First hip-hop song that broke you in

PoppyRowe · 28-06-2010 12:04AM #1

Thought I'd begin a thread as to what was the first hip-hop song you heard that introduced you to/and made you love hip-hop. This was mine...albums are accepted too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yre5nBXAxyk

horsebox09 · 28-06-2010 01:06AM

First song that really made me love hip hop is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q

First hip hop album I loved was The Chronic

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 28-06-2010 12:14PM

The album that got me interested was the Slim Shady LP, "Guilty Conscience", in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SnRBXoNM7k

Then the Marshall Mathers LP really had me interested in rap, my favourite song on the was "The Way I Am".#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQvteoFiMlg

Underground · 28-06-2010 07:28PM

Earliest rap song i can remember falling in love with was Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise,i know

Makaveli · 28-06-2010 08:59PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_t13-0Joyc

It was like whoa what is this?!?

evil_seed · 28-06-2010 09:54PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBA-xi8WuCU

Shapey Fiend · 29-06-2010 08:18AM

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back. The intro with the californian airhead women seemed endlessly amusing when I was 9. After that House of Pain and Cypress Hill. And probably a bit of Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer and Snow - Informer if I'm to be perfectly honest.

gary_bre · 29-06-2010 09:06AM

Warren-G "Regulate"

trotskee · 29-06-2010 04:52PM

Gotta be honest, quite different to how i roll these day, but i was only an impressionable young fella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5qKNlcUwKs

Makaveli · 29-06-2010 06:25PM

That song still goes hard.

Cypher_sounds · 30-06-2010 03:01AM

When i was 11 i heard ''My Name Is'' on the radio and i was amazed with the unusual type of song, as in a hilarious comedic melody tune the type of music that i have never heard before that song, I was transfixed and that began my love of Eminem's music and hip hop:)

Jakob · 30-06-2010 03:08AM

Probably was this for me -

NWA-Express Yourself

Then I was hooked

CorkMan · 30-06-2010 04:38AM

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

When i was 11 i heard ''My Name Is'' on the radio and i was amazed with the unusual type of song, as in a hilarious comedic melody tune the type of music that i have never heard before that song, I was transfixed and that began my love of Eminem's music and hip hop:)

I was 12 and saw Eminems My Name Is on the tv and my sister rang into Corks 96fm to request it. The next year, when I was 13 she bought the Marshall Mathers LP when we were going on holiday. I popped it in the CD player (no 40,000 mp3s back then!!!) and was very impressed.

That is how my love for Hip-Hop started. The next year in 2001 Devils Night by D-12 came out and I bought it straight away and listened all summer, and I couldn't wait for Eminems next album

I listened passively to music over the years before then, but that was when my music in interest really grew.

carlowed · 30-06-2010 08:16AM

ice t i am your pusher or "Girls L.G.B.N.A.F." both were wkd

Boom_Bap · 30-06-2010 08:24AM

The earliest ones that grabbed my attention where Naughty By Nature O.P.P and Arrested Developents Mr. Wendal. But the first song/album that i got my hands on was Eazy E - Eazy Duz It. The first track on it called Nobody Move sucked me in, mostly because of the bad language, but also for the whole bank robbery story of the song.

After that it was NWA, Snoop, Dre, Paris, Cube and havent looked back since.

HalloweenJack · 30-06-2010 02:21PM

First hip-hop song I really remembered loving was the remix of It's Like That by Run DMC. That was '97 or '98.

My brother had a copy of the original on a compilation of old skool hip-hop and I started playing that CD to death.

It had songs like The Breaks, Rapper's Delight, the original It's Like That, a remix of I Know You Got Soul, Bonita Applebum and Express Yourself, along with loads of other stuff that I'd never heard of before, or since. That's what got me into hip-hop and, then in the next few years, hip-hop started getting more exposure and I was drawn in.

Zero-Cool · 30-06-2010 10:05PM

The Chronic!

I remember sleeping over in my brothers house when I was 10 or 11 and he gave me his walkman and said check this out. I was hooked ever since.

I also remember in school looking at the back of a cassette box where I had written down the song names for Tupac - All Eyes on Me. Teacher took the box off me and when they saw Rather Be Ya N*gga, they called me a racist and confiscated my walkman and tape! I had to laugh

gleep · 30-06-2010 10:15PM

When we got MTV for the first time Jay Z had hard knock life out, and I remember getting real excited by de la soul and Red man (i think) doing oooh.

I think, if a lot of us are honest, The Fugees in about '95? where the main introduction to Hip-Hop that sustained any length of interest.

gleep · 30-06-2010 10:19PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avIqTrX2eac

Just checked this on youtube, forgot How feckin good it is, enjoy:):)

KrazeeEyezKilla · 01-07-2010 03:54PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIGCGu9L90

Boom_Bap · 01-07-2010 03:56PM

are you sure it wasnt this.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCzdEAy8WOw

lawlor.08 · 01-07-2010 04:02PM

Eminem's the slim shady lp, my aunty bought it at fist i use to just listen because of the curse words but as i grew up listening to the meaning of songs i loved it more

CrackisWhack · 01-07-2010 04:11PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJtHdkyo0hc

Jigga · 01-07-2010 07:19PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhr5UBZh1rY

oilburner2 · 01-07-2010 09:59PM

Hi All
Don't know if any of you young folks ever heard of this one, Doug E Fresh and the get fresh crew - The Show, original beatboxing and scratching.
Hell yeah
Toe

First hip-hop song that broke you in

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