to hip hop/rap obviously!!????

i am a product of just before mid eighties, and i had older sister so i had early exposure to music. and, of course cable when mtv jams was one.

i remember cassettes i bought back in maybe 1990 or 1991, and i still lsten to most older school hip hop - so i have seen it and heard it change a million times.

after the chronic 2001 dropped it was a rap... i listened to that **** on a field trip to the boston museum of science on the bus ride there... been a hip hop head ever since LOL

1997....I've been a student of rap for 11 years now, over half my life. The first cd's i owned were Wu-tang forever, puff daddy - no way out, Biggie - Life after death, and Mase - Harlem world. I remember seeing the video for mo money mo problems when they first played it and from that point on the rest is history.

First rap album I bought was P.Diddy and The Family- No Way Out, then I went on to grab all the Jay albums from the shelves. I had an older brother who bumped those records so I had a bunch when I was real young.

Whenever DMX came out with Where My Dog's At?

Then again my earliest encounters with hip hop were Bone Thugs, Coolio and Naughty By Nature.

1989 - I'd heard a handful of rap singles on pop radio in the meantime or briefly on MTV, but it was about 6th grade that I bought Young MC's debut and some Hammer and Fresh Prince tapes, and a buddy of mine got his dad to buy him Life Is...Too Short and we would listen to it at school - dirty side when the teachers weren't around, clean side when they would pass...

I started listening 8 or 9 years ago. Late 90's-Early 2000's...

I remember my uncles listening to N.W.A in his mini-truck back in the 80's.That's when I started to have an ear for it!

ive been listening to hip-hop in 95 just after the great year of 94(illmatic and them) i had early west coast influences since the west was holding it down at that time however my first rap song i memorized was triumph by the wu.

I remember seein the video for naughty by nature-hip hop hooray when i was probably 5 or 6 years old. I remember liking it but i didnt really listen to much music until 4 years later when i started listening to puffy, wu-tang, the fugees, and biggie.

I wish i came up in the late 80's like some of yall...in the juice crew era.

i dunno exatly when it was but i know when i was young my **** was...wu tang, busta rhymes, and mobb deep before that i listened to just radio **** like whatever was popular like rock ro whatever.