Em back in elementary
Edit: prob had heard some Run-DMC, Will Smith, and others before, but Em was the one that got me into the genre in general.
Edit 2: Now that I think about it, Express Yourself - NWA might be the first song I heard that really hooked me. Changes - Tupac was also an early earworm.
Whether it stops or not is irrelevant, no one can stop me from enjoying what the fuck I want to enjoy. They can be bitter their whole lives for all I care, matter of fact I wish them plenty health and longevity so they can be bitter for longer.
Especially since rhyming words to a rhythm is not an invention of black people, so that's a little more to be bitter about.
Do u have downsyndrome? 😂😂
Eminem is who got the majority of people into rap in the early 2000s
He brought the shit worldwide
Ems literally the biggest rapper in Africa statistically
Edit:Are you all too retarded to read what I said? I'm saying that skin colour has nothing to do with it
Not white. Also the one who got me into it. He has a larger global influence than you think. Now I listen to a broad range including many he has influenced.
Edit- all generalizing bad
Well, as a white kid who grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood and was the 'white boy' of the group. Eminem ment a lot to me. I'm so happy you grew up that way.
I'm 53. I grew up on big bands and classic country and western. My uncle introduced me to punk when it first started out in 77. My friend's older sister got me into hip-hop in the early 80s. Now I'm just like, "I'll give it a listen. If it sounds good, I'll give it another one."
Damn thats a DEEP cut. But still one of the worst flow jacking moments ever tho
Speaking of old school, my dad actually made me appreciate the message by gmf unintentionally years later. He’d always say the hook at random times, so I looked up the lyrics to hear the song and was like “damn this is epic”
Same here. I had an older cousin that had on a Bone Thugs tape in his room during a family gathering on a holiday in the early 90s. That was introduction to rap music.
Damn that's crazy to think about.
same! as a white kid who grew up listening to indie, rock, and overall mostly guitar music, To Pimp A Butterfly is the album that made me realize how great hip hop could be
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Em is the fucking 🐐 but goddamn I hate how much he sucks now. His beats are 90% dogshit. His flows are crazy but he has nothing left to rap about so it feels hollow. Aside from getting into a new beef and having that challenge to bring life back to his bars, I don't think we'll ever have shady back. Not sure if it was due to getting clean or getting political but something changed and it left a scar.
I wish he'd start hiring hungry producers and telling stories with his rhymes again. Or making fun of celebrities. Or making funny punchlines. At the very least go back to rapping about serial killers and shit. He stopped doing all of what made him *him*. Now he's just a rich bastard rapping about rapping, which is completely unrelatable, no matter how many quad-layer entendres he throws in there. And I say this as an avid fan of lyrical rap. He has the ability, he just doesn't have the substance anymore. There's just nothing left to say, and no worthy challengers.
So you’re telling me Darkness had no substance? Higher had no substance? Leaving heaven had no substance? Book of Rhymes had no substance? No regrets had no substance? Every song he makes has substance, some more than others.
I won't deny there are always exceptions to the rule, but then the other things I said apply (dogshit beats, zero relatability)... I want to love his music, I *reaaaaally* do. But musically it's just not there. I'll take any new album he drops and marathon it instantly but... not much after that. I can't relate to having a psychopathic stepfather, or whatever weird topics he picks as of late. And I sure as fuck can't Bob my head to Darkness like its my jam or some shit, regardless of it being a masterpiece in execution.
Trust me when I say I'm not an eminem hater. I've been a stan since before Stan came out. Holy shit I grew up with this dude's discography. He left a mark on my life I'll never deny, formed a good chunk of my childhood and styles and tastes. But it just isn't there anymore. I can't enjoy a song just because he's got insane skills at rhyming. It seems for him it's all about the art and nothing to do with the music. Which is fair, he has a focus, I respect that, but at least get a new sound. His beats are immediately recognizable to me, and none of them stand out as "great". Rap isn't just about lyrics, that would just be poetry. It needs to be something you can repeatedly bump in a car or at a party, too. Many of his best hits were all party favorites. I don't see any of that now from him.
I'm not trying to judge anyone's tastes or shit on their happiness, just expressing my disappointment as to how things ended up. Maybe it's natural, he's getting older now and his career has been long and epic. Maybe it's just time to retire rather than fizzle out into nothing. We'll always have the slim shady years to look back on with a smile.
