WHat got u into hiphop?

Whether its the mean bass beats, the rhymes or the dirty lyrics, what got u into hiphop and which artist/s fully got u cravin for more hiphop?

For me it was the fast harmonic rhymes of Bone Thugs 'n Harmony's "Crossroads".

The Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill.
We did some mean scratching on my friend's mum's stereo, some cool breakdancing on a piece of old lino and looked stylie in some bop pants my mum made me.

an ex of mine .... showed me the way never looked back!

RADIO- Mai FM back in 92

NEWBIE ALERT

DJ Craze and P-Money @ StudioNine, 2002.

Just casually interested in getting more into it, I'm already a genre whore!

cypress hill.....

I couldnt really pinpoint what got me into HIPHOP.

Youre always exposed to it - ya know like when youre a kid listening to Funky Cole Medina, 2 Live Crew, Snoop yadda yadda yadda...Its just a matter of will you let this exposure become an addiction?

I remember when I was 11 learning all the words to Award Tour by ATCQ and my cousin exposing me to 93 Til Infinity for the first time that same year...

Then I met this guy.. yeah well he liked hiphop a lot and kind of reminded me of all this hiphop I was exposed to during my GRUNGE days and well the rest is history...

Sheesh this girls getting all nostalgic now...

My sis did...way back when I was 8 or 9 years old.
Never looked back since.

ROCK SUX0R

In 6th form (4 years ago) I got to know some people who were into it. We did fuck all work and sat round listening to tapes of the trueschool hiphop show and I listened to their Wu-tang cds and that was how it began for me..

b-boying back in the day...

rappers delight - sugarhill gang
buffalo girls - malcolm mclaren
planet rock - afrika bambaataa

>>>>which artist/s fully got u cravin for more hiphop?

Forgot to answer the question.

It was ATCQ!

Kerri Fisher, before I went out with him at the tender age of 15 I used to listen to Bardot.

Always had it around me growing up.
The earliest hip hop track I can remember is 'Buffalo Girls'. Also my older sister was listening to stuff like New Edition & LL Cool J.
Watching movie like 'Crush Groove' & 'Beat Street'.
The first albums I bought with rap on it were the 2 Fat Boys albums when I was 7.

Like acornm, it was the tribe that really got me going.

Warren G-Regulate, the track that got me into hip-hop/rap. Followed by earlier Dr Dre stuff, Bone Thugs, Snoop Dog.
Lately I've been tapping into more local stuff which is wicked, we have some wicked talent in NZ.

hell yeah. NZ is the shit.

I remember buying "peoples instinctive travels..." and rating it above de la soul-3ft high... and jungle brothers-done by the forces... for sheer originality and abstraction. It was at a time when NWA were kickin off the gangsta stuff and PE was in full battle mode...

I reckon production standards are still lagging beatwise but flows and lyrics we rip shit up...

another couple of years if the current crop can follow up their debut releases and we be runnin tings proper...lookout for kapisi with his follow up. He is the man.

RingoKid - have you heard some of Kapisis new stuff? Do tell.. when is it coming out?

Have it on good authority that it's the shit...

Due for release early in the nu year...

cypress hill and oldskool 2pac stuff

snoop doggystle

Mos Def was the first Hip Hop I really liked, but it was the very recent Big Things that really made me realise it was prob one of my top genres.

My friend told me 'bout Tahu FM (back in the day) When it was fresh as shit. Chris, Sita & someone else. One day, Chris played a whole CD while he went & picked up Sita. This is when they didn't have automation. So there were like 3 seconds of dead air between each track. It was dope. Then I bought Naughty By Nature's Poverty's Paradise and i was bought.

Tahu FM represent... I was a snotty nosed ginger (I still am) until introduced to Chch's Tahu FM, which in turn introduced me to the likes of Naughty by Nature and some freak called Dr Dre.

yeah
nuahgty by nature, dr dre, snoop dog and all that old school deathrow shit.
Since then ive kinda grown out of gangster rap and party music but hell am i glad it was there for me and spawned an interest in what has now become and adiction.

Hip hop, its more adictive than crack

yeah
nuahgty by nature, dr dre, snoop dog and all that old school deathrow shit.
Since then ive kinda grown out of gangster rap and party music but hell am i glad it was there for me and spawned an interest in what has now become and adiction.

Hip hop, its more adictive than crack

OH!
Naughty by nature!
i'd almost 4got! Oh the memories . . .
I was gonna say NWA and Public Enemy, and i don't know how they got into my tape draw! But to be honest it was hard 80's synth rap crossed with TLC and SWV that lead me straight up the weedy path of cyprus hill . . NBN . . Beastie Boys . . spearhead . . digable planets . .
*hiphop is more adicctive than crack*
welllll, tha's quite a thing to say maximuss . . but there aint NUTHIN that pumps thru my veins like a sexy beat and a swift intelligent rhyme to compliment . . and there aint nuthn as nice such as SHAKIN GODDAM BOOTY!
tha's wat got me hooked, the beat, the bass, the lyrics, the voices, the message . .