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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Suga Foot on January 23, 2002, 04:48:00 PM
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for me it was salt-n-pepa's let's talk about sex. after that i was hooked.
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i grew up around rap but as a kid u have no money to buy tha albums an i wasnt really a big fan but i liked it. When i moved to pricksville or hicksville, whatever tha name is every1 was in to punk rock like green day. So i sought of became ashamed of listen to rap. It was in 5th grade they 1st called me a wigga. There was some rap a couple of peeps listened to like coolio so i listened to some rap. In middle school every1 would clown on rap an heavy metal wasnt really my thing so i didnt listen to much music. Around 9th an 10th grade it got to tha point where i said fuck it, all this shitty music aint me so i started listening to rap again. Tha 3 songs that really made me a big rap fan were cali luv, fantastic voyage, an tha crossroads.
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i remember when i first started listening to hiphop back in 92' when "doggystyle" dropped...it talked about killing people, fucking bitches, gang banging, etc...and i thought shit was pretty tite..i never heard of anything like dis before..so i got hooked to hiphop ever since...
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Beastie Boys, BABY. Fat Boys.
Then N.W.A., and later on, "IIII CANNN FEEEEEEEEEL IT" Deep Cover totally Destroyed My Mind.
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I had 2 older brothers . My oldest brother used to have RUN DMC records and Boogie Down Productions tapes . LL Cool J - Radio on cassette . all that old shit . i used to sneak in his room and bump those . Then I would watch YO! MTV RAPS and see big daddy kane , NWA , LL . I was hooked after all that . There was no such thing as music other than hiphop/rap . Cuz thats all i heard and saw.
Fat boys was my first tape . "LOUIE LOUIE" was like my favorite song at one point .
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the beats ... and the lyrics(mainly tupacs at first)
-{bLaDe}
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i think that it was nwa. i used to see them on tv and then i was like damn that shit is cool.
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i wonder if i am the oldest around here?!
i came across hip hop or rap in da 80s, when sugarhill gang dropped their anthem "rapper's delight". now i am 37 but still in da game, still listening to nuthin but wc-g-funk!
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N-A-S and the S-N-Double-O-P made me listen 2 rap!
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Pac & Snoop (around the time of "Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z & "Doggystyle"). My bro used to be a huge rap fan so I kind of grew up with his music & picked up my own taste for it along the way, & i've never looked back since :)
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I was at MU Tigers basketball camp and everyone was chillin in the lobby before games.... And "Wit A Dre Day" was blowing up on MTV... All the older dudes were runnin round hollerin "Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yooo Yippeee Yeee".... I was hooked for life...... Snoop was a real laid back, deeply cool and calm, mysteriously defiant cat.... I really identified with his music and the way he carried himself.
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I grew up around alot of hip hop. Influenced by my friends mainly. But altogether hip hop was never really a big thing for me. But i remember being real young and listening to LL cool J and what not. I bought cd's and never really listened to them. I had Doggystyle in my house for YEARS and never listened through it all the way as a youth, it just sat there and collected dust. I then got into coolio and the west coast was instilled into me. I put on Doggystyle and am hooked.
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Pac & N.W.A
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the track that first brought mt attention to rap was that fuckin' funky arse tune by run DMC - i think it was called 'thats just the way it is' or summat like that......this wasn't the sing that hooked me though.....
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GREG MACK AND THE FUCKIN MACK ATTACK. 1580 AM KDay Los Angeles... Uncle Jams Army.... The Fresh FEST!!!!! God DAMN IT!!! (gettin all excited thinkin about those days :)
Tony and Julio G. The Mix Master's show!!! EAZY "MF" E!!!
These are the things I grew up on, Ya'll!!!!
Hollywood Live night club back in 88. Oscos on La Cienega and Bevely Blvd in 1986. Slauson Swap Meet and them damn mix tapes. (Thats what got me.. Mix tapes) In 1986, I was in Jr. High school and we used to listen to homies battle at lunch time. One dude beat boxin, one dude rapping and a circle of niggaz bobbin they head, feelin it.
That was my young life, growin up in L.A. Real hip hop history! Thats what got me into hip hop.. Haven't looked back since.
Axle "21310" Fohley
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When I was little, I used to be into all music, not really rap, what got me into rap was having my cousin come around, she visisted like once every year and she had me listen to some rap, and I really was feeling that music, I started listenin to it more and more, It was Geto Boys I think lol, that got me listenin to some, then Eazy-E, Dre,Snoop and thats how it all started
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what got me into hip hop....