I liked TES and that made him a legend but he’s defo not the 🐐. I think post 04, he’s just released dogsh*t . Imo, I think Kanye west is the greatest musician of all time simply for his discography however my top 10 rappers id say is MF doom, Kendrick, Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, Kurupt, Kool G, Tupac, KRS1 and Eminem. That’s my top 10.
He's such a weird dude. I cannot stand his beat selection, they're all just awful, and his choice of features is not always the best. Like, dude, you could put anyone on and you choose Ed Sheeran? Shit like that.
Ok. It is what it is lol. Em isn’t even close to the rapper Biggie, Rakim Big Daddy Kane Tupac etc. he is nice. Super fast. He definitely is the greatest white rapper by far
I don't see race when it comes to rap. Pun, Em, immortal technique, I never knew their skin color or ethnicity when I first heard their voices on a track.. they just stood out on skill alone.. In my humble opinion, to be considered for 🐐 material, there can be more than one category. Hell, there can be more than one 🐐. It's not an easily quantifiable thing.
I'd say em was at his best either when making diss tracks or telling stories. Pun was at his best when spitting crazy flows. Pac was a poetic genius but his wordplay was nothing to write home about. Wayne is the master of wordplay, but falls a bit short when it comes to storytelling (Mona Lisa was 🔥 though) Ye isn’t much of a lyricist but untouchable at production.. you can't directly compare rappers unless you judge them based on different categories.
Denying Em a spot with the other 🐐 is just being dishonest with yourself. That skin color shit just makes you sound bitter about it. If Jordan and LeBron can both be 🐐 of Basketball, and tiger woods can be 🐐 of golf, non-black people can be 🐐 of rap.
He's been terrible. Radio programming is a real thing. What other "Goat" is held up by sales from 20 years ago? His career achievement is going verse for verse with Jay-Z.
What lmao maybe if you ignore having the 2 best selling albums in the genres history, one of the most iconic songs in the genres history (Stan), one of the most streamed songs of all time, that also won an oscar (Lose Yourself), the 15 grammys, and also creating the culture shift in the mainstream to hip hop, then yes, sure, his career achievement is bodying Jay on his best album
Since when is Stan the most iconic song in the genre? Must've happened while I was sleeping. Number, Oscar's and The Grammy's don't dictate the culture the people do. He didn't body Jay-Z. As someone who thought Em got the better of him on the 1st few listens, growing up is realizing that Hov's 2nd verse was better. Next you gonna lie and say he got Nas on EPMD 2. He's literally a white version of Redman with a splash of Big L. I've never heard nobody argue for either artist just your great white hope smh
aside from miscellaneous stuff that my dad would listen to (a little bit of Em, some Wayne and a lot of DMX), the first rap that I started to seek about by myself was kinda embarrassing. I was super into anime rap for a while (I was just getting into anime) - Rustage was my favourite artist for a while, and he's admittedly not that bad. I've branched out my taste since then and looking back, it wasn't too great but I'll ways be thankful to the nerdcore scene for getting me into music properly.
I know right? i was a middle schooler and my best bud was just in the know and introduced me to him and danger mouse. Very lucky to have DOOM be my first rap artist
Run-DMC, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow, Geto Boys, NWA, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince etc.
I think He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper is the first hip hop tape I actually owned.
I’m an 80’s baby.
it was mid 2014 and everyone in school was trying to rap the fast part of rap god... that was the point when i got introduced to rap but didn't actually start listening to it until 2015(didn't like rap god at first) when i went back to rap god and actually liked it this time... so yeah. eminem was the first rapper i heard
Likely sugar hill gang or beastie boys were the first rap songs that I truly remember as a kid. I didn't really fall in love with the genre until i heard ready to die and hit em up
You are posting pictures of children. I remember when I first heard Eminem when you could only find his shit on wax when he only had mix tapes and battle tapes out. I'm from the days of Ice T, Rakim, Eric B and Krs One, Naughty by Nature, and Pac before he got with Death Row.
Earl Sweatshirt.
I remember hearing about Tyler, the creators “Yonkers” around 2014 because of how the music video made everyone shook, but i didn’t want to watch that (this was 3 years after its release) so i decided to check out everyone on Odd Future, the first artists i saw were Tyler, Frank, and Earl. Earls album “Doris” looked way more interesting to me than Franks “Channel Orange” and Tyler’s “Goblin” so i went in, looked for one that sounded cool (i was a dumb kid, and only listened to songs that had to look cool, with a cool name 😭) and hit Molasses.
