How I got into (westcoast) RAP

[So Much Style]

Ok...this is very interesting...
When i was like 7 (1994) i was just beginning to understand and enjoy music. My parents had that old shit like the beatles and i would sing it in my head, and what not, but i was only like in 2nd grade..this is when 2 twelve year olds from around the block told me about Dr Dre and snoop (they were teeny boppers and still are, i nkow them still) which they probably just heard the singles for chronic on mtv..but anyway i went to WAL MART the next day asking if they had anything by dr dre or snoop, and they were like "WHAT? they cuss alot" and they directed me to "domino" and coolio-it takes a thief" this it the first time i relise those are my first 2 albums, then christmas was coming up and my parents bought me some bullshit "bass masters" or smoething and i listend to it alot....i was still waiting to hear dre and snoop, when i heard a warren g single, i bougt the cd somewhere, then i went to radio shack (yes thsi si like the only place that sells explicit cds here) and i saw chronic and doggystle and bought them both on TAPE. They were dope and remember always listenign to them ,they serioulsy tought me the bad stuff about life, racisimn, sex and so on..this change dmy life, i was a really smart nerd at like 7 u could say and rap made me totally different.....

Then at about the age of 10 i was still catching up on older albums that had came out like all eyez on me and dogg food, and at 12 is when i really picked up, 12 and 13 is when i bought most of my cds i have been getting everything and hear we are now at 14 and i buy all my fav shit from Usually only west until this year i got into eastcoast shit....

THERES MY STORY lol

[Smooth]

haha nice story hommie

peace!

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

I would type up my story, but it would take too long, plus I typed it up before...

[DJ Stew]

haha heres my story.
Early 90's i think probably around 90-91 or so (i woulda been about 7 too) i remember sittin in my basement, tryin to hang out with my older bro and his friends. and they were listening to Eazy-E- Eazy Duz it and i remember them tryin to explain to me what rap was, sayin that it was a song that tells a story, i remember tryin to keep a straight face with all the swearing in it hahaha. but i know for a fact that NOBODY MOVE was the first rap song i heard (that i remember anyways) i still love that song

"You a stupid motherfucker tryin to run, now you dead as fuck trying to race a gun"! i love that line

[Cliftone_Santiago_909]

 I alwayz watch rappers on T.V get interviewed and then the reporter asks something like "Don't you think it's wrong to rap about gangs, drugs and woman like that?"....."You know, because kids listen to this stuff and start to mimic what they hear in your music".....

 Then the rappers get all mad and might be like "Bitch you trippin! Don't nobody kill someone else over some shit they hear on a muthafuckin song! tha shit we rap about is just us keepin' it real.... knowhatimsayin?"

  Like when all those girls were harrassed in Central Park and foolz were pouring liquor on them n shit.... people accused Dr Dre, saying that his videos like "Next Episode" and "Nothin But A G Thang" encouraged guys to take advantage of women like that....

  Dre even said something like "That's Bullshit! Get one of those morons from Central Park and let them tell me they did that shit cuz of what they saw on my video" (Not exactly what he said)

  Yeah well I was just thinking.....

  Maybe one of those reporters can take you (So Much Style) along with them when they interview the rapper you can talk about how you were a straight A student in the second grade up until you heard "Doggystyle" and "the Chronic" and all of a sudden at the early age of 8 you started smoking weed and snorting coke and kicking it with prostitutes by the sand box at recess....

  LMAO

[Sikotic™]

Music has a big influence on you. I know I can listen to a song a that was big a couple of years back and  remember what was goin on at that time.

