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What got y'all into hip-hop? Who were your early favorites?

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Cliche:
How did you first hear it?

Just wondering, I'm assuming that the majority of heads hear got into hip-hop via the west coast vibe, but not all of you did i'm sure.  I had heard hip-hop before, Eric B & Rakim, LL, Beasties and Tribe... probably some other stuff... i even had a LL tape way back when, but the west coast sound is what made me decide i wanted to make a more concerted effort to hear new stuff and find old stuff (niether of which was hard to do where i grew up).... i grew up on Snoop, Warren, Cube, DPG etc... but also on ATCQ, Rakim, Public Enemy and Nas... what about y'all?

Twentytwofifty:
I got into it with The Chronic in '93.  That shit blew me away.  I was pure westcoast until I heard "Juicy" then got Ready To Die.  Then I just keep branching out and listening to everything.  I got all kinds of albums now from Tribe to Rakim to Devin to NWA to Wu-Tang to Ras Kass...

Ten years later I got about 170 albums.  I love this shit.

infinite59:
SNOOP DOGGY DOGG.  I tell this story everytime.  I was at an Missouri University basketball camp, 11 years old.  Summer of 93.  And Wit a Dre Day is BLOWIN up on MTV.  They are playing the video all day in the break room at camp.  All the kids, older highschool dudes are running around chanting, "Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippeee Yea Snoop Dogg's in the Muthafuckin House!!!!".

I was a hip-hop head for life.  Snoop was amazing to me.  How he just kicked back in the background of Dre's video's.  He acted just like a regular dude who didn't even care if he was a star or not he was just kickin it.  It was so unique I started looking for all the Dre and Snoop cd's I could find.  I thought they were a rap group.  I couldn't understand why Snoop's picture wasn't on the cover of The Chronic.

Nima - Dubcnn.com:
i was a kid watchin "who am i" on tv i just loved snoops style.. i had a cypress hill tape, a ice t tape (the one with the P.A. warning at the beginning) and just loved it..

Black Pack:
I've been listening to Hip Hop for as long as I can remember. Growing up, one of my elder brothers was producing and the other was emceeing. And this was early 80s. But my early favorites were Tribe, De La, PE, Run DMC, LL (The early LL), Slick Rick, BDP, Schooly D,  Stetsasonic, Kool Moe, Doug E Fresh, Bambaataa,  Kurtis Blow, Funky Four Plus One, Grand Master Flash,  etc...

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