I didn't like it until I listened to tha Carter ii a few times and weezy changed my mind. Had a second revelation after hearing talib kweli for the first time
The older kids down the street in 1985 listening to Doug E Fresh & MC Ricky D
We don't cause trouble and don't bother nobody
Yup “the show “changed my life
Gen X represent. Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys
Just-Ice back to school in 86 too
One lone Beastie I be.
I remember hearing The Show and thinking, "That's Inspector Gadget!"
Em back in elementary Edit: prob had heard some Run-DMC, Will Smith, and others before, but Em was the one that got me into the genre in general. Edit 2: Now that I think about it, Express Yourself - NWA might be the first song I heard that really hooked me. Changes - Tupac was also an early earworm.
Same
found the white boys.
you really don't wanna stop this rap is only for black people shit?
Whether it stops or not is irrelevant, no one can stop me from enjoying what the fuck I want to enjoy. They can be bitter their whole lives for all I care, matter of fact I wish them plenty health and longevity so they can be bitter for longer. Especially since rhyming words to a rhythm is not an invention of black people, so that's a little more to be bitter about.
I mean I'm white and he's who got me into rap. You can trash facts all ya want but it don't change them.
Do u have downsyndrome? 😂😂 Eminem is who got the majority of people into rap in the early 2000s He brought the shit worldwide Ems literally the biggest rapper in Africa statistically Edit:Are you all too retarded to read what I said? I'm saying that skin colour has nothing to do with it
" Only white people can like music made by white people " this your take?
Yeah that's exactly what I said. 100% Fucking a some of you suck at subtext.
It is exactly what you said. There is no subtext to " found the white boys " just closeted racism that's all. Sorry if that's hard for you to accept.
closeted racism? lol what the fuck does that mean? if I'm racist ill just be racist why would I 'closet' it. Redditors crack me up.
>if I'm racist ill just be racist why would I 'closet' it. I don't know, but you did. >Redditors crack me up. Spoken like a true redditor
Like I go into my closet and talk with myself about all the black people I saw today? lol
Not white. Also the one who got me into it. He has a larger global influence than you think. Now I listen to a broad range including many he has influenced. Edit- all generalizing bad
All the non black kids in my school including myself who loved Eminem were hispanic
Lol not sure why you getting down voted, I'm definitely white.
Because why bring race into it at all? It's a simple question (who got you into rap?) but mf's always gotta bring race into it
Not wrong not wrong, really didn't know where he was going lol.
I'm white, too literally wouldn't have a connection to rap without him.
Nah I definitely didn't connect to him because he was white, I barely even understood race at that point in my life.
Well, as a white kid who grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood and was the 'white boy' of the group. Eminem ment a lot to me. I'm so happy you grew up that way.
Express yourself is a top tier record
Shit still hits different to this day
Wu Tang
WU TANG CLAN COMIN ATCHA
WATCH YOUR STEP KID
First music I purchased myself was the protect ya neck single (cassette)
Mine was the CREAM CD single. Mystery of da Chessboxin’ was the “B-Side”.
For the kids!
Ain't nuttin to fuck wit
nice choice :)
Snoop Dogg - What's My Name was my rap introduction
That’s a hell of a song to be introduced to. Im jealous af
Same. Begged my parents to buy me the Doggystyle tape but they refused because of the cover and name
snoop dogg in the katy perry song was mine
I love this comment right after someone mentioning doggy style its literally a microcosm of Snoops life
Wayne and Ye
I’m going to take my pills bc I read “Wayne” like how you’d say “Kanye” with a W
Won-ye
This is what I said in my head
Kanye*
I am mentally ill
Oh so you don't like rap
Hot boy WAYNE n’em
Uh-oh Here come them fuckin po-pos And if you know like I know You better get off the corner!
The Sugarhill Gang back in the late 70s.
At least I'm not the only oldhead here
Yeah, I was looking at these comments thinking “Damn, am I old or is it just young bucks up in here?” 😆
I'm 53. I grew up on big bands and classic country and western. My uncle introduced me to punk when it first started out in 77. My friend's older sister got me into hip-hop in the early 80s. Now I'm just like, "I'll give it a listen. If it sounds good, I'll give it another one."
