think my first memory was seeing 2Pac's death on the news

then when Hip Hop started entering the mainstream a bit more, I became a fan of Nelly, DMX, Ja Rule, Eminem, etc.

my most seminal Hip Hop experience growing up tho was when I went to summer camp and one of my counselors who was a backpacker gave me a list of "real" Hip Hop albums to buy

came back from summer camp when I was like 12 and bought Illmatic, 3 Feet High and Rising, The Low End Theory, Criminal Minded, Blackstar, Let's Get Free, Do You Want More? and a few others

the rest is history

can't recall the earliest but that I rly got into it was when I got into albums proper around 2010

I know gorillaz demon days, mos def the ecstatic, kanye mbdtf (and full discog after), the roots things fall apart were some of the earliest albums I was rly obsessed w

College dropout/late registration. My mom had the cds and played them religiously. It was then that i knew i loved this s***.

That and roses by outkast.

Yo never thought I’d run into someone who knew Typical Cats

This is the first rap song I remember hearing outta my mother’s car