rap music - where were you when it started?

[Ribsauce]

I had listened to some rap before, but I was at a skatepark and got the Wu Tang demo tape from before 36 Chambers and I listened to it about 30 million times.

I'd pay like a thousand dollars to find that tape. I tore my entire room up a few years ago with no luck

[gwhiz_612]

First exposure to rap was in the sixth grade. I remeber the bigest black kid in the school was in my class. His name was Kenney and he had a big fro'. Anyway, one day in class he pulled out these 12" records from his bookbag. I remember seeing the Fat Boys album and whodini. I went home and asked my mom to buy these for me for christmas. I got both on cassette and listened to them over and over. I actually remember going to the music stores and seeing the rap section with like 6 groups it literally took up about 2' of shelf space. Started breakdancing shortly after and really getting into the whole scene. Still appreciate good lyricists to this day. In high school I worked and would take my money and buy silver chains (cheaper than gold) and British Knights tennis shoes. I even had a matching BK suit. Me and my friend would take a double cassete player and stay up all night making beats and writing lyrics to put on them. It would take hours to get a cool 5 minute beat. Those were the days.

[Inchoateposter]

The Thumbless Attempted Burglary Victim was in the basic environs when I first gave hip-hop the barest openminded listen. My then roommate was a large, deceptively intelligent quiet black guy who provided the invaluable and unenviable service to our middle-class white friends of at least pretending to care about their opinions vis-a-vis hip-hop. Somewhere along the way of my screeching "pissing on its grave" to Talib Kweli's not-so-haunting rhetorical question, and getting the enjoyable bass-baritone bellowed reply of "around the corner kicking punks ass" I realized that "rap" didn't belong with "Country-music" as the only exceptions to the "Everything" I claimed to like. Turns out "Country" has some awesome sounds too and "Everything" mostly sucks.

In a straight response to the question, probably a cassete of "Bigger and Deffer" found with a few other cassetes on the edge of a basketball court in upstate New York. The owner clearly had "eclectic" taste in music since the bag also contained a Judas Priest "Turbo" cassete.

Not long after I got a copy of "Feel My Power," which was promptly stolen. I can only describe that event as an act of Providence, and for the next decade I maintained a staunch and unapologetic hatred of "rap."

Those were good years.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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did bong hits with Kurupt and Daz of Tha Dogg Pound (nice guys, called me "good people")

[/ QUOTE ] doesn't surprise me, those dudes always seemed real cool.

[James Boston]

My neighbor growing up was an old man. He couldn't get around too well and used to hire guys to help him work in the yard. I don't remember how old I was, but I was at his house one day talking to one of the guys he had hired. He was a young black guy. I asked him what kind of music he listened to, and he pulled a cassette tape out of his pocket. It was MC Hammer. I looked at it for a second and said, "McHammer?"

[AntonHeat]

Old timers... lol

Eminem was the first rap artist I started to like and listen to, then it went from there and now I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Rap

[-Skeme-]

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doesn't surprise me, those dudes always seemed real cool.

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lolol

[siccjay]

Rap started for me when a friend let me borrow 2 dubbed tapes of some new group called Cypress Hill and NWA "Niggaz4life." I think the first tape I ever purchased was Black Sheep "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing."