WHATS THE SONG THAT GOT YOU INTO RAP?

[Sccit]

not the first rap song you heard, but the one that started it all and really got you hooked on the shit..

for me it was "Who Am I" by Snoop.. i vividly remember it playin on the radio right before class back in 1st grade and bein captivated. shit was catchy as fuck and was stuck in my head for the rest of that day+

if u could pick 1 song, which is the one that did it for you?

[WestWestYA]

2pac skandalouz. It was the b side song to i aint mad at cha.

[Fraxxx]

Either Fuck Martinez or Me So Horny, one of those two.

[BIGTIMELA]

Kris Kross - Jump lol, then I'd say The Chronic and Doggystyle albums.

[Hack Wilson - real]

does Whoomp There It Is count?



if not then either Coolio's Gangstas Paradise or Cydal and Luniz's Hollywood.  this depends on if you count mainstream or underrgound. 

[MOBNigga06]

2Pac - All About U

Heard this song in my friend's car when I was a little nigga, bought All Eyez on Me, and it was on from there.

[BIGWORM]

That was my first rap track before that it was breakdance track. I used to steal my older sisters records and cassettes and bump them. But it was all over when I got a hold of tracks like Eric B and Rakim-Paid in full. Then it was Kool Moe Dee-Wild wild west. Then I gravitated to 2-live crew, N.W.A. Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Spice-1

[doggfather]

Ice t o g album

[Sccit]

does Whoomp There It Is count?



if not then either Coolio's Gangstas Paradise or Cydal and Luniz's Hollywood.  this depends on if you count mainstream or underrgound. 

whoomp there it is it is

[Heinz]

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[gio™fugahoo]

Dr Dre-Dre Day

[TraceOneInfinite]

Dr Dre-Dre Day

^^^^THIS.

I was away from home for the first time at MU Tigers Basketball camp.  The older dudes used to control the TV in the lobby and they always kept it on MTV.  Everyday they'd do a top 5-10 countdown and "Wit A Dre Day" wasthe number 2 video that summer of 93'.  All the old heads would run around sayin "Bow Wow Wow Yipee Yo Yippee Yay" it was like the catch phrase of the camp.  Snoop became a legend that week of camp and the rest is history...

...its funny when your older and you think back on all the funny misconceptions you had as a kid.  I thought Dre and Snoop were a rap group and it took some time for me to figure out that they were two solo artists working together.  I was also in denial that Snoop didn't really smoke weed (because drugs were bad in 5th grade, lol).  I honestly believed that he was just rappin about it but would never really do it, even when he had a joint comin out of his mouth in the Doggystyle liner notes.

I had some vague notion that Dre had been around a bit and that he brought Snoop into the game, so having the Chronic album I was hungry for more Dre material but too young to really know about rap I damn near bought Concrete Roots!  I know I would've liked efil4zaggin if id come acrossed it in those days and known it was damn near another Dre album (as he produced nearly all the cuts and rapped his ass off on the record)

[S.J]

Coolio - Gangstas Paradise. I was 14 when it came out, I liked some rap songs before that but this got me into rap. I think the first rap songs I heard were MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This and Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby.

[Mietek23]

Probably "California Love" - I've heard some rap records from Snoop, Dre, Coolio, Onyx and Naughty By Nature before, but that record was special and it caught my interest to dig deeper into that stuff, that's how it started back in 96 and ever since it's been on.

[arubiano83]

Naughty by nature - o.p.p. uptown anthem
Grandmaster flash - the anthem
sugar hill gang - white lines (lol)