen to it again now.
Edit: That second verse man. WTF???
Gangsta Gangsta by NWA is probably the first rap song I heard that made me think I wanted to hear more. And more. And more, and more, and more, until now I find myself a full-blown fan of hip hop in all forms.
I think what attracted me was the beat; that wonderful snapping bass groove. Incredibly funky.
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It.
Heard it for the first time at the age of 6 or 7 in mid '90s.
But I wouldn't learn the name of this song or the guys that made it for another 10-15 years.
I dunno, I remember liking Chubb Rock a lot when I was little. But I think the song that stuck with me and made me want to rap was I'm Bad by LL. I remember trying to rhyme at like 5 because he had a line about Oreos lol
I remember hearing Gin and Juice in fourth grade and just standing there mesmerized. My mom listened to oldies and my dad listened to country, so even pop and rock were unknown to me. Hearing Snoop rap over a dre beat broke my little brain and I became hooked.
I believe it was end of fifth grade going into sixth grade summer camp. Chamillionaire ridin’ played on the radio. I liked the fast part with crazy bones. And then I had to have it. But my virtuous parents wouldn’t let me get the explicit version. Many temper tantrums later and I got it. But it just goes to show how virtuous and non-gangsta they’ve always been. I vow if I ever have kids they’ll listen to the explicit version from Day one. And have access to all the toys and drugs they want. That I’ll be the most gangsta parent and they’ll never cry in discomfort.
Imagine being into hiphop before the name hiphop was invented....it was called Disco, and seeing the change and transformation after all these years and still into it.
Nuthin' But A G Thang
Dre and Snoop changed everything for me. I still stuck with the rock elites at the time - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Rage Against The Machine, but any new music I was exploring for a few years after hearing NBAGT was Hip Hop.
Scenario. My older siblings had the cassette single and I fell in love. I used to put my cassette tapes in a plastic Ziploc bag. I may have been all of 5-6 years old.
Mum used to play me outkast when I was just a baby and I loved Beyoncé all my life. Nicki is what introduced me to hip hop a couple of years ago with Pound the Alan and Super Bass, but the first genuine hip hop song I'd got me into actual hip hop was Monster.
The first 5 rap songs I can remember:
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Nuthin But a G Thang
Thuggish Ruggish Bone - Bone Thugs n Harmony
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
It was Chaka Khan’s “I Fell For You”, Moms had it on blast. She listened to R&B exclusivly (Anita, Kieth, etc.). From that point on, I was looking for that flow.
NWA - Fuck the Police
I was in elementary school when I heard it, going through my uncle's CD collection.
What got me really really into hip hop though was Eminem - Stan and really the whole Marshall Matters LP.
Rich Gang - Lifestyle ft. Rich Homie Quan, Young Thug (I believe I was 13 at that point)
How tf did I go from THIS song to listenning primarily to 90's artists like Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Onyx, Big Pun, etc?! No clue XD
First rap sng I heard was of course Rappers Delight but the first song that introduce to Hip Hop culture was Malcolm Mclaren's Buffalo Girls. The video still give me chills.
My earliest memory of hip-hop is a snippet of the first 20 seconds of Ambitionz As A Ridah. I'm not sure if I heard anything before.
I'm not American. Music was forbidden in my household, but other kids in my village exposed me to music and hip-hop happened to be most popular in the 00's.
It completely changed the trajectory of my life once I got deeper into it, as I was the only kid who knew some English. It was the only thing in that ultra-conservative environment which didn't feel like it was speaking down at me and judging me.
It taught me about racism, and that I and everyone around me was racist. And this opened the door for questioning everything else about my country's culture.
Croatian rap song "Looka Borna" by Bolesna Braća (translation: "Sick Brothers"). You should check it out, its a catchy 00s but well produced song, even to todays standards.
Brass Monkey was the first I of consciously heard loud and from start to finish. But i only partially computed. I was maybe 6. It tripped me out. Rap was becoming mainstream by then but not on the radio stations my parents had on. The more thorough introduction would be Fuck Tha Police.
