What was the Rap/Hip-hop track that first got you into the genre

echomadman

For me it was Erik B and Rakim, Paid in Full.
I'd heard other rap tracks as a kid but l remember playing that one over and over again on the old record player in the house when i was a young 'un.
Classic stuff.

Kold

Hummm I'd say it was Eminems first album that got me into it, dont laugh, im only 17 :P

Makaveli

Fight The Power probably. I can't really remember.

Linoge

NWA- Gangsta Gangsta

Kept playing it til i knew the lyrics. Sad I know but i'll sing it at my wedding!!

Dooom

i think Gangster's Paradise by Coolio got me into it, but when i heard Hell On Earth by Mobb Deep i couldnt stop playing that album, and going deeper in ever since!

technobob

sugar hill gang - rappers delight

SoundWave

House of Pain - JumP ArounD (Pete Rock Remix)

Kali

Probably the Beastie Boys and Ill Communication... not quite hip-hop per se but definitely opened my eyes a bit.

][cEMAN**

I honestly don't remember. It was so long ago. I think I was always into rap/hip-hop.

I remember when I bought Arrested Development's first album. This was when I started to get money to buy stuff. I had already gotten some shaggy before that on record but this was my first tape. The opening track of scratching/mix was great - and the songs meant something. So I liked that.

Before that I had already known sugar hill gang - rappers delight. Maybe this was the reason I got into Rap/hip-hop but again I don't remember. I just remember I would listen to anything I could back then, and developed a strong taste later on for House of Pain, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys etc.

tman

grandmaster flash - the message/white lines or sugarhill gang - rappers delight... i remember my dad playing those when i was a youngun':)

prolly nwa, wu tang & gangstarr that got me back into it...

Tha Gopher

As a kid born in the mid 80s I unfortunately was too young to appreciate the golden era of rap which ran from the early to mid 90s. In those days,whereas nowadays all 10 year olds would know who Eminem and 50 Cent are back then in the mid 90s the only non boyband/girlgroup type of current chart stuff young uns of that age had heard of was Oasis. I cant ever remember anybody in national school mentioning Tupac/Snoop or any of the other commercially successful rappers of the day. The only rapper most kids had heard of was Will Smith,and though nowadays alot of people unfairly criticise him for his light lyrics it was his singles like Welcome to Miami and the various film theme tunes he did that got me into rap,so I owe him one:D
Then when we got sky and there was all the extra music channels I saw alot more of what I liked,and started getting into the more grown up sthuff.

Kopf

I saw the video for biggie's "Hypnotize" when i was about 12. Thought it was the biggest piece of **** ever, was looking at the tv thinking "look at that self-righteous self-centered wanker. i'm glad he's dead". Decided to almost dedicate myself to hating rap and hiphop until a few years later when i heard "Shake Your Rump" by the beasties. Nowadays hypnotize is one of my favourites, its flow is just stunning.

AngelofFire

when i was 10 the song california love was the big rap hit. it was the first single from any music genre i bought and from there ive been gettin into hip hop

BigO

The first vid i ever say on mtv back in my day was
Nas - If i ruled the world

rooted the track up later and listened to it, liked it
i dunno wat got me into it.
i was big in RATM and got into cypress hill then it was all sort from there!

red_ice

Originally posted by technobob
sugar hill gang - rappers delight

same, along with...

Grand Master Flash - wheels of steel and appachie (breakin)

I think a big influence on myself liking hiphop was from a film i watched about 13 years ago called 'wildstyle' which has GMF in it and is mainly focused on graff.. which was also another element of hiphop i loved

red_ice

whoops almost forgot..

Step intoooo a world!

also, i remember KRS one being a great influence

Cannibal Ox

Raw I'm gona give it to ya,
With no trivia,
roll like cocaine straight from Bolivia

Wu-Tang, 36 Chambers.
I've never heard an album that even comes close to it, and I've been listeing to Hip Hop for a long time now.
Excellent lyrics, great production and some of the best rappers of all time. I just couldn't help picking up a bunch of other Hip Hop albums.

Stormfox1020

Run Dmc vs Jason Nevins- Its like that (me only 16 )

Suaimhneach

Does an ex boyfriend count.

He inspired my interest, but I still love it a year and a half later.

Although, now it would be more R'n'b than rap. But I do have Puffy's album and Mase. Ah the memories...

