Oldest Memory of Hip-Hop
 

yeah, so what is your oldest memory of a hip-hop song or group when it actually came out... sometimes i wish i was older so i was actually around when Wu Tang was droppin all their hot shit and Nas and Jay were first startin and shit... and so i got to thinkin and realized i remember alot of shit being 18 that you 15 and 16 year olds wouldnt have even experienced, so i figured this would be a pretty cool thread to hear people's memories...

i would have to say my earliest memory of a hip-hop song droppin would have to be some old school Dre and Snoop shit, then Eminem and the Bling Bling Era with Cash Money at kinda the same time...


so do some of you younger cats not even remember like the start of Cash Money comin on the scene, somethin that changed the face of hip-hop...?

Lotta nas i remember pac california love snoop murder was tha case BIG juicy that was joint son...

yeah, like comin up in the household i did and everything i realize i didnt get introduced to hip-hop until i was old enough to hear shit on my own, so i missed out on alot of the really early shit...

Word i remember when em first came on tha scene to...

yeah, me too...

sad enough, when Eminem started was when my friends at that time first started talking about rap and stuff, so thats what got me into it...

Remember pacs death? that shit tripped me out then when big passed i was buggin...

well, see i would have been what like 9 at the time... i think i remember it on the news and shit, but that was before i was really enough into hip-hop for it to mean anything to me :(

i remember the end of the nwa days, n like ice-t releases from the early 90's, the luniz operation stackola from 1995, i got 5 on it to this day is a classic n is still on heavy rotation.... man i even remember hearing some releases of black sheep as a real young'n

the oldest shit I remember is the 1st Bone Thugs and Harmony album.
lol @ people oldest memory of rap was the Nas and Jay-z beef,
or when Em came out, smh, thats pathetic.

i know, and they the ones claiming they hardcore hip hop fans

lmao yeah, because thats really how you determine a fan... i knew this shit would start some dumbasses starting beef... like you really studied their lyrical content when u were 5... so what ur saying if u didnt listen to hip-hop ur whole life you cant ever get into it? and when the hell have i ever claimed to be a "hardcore hip-hop fan", that sounds stupid as fuck...

i was born with hip hop in my veins...my earliest memory was dancing too mc hammer cant touch this.....then i started too listen too peeps like ll cool j when i was like 4 and 5 for real......and then i stopped listening too music when i moved...but i was like 7 when i heard that Big Pun and Joe song I dont wanna be a Player and fell in love with it again.....never really listend too anything else but rap after that

word, thats dope

see you didnt criticize anybody
the purpose of this IS to hear DIFFERENT stories... not to figure out who is better than everybody else :bored:

its the fact that they are old enough to remember stuff from before eminem or nas, but dont, and the fact they remember the commercial shit first, i was born into whats basically a hip hop culture... everybody listened to it round my ends along with reggae, soul n shit like that.... but also i know alot of these kids dont listen to anything(or barely anything) from before the time they founded hip hop..... ive had kids i wont mention names, that ive talked to on here, and they dont even have a clue who kool herc is, n they are more or less the same age as me.

When get rich or die trying came out in theaters.

Eight years ago I saw biggie drop 'Hypnotize', I mighta seen mo shit befo but that's the one that sticks in my head...

^ I hate your name,avy, and sig.

^i love ur avy...

my oldest memory of hip hop was my older brothers playing their hip hop vinyls, eg. Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Tribe, De La Soul ish when i was like 4 or younger.....

exactly, but everybody WASNT "born" into that, and thats what im saying, theres nothing wrong with them finding hip-hop after that... its not like "oop, you're 6 years old, you cant start listening to hip-hop now"

lmao, worrd :shoot:

I was at the first block party Kool Herc threw......

lmao .....

"Chicka-chicka Slim Shady..."

^ hold up... u mean u werent listening to rap when u were 2 either? :shocked:

No sir...

I was born and raised a rocker.

It still resides in my system...I occasionally rock out to Metallica, and if the occasion is right, perhaps a little classical with a puff of marijuana, and country with about a flat of Kokanee's finest brewed alcomahol.

word, my dad listened to rock and shit too so thats what i started out on... some Aerosmith, Guns N Roses... all that shit, and 80s rock is still the only kind i really like...

Word...the bands I listened to growing up:

Aerosmith
Nirvana
Metallica
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Matchbox 20
Our Lady Peace

Oh and sooo many others.

I never really first listened to anything even close to hip-hop until I listened to Limp Bizket...but thats not really hip-hop-imotomous.

Eminem was the first rapper I ever heard...on a Dre track. I thought he was a scronny little black guy till I saw a picture of him lmfao.

Forgot About Dre? or before that?

Stop talking about rock! I will not have that garbage in my house. What happened to the music from my day? Tupac, nas, eminem, and ludacris. Now you young people are listening to instrumentals with screaming on it. Damn youngins.

when u turnin 15 ?

You gettin a bit ahead of yourself. I haven't even hit pubirty yet. Look at my hairless privates son! :shoot:

Forgot About Dre...So in Reality...I have only been listening to rap for about 5 or 6 years.

lmao, worrd... pubes aint gangsta anyways


but word Limited, i remember when that shit dropped...
7th Grade

I got Slim Shady in like 2000 maybe, heard a bit of rap before tat but i was like 11/12 and it wasnt that big over here as far as i knew.

The First MEmory Though Is Walking into a music store in York somewhere when i was like 12 or 13, and hearing whats the difference, I stood next to the speaker like the whole song, went and asked the guy which album it was from and bought it. I listened to Dre near religiously for like 6 months, then listened to more and more.

Now Im Dope.