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.

[hi-C]

I had always liked hip-hop as I grew up in the 90s and listened to "urban radio" but the first time I can really remember falling in love with it was when I heard Mos Def's "Umi Says" in the year before I started high school. And the year before that with Lauryn Hill's Miseducation.

And I'm falling in love all over again at this very moment listening to Black Star.

This post has been edited by Madame C: Dec 11 2005, 04:35 PM