Who Inspired you toward's Music?
 

I have about 3 people who have inspired me. The first ones where ' The Dark Man a.k.a DMX " .... and 2-pac.
You can feel there passion and emotion through there music. It just grabed me into it, and made me want to exress myself in the same way. Ever since about 1997 ' Nas ' has been doing the same that they have. I know alot of you might not like him, But I do. He is a very persuasive writer. Just like DMX, and 2-pac. No one will ever be able to make a copy of what they put out into the world. Even to this day they all make me want to be better. Even though they have inspired me so long.

-The Dark Man a.k.a DMX
-TuPac a.k.a Makiveli
-Nas a.k.a King Pin

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-High Class a.k.a Confusion

I'm still pretty new to all of this, but... besides the usuals i'd have to say that Copywrite inspired me to try writing shit. Just cause he's got some sick punchlines and they get me laughing.

well ive pretty much had 3 influences...

1. Nas - inspired me to be poetic and think about each lines meaning before i write it
2. Eminem - to speak my mind and not only say things i wanna hear, not what everyone else wants
3. Canibus - he inspired me to try to make my lyrics as complicated as humanly possible, but to still have meaning...

i wrote my first rap when i was 8 - it stank. It was about how cool i was and how i shoot people. If it wasnt for these 3 and a few others like pac, aesop rock, DMX, cormega... i'd still be talking that crap

kids at school
Stuff they hit me with
just got my head spinin
so i joined a little clik of theirs
and started rhymeing.
Back in the crayon days ;)

Big L, one i heard 98' freestyle, i luved rap lol. Then i just started spittin september 2003 cuz I was good at writin, and I was gettin into a lot of trouble wit fights so I just thought..
"Why fight when i can pick up a mic and make em feel so low dat they wanna kill themselves", den t-west was born. time for Canadian Hip-Hop to gain sum respect.

umm actually friends........And Canibus.........his lyrics are so good

tupac- he has a awsome style of hip hop, he rapped about everyday things and problems hes unique.
eminem-hes a truthful guy, raps about his life, tells the truth

thats basically it, i listened to tupac he was the first rapper i ever listened to..i prolly lived in a box...but hes the one that got me thinking about hip hop and to pick up a pen n try

I was never hit by the 2pac boom.. When you say music.. It would have to be nirvana, green day, rage, metalica.. But since I only recently got into hip hop.. It was Eminem who inspired me.. You can laugh all you want.. But its got me this far.. But now I have to look else where for inspiration.. But he still holds all the elements to being the dopest.. So yeah.. he was the main one, XZibit was another, but i've gone of him alot.. I try to find any inspiration from whoever/wherever I can.. Anything I come across.. whether its wack or not.. It still inspires me.. Literally the most simplest or bizzare things inspire me..

Pz

mmm true, i was into nirvana

nah i think eminem is a pretty good inspiration though

The main ones who inspired me are:

2pac - the man,the myth,the legend....never let anythin stop him, great lyrics and albums.

Eminem - taught me to say what's on my mind and if people hate then it just gives me more to write about. Also told me to tell my stories in my open mics thats why I write bout my life and not make shit up

^^ They're the two main ones but also every artist who's been around for ages has influenced me. The likes of micheal jackson, madonna.....etc. I may not like their music but I got respect for them coz they've made it into the industry and stayed there. So I respect them as musicians.

actually my first ever black friend, he had a talkboy, and a puff daddy and the bad boy family tape.
and i used to be laughed at by his brothers cos i tried to rap, and this was before eminem came out.
and after the talkboy sessions,

i then started to like
the fugees,
2 pac and biggie,
and then i just started buyin random rap records in the music shop, like naughty by nature, and thats how i discovered people like nas.

:nono:.....a bullet did......

:shoot:


lol j/k 2pac is aight

anyways......im inspired by myself......i dont look to anyone else to get me anywhere in hip hop.....i just have fun doing it.....so i guess its my love for it that inspires me......go figure

pot1ent- I feel you on that hommie. There are some very strong messages put out by rock. People arnt as good these days, but back then. They were all just incredable. People might trip on me about this, but... Billy Joel inspired me to bring a charm to my music. Somthing that grabs the ladies in... LOL ...He is a very good singer though, one of my favorite musicians of all time... But he is the only guy from any other type of music that has inspired me...