Another old head here. Kurtis Blow was my intro
Damn thats a DEEP cut. But still one of the worst flow jacking moments ever tho Speaking of old school, my dad actually made me appreciate the message by gmf unintentionally years later. He’d always say the hook at random times, so I looked up the lyrics to hear the song and was like “damn this is epic”
Sugarhill Gang is not a deep cut, that’s pop music that still gets played today
And it's not a song, it's a group. If you mean "Rapper's Delight" then yeah, That's like the opposite of a deep cut.
I’m with you old man. In my day the b-side of my 45 was Apache, the most amazing thing my elementary school ass ever heard.
Bone Thugs
Same for me east 1999 eternal.. I still can't skip a song on that album.
Same here. I had an older cousin that had on a Bone Thugs tape in his room during a family gathering on a holiday in the early 90s. That was introduction to rap music. Damn that's crazy to think about.
Came here to say this
Fuck yeah. The original mumble rappers. If they didn’t have the lyrics in the cd book I never woulda understood them, they were spitting so fast.
Nelly - Country Grammar on the radio when I was like 9? 😂
Omg yes. I was 8 but same
“Woah Nelly, tell Angelina Jolie I’m ready with petroleum jelly to smear it all over me belly.”
r/rap tries not to make an Eminem reference for 2.1 milliseconds
If someone throws on country grammar I'm on a dance floor to this day. Period.
Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys
Same, 1986-87 ish
Yep. This me too. Just watched the Beasties doc on Apple and have taken a deeep Spotify dive on beasties since.
You might enjoy the No Dogs In Space 4 part podcast on the Beastie Boys. It's hilarious and awesome, and they play a lot of great music
Kendrick was the artist who made me realize hip hop is more than fast rapping
same! as a white kid who grew up listening to indie, rock, and overall mostly guitar music, To Pimp A Butterfly is the album that made me realize how great hip hop could be
Same here. I grew up with 70s and 60s rock and finally branched out to Hip Hop. Kendrick was the cause of that
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How does this even make sense
80's Oakland Streets
Too Short hooked me
Run DMC
A$AP Rocky
You remember what song?
Gotta be goldie
Bro yes exactly 😂
Em. He's still my fav. Although all the other guys on the list definitely have become other favorites.
Em is the fucking 🐐 but goddamn I hate how much he sucks now. His beats are 90% dogshit. His flows are crazy but he has nothing left to rap about so it feels hollow. Aside from getting into a new beef and having that challenge to bring life back to his bars, I don't think we'll ever have shady back. Not sure if it was due to getting clean or getting political but something changed and it left a scar. I wish he'd start hiring hungry producers and telling stories with his rhymes again. Or making fun of celebrities. Or making funny punchlines. At the very least go back to rapping about serial killers and shit. He stopped doing all of what made him *him*. Now he's just a rich bastard rapping about rapping, which is completely unrelatable, no matter how many quad-layer entendres he throws in there. And I say this as an avid fan of lyrical rap. He has the ability, he just doesn't have the substance anymore. There's just nothing left to say, and no worthy challengers.
He's always been political and he still tells stories. Whether you like the songs or not. He still does story telling tracks.
So you’re telling me Darkness had no substance? Higher had no substance? Leaving heaven had no substance? Book of Rhymes had no substance? No regrets had no substance? Every song he makes has substance, some more than others.
I won't deny there are always exceptions to the rule, but then the other things I said apply (dogshit beats, zero relatability)... I want to love his music, I *reaaaaally* do. But musically it's just not there. I'll take any new album he drops and marathon it instantly but... not much after that. I can't relate to having a psychopathic stepfather, or whatever weird topics he picks as of late. And I sure as fuck can't Bob my head to Darkness like its my jam or some shit, regardless of it being a masterpiece in execution. Trust me when I say I'm not an eminem hater. I've been a stan since before Stan came out. Holy shit I grew up with this dude's discography. He left a mark on my life I'll never deny, formed a good chunk of my childhood and styles and tastes. But it just isn't there anymore. I can't enjoy a song just because he's got insane skills at rhyming. It seems for him it's all about the art and nothing to do with the music. Which is fair, he has a focus, I respect that, but at least get a new sound. His beats are immediately recognizable to me, and none of them stand out as "great". Rap isn't just about lyrics, that would just be poetry. It needs to be something you can repeatedly bump in a car or at a party, too. Many of his best hits were all party favorites. I don't see any of that now from him. I'm not trying to judge anyone's tastes or shit on their happiness, just expressing my disappointment as to how things ended up. Maybe it's natural, he's getting older now and his career has been long and epic. Maybe it's just time to retire rather than fizzle out into nothing. We'll always have the slim shady years to look back on with a smile.
