How did you fall in love with Hiphop?

[Producer_GyaL]

This question will forever be part of your History. For me, I am in love with Music since i even cant remember. The piano and the xylophone was the sound i liked the most. I even liked classical music around 6 to 10 years old. When i've been introduced to Fruity Loop, i was 19. I was just making music for fun, until people around me told me to try make some hiphop beats. The funny part of this story, is that i fell in love with Hiphop just recently : During the night of november 25th to november 26th. I will ALWAYS remember the feeling and what happend in me....

You see, i am new in the game so i really dont know how hiphop was REALLY about back in the days, but basically Rap was at the time really Hardcore... and this is not where i come from unfortunately. I am musical... But i know i'll need to educated myself about how Hiphop first appeared and what happend ever since. That's my story. What's yours?

 

[Carpe Diem]

um... i was never really into it until a heard the Rapsody (PrinceIgor) by Warren G....i just loved the melody...so i got more into it, getting melody based stuff....soooo....thats basically it i thunk...

carpe

 

[Rhythmikal]

i started out by liking the super-commercial stars such as Eminem, Dre and Xzibit. i then found out about 2pac and bought Greatest Hits and it went from there......

sAfE.

 

[classic]

Im from a rough southern town, as with most inner citiy areas, We were living the hip hop "lifestyle" before their was even a name for it. hip hop was just a name for something that we were already doing.

I think i was really open when i heard gheto boys my minds playin tricks on me. Casue i could relate to them cats.

class......

 

[Ash Holmz]

man i think the shit that turned me into a fantatic was when snoop and dre hit the same time wu tang did on both coasts .. it was that g funk then the next song on the radio was that grimy shit .. man everything out of those years was so dope... and the videos where so ill ... no ice, ferraris, and bentleys.. just niggas having fun and wildin out . them old wu tang videos was ill man... and the aint nuttin but a g thang video .. ahhh bliss .. that was the shit...

 

[StressWon]

The first time I heard Run DMC.

 

[gram green]

it takes a nation of millions to hold us back......

 

[Loose Cannon]

My Parents listenend to rock and country, and i heard so much of that when i was younger i didnt even think of it as music much anymore. My grandmother introduced me to jazz,blues, and classical/symphonic music. And thats when i fell in love with music. I listened to a lot of duke ellington and tchaikovsky. I always knew bout rap and listyened to it, but never really bought any rap. Until my boy hooked me up with Doggystyle and The Chronic. And thats when i fell in love with hip-hop.

 

[x-squizet]

shit let me see i was raised on r&b and gospel, like my mom had me listenin to prince, jodice, keith sweat, ect, and my grandpa had me listen to the alabama blind boys, the williams brothers's and ect, so i been around music all my life put that day when i fell in love was amazing, it was when missy elliot came out with that song hot, i just loved that shit, that jazz sample she used in that song was sick and that when it happend

also pg have you been watchin that movie brown suger

 

[Producer_GyaL]

when i fell in love was amazing, it was when missy elliot came out with that song hot, i just loved that shit, that jazz sample she used in that song was sick and that when it happend

also pg have you been watchin that movie brown suger

Missy elliot????? we have something in common, she did inspired me back in the days, but she wasnt the one who made me fell in love with Hiphop to the point of producing.

Maybe my love for hiphop was there since my sweet sixteen, but i realised how deep it was just recently.

Yes I've seen the movie Brown Sugar and let me tell you that when i first saw that movie, i didnt understand this thing about love for hiphop. I was like " WTF ????" man, we have to feel it to understand. And anyway, The movie story was about loving hiphop at a yound age.... so i cant rely to this movie, i was surrounded of FRench songs. Vive le Québec!...

