how long have you been listen to rap in ur life

[HBKid_Jr]

I was curious how old you all were when you started listing to rap.  I really didn't become a big rap fan untill i saw NWA on farmclub.com.  I listened to rap a little bit because i was ashamed to be white an listen to rap.  The rap videos i remember seeing as a kid were Nutin but a "G' thang, gin & juice,  hip hop hooray, cali love, the crossroads, a Fabtatic voyage.  I would put the TV real low cuz i would get made fun of by my parents for liking rap,  it was nuthin traumatizing i just pissed me off.  Since seeing NWA on farmclub.com i have got pretty much all the classic westcoast albums except Makaveli 7 day theroy and tha doggfather because i havent been able to find themin stores.

[Murrow]

For me, I never remembered the NWA days, it all came together in '92 for me when I saw "Dre Day".  Then when I heard "Nuthin But A G Thang", I went out and fuckin bought my first rap album ever.  Since then, I followed WC hip-hop up intil this day.

[Hambone (Guest)]

man i am old school....i used to listen to the early run dmc stuff...double dutch bus stuff, and the rest of the stuff from that era....used to hook up my mic to my boom box(yeah, i am from the days where we called them boom boxes) and rap over run dmc.........i used to be apart of a b-boy breakdancin gang also....takin our cardboard around to battle other groups.....that shit was crazy.....kool mo dee...big daddy kane days......yeah...those were the days..and the Early Eric B, and Rakim!  Roxeanne Roxeanne...UTFO, that was the shiznit..

[Mr_Loc]

i think it was like '92 when i was 11. Just that Chronic album man, shit just hit me like frum nowhere cuz rap wasn't in the UK really at all then.
I remember hearing the chronic singles on the radio and i was just like whoa! although i didnt buy my first tape until doggystyle the next year.

Since then I could'nt get enough of hip hop, especially the best coast shiit, and for someone who lives in the UK i probably have one of the best West Coast hip hop collections. so thats like nearly 10 years now, damn how time flies lol

[Jay ay Beee]

In about '97 my friend was tellin me bout rap and he told me to get Doggystyle
No more explaining needed
Hooked since then

[cremedelaclem]

man i been ALL ABOUT hip hop for as long as i can remember....

it all started with me wanting to be likemy big brother and his friends when i was real young....i remember when he kicked my ass for cutting up one of his old juice crew records cos i was pretending to be a dj and trying to scratch and shit back when i was real young....

i became a certified hip hop fanatic the first day i heard 'bring the ruckus' on my block.....never looked back since  

[Joachim]

Back in 92 really cos North London had a mad hip hop scene, and my bro was a B-boy so he always had hip hop tapes.

[Hambone (Guest)]

damn.....i think Crem and I are the oldest ones up in this mutha..that remember the real old school hip hop...lol......someone hand me my cane...

[cremedelaclem]

lol...for real....

put Overseer in that bracket too....we some old motherfuckers!!!!

damn....i dont know about y'all...but it seems crazy to me when i see rappers thats younger than me blowin up!!!

i think the first time that happened to me was when jd first dropped some stuff with kriss kross and i was like DAAAAMMMMNNNN!!!!!

that cats my age and hes multi platinum!!!

[Smooth]

ahhh back in the 94 when i was like 8 one of my boys introduced my to Doggystyle... and im still lovin it till this day

[Trauma-san]

Beastie Boys... Fat Boys....

First Rap Song I Ever Heard Was "Brassss Monkey, That Funky Monkey!!!" Ya Know...

So I'm Pretty Old School Too.  I Wasn't Ever Exposed To The Real Underground Stuff, Though... Just Real Commercial Stuff.  Vanilla Ice, Snow, All That Crap.  

First NWA Song I Ever Heard Was "She Swallowed It"  

[Overseer (Guest)]

I remember being in a cheesy lil 3 man breakin' crew in the mid 80s when I was about 10 LOL
out the back of my friends house on some cardboard with an tape ganked from his brothers room LOL

later on came Eazy Duz It, NWA and then Doggystyle  

[Head Honcho]

Well I was hooked when I heard Regulate for the first time, and that musta been like what 4-5 years ago....but the thing that really opened my eyes was Napster, cuz I found like NWA, old Snoop etc., so thats really whut got me hooked

Getto  

[M Dogg™]

See, in the 80's L.A. had the first ever hip hop only station KDAY, and I've listen since... OK we didn't get KDAY in the I.E., but we did get 99.1 in 1990. That's when I finally got to listen to rap on a regular basis. From South Central Cartel to N2Deep, that old school westcoast shit was bumping. Rodney O and Joe Cooley, So house shit by L.A. Stlye, "James Brown is  Dead" Cypress Hill up the ass, mostly underground. So in 1991, I really started getting into it. Before that I listen to some LL Cool J, Ice T and Eazy E, but in 1991, when we got our own station in the I.E., I really did. Shame now that 99.1 plays nothing but R&B now. Oh and my first rap tape was Eazy Does It in 1992. I was just 11.

[infinite59]

Summer of 93, when I was 11,  I was at an MU Tigers basketball camp, we were all chillin in the lobby in between games, and "Wit a Dre Day" I heard Snoop utter the words "Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippee Yea" and I've been a hip-hop head ever since.