What Made You Start Listenin to Hip Hop?

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

The Chronic and Shorty the Pimp!   

[Sosna]

Eminem and "Without Me" -> Then I started 2 listenin' Snoop D.O. Double G...

[XaNdEr]

thats not long time ago sosna, maybe like 4 years or something, what music you liked before that?

[Sosna]

Rap was first music I really heard. Before that I wasn't interested music, man (lol)... Maybe some oldschool shit from 80s, but not hip-hop.

[kevlar]

Man, some of you make me feel old lol.

I got introduced to it by my cuz.  He was really into disco (we're talking mid-late 70's).  Alot of the early hip hop records back then were very disco oriented.  He was copping alot of Sugarhill stuff.  I  was only 3 or 4 back then, but I knew that I liked it.

I remember hearing "Planet Rock" on the radio when it was new.

I didn't really get into it until I bought my first record back in 85/86.  T La Rock and Jazzy Jay's "It's Yours".  On Partytime Records.  Partytime eventually would become some label known as Def Jam.

I found myself returning back to the same record store on a weekly basis to pick up more jams.  I was a regular customer at this spot  from the mid to late 80's up until the early 90's. 

[T-Dogg]

I remember listening to my brothers and and his friends records with them and watching Yo! MTV Raps when I was like 7 or 8. I liked Snoops and Dres stuff back then (well, the singles mostly back then. G Thang, What's My Name...). Rock was more my thing until my 13th or 14th year though, but I was really drawn into it in the late 90's again. Again, through my brothers records, both newer and older. Dre, Nas, Biggie, Pac... I understood the lyrics better, the rhyming appealed to me more than before, the stories spoke to me more... Plus, I discovered old school soul and R&B through Hip-Hop later too.

Still on that road.