My mate first introduced me to Tech N9ne.. I would wager to guess around 2002 or 2003, perhaps slightly earlier but this was when I got interested on who the man behind the music was.
The stand-out songs i remember to listen to back then was T9X, The Anthem, Here Comes Tecca Nina, Now It's On, Einstein and possibly Cursed, Real Killer and Strange somewhere down the line..
I didn't immediately take to the music. I remember hearing T9X, Cursed and The Anthem for the most part and I continued to listen.. it was much different to anything I had listened to and for the most part a lot darker music wise than anything else I had heard before. I grew fonder of Now it's On, Here Comes Tecca Nina, Einstein and to a slightly lesser extent Cursed earlier than the others but I then began to appreciate Tech's diverse range and started discovering myself trying to find out more information about Tech N9ne and about other albums released by him.. which escalated to finding out about all things Strange Music related.. and trying to accumulate other Tech and Strange tracks..
probably should thank him for finding my favourite rapper by far..
ECF'NW.