Author Topic: WHATS THE SONG THAT GOT YOU INTO RAP? (Read 1114 times)

o g s u e s o n e · « **Reply #30 on:** January 26, 2015, 12:56:41 AM »

Quote from: ez8o5 on January 25, 2015, 04:57:05 PM

Beastie boys brass monkey

Well, I think the first rap album I bought was the tape of Licensed to Ill by the great Beastie Boys because of the track Rhymin & Stealin.

BakinSodaFree · « **Reply #31 on:** January 26, 2015, 01:03:18 AM »

Not a song for me.
Picked up Cypress Hill - Temple of Boom at a record store without even knowing what kind of music it was. The cover looked cool i think, was about 11-12.

Been hooked since then, even though my love for hip hop is a little less now. My love for soul and Funk has taken its place

dnjp4life · « **Reply #32 on:** January 28, 2015, 01:24:27 PM »

For me there are 3 tracks that I can think of that got me started:

1. Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack: not tecnically a rap track, but it got played so much on the radio in the mid '90s and it helped introduce me to the 'beats', if you will.
2. Run DMC v Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Remix): the same applies to this one, got me into the whole sound.
3. 2Pac - Changes: I was hooked after hearing the lyrics to this, I'd never heard anything as deep as this before.

B.A. · « **Reply #33 on:** January 29, 2015, 12:25:28 PM »

The earliest song that I can remember really, really loving and playing over and over was the original version of N.W.A's Dope Man. My brother had it on tape, it was new at the time and I remember I would take it from his room, sneek away with it and listen to it in the living room all quiet as fuck when my parents were sleeping; I knew I wasn't supposed to be listening to it. I was young as hell, I didn't have any money of my own so I couldn't buy my own cassette tapes (that's what it was back then, cassette) but my brother was older and would buy tapes so I'd just take his shit when he wasn't around. I listened to other rap music before that but Dope Man was the one song that really stuck with me.

Another one I remember bumping a lot was Run-DMC's Christmas In Hollis from the Christmas Rap album, that I would also snatch from my brother. Later, when I got a boombox one year for a birthday present, it was over! I remember the first thing I recorded off the radio was Slick Rick's Children's Story.

Damn...great memories!