What Made You Start Listenin to Hip Hop?

[Suga Foot]

for me it was salt-n-pepa's let's talk about sex.  after that i was hooked.  

[HBKid_Jr]

i grew up around rap but as a kid u have no money to buy tha albums an i wasnt really a big fan but i liked it.  When i moved to pricksville or hicksville,  whatever tha name is every1 was in to punk rock like green day.  So i sought of became ashamed of listen to rap. It was in 5th grade they 1st called me a wigga.  There was some rap a couple of peeps listened to like coolio so i listened to some rap.  In middle school every1 would clown on rap an heavy metal wasnt really my thing so i didnt listen to much music.  Around 9th an 10th grade it got to tha point where i said fuck it,  all this shitty music aint me so i started listening to rap again.  Tha 3 songs that really made me a big rap fan were cali luv,  fantastic voyage,  an tha crossroads.

[js83]

i remember when i first started listening to hiphop back in 92' when "doggystyle" dropped...it talked about killing people, fucking bitches, gang banging, etc...and i thought shit was pretty tite..i never heard of anything like dis before..so i got hooked to hiphop ever since...

[Trauma-san]

Beastie Boys, BABY.  Fat Boys.

Then N.W.A., and later on, "IIII CANNN FEEEEEEEEEL IT" Deep Cover totally Destroyed My Mind.  

[Dope Money Clean]

I  had   2 older brothers     .    My oldest  brother  used to have  RUN DMC    records   and   Boogie Down Productions    tapes .   LL Cool  J   - Radio  on cassette   .     all that  old shit .    i used to  sneak in his room and  bump  those .     Then  I  would watch  YO! MTV RAPS   and see     big daddy kane   ,  NWA ,    LL    .     I  was  hooked after all that .   There was  no  such  thing as music  other than  hiphop/rap .     Cuz thats all i heard  and saw.    


Fat boys   was   my first tape  .       "LOUIE LOUIE"  was  like my  favorite song  at one point .    

[bLaDe]

the beats ... and the lyrics(mainly tupacs at first)

 -{bLaDe}

[Dogg_Pound_Gangsta]

i think that it was nwa.  i used to see them on tv and then i was like damn that shit is cool.

[bombbud]

i wonder if i am the oldest around here?!
i came across hip hop or rap in da 80s, when sugarhill gang dropped their anthem "rapper's delight". now i am 37 but still in da game, still listening to nuthin but wc-g-funk!

[DJ_Jay_Deee]

N-A-S and the S-N-Double-O-P made me listen 2 rap!

[=[Euthanasia]=]

Pac & Snoop (around the time of "Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z & "Doggystyle"). My bro used to be a huge rap fan so I kind of grew up with his music & picked up my own taste for it along the way, & i've never looked back since  

[infinite59]

I was at MU Tigers basketball camp and everyone was chillin in the lobby before games.... And "Wit A Dre Day" was blowing up on MTV... All the older dudes were runnin round hollerin "Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yooo Yippeee Yeee".... I was hooked for life...... Snoop was a real laid back, deeply cool and calm, mysteriously defiant cat.... I really identified with his music and the way he carried himself.

[DrewDogg]

I grew up around alot of hip hop. Influenced by my friends mainly. But altogether hip hop was never really a big thing for me. But i remember being real young and listening to LL cool J and what not. I bought cd's and never really listened to them. I had Doggystyle in my house for YEARS and never listened through it all the way as a youth, it just sat there and collected dust. I then got into coolio and the west coast was instilled into me. I put on Doggystyle and am hooked.  

[Jome]

Pac & N.W.A

[4 KiN L]

the track that first brought mt attention to rap was that fuckin' funky arse tune by run DMC - i think it was called 'thats just the way it is' or summat like that......this wasn't the sing that hooked me though.....

[AxleF]

GREG MACK AND THE FUCKIN MACK ATTACK.  1580 AM  KDay Los Angeles... Uncle Jams Army.... The Fresh FEST!!!!! God DAMN IT!!! (gettin all excited thinkin about those days

Tony and Julio G.  The Mix Master's show!!!  EAZY "MF" E!!!

These are the things I grew up on, Ya'll!!!!

Hollywood Live night club back in 88.  Oscos on La Cienega and Bevely Blvd in 1986.  Slauson Swap Meet and them damn mix tapes.  (Thats what got me.. Mix tapes) In 1986, I was in Jr. High school and we used to listen to homies battle at lunch time.  One dude beat boxin, one dude rapping and a circle of niggaz bobbin they head, feelin it.  

That was my young life, growin up in L.A.  Real hip hop history!  Thats what got me into hip hop..  Haven't looked back since.  

Axle "21310" Fohley