I’ve been surrounded by rap my whole life. One song that definitely made me find interest was Stronger by Kanye West. I remember listening to it on my old iPod.
The message girl I went to jr high with just got home from visiting cousins in NYC she played it we said they're just talking she said its called rapping it was awesome fast forward 45yrs still a fan back then white guys like me usually hated. Not me loved it immediately
I don’t remember. I was too young.
The only answer I’ll ever accept lol
See, I asked in a post and some people say it doesn't matter. Sorry, but that shit matters to me. If you can pinpoint in your life when you "fell in love with Hip-Hop" we probably were destined to not be friends. Well, the exception is if you were alive and self-aware enough to witness the birth for Rap. In that case, you'd be my mentor or someshit.
It does matter but I really can't remember, I feel like it was always there, on the radio, on yo MTV raps. I feel like it was never not there.
My exact answer lmao
Mc Hammer or Vanilla Ice
Same
Vanilla Ice - To the Extreme, and MC Hammer - To Legit to Quit and Please Hammer don't hurt em - a relative bought them on cassettes from SE Asia or something....they got so much play 2 in a Room - Wiggle it Sir Mix A Lot - Baby got back Thankfully, I discovered WU Tang, Cypress, Biggie ect not long after that
Van Winkle lived a block away from me growing up.
Poor you
Rappers delight. Yes, I’m that old.
this or rapture by blondie for me.. cant remember which i heard first… was a lil late
We need some elder statesmen in these parts
The Man Right Here! - Mystikal Not only did the 5 star general of rap introduce me to the genre, at the time I didn't even comprehend I was listening during the "peak era" in my opinion: Rappers like Busta Rhymes or DMX were truly one of a kind. I know Busta still releasing new content but it simply doesn't compare to his old stuff when he was rapping aggressively and not holding back with the fast rhyming.
The Coming one of the best debuts in hip hop history.
Busta is legit. And has best rap name ever.
Idk, well my 1st concert was kriss kross when I was in 4th grade and yes I wore my clothes backwards to the concert. I also had Amhad CD with the old song that goes " back in the day when I was young I'm not a kid anymore but some days I still wish I was a kid again" anyone remember that song? ETA: the one that made an impact n made me start to really love rap was seeing Bone thugs video thuggish ruggish bone on the box back in the day, who remembers that (the box music channel I mean). In my city if u didn't have cable was the only way to watch the box n you could call n pay like .99 to play a song. Thuggish ruggish bone was played back to back on there
I remember The Box Presents….. album from way back. The only songs I remember from it was I Never Seen A Man Cry by Scarface and the Tootsie Roll.
Damn I didn't know they put out a greatest hits from the box. We never had cable growing up so me n my friends stayed watching the box when we were at my house! N making mix tapes off the radio with cassette tapes lmao. The good ole days!
Juicy was the first track on the album (I looked it up because it was bugging me). It was called Big Phat Ones From Hip Hop. It also had Regulate, Bring the Pain and (one of my all time favorites) Flava in Ya Ear.
I loved recording the radio and dubbing tapes with the dual cassette decks. The quality so was so bad and we didn’t give a shit
No we didn't. Me n my friend used to also make VHS mix tapes with videos. We would stay up late to see the videos on BET that they couldn't play during the day.
The good old days. I’d always try calling up the box to request videos and could never get through.
We never had a way to pay for it so we never even tried lol. No way none of our mommas was going for that. Those really were the good ole days.
Facts
Hell yeah. "We stay mad about, ten minutes then it's like back on the bike" that song is my childhood.
Yaaassss. We just let everyone know we r in our 40s lol
He'll yeah the way he sang that hook was awesome
Picked up the FAT BOYS debut album with some Christmas money when I was about 10 years old, not having any idea what hip hop was. So, the first song in that album, JAILHOUSE RAP, was the first hip hop song I ever heard.
Fat Boys was my first too. I was like 8 or 9 and the older kid across the street from me had it.
I remember watching Disorderlies and thinking the Fat Boys were the coolest guys ever.
