Listening to this classic

Juvenile - Back That Thang Up ft. Mannie Fresh, Lil Wayne

A lot of early memories but some very early core memories

Hearing What You Know by Ti when it first came out and thinking it was bananas, I still do

Id say the thing that got me 100% all in on being a rap fan actively was Kanye vs 50 Cent in 07. I was a 50 fan just because I knew a lot of his songs, but I was so amazed by the graduation singles. It was right before my 7th bday so I asked my mom to buy me both but she came back with Curtis and Soulja Boy album bc Graduation sold out lol, ending up being a super big Ye stan from that point until TLOP

Probably like 4 my pops bought a dvd from them Asian folk in trains and played it at the crib s*** had mf drop it like it’s hot and many men

my dads mix CDs he would play in the car. hot in herre was the first song i could sing along to before i even knew what the words were

Its dark and hell is hot + flesh of my flesh in blood along with pac and dj quik always played in the family outings with the others in the apartments we used to be at, s*** was lit.

Pretty much had rap playing playing at very early ages but those DMX albums are still my earliest of memories I had with rap.

Then the em/50/dre era early on listening to them s***s with my big bro in his benz riding around soCal. Good times

Backseat of my moms car drooling hearing Hypnotize by Biggie

i honestly dont remember but the earliest memories i have is getting nellyville and listening to lil romeo and bow wow lol, then the first song i remember hearing on the radio was down and out, first album i ever bought on itunes was kingdome come, first album i downloaded off the internet was so far gone (limewire), first concert was lil uzi and i used to be terrified of busta rhymes

The lox- always love big poppa always love hiphop but that caught my attention early

When I was a toddler my favourite song was Hey Ya

yung joc - it’s goin down & make me better by fab

Petey Pablo North Carolina

snoop dogg, fif, or whatever else was on mtv

My older family friend was a big Ludacris and Nelly fan so we used to listen to it a lot

The earliest memory that stuck with me I have of seeing something hip-hop related is being in my fams old living room seeing Still DRE on what was probably MTV2’s Sucker Punch block when I was around 4 or 5 years old, another memory is being around that same age at a get-together at my Grandma’s house and Hey Ya! by Outkast was playing, that “bubble” synth melody on the hook stuck with me for years but I didn’t find the song until years later.

My parents have always played old school 80s-90s rap, new jack swing and freestyle music so it’s been around me for a long time “in the background”

I was a little kid during the mid 2000s and my earliest broad experiences with hip-hop all go back to that because that was the hot s*** at the time, I remember when Akon was everywhere

I used to be kinda scared of Get Low by Lil Jon because of his raspy voice, I thought he sounded like a monster or something

I don't remember what my first hip hop song was, but I know the first albums to get me excited were 3 Feet High and Rising, Paul's Boutique and Late Registration. Completely opened my mind to what hip hop production was capable of sonically.

Pac

Being born

Racks by yc ft future
Insane song

kanye at my school disco i think

or maybe seeing a tupac poster in my cousins house

wait this just unlocked a memory

i remember going to go get a haircut when i was 5 or something and this was playing

100% first rap song I remember..dad used to play it in the car on repeat

first album i downloaded

first time i seen rap on stage

first rap song i found funny

first time seeing females lose they mind to a song

first time being obsessed with wanting to know every lyric

first song that made me feel like a super human (i used to bust niggas ass in football after spamming this)

first ring tone

We are young money was the first album I ever bought with my own money. Got that s*** using an iTunes gift card I got as a gift

Probably joey badass - 1999
After that I did my homework