Executive Steve

asher-d and daddy freddy - raggamuffin hip hop


was the tune that got me into sample based music, dancehall hardcore and drum and bass too, though only because the geezers who did it were pivotal in all of those musics...

first us hip hop was the 2 live crew me so horny.

thehomosuperior

Don't Believe The Hype by Public Enemy, on an ANCIENT hip hop compilation my brother had....

Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A was also one of the songs that first turned me onto hip-hop, along with Warren G's Regulate. I'm old enough to remember Doggystyle-era Snoop Dogg quite well, but at that point I really disliked him for some reason.....

smiaras

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kmart6

Eminem-The Real Slim Shady

Im only 15 so stop yer laughin

Clintons Cat

Originally posted by [cm]tyranny
asher-d and daddy freddy - raggamuffin hip hop


was the tune that got me into sample based music, dancehall hardcore and drum and bass too, though only because the geezers who did it were pivotal in all of those musics...

**** yes,Rough and Rugged was ****ing class tune

Mine would have been The Message by Grand Master Flash,

www_dot_com

id say it was mc ren - it aint ruff

colin300

Xzibit - X was the one that got me into rap.
I heard it in a mates car and got it off him. I still play it. Its one of the best tunes still.
Its a pity most people only know him for that song.

www_dot_com

thats a terrible song if u compare it to some of the stuff already mentioned

colin300

I disagree. But I agree it ain't as good as 2pac - California Love
But Eminem c'mon. People only get into rap when they hear all his popular stuff like The Real Slim Shady and I'm Back. Then when they go out and buy his albums they don't understand the rap.
He is one of the best its a pity he does that crap.
His new stuff from Straight From The Lab is some of his best stuff.

smiaras

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The Beer Baron

As a child of the 80's hip hop was always bubbling under the surface.
I used to think Jones from Police Academy was cool (didn't everyone) and was always trying to emulate him. The human beatbox trip always got me. (an artform I still practice in my private moments) Even **** like The Fat Boys were cool. This was the days of Fat Albert and Knight Rider and other such mindless sh1te. I remember once some kids brother had come back from America and he had a ghettoblaster with all this stupid music on it. It wasn't really hip hop or electro just 80's crap which he thought was cool. This was on the estate where my aunt used to mind us after school and he let us borrow it. So we threw down some lino on the concrete and "dun breakdancin'" until some parent looked out the window to see a kid trying to spin on his head and came out and dragged him in in typical "the mother all the other kids hated" style. After that I guess we just went back to ramping on our BMX's or shooting imaginary Russians with our automatic hurleys or whatever.

I wasn't so much into rap as I was into electro stuff and such- that being everything from Mantronix, Lil Louis to Jean Michelle Jarre (that oh so hi tek computer generated cartoon with the running stickman) all that. I just liked crazy noises as a kid- nad never really grew up from that. Wasn't until Public Enemy that I realised rap was actually worth listening to lyric wise, then later Ice Cube, Ice T, Bodycount. Echo got me into house of pain, cypress hill, snoop et all and the rest is history. I wasn't into it as much as him tbh but he was always more of a wigger than me.

spongebob

The Revolution Will Not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron I first heard it in the late 1970's , probably the first great Rap song and still a classic. The BeatNigs did a cover once and a homage when they did "Television the Drug of the Nation" which they later smoothed upwhen they changed their name to the Disposable Heroes ........

Hip hop / Breakbeat ........ Lee 'Scratch 'Perry invented that too, by 1970

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BigDaddyKone

slick rick da ruler - childrens story
doctor dre - the chronic

echomadman

The Revolution Will Not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott Heron is the man, B-Movie is another one of my favourite tracks by him.

Michael Franti (Beatnigs, Disposable heroes of Hip-hoprisy and latterly Spearhead) is damn good too, i must try to track down his cover of TRWNBT.

LoneGunM@n

I got into rap through [wait for the slagging] through Vanilla Ice & MC Hammer :dunno:

The defining moment though was buying Me Against The World .... even now it's my all time favourite Rap Album

spongebob

Originally posted by echomadman
Gil Scott Heron is the man, B-Movie is another one of my favourite tracks by him.

Have the 12" version about 12 minutes long , a classic . Every time the US goes to war over oil it gets dug up yet again. It came out 10 years after TRWNBT though.

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echomadman

Have the 12" version about 12 minutes long , a classic . Every time the US goes to war over oil it gets dug up yet again. It came out 10 years after TRWNBT though.

