Hip Hop Forum

Who did you grow up listening to?

Rock. Shit like Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Nirvana, Green Day. Then I got into rap, mostly west coast gangsta rap at first. Eazy-E, Dre, Snoop, Too Short, DJ Quik, 2pac, E-40. I still listen to rock til this day. I gotta change it up every now and then or I get bored of the music.

Basically..

2 pac
Biggie
Rakim
KRS ONE
Em

busta rhymes, nas, bone thugs, biggie, pac, mystikal was pretty big at the time...lol.....dr dre, ice cube, eminem...alot of shit...cant think of too many more right now i havent been up long

Viral's list is pretty much mine.

Word i forgot 2 mention bone thugs in my shit also..

man when i was a kid i grew up listening to country cause my mom liked it... then i got into alternative rock and the first hip hop tape i bought was Skee-Lo's single Top Of The Stairs... and from there it went on to Tupac Nas Bone Thugs Eminem and so on and so on

Is it just me, or does there appear to be a reoccuring trend of gangsta rap being a sort of gateway drug to more lyrically refined artists?

^^MAybe..

There definitely is, Gangster rap was dominate in the 90's too, and that it when most of us grew up.

Ruckus wrote:Is it just me, or does there appear to be a reoccuring trend of gangsta rap being a sort of gateway drug to more lyrically refined artists?

Well Gangsta Rap Gets The Most Mainstream Exposure So if u Like That You'll Naturally Seek Out More And Find Other Stuff. i Only Found Out About Undergroud Rappers Through illest/The internet/Word Of Mouth On The internet.

Only Rappers i Listened To Growing Up Were Eminem, Then Dre/2Pac/Snoop/50 Cent.

i Was More into Techno, Trance, Pop And Rock When i Was Growing Up. (Scooter, Aqua, S Club 7, Vengaboys, Oasis Etc) To Name a Few Lol.

Tupac .. Biggie... Ja Rule .. Jay Z.. Nas.. LL Cool J...Nappy Roots.. Eminem...

happy hardcore, trance, house music, dr dre, eminem, nas, jay z, was heavy into the west coast at one point..xzibit, kurupt..etc more recently 50 cent, g unit when they first came out. plus all the old classics that i missed when they first came out like wu tang, mobb deep, 2pac, biggie..etc

Scotch Hall wrote:Scooter, Aqua, S Club 7, Vengaboys, Oasis

word to all of em... i remember when S Club 7 had a show on ABC Family... those 2 chicks Rachel Stevens and Jo O'Meara were fucking fine!!!!

Word!?!?!