Do you remember?

[Kuhlerblynd]

What it was that brought you into the world of hip hop and made you want to actually be a part of the music aspect of hip hop?

[FlipSide]

The Diversity.... I View Hip Hop As A Way Of Life... Not Jus Music...

[QwarterZ]

It was the tone....the whole vibe
hip hop slowly grew on me over the years
I always listened but never had the capability of buying it
after I did I went back and got everything I heard
what got me into writing....I won't lie...it was girls
but then I grew into my own mold and started adapting to the growth
Hip Hop is a lifestyle, the more you live in it
the more it means to you and it really completes you

[Kuhlerblynd]

I agree alot with Qwartz also.

I lived in southern Cali at the time Tupac was blowing up as well. Even though I was pretty young, I was able to see his concepts and how he could speak of two things with once at ease. Further research led me to Rakim and Wu Tang and the like, which only made me want to find out more.

By the time I was fourteen, freestyling was an every day thing. I wasnt good, but I would quit. Thats something else that fueled me to continue. Freestyling is free thinking, in an art form, and with my passion for writing, it only helped developed the craft that I enjoyed.

[Haz]

actually be a part of the music aspect of hip hop?

use to write poems to music I was playing..
then I started saying the words while the beat was on
got a rush of rhythm and took it from there

[AbZ The Beast]

women liked rappers....i became a rapper ..bling bling

[FlipSide]

Freestyling is free thinking, in an art form, and with my passion for writing, it only helped developed the craft that I enjoyed.

I Was Living This Life Every Day At the Age Of 17... Ive Experieced The Good n The Bad. I Feel That Hip Hop Influenced the way i lived life. Influenced my desicions When I Had The Wannabe Mentality, For The Good N The Bad. Tho Now I See The Passion I Had For It Influenced Me To Make Music, Write Poetry And Short Stories That my Peers Consider To Have Had Potential Should I Stayed Doing The Same Things.. Now I Mostly Spectate And See Yall Lil MuggaFuggers Do The Dam Thing... ITS CULTURE BABYEEEEEEEE

But Mostly Its A Sence Of Community

[QwarterZ]

I guess we all started rapping for the girls

0_0 what a way for a genre of music to bring us together

[Kuhlerblynd]

Lol @ Flip

<<<--------- This duke, not a lil muthafugga, been in the game since 00, and thats JUST online.

[complexity]

I use to be a big fan of hip hop. Now I see it more as a marketing scheme. You really can't take anything that you listen to serious until you realize how much money they are making, why they are doing it. It's just corporate america for the kids.

[IntrinsicCadence]

For me hip-hop music was something I've enjoyed listening to since I was in elementary school, even though I didn't know many people around me who listened to it much. Then in high school in the late 90's I used to go out to train yards and do photography of all the graffiti, and put it up around my bedroom connected like a bunch of train cars. For a couple years I also spent a lot of time doing graffiti styled sketches, also in the late 90's, but never did go out to do any bombin with it. But it wasn't until around 2001 or 2002 that I really got into writing lyrics and making beats. It was actually the depth of hip-hop artists like Aceyalone, Jurassic 5, Abstract Rude, Lyrics Born, and a few others that really got me to start diggin' deep to find other emcees that I really respected and, as a natural outgrowth of that deep search through hip-hop music, words starting flowing from out of me. The first rhyme I wrote actually came out really fast and I was really impressed with what I was saying and how I was saying it, so I started writing rhymes everyday. After writing for a few months, me and a couple of friends started getting together to freestyle regularly, and after I had gotten the feeling for how to freestyle, I couldn't quit with that either, I started freestyling in my mind when I was in class, or as I was walking home, the music was just moving through me almost constantly. I quickly started learning to make beats at around the same time too, cuz I didn't want to have to rely on others to make the atmosphere I wanted to make. And it's just been building since then...