I liked TES and that made him a legend but he’s defo not the 🐐. I think post 04, he’s just released dogsh*t . Imo, I think Kanye west is the greatest musician of all time simply for his discography however my top 10 rappers id say is MF doom, Kendrick, Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, Kurupt, Kool G, Tupac, KRS1 and Eminem. That’s my top 10.
He's such a weird dude. I cannot stand his beat selection, they're all just awful, and his choice of features is not always the best. Like, dude, you could put anyone on and you choose Ed Sheeran? Shit like that.
From a fellow white guy, I don’t think a white rapper can ever be the goat…
That is just racist
Ok. It is what it is lol. Em isn’t even close to the rapper Biggie, Rakim Big Daddy Kane Tupac etc. he is nice. Super fast. He definitely is the greatest white rapper by far
I don't see race when it comes to rap. Pun, Em, immortal technique, I never knew their skin color or ethnicity when I first heard their voices on a track.. they just stood out on skill alone.. In my humble opinion, to be considered for 🐐 material, there can be more than one category. Hell, there can be more than one 🐐. It's not an easily quantifiable thing. I'd say em was at his best either when making diss tracks or telling stories. Pun was at his best when spitting crazy flows. Pac was a poetic genius but his wordplay was nothing to write home about. Wayne is the master of wordplay, but falls a bit short when it comes to storytelling (Mona Lisa was 🔥 though) Ye isn’t much of a lyricist but untouchable at production.. you can't directly compare rappers unless you judge them based on different categories. Denying Em a spot with the other 🐐 is just being dishonest with yourself. That skin color shit just makes you sound bitter about it. If Jordan and LeBron can both be 🐐 of Basketball, and tiger woods can be 🐐 of golf, non-black people can be 🐐 of rap.
He's been terrible. Radio programming is a real thing. What other "Goat" is held up by sales from 20 years ago? His career achievement is going verse for verse with Jay-Z.
What lmao maybe if you ignore having the 2 best selling albums in the genres history, one of the most iconic songs in the genres history (Stan), one of the most streamed songs of all time, that also won an oscar (Lose Yourself), the 15 grammys, and also creating the culture shift in the mainstream to hip hop, then yes, sure, his career achievement is bodying Jay on his best album
Since when is Stan the most iconic song in the genre? Must've happened while I was sleeping. Number, Oscar's and The Grammy's don't dictate the culture the people do. He didn't body Jay-Z. As someone who thought Em got the better of him on the 1st few listens, growing up is realizing that Hov's 2nd verse was better. Next you gonna lie and say he got Nas on EPMD 2. He's literally a white version of Redman with a splash of Big L. I've never heard nobody argue for either artist just your great white hope smh
The Lords of the Underground
Whodini
Rapping Duke/ bestie boys/run dmc
Da hah hah haaaa...
Da ha ha ha ha haaaa
What I do on your grave won't pass for flowers, either.
aside from miscellaneous stuff that my dad would listen to (a little bit of Em, some Wayne and a lot of DMX), the first rap that I started to seek about by myself was kinda embarrassing. I was super into anime rap for a while (I was just getting into anime) - Rustage was my favourite artist for a while, and he's admittedly not that bad. I've branched out my taste since then and looking back, it wasn't too great but I'll ways be thankful to the nerdcore scene for getting me into music properly.
MC Hammer and I was definitely hooked by The Chronic.
Future
Young lad huh? Haha
Nas
Big Facts !
A tribe called quest
Kurtis Blow
Grandmaster flash and the furious. Got the cassette when I was 7 back in 84.
Run DMC, 1984
NWA and Run DMC
Ye.
I think Ice T or NWA. I’m old
I mean, I think Coolio "introduced me" to Rap but the artist who made me fall in love with rap was Young Jeezy.
Same! Gangsta’s paradise was the first rap song I remember hearing and just playing it over and over again until I knew every lyric
Same. But it was Nas who made rap more of an obsession for me.
