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Title: how long have you been listen to rap in ur life
Post by: HBKid_Jr on April 25, 2001, 04:37:20 PM
I was curious how old you all were when you started listing to rap.  I really didn't become a big rap fan untill i saw NWA on farmclub.com.  I listened to rap a little bit because i was ashamed to be white an listen to rap.  The rap videos i remember seeing as a kid were Nutin but a "G' thang, gin & juice,  hip hop hooray, cali love, the crossroads, a Fabtatic voyage.  I would put the TV real low cuz i would get made fun of by my parents for liking rap,  it was nuthin traumatizing i just pissed me off.  Since seeing NWA on farmclub.com i have got pretty much all the classic westcoast albums except Makaveli 7 day theroy and tha doggfather because i havent been able to find themin stores.
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Murrow on April 25, 2001, 04:42:36 PM
For me, I never remembered the NWA days, it all came together in '92 for me when I saw "Dre Day".  Then when I heard "Nuthin But A G Thang", I went out and fuckin bought my first rap album ever.  Since then, I followed WC hip-hop up intil this day.
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Hambone (Guest) on April 25, 2001, 04:43:28 PM
man i am old school....i used to listen to the early run dmc stuff...double dutch bus stuff, and the rest of the stuff from that era....used to hook up my mic to my boom box(yeah, i am from the days where we called them boom boxes) and rap over run dmc.........i used to be apart of a b-boy breakdancin gang also....takin our cardboard around to battle other groups.....that shit was crazy.....kool mo dee...big daddy kane days......yeah...those were the days..and the Early Eric B, and Rakim!  Roxeanne Roxeanne...UTFO, that was the shiznit..
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Mr_Loc on April 25, 2001, 04:44:01 PM
i think it was like '92 when i was 11. Just that Chronic album man, shit just hit me like frum nowhere cuz rap wasn't in the UK really at all then.
I remember hearing the chronic singles on the radio and i was just like whoa! although i didnt buy my first tape until doggystyle the next year.

Since then I could'nt get enough of hip hop, especially the best coast shiit, and for someone who lives in the UK i probably have one of the best West Coast hip hop collections. so thats like nearly 10 years now, damn how time flies lol
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Jay ay Beee on April 25, 2001, 04:44:31 PM
In about '97 my friend was tellin me bout rap and he told me to get Doggystyle
No more explaining needed
Hooked since then
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: cremedelaclem on April 25, 2001, 04:46:03 PM
man i been ALL ABOUT hip hop for as long as i can remember....

it all started with me wanting to be likemy big brother and his friends when i was real young....i remember when he kicked my ass for cutting up one of his old juice crew records cos i was pretending to be a dj and trying to scratch and shit back when i was real young....

i became a certified hip hop fanatic the first day i heard 'bring the ruckus' on my block.....never looked back since  ;D
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Joachim on April 25, 2001, 04:46:16 PM
Back in 92 really cos North London had a mad hip hop scene, and my bro was a B-boy so he always had hip hop tapes.
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Hambone (Guest) on April 25, 2001, 04:48:31 PM
damn.....i think Crem and I are the oldest ones up in this mutha..that remember the real old school hip hop...lol......someone hand me my cane...
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: cremedelaclem on April 25, 2001, 04:54:13 PM
lol...for real....

put Overseer in that bracket too....we some old motherfuckers!!!!

damn....i dont know about y'all...but it seems crazy to me when i see rappers thats younger than me blowin up!!!

i think the first time that happened to me was when jd first dropped some stuff with kriss kross and i was like DAAAAMMMMNNNN!!!!!

that cats my age and hes multi platinum!!!
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Smooth on April 25, 2001, 04:54:55 PM
ahhh back in the 94 when i was like 8 one of my boys introduced my to Doggystyle... and im still lovin it till this day ;D
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Trauma-san on April 25, 2001, 04:59:46 PM
Beastie Boys... Fat Boys....

First Rap Song I Ever Heard Was "Brassss Monkey, That Funky Monkey!!!" Ya Know...

So I'm Pretty Old School Too.  I Wasn't Ever Exposed To The Real Underground Stuff, Though... Just Real Commercial Stuff.  Vanilla Ice, Snow, All That Crap.  