[Don Jacob]

aright heres my story:


shit from as long as i remember i've always remember hearing rap music from my older brother he use to get home from school and turn on his radio and put in a tape old school shit that was brand new at the time like "straight outta compton" and "eazy duz it" this was about 1989 so i was like 4 years old back then and i just remember hearing this every day and i remember it was a shock for me when my mom beat my ass for saying fuck and shit, cuz i just thought they were regular words i didn't know what a cuss word wasi thought it was stupid that i couldn't say a silly word....anyways i always occationally listened to my brothers music and somtimes was forced to hear it becuase we shared a room and about 3 or 4 years later on Christmas i received 2 tapes from sombody and they were "the chronic and Doggystyle" i really got into those albums and i started watching mtv to see their videos then when i started watching mtv i started listening to the radio and got heavily into music buying every thing i saw and heard on mtv, BET, and radio (this was back when it wasn't a crime to enjoy mainstream music) i had a fair amount of cd's back in the day for a 11-12 year old i think 50 or so and until 1996 i stoped listening to rap.....it seems right after pac had died the quality of rap had deteriorated....i mean jay-z went pop, nas was falling off, biggie was going pop then he got killed , snoop wasn't doggy dogg anymore dr. dre had left deathrow and went into hiding and all my rap heros were just either whack or in hiding....so from late 96-late 99 i was just fed up with rap as a whole i couldn't stand all the popppy shit like puffy and mase, will smith and the spice girls and Hanson, then the backstreet boys rising and shit....MUSICK JUST STARTED TO BECOME SHIT!!! i mean i bought a couple of nice albums in rap during this time but rap had just wore out it's welcome with me so i went other ways to fufil my musical interests...i started getting into all aspect of rock from my uncle and this really kept me entertained until about late 99' when i heard dr. dre was putting out the chronic 2 i was like man i hope this shit is going to be the bomb so for the first time in a while i put in all my old classics and was like daaaaaamn how could i ever forsake thee.....ha ha then i was really hyped up about dre's new album i knew it was going to be the bomb after hearing "still d.r.e" then a week later we got the internet and then i got on the dr. dre board and i was just basically reliving my past talking about all the good music from the past and basically that gave me a reinterest in rap, and about a year or so ago my older brother gave me all his old cd's (because he was joining the navy ) and so i came up on 200 cd's that i needed plus the 100 i already had so that was 300, and then i got a job and was making 200 dollars a week and bascially loading up on every thing, and here i am today cold chillin' it

[Scribe]

A breif history,
I got into the West in early '99 through the Chronic, as soon as i heard it i couldn't get enough of the West Coast sound. I have almost caught up buying all the Classics.

[So Much Style]

naw, i still made good grades, but it changed my personality and atitiude in a good way..i think

[So Much Style]

naw, i still made good grades, but it changed my personality and atitiude in a good way..i think

[So Much Style]

naw, i still made good grades, but it changed my personality and atitiude in a good way..i think

[Top-Dogg2001]

As a little kid I always listened to rap. I bought tapes of singles and stuff. I never bought full albums. My cousin use to come up and I use to listen to all her albums and tape them. I never was into music like that as a kid. But it was there. Then in 5 grade. Like 1996 I became a big deathrow and Bad boy fan. I convinced my mom to let me buy cds with explicit content on it. My bought puffy's no way out cd in 97 then I began to regularly buy the source magazine. I started buying old cds to bring up my collection and new cds. Everyday I would learn something about hip hop. My musical taste became versatile. I not only could like commercial groups but I started following the underground. I always like the east and the west. In 97-98 I began getting into the south. Now days I can listen to almost all forms of rap and get something out of it.

[Sikotic™]

I've grown up around hip-hop all my life. I really got into it around 98 and 99.

[Cliftone_Santiago_909]

  Man, I aint even really got a story... I said this on another post but.... when I was little... we were tha only family on tha block that had a basketball court so my older brother's friends would alwayz be at my pad playin... They'd have their lil boom box outside playing all kinds of shit....

  Alotta old rap songs remind me of back then when i was REALLY young.... like
 
  Mellow Man Ace's "Mentirosa"
  2 Live Crew shit
  Digital Underground
  N.W.A (Especially "Boyz N The Hood")

  Yeah so, No lie! ever since I started listening to music.... RAP was alwayz my number 1 style of music... even though back then it was shit like MC Hammer it was still rap... and yeah, later on i did start to listen to other kinds of music but Rap was alwayz number 1 to me.