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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Sccit on January 23, 2015, 07:17:34 PM
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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?
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2pac skandalouz. It was the b side song to i aint mad at cha.
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Either Fuck Martinez or Me So Horny, one of those two.
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Kris Kross - Jump lol, then I'd say The Chronic and Doggystyle albums.
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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.
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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.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfgvJDvsJ8
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
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Ice t o g album
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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
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https://www.youtube.com/v/gYMkEMCHtJ4
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Dr Dre-Dre Day
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Naughty by nature - o.p.p. uptown anthem
Grandmaster flash - the anthem
sugar hill gang - white lines (lol)
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public enemy welcome to the terrodome
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Vanilla Ice and Kriss Kross got my attention, but "Who Am I" (Snoop) got me into it.
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hmm...not that easy to find an answer for this. i alway liked some rap songs since i can remember, and hiphop as a culture was always present in my city when i grew up..i think the first rap-album that i had in heavy rotation was fugees - the score, followed by 2Pac - All Eyez On Me...i was totally fixed when i heard doggystyle for the first time tho
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Deep Cover. It had a video I caught by chance at like 7 years old. I didn't know music could be done like that before, it was dark and violent the bass was heavy. Been hooked since.
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ok, i missed that thread was about SONGS not albums lol...in that case i would say fug-ee-la, california love & life goes on...and then "who am i" and "murder was the case"
i also bought the tq's westside when it came out...it had a remix with kam on it and a track called "my melody" with quik & suga free...i still remember that i was blown away by suga free's flow on that one lol
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Dont laugh but Hi-Tek 3 - Spin That Wheel from the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in 1990 was my first favorite rap song and that i knew all the words to
(it was more the early 90's Hip House style...and i was young haha)
Id say the first full on Hip Hop song that i got into would have been Warren G - Recognize, i had that on a compilation cassette tape and that is when i started
to really get into Hip Hop. I also remember SWV - Anything (Feat Wu-Tang Clan) being on the same tape and i played that track to death...i moved onto Biggie, Pac, Snoop, Dre from there.
I do remember liking De La Soul - Me, Myself & I back in 1989 but i was only 6 years old so i did not really know much about music genres back then
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original crossroads by bone
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Baby Got Back / Straight outta Compton 8) 8 ;D
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lmao yall gonna laugh but you cant lie, it sounds tough. i was 9 lol :laugh: so yeah this is when ive ever heard of snoop and after listening to snoop, the rest is history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izb6qJYyyh0
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"Alwayz Into Something" - NWA
saw this video on The Box back in '91 and I was hooked 8)
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Either Fuck Martinez or Me So Horny, one of those two.
I gotta add that I was in 5th grade and it was my father I got that whole 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be from. I'm having a hard time understanding why he might have thought that to be a good idea... ;D
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Fat Boys "Fat Boys Are Back" , I'd say the whole tape but since the topic is song then that.
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For me it wasn't even a rap song, lol.....but I just got hooked to Tony Toni Tones 'Feels good'.....heard rap songs before then.....nwa...redhead kingpin...LL...PE..beastie boys...young mc...atcq...hammer (lol) etc.......totally hooked once the golden era started!
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Beastie boys brass monkey
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For me it wasn't even a rap song, lol.....but I just got hooked to Tony Toni Tones 'Feels good'.....heard rap songs before then.....nwa...redhead kingpin...LL...PE..beastie boys...young mc...atcq...hammer (lol) etc.......totally hooked once the golden era started!
considering Mopreme raps on that song I'd call it rap
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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Probably "California Love"