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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Hittman on October 21, 2001, 11:17:05 AM

Title: Who Was The First Rap Artist.....
Post by: Hittman on October 21, 2001, 11:17:05 AM: ....You Ever Heard On A Song. Please No Lying Just To Try And Make Yourself Look Good....

Anyway My First Ever Rapper That I Heard Was Jay-Z.
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Post by: DJJohnB on October 21, 2001, 11:21:36 AM: melle mell in 86
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Post by: Murrow on October 21, 2001, 11:24:28 AM: Shit this is hard to remember. I don't exactly, but when I was like 7 I was aware of Dre & Snoop as rappers, I seen them on mtv. Same with 2Pac, I always saw him on MTV. Never knew who he was.
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Post by: Trauma-san on October 21, 2001, 04:38:25 PM: The Beastie Boys, Then The Fat Boys, Back In About '85.
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Post by: Trauma-san on October 21, 2001, 04:38:37 PM: The Beastie Boys, Then The Fat Boys, Back In About '85.
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Post by: Dope Money Clean on October 21, 2001, 04:41:15 PM: run dmc - my adidas
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Post by: Doggystylin on October 21, 2001, 05:09:53 PM: Quote

The Beastie Boys, Then The Fat Boys, Back In About '85.

damn i wasnt even alive back then!

and i cant really remember that well but i think the first person i heard was warren, back in 94. my cousin would always bump that in his car, and we watched one of his live performances on tv, i remember that, he was performin "this DJ" and he was wearin this golf hat. i cant remember on what it was though
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Post by: Nosak on October 21, 2001, 05:25:48 PM: rakim ,after too short but the one that i never stop showin luv is , ahhh u already know , yesss
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Post by: DreSnoop00 on October 21, 2001, 06:00:49 PM: i'd have to say this group.. i think.. called tha ghetto boys.. not sure
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Post by: Don Jacob on October 21, 2001, 06:11:20 PM: slick rick
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Post by: Bleech on October 21, 2001, 06:17:32 PM: This IS a tough ass question! I would have to say it's probably a 3 way tie between Slick Rick, Run-DMC, or Eazy's first album. It was around `88 when I started likin hip hop, and damn I miss those days.
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Post by: teecee on October 21, 2001, 06:57:35 PM: This is kinda funny: THE FAT BOYS!!!

"the fat boys are back/and u know they could never be wack!"

Those guys were dope, i wish i still had that tape....
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Post by: bLaDe on October 21, 2001, 07:02:00 PM: umm hard lol......

will smith lol? 2pac

-{bLaDe}
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Post by: West Coast Veteran on October 21, 2001, 07:39:44 PM: Run DMC - King Of Rock on MTV.

First Album I Bought: LL Cool J - B.A.D.
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Post by: ROCCY on October 21, 2001, 07:44:35 PM: Eazy E or 2 pac.
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Post by: Dope Money Clean on October 21, 2001, 07:54:15 PM: remmeber that Fat Boys joint LOUIE LOUIE !! ;D hahahahha
me and my brother would always fight over whose turn it was to listen to the Fat Boys tape
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Post by: Trauma-san on October 21, 2001, 07:59:54 PM: I Listened To Fat Boys, Beastie Boys And them In 85, But Yall Know What My FIRST ACTUAL Tape Was, That I Owned? The Only Rap Tape My Parents Would Ever Buy Me (I Didn't Even Have A Tape Player, LOL).... For Christmas One Year, They Finally Broke Down, Bought Me A Walkman, And Vanilla Ice's "To The Extreme", And FUCK ALL YALL, That Album had Some Good Cuts On It, LOL. I Was About 13 By Then.
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Post by: HBKid_Jr on October 21, 2001, 08:18:38 PM: I think it was coolio or snoop on mtv, tha earliest videos I remember were, Coolio- Fantastic voyage & Snoops Gin & Juice an Who Am I
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Post by: Big FC on October 21, 2001, 08:22:31 PM: lol.. the first time i really remember listening to rap at all was one time when i was bout 7 and i was somewhere with my bro and we listened to girls by beastie boys..
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Post by: Big FC on October 21, 2001, 08:24:12 PM: the first three vids i remember were coolio - fantastic voyage, aint nuthin but a g thang.. and who i am... maybe i saw others befo but i remember watching tv wit my bro as a youngsta and those were all on back to back and thats all i remember...
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Post by: Cliche on October 21, 2001, 08:24:58 PM: The first I heard would've been LL Cool J with My Radio... first album I bought was Death Certificate... second was Onyx - Bacdafucup...
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Post by: Joachim on October 22, 2001, 01:47:18 AM: Probably Kurtis Blow was the first, back in 85/86, then there was Schooly D and The Fat Boys.

K-U-R-T-I-S B-L-O-W what you wanna do...
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Post by: Scribe on October 22, 2001, 10:16:17 AM: Coolio on Gangsta's Paradise.
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Post by: TheSheriff on October 22, 2001, 10:23:22 AM: Rap's always been around us, but the first people I can distinctly remember listening to within the rap community was Wu Tang-36 Chambers...