Da Game Is To Be Sold Not To Be Told
-Big BpG
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eazy duz it.. purely due to the *bad words* back then. ;D
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...it was digital underground. my friend gave me this cd (don´t remember the title) and i was like "what´s that ??"... then came n.w.a. and the rest...
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I think it started when I first heard "What's My Name", "Insane In The Brain" and "Gangsta's Paradise". Back then I used to wonder why they spell Dogg with double-g... :)
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i was in Dubai in the U.A.E where rap is really uncommon. I used to listen to coolio n all pop...until my homie DeadSoulja told me to d/l the song Static from pac. Thats when i started following Rap.
2 yrs have passed n im in Canada now, ive learned alot about rap music here, n i enjoy it. This forum has really helped me n my bro gain knowledge bout all these rap artists, and on the history of rap. B4 we didnt know shit...the same goes with Deadsoulja.
Peace
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i saw My Name Is... by Eminem at my friends house one day...so i got into Em,through Em i got into Dre,Through Dre i got into the whole fuckin west coast,after along time i got into east coast and funk,from funk i got into 70's,from 70's shit i got into 60's shit,60's being The Beatles,The Doors and The Jimi Hendrix Experience and that's where i'm at now,all because of this eminem video...damn...peace-Tanjint
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damn the above post is a good albet concise summation of my musical journey, to the end of that tag on, from 60's and 70's classic rck got into modern rock as well and that led me right back to modern rap.
-T
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When my cousin bumped Rythm-al-ism in his car when it came out I was 8. I was hooked with the sound.
But what really got me into Hip-Hop was Dr. Dres 2001. After that I started to listen to pac and so on...
I was around 10 at the time living in san diego, lots of memories listening to that cd.
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for me it was all that NWA shit, my cousin had moved out to Gardena,CA and every summer he used to come back to GA with all that eazy E shit and NwA, i was outta my mind, i loved that shit, he used also bring me some stuff from the bay like ant banks, dangerous crew, etc, so thats how it all started for me, i get alot flack for listening to so much westcoast but hey thats what a nigga came up on and just stuck to it its now 2007 and i'm still rollin with it, 1
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snoop doggy dogg & nas\' it was written
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Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise came out when I was 5, first rap I heard (through my brother) 8)
Then I got deep into rap at about 14 with 50 Cent, Eminem, Dr. Dre, and then branching out of Dre into basically everyone.
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I was got MC Hammer, Tone Loc & Salt-N-Pepa back in kindergarten, then I got into the more explicit stuff about 6th grade starting with Tha Doggfather. Everything else just sorta progressed from there.
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It was around '88 for me, I was in junior high school and rap music was starting to become mainstream. At first it was the mainstream stuff that I was into, then I gravitated towards hard core hip hop courtesy of Ice-T and Public Enemy and I never looked back.
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Ice cube in Boyz n da hood. Acouple of years after that Eazy E and ice cube. Of curse everyone loved doggystyle when it came out.
I remember byuying a 2live krew record around this time.
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peer pressure :) nah everyone in my family listens to hip hop my cousins my brother my friends. just naturaly. rock on the other hand, i started listening to that after i got tired of hearing ja rule and ashanties corny asses on the radio like 100 times every hour. so i guess i can thank him now cause after i got into rock i got into all sorts of music. (i have like 12 bob dylan cds)
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Theres something else to listen 2 ?????????
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i always liked rap because it was based on reality,But the first 2 albums i bought was Eazy-e's its on lp with real comton city g's on it and doggystyle was th eother one,But i grew up on rap
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My brother who would bump "The Chronic" consistently.
i still remember those words "this is dedicated to my niggas that was down since day one, welcome to death row"
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LOL, wow everyone got introduced to hip hop via The Westcoast. Thats crazy. When I got into hip hop, there was basiclly New York and thats it. The West came much later.. like in High School.
For me, I grew up during the break dancing days. I remember standing in line to go see Beat Street at the theaters. But even then it was alot about dancing. I was more into the dance aspect of it all until one very momentous album dropped that changed it all for me:
BDP - By All Means Necessary
If Im not mistaken, this was the first rap album to have a picture of a gun on the cover. I remember hitting that rewind button over and over until I nailed the lyrics to My Philosophy and Part Time Suckas. This is what started it all.
