hip-hop appreciation thread, yezzir! Options

[fameONE]

1. This isn't a thread to bash hiphop. So don't come in here and just say, "rap sucks," or to say, "IDK I don't listen to rap," because I'll verbally rip you a new one. Thats a promise.

2. D4L, Mike Jones, Pretty Ricky, Lil Rob, etc; is not hiphop so don't talk about garbage like that or someone will verbally rip you a new one.

3. Spark some nostalgia and bring up the classics.

After listening to Common's "I Used to love H.E.R." and watching Brown Sugar, I feel its necessary to ask this question...

When did you first fall in love with hiphop?

For me, it was when I was 5 years old and listened to A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders. Its the earliest memory of music I have.

Have fun, mafuckas.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

I fell in love with hiphop around 5th grade. When I first found Lauryn Hill, and started listening to her a lot. When all the girls were still into N*SYNC and Backstreet Boys. Everybody thought i was weird and ghetto because i had some Lauryn Hill playing, or i was obsessing over Tupac while they were giggling over one of the lead singers in a boy band. Then i got into more underground hiphop as well as mainstream.