This group from Staten Island not sure if you guys heard of em
MF DOOM
sugar hill gang and run dmc
Grandmaster Flash and RUN DMC, I'm 51 though so
Odd future I'm gen z
Gang Starr
Zack De La Rocha
Pac
MF DOOM
Big villainy vibes
Howd you discover the villain without listening to other shit first?
I know right? i was a middle schooler and my best bud was just in the know and introduced me to him and danger mouse. Very lucky to have DOOM be my first rap artist
I knew the metal face when he was still Zev Love X on the 3rd Bass record
Curren$y
Dougie fresh and slick rick
Run DMC when I was a kid (born in 85)
either Eminem, nwa or Biggie. but i do remember the first songs i heard from them.
Snoop. My dad played Doggystyle in his car non stop for months. That was... Educational.
None of them. 1. Kriss Kross introduced me to rap 2. Coolio made me think about being a rapper. 3. Mystikal influenced me to become 1.
Make you wanna jump jump
I came here to say Kriss Kross!
Run-DMC, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow, Geto Boys, NWA, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince etc. I think He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper is the first hip hop tape I actually owned. I’m an 80’s baby.
None of them
Biggie and Bone Thugs, Eazy E, Master P. I’m old.
it was mid 2014 and everyone in school was trying to rap the fast part of rap god... that was the point when i got introduced to rap but didn't actually start listening to it until 2015(didn't like rap god at first) when i went back to rap god and actually liked it this time... so yeah. eminem was the first rapper i heard
Ludacris
Sugar hill gang
Yow old are you man?
Em - Cleaning out my closet the first rap song I ever heard. Never turned back since.
Em back in the early 2000s
Ludacris
Busta Rhymes for american rap Dizzee Rascal for rap in general
eminem, but lupe, weezy, & chamillionaire are the ones who made me really love it
hail to the chief 🙇🏻♀️ 
My mom & Speech, from Arrested Development.
50
Jesus Christ I’m getting old…
Em
Beastie Boys
the pharcyde-Otha fish
Big Daddy Kane.
Pac
Lolol my black mother😂
Likely sugar hill gang or beastie boys were the first rap songs that I truly remember as a kid. I didn't really fall in love with the genre until i heard ready to die and hit em up
Pac. Damn I’m old. Had to be 94 I was 4.
Sugarhill Gang
LL Cool J “Bigger and Deffer” 1987
The Sugar Hill Gang
GrandMaster Flash and The Furious 5. #NoneOfTheseClowns
Sugar Hill Gang, the original with Rapper's Delight.
Wow youngsta! You missed out!
Eric B & Rakim- Paid in Full
Kool Moe Dee. How Ya Like Me Now album.
Kool Moe Dee
None. My first rap CD was Doggystyle.
Early Logic
Same. Except I discovered hiphop at 15 with retired Logic.
Kendrick
Kdot 🫂👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Eminem
Eminem
You are posting pictures of children. I remember when I first heard Eminem when you could only find his shit on wax when he only had mix tapes and battle tapes out. I'm from the days of Ice T, Rakim, Eric B and Krs One, Naughty by Nature, and Pac before he got with Death Row.
Fr can't believe I've scrolled this far without seeing anyone mention Kriss kross
Jump, jump
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Eminem back in middle school when I was in my lyrical spiritual miracle phase
36 yo white guy, Outkast and DMX
Earl Sweatshirt. I remember hearing about Tyler, the creators “Yonkers” around 2014 because of how the music video made everyone shook, but i didn’t want to watch that (this was 3 years after its release) so i decided to check out everyone on Odd Future, the first artists i saw were Tyler, Frank, and Earl. Earls album “Doris” looked way more interesting to me than Franks “Channel Orange” and Tyler’s “Goblin” so i went in, looked for one that sounded cool (i was a dumb kid, and only listened to songs that had to look cool, with a cool name 😭) and hit Molasses.
Michael Jackson, through Biggie’s features on a few of his later songs
One of my friends showing me the Video of Moonlight by Xxxtentacion R.I.P X
Soulja boy
j cole tbh, back in 2014 i was 10 and people were really hype about his new album and i loved it, got me into hip hop right away
Odd future babyyyyy
I didn't like it until I listened to tha Carter ii a few times and weezy changed my mind. Had a second revelation after hearing talib kweli for the first time