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I dont really remember what got me listening to Rap music, but i guess that I was there when Rap was Born . as a young kid I used to watch my cousin dancing to BBD, and Salt N Pepa, but yeah dont really remember,
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I listened to whatever my brothers and sister listened to, but my self discovery of hip hop I liked was when i got my own first tape of Souls of Mischief 93 til infinity and the tape single of masta ace's INC Ride. this was around 3rd/4th grade.
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i used to listen to eminem and outkast but i wasn't really into hiphop but when i saw straight outta compton on tv i was like :o ..."crazy motherfucka named icecube" that line was stuck in my head a long time 8)
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Wyclef Jean the carnival, i was 16. The only hip hop id heard till then was what was played on uk radio which was very little back then, but that was the album that got me hooked. I basically threw away the cds i was listening too Oasis, Radiohead, Kula Shakur, Space, Stereophonics and started my hip hop collection which is now 700 albums plus.
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Was into all types of music when I was younger, only rap I ever listened to was the shit that played on the radio, like Hammer, Young MC, Tone Loc, Run, Beastie Boys......the song that got me was Tony Toni Tone's 'It Feels Good'.....and then there was the golden era of the early 90's..... 8)
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) :) a friend of mine bought the cd and brought it to a party and we bumped it all evening :) after that i started to listen to rap and the west coast sound is my favorite type of rap but Nore is my favorite rapper
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I listened to whatever my brothers and sister listened to, but my self discovery of hip hop I liked was when i got my own first tape of Souls of Mischief 93 til infinity and the tape single of masta ace's INC Ride. this was around 3rd/4th grade.
DAMN my nigg gotta give u props on this 1, that was the shit back in the day,i played the plastic off that tape, lol good shit man !!!!
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basically chronic 2001 8)
after that marshall matters lp and then it just spread into lots of other cats and albums 8)
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Coolio - Gangstas Paradise got me into Hip Hop when I was 15, after that song I started listening to it, Skee Lo - I Wish, Luniz - I got 5 On It and 2Pac - California Love came out around that time as well. I listened to a bit before but I wasnt into then.
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Fat boys in the 8th grade. Brrr.. stick'em! After that I moved to cali and me and another dude that played sax in band (I'm a drummer) would trade mixed cassettes (kurtis blow, dougie fresh, slick rick, run dmc, etc...). After that nwa, pe, LL, etc...
I'm 35 now and still listenin.
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Probably my sisters cause they were listening to Tribe Called Quest and DE La Soul... But then i bought Too Shorts cassette single The Ghetto from the wherehouse and that really got the ball rolling for me.
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Of coarse as a kid I listend to Kriss Kross and MC Hammer, but the first time I heard Doggystyle I was hooked. After that, It was Wu-Tang and Biggie and then moved on to artists like Nas and Outkast. I also remember getting down to songs like "Motown Philly" by Boys to Men at an early age. Bel Biv Devoe and Another Bad Creation were dope too...Anyone remember the songs "Ieshia" or "Playground" by ABC? those tracks were the shit!
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uhm.. id say around 3rd grade.. with doggystyle/chronic/ and black sunday (cypress hill)... as my first few albums...
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I got into hip hop at a really early age. When i was six i had Nwa banging in my room! When the chronic came out i was totally hooked! I love the fact that i grew up during the peak of hip hop!!!
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when i found a copy of machivelli 7 day theory in the parking lot of northlake mall. i thought it was cool. then years latter i found out 2pac was a pussy. and stopped liserning to him. then rock music got lame real quick and started listening to rap exclusively
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ice-t's cop killer and dre & snoop's deep cover... :)
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Was dablling in both rock and rap since like 98, then in 01 it was strictly Hip-Hop cuz Rock did get lame... Did my homework and been a head ever since.
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My parents used to bump Tone Loc, Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, and Heavy D but other than that mostly rock and country on the tape deck when i was little. I got deep into rap at around '98 when i saw Puff Daddy's "All About The Benjamins" video on mtv. Right now i listen to just about anything but mostly hip hop and classic rock.
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i dont even know, hip hop was prolly the first type of "music" i listined to, prolly tupac, bone thugs n harmony,
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Hm.. I just heard The Next Episode & that was all. Now I'm writing lyrics & rapping, making beatbox... I started makin instrumentals...