 

[RigorMortis]

What can i say, grandmaster flash, public enemy, skinny boys (some wicked ass dudes from the oldschool), sir mixalot, KRS-ONE, chub rock, stetsasonic (talkin all that jazz what a fuckin dope song!) and of course paris where the things i were listening in my prime and even now still i hit them up! Paris must have been my favourite, the devil made me do it is a fucking classic. I never was into the whole tupac, notorious big thing, too me they never sounded convincing and telling stuff that only made me scratch my crotch. Snoop's debut was wicked after that he fell of and now he is one some rnbpop gay shit with wackass beats. Where is Suge when you fuckin need him.
But the songs that got a good grip on me were:
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Stetsasonic - Talking All That Jazz
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It

And I actually kind of hate people that are talking about hiphop and never have listened to its history, even know i am digging into the past discovering and rediscovering the youth of this thing that has me bedazzled and wondered why its innocence is raped for a big sack of money. Maybe i will wake up tomorrow and find all those vultures dead.

 

[Loose Cannon]

stetsasonic (talkin all that jazz what a fuckin dope song!)

I hear ya on that. That song is still one of the freshest tracks ever.





And BTW, that song came out before i was born, so fyi, i know my shit

 

[bigdmakintrax]

De La Soul....Jungle Brothers........WU Tang Klan and Pete Rock and CL Smooth.....Reminisce....and a lot of other HIp Hop.....to be honest when I felll in Love with hip Hop a lot of those other Genres had yet to even have a spot in under that .......back when hip hop music didn't apply to every beat with a rapper and some drums....LOL

 

[The Bastard]

Prolly Watchin Kids Break Dance At The Park To Big Ass Boom Boxes, I Rmember Thinkin I Wanted To Do That So Bad, I Never Ended Up Breakin But Thats How I Fell In Love Wit It I Think, Way To Young To Remember What Was Bumpin On The Boom Boxes. i think the first rap album i bought was tag team, i remember havin that, then of course the chronic and doggystyle

 

[M!nd_Ctrl]

Moms bought me the "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" cassette back in elementary. I liked it...but not for the love of Hip Hop, Hammer was just HOT at that time. My close friends back then, were extremely into NWA and even though I listened to it often I was never fully intrigued. Then, in 1992 someone dropped the album that changed my life. Yes, Dre got me hooked on the music and at least a part of the lifestyle when he dropped The Chronic. I listened to that album over and over and over again without getting tired of it. "Let Me Ride" was the shit. Anyways, This album set it off for me, from that point on Rap/Hip Hop was my music of choice.


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[Kevin A]

Hip Hop had it's first shot with me on Dana Dane's nightmares. Eric Sermen was one of my favorite rappers back then too that heavily influenced me for hip hop. Krs 1's the Blueprint showed me the true potentual of hip hop. Oh, and the Diabolical Biz Markie, and the great adventures of slick rick the ruler. Those are some that sealed it for me.

 

[J Rilla]

I started on the great MC hammer,but my cousins tell me that he wasnt real hip hop so i guess it was about 93 with cube, snoop, and dre was all doing they solo thing

 

[spin]

in my country (greece) hip hop groups and concerts started in 94 - 95 (discography 92) and and then i was 11-12 and i just fall in love from the first cd i heard (terror x crew was the name of the group) and that was it... now i am able to chill with all of those people that i was listening to back then... its a great feeling

 

[FuzE]

i remember hip-hop way back. I can remember back in like 84' around the time i was in the second grade you'd think most kidz would be singin lil rhymes like miss mary mack my whole school bus was rappin Lodi Dodi on the way to school. But i think I fell in love when I got the tape "By all Means Necessary" B.D.P. My Philosophy is still my fav joint of all time. Then, when Yo! MTV raps came on the air it was really a wrap.

 

[Deca]

i started in r&b and pop ( everybody loved micheal at the time. im talking the prewhite era). I was aware of groups like public enemy, black sheep, but i wasnt interested in them. i liked to sing and had a knack for it so i went along these lines...then my voiced changed growing up and could sing no more so i naturally went for a replacement. the kind of hiphop that mixed both.

Bell biv devoe and others commercial stuff. then i slowly followed the trend of gangstar rap and crap and its not until secondary 3 when i heard the fugees first album that i really fell for hiphop.

i only switch too gospel hip hop when i learned it actually existed. i thought hiphop and god would be an oxymoron. Its only when i did my research going back to the old school rap to see its beginning that i understood rap didnt start gangster. it was just another way too communicate. so for me falling in love with hiphop was actually falling in love with comunicating