Jailhouse Rap was the first song for me too. I was about 7-8 and got a bunch of tape cassettes from a cousin. One was FAT BOYS. Only tape I remember from that whole box.
Rap God, never heard Eminem in my life to the only thing I listened to for weeks
😂
What? Hows that possible hes been around forever
I don't remember which was for sure the first, but the first one that left an impact for me to remember was Tupac - California Love. When it was played at Kendrick's Pop Out, I hadn't listened to it in like over 5 years probably, still knew every line, had that thing replayed to DEATH when I was 12.
He lives on through memories like this…
California love. In my opinion Tupac greatest verse and performance is on that track he kills it
First thing I really remember hearing as a kid that I loved was Black Steel by Public Enemy.
I heard other songs before but dint care I’d seen big n pac on tv didn’t care until DMX y’all gon make me lose my mind .
I didn’t really subscribe to any specific artists when I was a little dude but DMX did the trick for me, too.
It’s Tricky by Run-DMC
Wanksta by 50 lol
Biggie No Way Out album song Victory
It was a Puff album but it really belonged on. biggie album.
Biggie and Busta on the hook?
Rosa Parks
It was around 1985 and my friend had the first Fat Boys tape. That was my introduction to hip hop.
The Message - Furious Five
Probably Rappers Delight by Sugarhill Gang or Rapture by Blondie.
Mary Mary - Run DMC
Nuthin' But A G Thang- GTA San Andreas, Radio Los Santos, 2004. I was 11. Also Alwayz Into Something, La Raza, It Was A Good Day, How I Could Just Kill A Man. And The Message from Vice City.
How you like me now - Kool Moe Dee
Spoonie G. That's My Style.
First rap song I remember and honestly I think the first song of any genre that I remember hearing and loving was Ruff Ryder’s Anthem by DMX. Came out when I was 3
Not the first person to discover rap later in life
The songs that introduced me are probably stuff like "Can't Touch This" or "Ice Ice Baby", but that would have been quite young. The song that hooked me was Elevators (Outkast) in the 7th grade.
I dunno what the first song I heard was, but The first song that I wrote out and memorized the lyrics to was Dr Evils version of Just the Two of Us from Austin Powers lol that's what really got me hooked.
I have a cousin who is like 5-6 years older than me and I remember hanging at his house during the holidays and always wanting to go through his CD collection and listen to his rap albums. Listening to It's Dark and Hell is Hot when I was like 7 or 8 was probably my first hip-hop memory. I'm 33 so it has just come out around that time and was something he always had on. A bit later on when I was picking my own music, I was a huge Dipset fan in the early 2000s. Me and my buddy plaid our friends' older brother to drive us to the record shop so we could copp Purple Haze.
Luniz (I Got 5 On it) being on the first CD I ever owned - Now That's What I Call Music! Volume 33 or The Fugees (Ready or Not) which was a massive hit alongside Killing Me Softly and No Woman, No Cry on UK Radio stations. It's worth noting I didn't know I was listening to HipHop at that time, however by the time Puff Daddy dropped Missing You we all began learning about the Genre.... Meanwhile in the UK - 1996 was a Massive year for Music for me as The Prodigy and Oasis were bubbling to the top.
I was really young but I wanna say right there by Chingy..it was most likely either that or some song by 50
I honestly don't remember. It was always around or I don't remember my first song. I wish I did though
I don’t remember i think i was listening for a while
For me it was Encore by Jay Z
Who We Be by DMX
You Talk Too Much: Run DMC
Shook Ones Part 2
Switch up. Raebardo and Timpo.
Role model by Em
While I've probably been aware of rap since at least 4 years old DNA got me hooked
Biggie biggie biggie can't you see sometimes your words just hypnotize me.
Party Up by DMX was the 1st rap song I became conscious of when I was a little kid.
Toilet stool rap by Biz Markie had satellite on the rez 84
The first time I heard rap was 2 Live Crew - Nasty As They Wanna Be. Thank God for my neighbor's big brothers. 😂
As far as I can remember? My earliest memory of feeling the power of hip hop was DMX. Maybe Junior Mafia on the radio before him.