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2Pacs All Eyez On Me.. I remember it.. I had this on tape. California Love with Roger Troutman was a banger at that time
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3,5 years ago I heard Still Dre. I was listening it all summer vacation long, only ONE track ;) I didn't even know what they was rappin about :D
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I got into hip hop at a really early age. When i was six i had Nwa banging in my room! When the chronic came out i was totally hooked! I love the fact that i grew up during the peak of hip hop!!!
the peak of hiphop? what u mean by that? judging from the sales, last years havent really been bad either, 2k6 was low on sales, but the years before lots of albums gone platinum too...peak of hiphop is kinda wide, peak of originality and music? yes then its true
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good thread. Nice to see how different people got into rap. For me it was a couple of years ago. A friend played me MC Ren-Ruthless For life
Got hooked on that song and it went from there. I got into NWA then real into Dr Dre which got me into Death Row, Aftermath which got me signing up to the aftermath fourum and from there i got a link to dubcc joined up and really got into some west coast music 8)
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mc hammer
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I fell in love with hip hop back in the late 80s. My older sister would have to babysit me and she would have to drag me around whenever she was with her boyfriend and he was into hip hop, and was listening to BDP and N.W.A. Riding around with my sister and her boyfriend in his car is where I heard N.W.A. for the first time. And then not too long after Rap City and Yo MTV Raps came along and back then that shit was fire. This was the golden era of hip hop and my sister had just abbout every dope album that was coming out around that time, and I would just listen to her tapes. I would tape Rap City just about everyday, but this was when they actually played dope videos not like the bullshit BET plays nowadays.
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boyz n tha hood
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WSCG
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all the nwa shit, old school 2pac, kool mo dee, krs one, basically everything that was on yo mtv raps from 1988-1992, i dunno bout all ya'll, but the chronic made me a believer. 8)
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i dunno bout all ya'll, but the chronic made me a believer. 8)
oh, i believe ;D... i think that was the first "classic" album i heard, unless i heard 2001 first... dont remember
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watchin Run DMC on MTV.. in the 80s i thought michael jackson was the coolest mufucker but then saw how Run DMC rolled and then started listening to Hip Hop.. bought Raising Hell and Bigger And Deffer on the same day.. well my mom did..
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Grew up with my parents listening to it. I was listening to it in the womb.
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I fell in love with hip hop back in the late 80s. My older sister would have to babysit me and she would have to drag me around whenever she was with her boyfriend and he was into hip hop, and was listening to BDP and N.W.A. Riding around with my sister and her boyfriend in his car is where I heard N.W.A. for the first time. And then not too long after Rap City and Yo MTV Raps came along and back then that shit was fire. This was the golden era of hip hop and my sister had just abbout every dope album that was coming out around that time, and I would just listen to her tapes. I would tape Rap City just about everyday, but this was when they actually played dope videos not like the bullshit BET plays nowadays.
I remember watching Yo MTV raps for the first time in 89 or whatever, when Fab 5 Freddy was on it. My older brother used to watch it and when I watched it with him I was blown away by what I saw. EPMD, Erick B and Rakim, BDP, I was like daaaaam.... I was mesmerized.
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Was dablling in both rock and rap since like 98, then in 01 it was strictly Hip-Hop cuz Rock did get lame... Did my homework and been a head ever since.
i don't see rock got any lamer than rap did in 2001. old rock, homey. that's where it's at.
-T
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Was dablling in both rock and rap since like 98, then in 01 it was strictly Hip-Hop cuz Rock did get lame... Did my homework and been a head ever since.
i don't see rock got any lamer than rap did in 2001. old rock, homey. that's where it's at.
-T
old rock is the shit. from 97 on down to the beatles (i dont really listen to much stuff before that) but rock got lame as hell in and around 98
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I guess what I meant and feel is , there is always gonna be artists good at what they do. and there's always gonna be artists bad at what they do. Whenever people look back into the past they wanna say "oh look how good it was back then we had this dope artist and that dope artist...now we have this and that whack shit..." but we think there's only good artists in the past cause they're the only ones we remember. Ten years from now we'll be talking about how dope this time was because all we'll remember is the dope shit from now. there's always whack and dope shit, just a matter of finding what you want.
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I guess what I meant and feel is , there is always gonna be artists good at what they do. and there's always gonna be artists bad at what they do. Whenever people look back into the past they wanna say "oh look how good it was back then we had this dope artist and that dope artist...now we have this and that whack shit..." but we think there's only good artists in the past cause they're the only ones we remember. Ten years from now we'll be talking about how dope this time was because all we'll remember is the dope shit from now. there's always whack and dope shit, just a matter of finding what you want.
-T
You're right. Everyone remembers the good hip hop of the 90's but people forgot about Marky Mark and the funky bunch, PM Dawn, Stereo MC's, Gerardo, Young Black Teenagers. People remember Doggystyle, Illmatic, shit like that, not the bad music that was around at the time.