/me shakes fist of jealousy

Yeah, I love his older stuff, I grew up listening to dub reggae, bob dylan and mowtown, (my mother's a bit of a hippy, and my uncles are stoners) so politics and soul combined with great basslines and beats led me into hip-hop fandom

B-movie came out in the 80s (obviously, as its slaggin ole ronald raygun), Its continued relevance is astonishing. I especially love the verse about america changing from a producer to a consumer, and the 26% of the registered voters bit gives you a bit of deja-vu onsidering Dubyas ignominious electoral history.
No-knock and Get out of the ghetto blues are other that i play regulary here.
I consider him to be the proto-rapper, influencing Chuck D, Grandmaster Flashs & the furious 5 , franti and all the other ones i cant think of now

spongebob

Dub Reggae c . 1970 - 1978 was the precursor of hiphop and techno (along with the German electro bands of course) , Augustus Pablo, King Tubby and the Sly and Robbie Dubs have dated much better than Grandmaster Flash and LLCool J anyway.

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DriftingRain

I think the Beastie Boys did if for me. Anyone remember the fat boys? I think thats what they were called...back in the mid 80's. They made a movie to, although I can't remember the name of it. Lets see I also really liked the girls TLC, lefteye with her condom eye patch in their videos always made me like them. I guess they are the ones that made me like rap/hip hop.

I also have to mention my mother loves the Temptations, Diana Ross with the Supremes....and a few others. So I am sure that had something to do with it.

Now, Its the faster beat that keeps me hanging in there. Good dancing music!


~DR~

DRakE

Originally posted by Spike
i think Gangster's Paradise by Coolio got me into it,

emagdnim

ahhh....i remember back in 92. i think i was 10 at the time and we used to always play football with the older guys...and they always had a boombox with them when they played. one of them was just after acquiring the first house of pain album so it was constantly on the boom box, i begged him for a copy, i think he felt sorry for me in the end and decided to copy it for me (on tape of course!). I remember sneaking home and listening to it really low cos my mam would've flipped if she heard the language!

so it wasnt any particular song...it was more that album, i remember i thought it was so cool that they rapped about being irish (HA!)...then after that i went onto cypress hill and NWA (which my mam did hear and did flip about!)

still one of my favourite albums! though nowadays im listening to J5, the roots, atmosphere, brother ali, aesop rock, el producto, rakim, blackalicious......and a whole lot more.

i have a bit of a soft spot for some of the more mainstream stuff too...eminem, jay-z, joe budden (c'mon that beat off pump it up is savage...just blaze on form!)

hard to believe it's 12 years since i got into hip-hop! still holdin on to what's golden!

pgodkin

funny i know but i was about 12 i think and i had his alum on tape!! damn did i play it for like hours a day!!! but i have come a long way since then, Slim shady, 50 cent DMX, Jay-z, nas NWA, Dr. Dre, DTP, Nelly man i love it all!!!!!!

deisedolly

When me brother left the Marshall Mathers LP lying around i stuck it on and as soon as i heard Stan, a couple of months before it was released as a single, i was hooked from then on and started getting into all parts of the genre

FTA69

Same with myself, t'was the Marshall Mathers LP that got me into it all. I remember Bitch Please II being the one that struck me the most. After that t'was Dr Dre 2001 and so on.

poshtiger05

Fight the Power by Public Enemy - stil 1 of my favorite songs

P O'Neill

For me it was Slump by OutKast. I used to be a big metal head but my mate from the US converted me one night when we were blazin and i never looked back!

Evzer

Cant front on aquemini! Defo my top 5 Hiphop albums ever

Darth Brawl

NWA -Hundred miles Runinng

bustyle

Eminem-My Name Is

Puff Puff Pass

FTA69 wrote:

Same with myself, t'was the Marshall Mathers LP that got me into it all. I remember Bitch Please II being the one that struck me the most. After that t'was Dr Dre 2001 and so on.

Exact same here - now I regard the Chronic 2001 as the bible. Every once in a while I put it on and wonder if dre's perfection can get any better

Ya gotta love some of the new stuff particularly the beats - I still got a soft spot for the old stuff

Shrimp

Personally I was into Rage against the machine, then from there (the rapping element of ratm) I moved onto full out rap. but in saying that I have an eklectic taste in music.. I'm not sure if there was one sing in particular though..

Doper Than U

I got 5 on it - Da Luniz. That shows my age.