14 Rappers Name The First Hip-Hop Album They Bought" Listed By XXL

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Juvenile says Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full" was the first album he purchased.

Long before iTunes became the leading music retailer on the planet, people purchased cassette tapes, CDs, and vinyl from record stores.

Many people – rappers included – can pinpoint when and where they bought their first album and which artist they were willing to spend their money on.

XXL recently asked 14 rappers to list the first album they purchased.

From Hip Hop veterans like Bun B and Juvenile to newcomers like Dej Loaf, Logic and Iamsu!, each artist had a different experience.

The first album Bun B ever bought was Slick Rick's The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. Dej Loaf purchased Da Band's Too Hot For TV. Logic remembers buying The Roots' Do You Want More?!!!??! and Juvenile says he bought Eric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full.

Check out the full list via XXL. http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/03/14-rappers-first-hip-hop-album-bought/

[doggfather]

i bought 2 albums one time 1st.

Onyx: shut em down and Ice-T O.G. original gangster

[cStyle]

my first rap album was

Eazy-e -  It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa

[Leggy Hendrix]

Eazy E - Eazy Duz It

[Game-Won]

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle.. was 8 years old.

Snoop and Pac was pretty all that was played until i hit 14.

[M Dogg™]

First album, Eazy Does It. But first album I bought with my own money, Doggystyle. Still mad I don't have it as it had G'z Up, Goes Down.

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

First cd's I got were Doggystyle and The Chronic when I was 12, but my brother got those for me.  The first cd I went to buy was 2pac, but I was offended by the title "Strictly 4 My Niggaz" so I just bought the single "Keep Your Head Up", lol.  

I bought Above the Rim, but that was a soundtrack so maybe that doesn't count.

I think the first album I really bought might have been that summer when Warren G...The G Funk Era came out.  I actually thought it was a Death Row album.   I remember looking at the logos and not seeing Death Row and then I started to fear it was some unauthorized shit like Concrete Roots.  The songs also sounded real soft in comparison to The Chronic of Doggystyle.  I was a bit confused.  But as soon as that "This DJ" video came out it all made sense and it has been one of my all-time favorite albums ever since.

[Shallow]

I had a bunch of bootleg tapes from the early 90s but the first album, of any genre, I actually went out and purchased was the Space Jam Soundtrack. As silly as that is. Before that, my father wouldn't really allow American music played in the house. I was about 14 by Space Jam and even still, had to hide it.

[7even]

Backstreet Boys - Millenium

[Sccit]

EAZY-DUZ-IT

[GangstaBoogy]

Dej Loaf purchased Da Band's Too Hot For TV

I enjoyed the tv show but no fuckin way in hell should anybody have purchased that piece of shit.

[Blood$]

Dej Loaf purchased Da Band's Too Hot For TV

I enjoyed the tv show but no fuckin way in hell should anybody have purchased that piece of shit.

it had a few cool songs, better than 90% of the bullshit that's out now like Big Sean, Tyga, Young Thug, etc.

[Blood$]

as for me when I was younger I could only get edited albums so I have a hard time remembering which one (might have been Bow Wow lol) I got first but the first album I bought with my own money that was explicit was Biggie - Ready To Die

[Space RockStar SkyStalker Machine]

Big Psych:

Biz Markie - Boogie Down Productions - That was a gay cassette so he went out and bought Eazy-Duz-It

[AlerG]

First cd's I got were Doggystyle and The Chronic when I was 12, but my brother got those for me.  The first cd I went to buy was 2pac, but I was offended by the title "Strictly 4 My Niggaz" so I just bought the single "Keep Your Head Up", lol.  

I bought Above the Rim, but that was a soundtrack so maybe that doesn't count.

I think the first album I really bought might have been that summer when Warren G...The G Funk Era came out.  I actually thought it was a Death Row album.   I remember looking at the logos and not seeing Death Row and then I started to fear it was some unauthorized shit like Concrete Roots.  The songs also sounded real soft in comparison to The Chronic of Doggystyle.  I was a bit confused.  But as soon as that "This DJ" video came out it all made sense and it has been one of my all-time favorite albums ever since.

My first was Warren G Regulate. On a side note, I paid $24.99 for concrete roots and was very pissed when I listened to it smh. I purchased it blindly for the fact that it had a song called 'another g thang' on it so I assumed it was going to be amazing. I was around 15 at the time.