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...?

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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...

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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...

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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

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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.

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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...

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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

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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

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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.