What Song Got You Into Hip Hop

[The Gonz]

I got into rap when I was in 6th grade. My cousin had just got back from Cali where he was stationed in the Navy and I was hanging with him and his little brother like all the time. He introduced me to west coast gangsta rap and I was hooked. He gave me a bunch of tapes like Too Short - Short Dog's In The House, Ant Banks - Sittin On Somethin Phat, some E-40, South Central Cartel, NWA, Eazy-E, etc.

[Absolute]

Honestly, my parents used to always play TLC, Gangsta's paradise, Crossroads, and nelly's country grammer cd when it came out. So i was always around it in small doses, but i didn't start rappin til Slow jamz came out. I remember the first time i seen the video..but from there its been history.

[Lawgix]

this shit STILL inspires me to continue Hip Hop!!!

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[Kurse]

I was listenin to earlier hip-hop influenced music...but this particular song and artist is what sold me lock, stock and barrel

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[- Mutual -]

You All Like Got into rap through your own unique ways haha really different songs that made you get into rap where as for me it was Eminem Lose Yourself, which everyone seems to use that song as their reason

[QwarterZ]

lulz

[JDR]

The Chronic. That shit came out and I was hooked. Then I started bumpin' Snoops shit and Warren G was always in the deck. First East Coast nigga I listened too was Nas.

[DaPrince]

DMX's X gonna give it you to ya in 2003 got me into hip-hop and made me wanna start looking deeper because before then I didn't have access to choose my own music and only listened to what my mom played on the radio which was mostly pop music. When I found that song I started doing my own research and found other rappers that I liked so that song is what started the whole process for me.

[NoVeL]

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Canibus BODIED The Free..

[Kause mc]

Lol yea im guilty of eminems lose yourself and without me. From there i looked into dre, and from research on him i found N.W.A and so on and so on...

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[Enlightend]

Da mystery of chessboxing...

Got me into writing lyrics....
To this day most lyrical song I ever

[Loon E Lou]

song that started me all up

SUGARHILL GANG-RAPPERS DELIGHT

i swear i learned all 15 minutes of that fuckin song at age 10.

[Borat]

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^ Right there.

[Xpliss]

I can't think of a song, but I think it was 95, I got a tape/cd/radio boombox for my birthday. But no cd's or tapes until this dude I played basketball with gave me 36 chambers on tape and a week or 2 later It was written on cd. I knew every word to It was written before I had any idea what at least half of it meant. I still don't go a month without playing 1 track of it was written.

[Dream]

The Chronic. That shit came out and I was hooked. Then I started bumpin' Snoops shit and Warren G was always in the deck. First East Coast nigga I listened too was Nas.

Agreed. Definitely the Chronic, Lol.