^word to that dez

Rap and hip-hop music in general made a connection with me. I can't give such credit to one artist in particular.

BIG L ,n e one from the east coast kno who im talkin bout, the lyrikal master mind murder'd every beat he rapped on he just made me bob my head

to me it was more of wat inspired me i gotta say violence i faced drugs and the who is mostly those kids i see running around acting and startin to take the root that i've been through...

if the question is more focased on a performer i gotta say all of them cuz they all been through alote to survive and to make themselves to wat they are...

also wat they are doing...i mean how they are giving back to the kids through the music...

peace

music in a sense is all inspiration. i take what i can get from everyone i listen to.

id say every composer, artist did

big l, eminem, listening to soundbombing and lyricist lounge, not to mention so many people in high school used to cypher and shit in the hallways........................to hard to pin it to one thing.........

I pretty much came out the womb listening to music. That real, old, soul stuff. Motown, Teddy P., Aretha... all that. Everywhere I went had music, and it stuck on me. I can remember when I'd be in the car singing all the songs on the radio, and my older cousins always talking about it. Now I can't do anything without music, it's my passion.
But just the real artists, the real music.

the main rappers ever....pac biggie,L etc......but really, I started cos I was pissed off by the same old shgit

Honestly I've already been into hip hop cause i grew up in the heart of Queens and my older brother (r.i.p) and my older cousins who was kinda big on the block showed me some good music, I think the first big musical influence on me was the Fugges-The Score, that was the first album i heard i thought was incredible, so one day im listening to it in my brothers stereo when he comes home and sees me, he grabs my headphones listens to a little bit of it and smiles, a few days later he gave me illmatic and thats when i started rapping, i think just last week i actually understood that whole album, so i gotta thank my brother for giving me illmatic, but Nas was always my biggest musical influence, The Fugees were for a few months when The Score dropped but its always been the one and only Nasty Nas, but now i also have to give Rakim HUGE props cause like someone else said Microphone Fiend was crazy (first song of his i heard) 1luv.

the whole golden era of hip-hop: run dmc, big daddy kane, BDP (krs-1), rob base, kid & play, slick rick. I wanted to be fly like them cats. So I started rhymin, that was back in like 85 86, most of y'all cats wasn't even thought of yet.

@pac and Eminem inspired me to tha hip hop game, they have good lyrics, lots of meanig to there songs and shit

pz

Music influenced me to make music, been around it soo long that it's a natural way of life...I grew up in a hose where music was playing all the time...Moms would get up in the morning the first thing she would do was play the old jams, Teddy P, Donny Hathaway, Stevie, Prince, MJ's Of The Wall..music stay on at my house (It's music playing in the background right now) My moms with the old james, my older uncles and cousins and the older dudes on the block with the old-school hip-hop. I remember my uncle sitting me down, putting on some KRS-One and explaining to me, "Kid, THIS is hip-hop"..just puttin me up on game...so yhea..

FOR ME CELLA DWELLAS CHINO WU RASS KASS

MY SELF....


Jesus Christ.I wuda thought some1 with sende woulda figured that out.... Only yourself can influence yu to do ANYTHING...

BUT, i remember my uncle bringin up a big black dust bin bag full of vinyl up to my parents place....

Like the 9-10 yr old i was...I peeped inside...*after he left the house, Obviously* To my amaizment, i saw the most fuked up album cover EEVVVEEERRR...*note, i was 9-10*

I put it on, and you wana know the 1st 2 hip hop songs i ever heard..??

Well, it was.......A Tribe Called Quest- Can i Kick It and De la Soul- Me, My self and I.....

MAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN I thought i was PIMP....

But theyre good times bruddas and sisters.... Keep hold of your memories....DONT DO DRUGS...!!!