Wu-tang back in ninety seven

scarface, public enemy, NWA, Ice Cube, Geto boys, Bushwick bill....

 i remember i found a tape case with all these tapes in it along with some wannabe dj mix tapes.....ever since then i haven't stopped listening to this stuff

The first shit I ever got into was shit like Another Bad Creation, Bel Biv Devoe and shit like this....Until I heard Snoop Doggy Dogg, then I really had love for hiphop, and then I heard "Southernplayalistic" by Outkast and that shit was the bomb too.  Not to mention "The Chronic"

At this time I was about 10 years old in grade 3 or 4 I think.

run dmc

When I heard the Chronic all the way thru for the first time, I was hooked.

When I was a kid, I didn't listen to rap, of course, I listened to rock & roll from the 60's (in the 80's, lol) because that's all my dad listened to.  The first time I listened to rap, I think, was probably  the Fat Boys, and the Beastie Boys.  I was in 4th grade, trying to show these kids why the Beach Boys were cool, and they were trying to show me why the Beastie Boys were cool.  I honestly hadn't heard more than 1 or 2 songs that weren't 20 years old when I was 9.  I had Elvis records and shit.  Some people can say I was a nerd, shit, I was more in style than any of those posers were, lol.  Anyways, I listened to the Fat Boys because they were in movies, and I listened to the Beastie Boys, because at the time, this would be probably 86 or 87, it was o.k. for white people to listen to rap, if it was the Beastie Boys.  Basically, I'm telling it like it was, no white person (hardly) at the time would listen to most rap that was out, because a lot of it was still about african american consciousness, or at least just tied more into a black thing.  White people didn't really relate to it, but we listened to the beastie Boys.  When NWA started doing their thing, I heard a lot of that, and then when Vanilla Ice came out, rap really started going pop, as in, it was much much more commercial.  I didn't really hear much new music consistantly until I lived down the street from some kids in a trailor park one time (no shit, I literally lived in a trailor park), and they were all into rap.  I went over to their house all the time (or, uh, their trailor), and we'd sit in the living room, with trash piled up like 3 feet high (these people were pigs),.... one day, I was watching, and Deep Cover came on, that was when I really started liking rap, Deep Cover, Informer (with Snow, lol), Tribe Called Quest, Prince, Tevin Campbell, I used to watch all that shit around that time.  but first rappers that I liked would have to be the Beastie Boys, "Brass Monkey, Funkey Monkey" was the weirdist shit I had ever heard.  

beastie boys were the shit back in the day

dre, snoop, Wu-Tang, beastie boys  

snoop dogg

When I was in 4th grade, in 1991, I finally got my own head set, and I really got into Lighter Shade of Brown. Two Mexican rappers from Riverside, and I was from Rialto, which is right next door, it was the greatest. I still have that old ass tape. Before I listened to the oldies station that my mom played, and the oldies tapes she had. I feel in love with the lowrider oldies, 'cause I love smooth music. Of course before LSOB, I listen to some hip-hop, but never got into it like I was LSOB. That opened the doors later for N2Deep, SCC, and of course later, Dr. Dre and the Chronic.

Warren G and Nate Dogg, Regulate was the first TAPE I brought and I really felt Warren ever since, also Onyx Bacdafucup, borrowed that shit from my friend and fell in love SLAM, DUH DUH DUH, LET THE BOYZ BE BOYZ!!!!!!!!

Then when All Eyez On Me Got released damn I felt 2 Pac

^ havent you not got any snoop albums?

When I was in 4th grade, in 1991, I finally got my own head set, and I really got into Lighter Shade of Brown. Two Mexican rappers from Riverside, and I was from Rialto, which is right next door, it was the greatest.

Props  

well for me it was in the late eighties...first rapper to really capture me tho may have been chuck d and pe, beastie boys were fun but too party n bs...