First NWA Song I Ever Heard Was "She Swallowed It"  :o
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Overseer (Guest) on April 25, 2001, 05:15:49 PM
I remember being in a cheesy lil 3 man breakin' crew in the mid 80s when I was about 10 LOL
out the back of my friends house on some cardboard with an tape ganked from his brothers room LOL

later on came Eazy Duz It, NWA and then Doggystyle  ;D
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Head Honcho on April 25, 2001, 05:32:19 PM
Well I was hooked when I heard Regulate for the first time, and that musta been like what 4-5 years ago....but the thing that really opened my eyes was Napster, cuz I found like NWA, old Snoop etc., so thats really whut got me hooked

Getto  8)
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: M Dogg™ on April 25, 2001, 05:43:26 PM
See, in the 80's L.A. had the first ever hip hop only station KDAY, and I've listen since... OK we didn't get KDAY in the I.E., but we did get 99.1 in 1990. That's when I finally got to listen to rap on a regular basis. From South Central Cartel to N2Deep, that old school westcoast shit was bumping. Rodney O and Joe Cooley, So house shit by L.A. Stlye, "James Brown is  Dead" Cypress Hill up the ass, mostly underground. So in 1991, I really started getting into it. Before that I listen to some LL Cool J, Ice T and Eazy E, but in 1991, when we got our own station in the I.E., I really did. Shame now that 99.1 plays nothing but R&B now. Oh and my first rap tape was Eazy Does It in 1992. I was just 11.
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: infinite59 on April 25, 2001, 06:32:00 PM
Summer of 93, when I was 11,  I was at an MU Tigers basketball camp, we were all chillin in the lobby in between games, and "Wit a Dre Day" I heard Snoop utter the words "Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippee Yea" and I've been a hip-hop head ever since.
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: FunkAddict on April 25, 2001, 07:23:20 PM
Yeah........Da good old dayz of Ol'skool......
Don't make me feel so younger no mo'   :P
As u name some, Hambone, all this first groups bringin' rap music to new horizon...
I was mostly listenin to Funk Musik back in these early '80s...Then came Afrika Bambataa, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow, Grand M.Flash, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Eric B & Rakim, LL Cool J, EPMD, Public Enemy...Classic way to walk from Funk to Hip-Hop. But  Hard to find here in France ...Just a few Radio let'em flow 1 or 2 times a week !!!
Then a Bomb was dropped......NWA straight outta Compton, and since i really turn full into Wessiiiiide...King T, Too Short, Tone Loc, Frost, and all u know now...

But honestly i can't remember fo' sure what was the first i bought....

Anyway datz crazy to see how it becomes 'bout mo' than 15 years later when everybody used to say it was jus' fashion and will neva least.......Word Up !

Peace all from Ol' Skool dayz to newbiez......
Keep it up !  8)
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Hambone (Guest) on April 25, 2001, 07:58:48 PM
exactly man.....exactly...
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Top-Dogg2001 on April 25, 2001, 09:29:08 PM
I have been listening to rap all my life, however I didn't start seriously buying cds until 1997.
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Sikotic™ on April 25, 2001, 10:24:20 PM
Shit I've been listening to rap before I was born. She tells me she used to put her headphones up to her stomach in my womb. She said the first album i listened to was Run DMC and that was before I was born. lol
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: TheSheriff on April 26, 2001, 03:08:35 PM
The first rap  I listened to, I think, was "36 Chambers", when I was like 6, over at Dill's house. First album was "The Aftermath"...

Dill was down from the beginning...

OE
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: Now_Im_Not_Banned on April 26, 2001, 10:44:37 PM
Oh shit...I remember about 6 years ago my uncle (Only 3 years older than me) was listening to a CD in his Mom's car, and I came in and there was like a bunch o Cusswords, and I was thinking to myself "I didnt know they can cuss in songs." I remember my dad coming in to listen and I was getting worried that he wouldn't get mad that I was listenin to that shit....Also my dad was a Minor Hip Hop Fan before I was born (He listened to stuff like Beastie Boys, Run DMC and Digital Underground, and later Snoop, Cube and Dre) So like a year after I heard the song my uncle played I listened to my Dads Beastie Boys album and asked my mom "Why does dad have records with cuss words and my mom didnt want me to know he was listening to that shit and said "Oh..It just came in the mail" and I belived it...Also around the same time I listened to my dads Run DMC album...The first track I can remember that I heard was "Peter Piper"...But i know I heard some Eazy tracks from my uncle and other Beastie Boy songs way before without remembering the track names and how they go etc....LOL
Title: Re: how long have you been listen to rap in ur lif
Post by: truemaster on April 27, 2001, 03:35:10 AM
Man I've been listening to HIPHOP since way way way back in the days. I'm 27 now and have been down with this shit since I can remember. KDAY and the Mack Attack was the shit, and of course the Eastcoast kicked shit up in the beginning, but when Ice T, Rodney O Joe Cooley, King T, and NWA took off, I was all about the westcoast shit fo sho!! Peace. 8)