I wish I was little bit taller .I have no idea rapped it.
i wanna say some juice wrld. potentially lucid dreams or all girls are the same
Fuck the police I was like 6 and I played it off my moms iPod because it said fuck in the title
Hands up shawty when you party with me…
I had heard a bit, so it wasn't the introduction into hip hop, but Bring Da Ruckus was the first song that really drew me in.
First songs I remember were land of the heartless by Bone thugs and jam on it by newcleus
Fugees - Fu Gee La
Next episode - Dr. Dre
I remember my older brother listening to a lot of dmx, bustah rhymes, ludacris and a lot of rappers of that time. But atmosphere is the first hip hop album I bought myself without anyone telling me about them. I just knew one song off the album and I needed change for the public transit as they only accepted exact change. I instantly fell in love with it and how there’s some many different styles
I totally don’t remember but it was something by tribe. But that like “lean forward to lock in” moment was seeing Black Star on Chappelle Show
I got 5 on it
Slim shady
Summertime - Will Smith & Playground - ABC
No Diggity-Blackstreet I was born in 93 and one of my first memories is cruising with my aunt in her car bumping this song
probably wolves by kanye or drugs u shud try it by trav
I remember hearing Shook One's Pt. II for the first time. When the beat kicked in I was like "wtf is this?!?" I liked hip-hop after that but I didn't really become a head until I heard Atmosphere when I was like 15 lol.
Coolio - Gangstas Paradise
“Children’s Story” by SLICK RICK
I remember walking home from third grade the half a block with a copy of Creeping on a Come Up on cassette, playing No Surrender every single day. To jam to Me Against the World on CD at home cuz who the fck had a discman back then. it Ain't Easy always been my favorite song. No-oo-O-oo-O No SurRENde-rr-err Edit: Before that it was Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
I was like 13 and I listened to rap music by lil Darkie. To everyone around nes chagrin, I still like the song and the artist
My cousin showed me lose yourself when I was 8, took like 5 years to get proper into it
Dark Fantasy by Ye
A cousin of mine was playing Eminem's Superman in his car, it must be back in 2011 or so i was like 12.
The world is yours & just illmatic in general
A Beastie Boys song but Dre Day is the song I fell in love with hip hop
Black sheep- u mean I’m not
Will Smith - Men In Black then I asked for Big Willie Style for my 7th birthday. Also the Space Jam soundtrack from the 90s was super influential. And any hip hop that was ever on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack.
I don’t know the first song I heard but I bought the Ice T New Jack Hustler single and that started it!
Dre Day off the Chronic. That song was EVERYWHERE when it came out.
Also I can't lie and leave out Sir Mix a lot. Big butts was everywhere too.
First time hearing hip hop is when I heard teenagers bumping “Lady Venom” by swollen members in grade 4. What sold me on hip hop was seeing a trailer for American Gangster in grade 6 which had “Heart of the City” by HOV as the soundtrack. I went and bought all of Jay Z’s albums on CD as soon as I could.
The first was probably something commercial like Heavy D’s ‘now that we found love’, Hammer’s ‘can’t touch this’ or Ice’s ‘ice ice baby’. The one that made me aware of a whole culture, where rap is just an element off, was ‘violent’ from 2pac. Heard it first around ‘93/‘94 and was hooked, even as the youngin I was.
In all honesty… I bought a CD Single of the Men in Black theme. (I know, I know). The ‘B-side’ tracks included a track with ‘snippets’ of other songs from the soundtrack album - including Snoop, Nas etc. That snip of Nas - Escobar ‘97 flipped something in my brain.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 - The Message.. i was in 3rd grade
My name is
You be Illin Run DMC
First one I remember is Step Off - Melle Mel. When it came out. Not trying to pull rank lol 😆
I’m pretty sure it was “Stick Em’” from The Fat Boys.
Walk This Way by Aerosmith and Run DMC
C.R.E.A.M.
