when did you get into rap
 

Just wondering when you started to love rap. well with me for some reason
i have always hated rap until i started listen to eminem, nas, nicki minaj,
young jeezy 2 pac and i am pretty much new into this.:bringit:

Music Banter told me about Biggie Smalls. The rest is history.

ho yes i am listen to him now

It was all about Public Enemy for me. Got into them when I was a little scrubber and became obsessed. It's weird, I'll have periods when I listen to nothing but rap and seek to listen to every hip hop album I can, but there will be other times when I just ain't got time for it. But that makes it sound even more fresh when I get into it again.

lupe fiasco is the one who got me into rap. food & liquor is an amazing album

I think it all began when I got into the Wu about 4 years ago.. I used to hate rap, due to the ****tacular mainstream music out there. It wasn't until I discovered Biggie, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Bone Thugz and Outkast that I became addicted to it.

Got into it around 12 or 13. Not too sure what artist I listened to, or what songs I heard.

Back in '01 when I was about 13... I had heard "If You Must" on Tony Hawk 3 so I went out and grabbed a Del album - Deltron 3030 was what ended up catching my eye. And did it open new doors. I'd heard good hip-hop before but had glossed over it without giving it a proper chance. Del hit me with what I could relate to - imagination. I was a sci-fi nerd anyway. It was perfect.

Deltron 3030.

Particularly, Madness.

Now, it's 3030, Cleofis Randolph (w/ MC Paul Barman), Battlesong, Memory Loss

Believe or not I used to hate rap and listen to metal. Ozzy Osbourne was god to me. Then I realized anyone who doesn't listen to all kinds of music is an idiot. Now I'm a rapper hahah

Same story but change Metal to Grunge.

Grew up with Eminem on the radio, left that behind for a while as I got into Heavy Metal, then I discovered N.W.A and re-realised that Hip-Hop is really good :)

Started loving rap and music in general when a group of friends introduced me to the musical world after my 19th birthday. Before that music was just something I listened to at discos, and now its kind of an addiction. Also if I had to have a preference out of all the genres of music I listen to it would definetley be hip hop. A few of my favourite mc's are Common, Aesop Rock, Nas, Eminem and Blu. There are a ton of others I could name but that would require some energy I just don't have at the moment.

I was mostly into rock and metal earlier in my music days. I have since then tried to get broaden my horizons and found Eminem, which I used to like in my younger days, and other groups like N.W.A. and the other well known groups.

Now I'm into Deltron 3030 and Del's other stuff, Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Big L, Biggie, Pac, Army of the Pharaohs, Jedi Mind Tricks, Bone-N-Thugs Harmony, Cunninlynguists, Diamond District, Doomtree, Grave Diggaz, Wu Tang [Solo's included], Nas, Organized Konfusion, Y Society, Panacea, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, so own.

these three albums had something to do with it

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Just look at the tracklist.





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About three years ago.