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-High Class a.k.a Confusion

Michael Jackson...Fuck you, he has the industry on lock.
Nas inspired me the most, because after I heard Illmatic I just felt I had to write. Then would be Mobb Deep after hearing Hell on Earth and The Infamous. I got into some underground but after listening to Aesop Rock's Labor Days, I've been going more into poetry. And I have to give some to Jay-Z because people think he's no good, but He has alot of punches and soo many metaphors, but doesn't get respect because they are mostly implied and his songs have catchy choruses.

Elton John

id have to say the song california love inspired me to start listening to rap music, then i really got into dres new album when that came out they i just kept listening to different emcees and seeing what different styles other emcees had

iite this may seem like some obsessed kid but i aint...but i was inspired by eminem...and maybe Dr. Dre..the first rap song i ever heard was "My Name Is" and i thought it was so funn and started gettin me into n now i like any type of rap

The people in the enviroment that i grew up with inspired my taste of music of the art of rap/ hardcore rap music

The first rap song I ever heard was "Hit Em Up"

you can imagine me at 8 years old:

"OMG this guy swears so much. Hes cool. So gangsta."

So if it wasnt for 2pacs unrelenting hatred towards others, I wouldnt even listen to rap. Hate = prosperity :D

this thread is played,

rakim, ive said it in ever other thread like this.....

I was born and boom i liked hiphop, but when i heard "microphone fiend" by Rakim i damn near died, so i wrote some bullshit down and thought it was dope.

I got about 4 different styles so about 12 people influenced me

Sometimes i'll spit a multi syllable fast type shit-Twista,Bone,and Trigga Treach,and Pun inspired me to do that,and that "bombs over bahgdad" song by Outkast

The witty wordplay shit is what i do mostly-Jay Z,Nas,Treach (again) inspired me 2 do that

the multi worded shit ending wit a dope ass punch or ending-Canibus,Rass Kass,Chino XL

Knowledge shit (if you can't do knowledge shit then u suck) wit vocab-Canibus,Pac,Jay,Rakim,Nas,and now Kweli

my boy got me rapping, but the song that got me wanting to rap is rabbit run, off 8 mile, and go to sleep off from the soundtrack of cradle to the grave, eminem inspired me to rap the most.

C section. Dont free post or im talking to the Mods... Aight hommie.

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-High Class a.k.a Confusion

The Notorious B.I.G. and Nas

music in general runs my life, so why not make it?

i dont care what people say but this is my list of people that inspired me in some sorta chronological order to start makin my music:

Elvis Presley-i was 4 years old and i knew i wanted to play guitar
Micheal Jackson- i use to try and dance like him all the time lol
Wu Tang- i was 5 when 36 chambers came out and my cuzin let me hear it
B I G- my hommie and me would listen to all Biggies joints repeatedly
BlackStreet- seriously who wasnt feelin "no diggity"?
Busta- HIs shit was just crazy
Maxi Preist- "that girl ooo, that kinda girl" lol
Jay Z- reasonable doubt, volume 2 and 3
Nas- Hommie dem had all of Nas's albums at the time
Beethoven- I play piano
Jimmy Hendrix- I also play guitar
Rage- loved they message
Oscar Peterson- great canadian jazz musician
Rakim- Mic fiend
Mase - dont front we all likd mase

and most influential artist in my life Bob Marley

My Cousin ... And bein' broke ... But that's not a person

My home girl from the Bronx...She used to freestyle on the mic...definitly inspired me..and she kinda taugh me the basics..

Soyla Chula...a femcee internet head...
and last but not least..-BIG PUN- Lyricaly wise inspired me...


Peace...

da first rap song i ever heard was M.E.T.H.O.D. man, by method man. i was like 3 when i heard this song and i still remember it. Biggy made me love rap, i listened to juicy for so long for so many days, i know dat song word per word, i tried to understand him, i felt wat he said. tupac perfected the sound of rap into my ear with great lines and perfect songs.

Scrotominal Deff.

^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.