Fuck the Police. Almost 40 years later and it’s still fuck the police
Run DMC - Tricky
Feel me Flow - Naughty by Nature
My older cousin gave me the yo! Bum rush the show tape by public enemy when I was 7.
The earliest song I remember was nas if I ruled the world on power 106
Uptown baby- lord Tariq and Peter Gunz
Guilty Conscience by Eminem and Dr Dre. I listened to that track to death when it came out and have not been able to listen to it since then. Think I'll go listen to it again now. Edit: That second verse man. WTF???
Roxanne Roxanne by UTFO. And Stick 'em by Fat Boys. Those are my earliest hip hop memories.
Gangsta Gangsta by NWA is probably the first rap song I heard that made me think I wanted to hear more. And more. And more, and more, and more, until now I find myself a full-blown fan of hip hop in all forms. I think what attracted me was the beat; that wonderful snapping bass groove. Incredibly funky.
Me Myself and I by De La Soul. When I started playing drums & listening to funk music. I realized they sampled “Not just knee deep” by Parliament.
LL COOL J, BUSTA RHYMES, RUN DMC, DJ JAZZY JEFF
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It. Heard it for the first time at the age of 6 or 7 in mid '90s. But I wouldn't learn the name of this song or the guys that made it for another 10-15 years.
Real slim shady- I was about 9 and then I heard the rest of the album and I was hooked
NWA Automobile
Juicy
Eric B. Is President
In Da Club music video. I was 6yo. Instantly hooked
'It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under'
I dunno, I remember liking Chubb Rock a lot when I was little. But I think the song that stuck with me and made me want to rap was I'm Bad by LL. I remember trying to rhyme at like 5 because he had a line about Oreos lol
What's that song, heeeyyyy hoooo heyyyy hoooo
Monster by kanye west
First tape I ever bought was the fat boys, first cd was Dr. Dre the chronic, I'm 45 now, I just know it's always been hip hop/rap for me
I remember hearing Gin and Juice in fourth grade and just standing there mesmerized. My mom listened to oldies and my dad listened to country, so even pop and rock were unknown to me. Hearing Snoop rap over a dre beat broke my little brain and I became hooked.
Rappers Delight
I believe it was end of fifth grade going into sixth grade summer camp. Chamillionaire ridin’ played on the radio. I liked the fast part with crazy bones. And then I had to have it. But my virtuous parents wouldn’t let me get the explicit version. Many temper tantrums later and I got it. But it just goes to show how virtuous and non-gangsta they’ve always been. I vow if I ever have kids they’ll listen to the explicit version from Day one. And have access to all the toys and drugs they want. That I’ll be the most gangsta parent and they’ll never cry in discomfort.
Imagine being into hiphop before the name hiphop was invented....it was called Disco, and seeing the change and transformation after all these years and still into it.
Some fat Joe song
My Philosophy - BDP
Nuthin' But A G Thang Dre and Snoop changed everything for me. I still stuck with the rock elites at the time - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Rage Against The Machine, but any new music I was exploring for a few years after hearing NBAGT was Hip Hop.
Probably something by Will Smith. I vividly remember the Gimme Some Mo video by Busta Rhymes. I was 8.
You spelled pop music wrong
Rappers Delight, Sugar Hill Gang, The Breaks Kurtis Blow
‘Then someone played Snow - informer’ Bruh.
Lol….obviously my taste got better and then discovered Wu tang, the roots, group home, and others.
Scenario - a tribe called quest
Minecraft Creeper Rap by Dan Bull back when I was 10
blondie - rapture
Cypress Hill, Vannilla ice, Mc hammer and Kris Kross
Police Academy 4 - Citizens on Patrol. Anyone else know this?!
Opp- naughty by nature and my mind is playing tricks on me- geto boys. The first ones I can remember hearing
Scenario. My older siblings had the cassette single and I fell in love. I used to put my cassette tapes in a plastic Ziploc bag. I may have been all of 5-6 years old.
Obie Trice - Rap Name
Mum used to play me outkast when I was just a baby and I loved Beyoncé all my life. Nicki is what introduced me to hip hop a couple of years ago with Pound the Alan and Super Bass, but the first genuine hip hop song I'd got me into actual hip hop was Monster.