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I guess what I meant and feel is , there is always gonna be artists good at what they do. and there's always gonna be artists bad at what they do. Whenever people look back into the past they wanna say "oh look how good it was back then we had this dope artist and that dope artist...now we have this and that whack shit..." but we think there's only good artists in the past cause they're the only ones we remember. Ten years from now we'll be talking about how dope this time was because all we'll remember is the dope shit from now. there's always whack and dope shit, just a matter of finding what you want.
-T
Their is no chance in hell ten years from now that I will look back and say how dope hip hop was in 2007. Their were a lot of wack records being made even in hip hops heyday, but to balance that off their were also a lot of great records. I cant name many great records that have come out recently(And no Doctors Advocate is not a great record)
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I guess what I meant and feel is , there is always gonna be artists good at what they do. and there's always gonna be artists bad at what they do. Whenever people look back into the past they wanna say "oh look how good it was back then we had this dope artist and that dope artist...now we have this and that whack shit..." but we think there's only good artists in the past cause they're the only ones we remember. Ten years from now we'll be talking about how dope this time was because all we'll remember is the dope shit from now. there's always whack and dope shit, just a matter of finding what you want.
-T
Their is no chance in hell ten years from now that I will look back and say how dope hip hop was in 2007. Their were a lot of wack records being made even in hip hops heyday, but to balance that off their were also a lot of great records. I cant name many great records that have come out recently(And no Doctors Advocate is not a great record)
yeah thats what im feeling too, i dont see any records coming out 2k4-2k7 (and further) going to classic status in the future like the chronic or illmatic or eazy-duz-it or w/e other classic...
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I guess what I meant and feel is , there is always gonna be artists good at what they do. and there's always gonna be artists bad at what they do. Whenever people look back into the past they wanna say "oh look how good it was back then we had this dope artist and that dope artist...now we have this and that whack shit..." but we think there's only good artists in the past cause they're the only ones we remember. Ten years from now we'll be talking about how dope this time was because all we'll remember is the dope shit from now. there's always whack and dope shit, just a matter of finding what you want.
-T
Their is no chance in hell ten years from now that I will look back and say how dope hip hop was in 2007. Their were a lot of wack records being made even in hip hops heyday, but to balance that off their were also a lot of great records. I cant name many great records that have come out recently(And no Doctors Advocate is not a great record)
yeah thats what im feeling too, i dont see any records coming out 2k4-2k7 (and further) going to classic status in the future like the chronic or illmatic or eazy-duz-it or w/e other classic...
BE, for example, will be remembered. Trauma will be remembered. The Inspiration? probly not so much, even if its numbers are bigger....in 10 years it will be an irrelevant work...the difference between classics and nons, there are few dope records at any given time. that's why they're dope, they're not the everyday shit. but in a decade the 3-6 records that stand out will stand out.
-T
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The Chronic and Shorty the Pimp! 8)
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Eminem and "Without Me" -> Then I started 2 listenin' Snoop D.O. Double G... ;D
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thats not long time ago sosna, maybe like 4 years or something, what music you liked before that?
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Rap was first music I really heard. Before that I wasn't interested music, man (lol)... Maybe some oldschool shit from 80s, but not hip-hop.
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Man, some of you make me feel old lol.
I got introduced to it by my cuz. He was really into disco (we're talking mid-late 70's). Alot of the early hip hop records back then were very disco oriented. He was copping alot of Sugarhill stuff. I was only 3 or 4 back then, but I knew that I liked it.
I remember hearing "Planet Rock" on the radio when it was new.
I didn't really get into it until I bought my first record back in 85/86. T La Rock and Jazzy Jay's "It's Yours". On Partytime Records. Partytime eventually would become some label known as Def Jam.
I found myself returning back to the same record store on a weekly basis to pick up more jams. I was a regular customer at this spot from the mid to late 80's up until the early 90's.
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I remember listening to my brothers and and his friends records with them and watching Yo! MTV Raps when I was like 7 or 8. I liked Snoops and Dres stuff back then (well, the singles mostly back then. G Thang, What's My Name...). Rock was more my thing until my 13th or 14th year though, but I was really drawn into it in the late 90's again. Again, through my brothers records, both newer and older. Dre, Nas, Biggie, Pac... I understood the lyrics better, the rhyming appealed to me more than before, the stories spoke to me more... Plus, I discovered old school soul and R&B through Hip-Hop later too.
Still on that road.