Well when I was real little like in the Mid 80s I though all those cheezy hair bands were the shit until I got into the Beastie Boys, Fat Boys and Run DMC. The Late 80s early 90s came and I got into Tone Loc, Public Enemy and Digital Underground. Then for a little bit I got out of rap cuz all I was hearing was hella black power rap from PE, Queen Latifa and shit and I started listining to Rock again then in 6th grade ane of my boys had an older cousin that shot him Chunk and Tottaly Insane, I thought it was so tight that there were rappers right around the way putting out tight music, that was when I really got hooked! I then moved on to RBL, IMP Get Low etc and it just kept on growing. But when I heard all the old school Vallejo rappers like the Crestside/Hillside cats N2Deep etc thats my real shit right there!
what got you into rap ?
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Sorry for the misconception bro. I was not reffering to the lyrics after Death Row. I was reffering to the politics and all the media and prison drama involved slightly before and all the way after he got signed to Death Row.
I first became aware of Pac's presence back in '91-'93 when Interscope released material off "2Pacalypse Now" and "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." and still doing shit with Digital Underground. At that time, I thought he was a nigga with a funny name trying to be the next MC Hammer LOL.
I am picky too about what I listen to and what I purchase. I suppose people have different sets of opinions and flavors when it comes to artists. J5 is tight! I listen to BEP (the old stuff, not none of that justin timberlake bullshit they pulling) Chino XL (that's my rap god) and some people off here.
I first became aware of Pac's presence back in '91-'93 when Interscope released material off "2Pacalypse Now" and "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." and still doing shit with Digital Underground. At that time, I thought he was a nigga with a funny name trying to be the next MC Hammer LOL.
I am picky too about what I listen to and what I purchase. I suppose people have different sets of opinions and flavors when it comes to artists. J5 is tight! I listen to BEP (the old stuff, not none of that justin timberlake bullshit they pulling) Chino XL (that's my rap god) and some people off here.
I always listened to rap my first few tapes was the adventures of slick rick', naughty by nature and some old basement tapes my cousins used to mix filled with ice cube, too short, etc. I didn't LOVE hip hop till I used to rhyme with my homies and listen to the wake up show's feed from KMEL on 92.3 the beat (old L.A station)
Eazy E's solo shit is what got me hooked, he put a twist on it mixing comedy rap with ganster shit and took rap to a whole nother level for me, Real Mother Fuckin G's was my #1 favorite track, it just appealed to me that somebody that short could make Suge Knight, Snoop, and Dre look like little kids hangin from his dick, even with that high pitch voice Eazy had hard shit
Whodini and Run-DMC was what first "lit the fire", so to speak, for my interest in Rap. At my high school dances when I was a freshman and sophomore, people used to breakdance to these early records like "Walk This Way", "It's Tricky", and "The Freaks Come Out At Night" as well as to stuff like The Time's "Jungle Love", Chaka Kahn's "I Feel For You", etc.
I kind of lost interest after awhile (basically after Run-DMC faded out) and got more into Heavy Metal (Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, etc), but a great buddy of mine named Ted who went to Ball State had become interested in consciousness rap (Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, X-Clan) and some early street rap (N.W.A., Ice Cube, Ice-T, DJ Quik, CMW, etc.). Ted always encouraged me to start taking rap seriously again, telling me that it was WAY better "now" (1990-91) than it was during the mid-'eighties. I borrowed his copies of Public Enemy's FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET and LL Cool J's MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT and BANG! I was hooked. I went on to buy virtually every important CD from the 1988-1993 period, West, East, and South...
Since this is a Bay board, my first experiences with the Bay were with Too Short and Digital Underground. Short Dog's GET IN WHERE YOU FIT IN lit the fire that encouraged me to not only buy his older stuff, but also stuff by Spice 1, PoohMan, Ant Banks, Goldy, and...basically, everyone who was a guest on his early CDs. And it all just kind of grew from there...
PEACE!
I kind of lost interest after awhile (basically after Run-DMC faded out) and got more into Heavy Metal (Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, etc), but a great buddy of mine named Ted who went to Ball State had become interested in consciousness rap (Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, X-Clan) and some early street rap (N.W.A., Ice Cube, Ice-T, DJ Quik, CMW, etc.). Ted always encouraged me to start taking rap seriously again, telling me that it was WAY better "now" (1990-91) than it was during the mid-'eighties. I borrowed his copies of Public Enemy's FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET and LL Cool J's MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT and BANG! I was hooked. I went on to buy virtually every important CD from the 1988-1993 period, West, East, and South...
Since this is a Bay board, my first experiences with the Bay were with Too Short and Digital Underground. Short Dog's GET IN WHERE YOU FIT IN lit the fire that encouraged me to not only buy his older stuff, but also stuff by Spice 1, PoohMan, Ant Banks, Goldy, and...basically, everyone who was a guest on his early CDs. And it all just kind of grew from there...
PEACE!
^^^ maybe I should have posted my story of how I got into it. A funny one I tell ya!
I have always heard various rap songs but I first got into listening closely in '90 when they came out with In Living Color. That show was hot and they had hip hop featurings on there normally! The Wayans had some pretty good skits then!
The first rap I ever heard was that Ghost Busters Rap, but what really got me listening is LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock U out".
Thanks to Kube93.3 and 106.1KMEL in '91-'92, I was exposed to Arrested Development, Tribe, Wu Tang, Kris Kros, Ice Cube, Ice T, and a bunch of other unemployed artists which I forgot their names now! I started writing rhymes and recording some of my crap back then when I was 9-10 years old, but they sounded hella stupid and I had no instrumentals. I never thought I would be an artist in the hip hop genre because of 2 reasons: I am not negro and I was only a child (there were no Bow Wows back then except for Kris Kros). So I kept my recordings then to myself!
What really got me back into writing again was Chino XL's "Kreep" in '96, nobody ever made a song like that and it hit a nerve since that was what I was going through at the time. So from there I wrote more and started recording again!
The End!
I have always heard various rap songs but I first got into listening closely in '90 when they came out with In Living Color. That show was hot and they had hip hop featurings on there normally! The Wayans had some pretty good skits then!
The first rap I ever heard was that Ghost Busters Rap, but what really got me listening is LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock U out".
Thanks to Kube93.3 and 106.1KMEL in '91-'92, I was exposed to Arrested Development, Tribe, Wu Tang, Kris Kros, Ice Cube, Ice T, and a bunch of other unemployed artists which I forgot their names now! I started writing rhymes and recording some of my crap back then when I was 9-10 years old, but they sounded hella stupid and I had no instrumentals. I never thought I would be an artist in the hip hop genre because of 2 reasons: I am not negro and I was only a child (there were no Bow Wows back then except for Kris Kros). So I kept my recordings then to myself!
What really got me back into writing again was Chino XL's "Kreep" in '96, nobody ever made a song like that and it hit a nerve since that was what I was going through at the time. So from there I wrote more and started recording again!
The End!