Probably the Fat Boys or Run DMC. Heavy D. First song I remember getting into was DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
The first 5 rap songs I can remember: Can't Touch This - MC Hammer Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Nuthin But a G Thang Thuggish Ruggish Bone - Bone Thugs n Harmony The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
It was Chaka Khan’s “I Fell For You”, Moms had it on blast. She listened to R&B exclusivly (Anita, Kieth, etc.). From that point on, I was looking for that flow.
I don't like admitting this, but We Made You by Eminem.
NWA - Fuck the Police I was in elementary school when I heard it, going through my uncle's CD collection. What got me really really into hip hop though was Eminem - Stan and really the whole Marshall Matters LP.
Hate it or love it (Im 1996)
Rich Gang - Lifestyle ft. Rich Homie Quan, Young Thug (I believe I was 13 at that point) How tf did I go from THIS song to listenning primarily to 90's artists like Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Onyx, Big Pun, etc?! No clue XD
Run DMC, Tricky or possibly Beastie Boys Brass Monkey. I remember both of those happening what seemed like about the same time.
Rappers Delight, that’s right mofos been down since day 1
"Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Ghetto Bastard)" by Naughty by Nature. Still a great song if you ask me.
Everybody’s something by Chance
Regulate - Warren G and Nate Dogg
First rap sng I heard was of course Rappers Delight but the first song that introduce to Hip Hop culture was Malcolm Mclaren's Buffalo Girls. The video still give me chills.
Gold Digger by Kanye West comes to mind, born in 2002. First time hearing the n word too probably
To young to remember but being that I’m white and my family aren’t the biggest hip hop heads it was probably something off the Marshall LP
Master P - Ghetto D Album. Tupac. Too Short. Lil’ Kim. Beastie Boys. Tech Nine.
Cypress Hill. Gin and Juice. Bone T & H.
Method Man. Outkast. Lil Jon kings of crunk.
Busta Rhymes. Missy Elliot. Salt N Peppa.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard. NWA.
Tone Loc. 🤓
Not really a hip-hop song, but the song that got me into rap was Psycho - Post Malone
The whole Raising He'll RUN DMC album. I was like 6 years old. I still jam the fuck out of it.
Ridin Dirty by Chamillionaire How We Do by Thr Game
My earliest memory of hip-hop is a snippet of the first 20 seconds of Ambitionz As A Ridah. I'm not sure if I heard anything before. I'm not American. Music was forbidden in my household, but other kids in my village exposed me to music and hip-hop happened to be most popular in the 00's. It completely changed the trajectory of my life once I got deeper into it, as I was the only kid who knew some English. It was the only thing in that ultra-conservative environment which didn't feel like it was speaking down at me and judging me. It taught me about racism, and that I and everyone around me was racist. And this opened the door for questioning everything else about my country's culture.
Big Poppa
Croatian rap song "Looka Borna" by Bolesna Braća (translation: "Sick Brothers"). You should check it out, its a catchy 00s but well produced song, even to todays standards.
Brass Monkey was the first I of consciously heard loud and from start to finish. But i only partially computed. I was maybe 6. It tripped me out. Rap was becoming mainstream by then but not on the radio stations my parents had on. The more thorough introduction would be Fuck Tha Police.
Mr. Boombastic … at a school function, maybe like 6 or 7 years old. That shit was slappin.
I am a celebrity from Eminem. Pure classic.
I’ve been surrounded by rap my whole life. One song that definitely made me find interest was Stronger by Kanye West. I remember listening to it on my old iPod.
The message girl I went to jr high with just got home from visiting cousins in NYC she played it we said they're just talking she said its called rapping it was awesome fast forward 45yrs still a fan back then white guys like me usually hated. Not me loved it immediately
Above the clouds. I couldn't get over it. I just kept repeating "Like constellations reflect at night off the lake"
Honestly it was the odd future tape. My brother loved them and I wasn’t into hip hop til I listened it through.
Ms Jackson