Producer_GyaL
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Deca said:
oohhhhh yeahhh!!!!!!!! I liked the song: That girl is Poisoooon! Poison PPppppp POison!! lol
Do you remember black box?
i always said that Heavy D kind of look like my brother lollllllllllll
How did you fall in love with Hiphop?
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oohhhhh yeahhh!!!!!!!! I liked the song: That girl is Poisoooon! Poison PPppppp POison!! lol
Do you remember black box?
i always said that Heavy D kind of look like my brother lollllllllllll
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
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Three feet high n rising tape with the proof of purchases on the back, that did it for me.
Lex
ILLIEN
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I first hip hop I heard was all from old school stuff - De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie boys etc.. I actually loved the strong emphasis on the drums and funk music from which most of the songs were made. The catchy, syncopted rhyming just seemed so differtn to other genres and most artists of that era had quite a lot to say too. At the same time I was getting into all the hiphop that ws constabtly being bombared at me through advertising...I brought eminem first LP, then a Wu-Tang LP...I found myself buying older and older stuff as the material in the charts started seeming even more unimaginative to me.
I met a guy called Andrew, through skateboarding, he was a bit older than me and was into so many artists which I hadn't heard before and just kept borrowing stuff off him..we'd talk about older artists too, but he'd always tell me about all these underground groups and just introduced me into a whole new side of hiphop - instrumental stuff like Dj Shadow, Krush, Dj Vadim....and lots of trip hop stuff too. I think I had always really appreciated the instrumental side of hiphop so it was just a natural progression to get into that sort of stuff too.
And then through hiphop I got into the music that influenced it...primarily Funk and Jazz. Its amazing how much I was introduced to through one genre of music - I do listen to other genres but they never have the same history or ability to incorporate so many sounds and aren't influenced by so many different other genres.
I met a guy called Andrew, through skateboarding, he was a bit older than me and was into so many artists which I hadn't heard before and just kept borrowing stuff off him..we'd talk about older artists too, but he'd always tell me about all these underground groups and just introduced me into a whole new side of hiphop - instrumental stuff like Dj Shadow, Krush, Dj Vadim....and lots of trip hop stuff too. I think I had always really appreciated the instrumental side of hiphop so it was just a natural progression to get into that sort of stuff too.
And then through hiphop I got into the music that influenced it...primarily Funk and Jazz. Its amazing how much I was introduced to through one genre of music - I do listen to other genres but they never have the same history or ability to incorporate so many sounds and aren't influenced by so many different other genres.
incogneeto
J.B. LEGACY
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NWA.............Period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dj ShorTbuS
Cold Get Retarded
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the first hiphop tape i bought was Ice Cube "The Predator". I fucked up and bought the edited version with all the shotgun blasts on the second side. After that it was Dr. Dre "The Chronic" and i was hooked and have been ever since. If i don't get my daily fix i start going through withdrawls.
DJ Excellence
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The first time I heard rap was in late 1989 in Sweden. The song was "Fight the Power" by PE. My family relocated to France the following year. At the time, Rap was blowing up with MC Solaar, NTM and other popular acts. Since then I've been in love with Rap and hip hop in general.
shadeed
Go Digital or Go Home
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Basically hip hop was originally a term that categorized the everyday life of kids in the inner city. What I mean is, I probably really didn't even get into serious MC's and lyrics and stuff until high school but I was breaking on cardboard and rolled around with Graf crews early on. It never was a "I love hip-hop" sorta thing, it was just something to do everyday. Nowadays, I don't even love it, I do like certain eras of rap music because it was/is the soundtrack to my life and times. So when I hear certain songs, I zone out to that time when "everything was everything"
I think "Style Wars" is the best hip hop movie ever because it really captures the legends in their element. DJ Kay Slay even had a feature in their from back in the day, he was rhymin and all that. Peeeace.
I think "Style Wars" is the best hip hop movie ever because it really captures the legends in their element. DJ Kay Slay even had a feature in their from back in the day, he was rhymin and all that. Peeeace.
Cold Truth
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well, i was asked to go n a blind date. hop was so shy- i thought it was sooooooooo cute. we had dinner, caught a movie, and went back ot my place. hop kissed me, and when i wanted to go allll the way, hop gently said "no, no..... not this way. we will wait until the time is right" and that was when i knew, hop was the one....
Producer_GyaL
IllMuzik First Lady
Cold Truth said:
LOL and Hip was her nickname? lolllllllllll
Cold Truth
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well, it was "hoppa" until i met this dj who... never mind.
Cold Truth said:
LOL.
DONT DENY THE PAST TRUTH!!!!! YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!
hahaha, funny shit.
Back to the question :
1st grade. Met a dude named Saul. He gave me his NWA tape after I beat him in Street Fighter II with Blanka.
CampO
BEAT u DOWN
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The First Hiphop I heard was probably Hammer Vanilla Ice and Kris Kross when i was around 6 to 8 and i really liked them but I never Truly got hooked on hiphop till about the 7th grade when I moved to a Bigger School at that point I only really heard of 2pac and Coolio and a few others But The SOng that Hooked me onto HipHop for ever was Renee Lost Boyz Still my favorite group of all time
berserk
Monster Music
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First ever hip hop album i bought cos i heard it at my friend's brother's house... Thought it was dope... copped it... then i got 36 chambers by the wu tang... then i got into more commercial shit... and i think that's why i don't really give a fuck what i listen to... as long as it's good... cos i started on underground... where as most people start out listenin to people like fabolous n shit... and they end up developing a hate for it and become narrowminded...
First ever hip hop album i bought cos i heard it at my friend's brother's house... Thought it was dope... copped it... then i got 36 chambers by the wu tang... then i got into more commercial shit... and i think that's why i don't really give a fuck what i listen to... as long as it's good... cos i started on underground... where as most people start out listenin to people like fabolous n shit... and they end up developing a hate for it and become narrowminded...
Ya'll might think this is late but.....
I first fell in love with Hip Hop when I was in the 11th Grade when I brought my first Roots album (The Roots Come Alive). I listened to Hip Hop before then (since the 7th grade...still kinda late) But That moment when I heard "the foundation"!!! It was like I had been baptised...and when I opened my eyes...Cash MOney, Yin Yang Twins, and other rappers of that caliber seemed EXTREMELY sub par to me lyricaly, beat wise, and passionately.
I first fell in love with Hip Hop when I was in the 11th Grade when I brought my first Roots album (The Roots Come Alive). I listened to Hip Hop before then (since the 7th grade...still kinda late) But That moment when I heard "the foundation"!!! It was like I had been baptised...and when I opened my eyes...Cash MOney, Yin Yang Twins, and other rappers of that caliber seemed EXTREMELY sub par to me lyricaly, beat wise, and passionately.
stormelements
Beats That Knock
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BASTARD said:
Hell Yeah!! Back in the day...I always tried to break dance..I could spin on my back but I couldn't spin on my head...lol I think the 1st Hip hop Cd I brought was doggystyle...everything else was on tape..
got into hip hop
When i heard Vanilla ice - ice ice baby! I'm from a small town in England called Colchester where we had no pirate radio and no hip hop community so I was into Hammer and all that top 40 ish, until my mate lent me a copy of Cypress hill - black sunay, then i got into snoop and the west coast stuff - and then onto the east coast ish like Mobb Deep, Blackmoon, KRS. I used to tape Tim westwoods show every week after i foud out about his how on Radio 1.
When i heard Vanilla ice - ice ice baby! I'm from a small town in England called Colchester where we had no pirate radio and no hip hop community so I was into Hammer and all that top 40 ish, until my mate lent me a copy of Cypress hill - black sunay, then i got into snoop and the west coast stuff - and then onto the east coast ish like Mobb Deep, Blackmoon, KRS. I used to tape Tim westwoods show every week after i foud out about his how on Radio 1.
I have grown up listening to hip hop my whole life. For a long time I really took it for granted. In 1996 my mother died 2 weeks before I started my first year of high school. Her death hit me real hard. I had always been a very open and outgoing person, but when she died I completely closed myself off and isolated myself.
Before my mother died I felt invincible. I used to be extremely insensitive and never thought of how my actions and words affected other people. Her death made me vulnerable. I wanted to disassociate myself from everyone so I couldn't be hurt again. I went from being the most popular dude in my neighborhood to a hermit in the matter of 2 weeks. I avoided everyone except my two best friends, and with them I only answered their calls here and then and talked to them if they stopped by my house.
My two best friends remained outgoing and were extremely popular in high school. They'd have their fun, and occasionally people would see us together outside of school or my friends would have a girl over and I would be at their house chilling. I became a Myth, hence that's my moniker now. People didn't understand our relationship or history and my friends always respected my privacy.
I didn't talk to anyone except my friends. I had so much shit going through my mind I started writing rhymes just to get it all out. All my frustration and depression. I started buying instrumental albums and just sitting in class with the headphones and a hoodie on writing songs. I never had my headphones off. At night a played my albums on repeat throughout the whole night.
Hip hop was my lifeline. It kept me alive (I'd been contemplating suicide). I would think about swallowing pills but my love for hip hop wouldn't let me.
Finally in my senior year. My best friends ask me to go out to a movie, I went. Afterwards they forced me to go to a party. At this party a couple dudes started freestyling and battling (typical dudes, smoke some weed started flowing).
I walked up to the mic and started busting. I blow everybody away. Most people at the party had never heard me speak. The first thing they heard me say was a dope ass freestyle over two Tupac beats.
That feeling stuck in me, they felt my passion. They felt my love for hip hop.
At that moment I realized this was my life. Hip hop holds all my secrets and dreams.
Before my mother died I felt invincible. I used to be extremely insensitive and never thought of how my actions and words affected other people. Her death made me vulnerable. I wanted to disassociate myself from everyone so I couldn't be hurt again. I went from being the most popular dude in my neighborhood to a hermit in the matter of 2 weeks. I avoided everyone except my two best friends, and with them I only answered their calls here and then and talked to them if they stopped by my house.
My two best friends remained outgoing and were extremely popular in high school. They'd have their fun, and occasionally people would see us together outside of school or my friends would have a girl over and I would be at their house chilling. I became a Myth, hence that's my moniker now. People didn't understand our relationship or history and my friends always respected my privacy.
I didn't talk to anyone except my friends. I had so much shit going through my mind I started writing rhymes just to get it all out. All my frustration and depression. I started buying instrumental albums and just sitting in class with the headphones and a hoodie on writing songs. I never had my headphones off. At night a played my albums on repeat throughout the whole night.
Hip hop was my lifeline. It kept me alive (I'd been contemplating suicide). I would think about swallowing pills but my love for hip hop wouldn't let me.
Finally in my senior year. My best friends ask me to go out to a movie, I went. Afterwards they forced me to go to a party. At this party a couple dudes started freestyling and battling (typical dudes, smoke some weed started flowing).
I walked up to the mic and started busting. I blow everybody away. Most people at the party had never heard me speak. The first thing they heard me say was a dope ass freestyle over two Tupac beats.
That feeling stuck in me, they felt my passion. They felt my love for hip hop.
At that moment I realized this was my life. Hip hop holds all my secrets and dreams.