The begining of the movie BROWN SUGAR, caused me to conjure up this thread,so for those of us from the days when HIPHOP was actually WORTH LISTENING TO & LIVING the CULTURE,WHEN DID U EXPERIENCE YOUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH HIPHOP,& HOW LONG did it last :spin: ?

hiphop has always been around and i was into it
til of lately as new singers have took it to a level
of madness i left it then

i agree with Rich..but i still listen to mine nothin out there like them

good thread man...props

i fell in love with hip hop back in 1987 while a sophmore in highschool...i used to go to house parties that one of my friends would throw like once a month in his basement...5 dollas if you was drink'n and 3 if you wasn't...i remember he had a red police light in his basement that would spin around...and that was all the light that that was needed...it was o.k. i mostly went for the girls back then...it really wasn't the music because back then house music was my ish...mr. fingers, farley jackmaster funk, etc...but then this song came on and it hit me hard...BDP's supa ho...i don't know why...it must have been the beat and the rhymes...i felt it in my soul...then some top bill'n by AUDIO TWO came on...my goodness, it was all over after that...i've been married to hip-hop eva since...tru hip-hop, not dat bullshucks...right now while type'n this message i am listen'n to this group called SEMI OFFICAL,and they represent what was going on back then...that commercial rap is played, it's been played in my eyes for a long time...what happened to an EPMD no crossover? hmmmmm...something to think about...cause **** near everybody has crossed over...even my man...REDMAN

......to 1990, when I went to a house party right across the way of FOREST PROJECTS...I was deep with my crew,& I remember slow-dancing with this dimeshorty from my highschool {STEVO ROCK ON!} to the CLASSIC ***Bonita Applebum***[BONITA,Bonita,Bonita]:love:
We were all in the basement, with the BLUE LIGHT burnin & all that.....SLOWJAMMIN to Tribe, just like they was IN THE VIDEO! Khasm, you just made my day with that memory...Good lookin,Koolie High :toast:

...but Hip Hop broke my musical vir gin ity (can we use that word here?) around 1985 I think, during the summertime when I attended a concert starring Run-DMC & Jam Master Jay (Tougher Than Leather), LL Cool J (Radio), Whodini (Open Sesame) and Beastie Boys (Licensed to Ill). Started rockin' Adidas sneaks, gold rope chain & peace medallion. Fell in love all over at each of the following milestones:

1. when my Sistas put us on the map with Salt-n-Pepa "Tramp" video & "Push It", Roxanne Shante & Real Roxanne battles, Finesse & Synquis MCM style
2. Doug E. Fresh & Biz Markie beat box madness, DJ Red Alert mastermix dance parties from NYC introducing us to all the newest Hip Hop flava (Boogie Down Production Crew (their original name with Scott La Rock)..."The Bridge Is Over", "Criminal Minded", MC Lyte, Def Jeff, Schooly D, Just Ice, Stetsasonic, Kid 'N' Play (true Old School Hip Hoppers will recall "Last Night (Changed It All)", too many others to name.
3. Slick Rick & Dana Dane too fresh & too clean, clean

This love affair shall last forever, because there will ALWAYS be Trues keeping it alive & winning my heart to Hip Hop all over again. Digable Planets (dagnabit, they better reunite!), Dead Prez, Canibus, Aesop Rock, Aceyalone, KRS-One (forever), Roots, Common, Jurassic 5, Ozomatli, Black Star (Mos Def, Talib Kweli), Coup, many others!

How did I just come up in here and compose a reply to this without mentioning the WARRIOR KINGS of conscious Hip Hop, PUBLIC ENEMY!!! I own ERRRR'THING of theirs!!! What's wrong with me that I failed to mention the Princes of Hip Hop, POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS (Wise Intelligent, Culture Freedom, Father Shaheed)??? And I don't know if the rest of yas feel the same as I do, but LAST POETS and GIL SCOTT HERON pioneered Hip Hop, and are not to be overlooked. I fell in love all over again with Hip Hop upon introduction to each of the aforementioned rap/spoken word warriors. Whew! Those comrades :teach:!

also we got 20 hrs of conscious hip hop playing on our online station 7 days a week!!!
Including all Dead Prez including the latest all Paris including the lastest all Public Enemy including the latest plus tons of others like Arrested Developent, KRS1, Common, XKlan, Black Star, A Tribe Called Quest, Del La Sol, Professor Griff, The Coup and many others, check our broadcast schedule....

Brother J, what you know about X-Clan? :wink:

I will mos definitely be tuning in, now that my machine is back in working order. Asante sana for the heads up, RBG!

don't forget da jungle brothers....
da jb's come'n thru...
with belly dance'n dina...:lol:
peace
khasm

well i actually cant remember the exact time and place but all i can actually remember is that my family alwas was into hip hop, rap, jazz. but i really started understanding and listening when i started to hear run dmc and then tupac bonethugs man lots of stuff. oh and a big shout out to the movie Brown Sugar dats one of mai favs

music was my first love. i always had an appreciation for hip hop but didn't fall in love with hip hop til i learn that it's more than just music it's a culture it's an organism it's a living breathing thing but it dying slowly because so many people don't get it that why me and my boy (the one who opened up my eyes to the world of hip hop) started a record label to save our first love.

I fell in love with Hip Hop during the early to mid eighties at the height of the breakdancing era. Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Master Flash and Nucleus set it off for me.

When groups and artist such as RUN DMC, Whodini, LL, Eric B. and Rakim, BDP, Public Enemy, EPMD and Dana Dane arrived on the scene my interest level was elevated to a new dimension. Till this day my all time favorite Hip Hop jam is Five Minutes of Funk. I truly treasure 'old school' Hip Hop.

Sad to say I don't listen to Hip Hop very much these days - which has nothing to do with 'growing out of it' as some would suggest - because the old school will always be in my heart. However much of this so-called Hip Hop today is about the bling bling, material nonsense and negativity.

Like most forms of Black music and culture the true flava of Hip Hop is losed and the essence has become lethargic once corporations and whites cross over (not the other way around) into this creative genre.

I certainly won't hold my breath to see if Hip Hop recaptures some of it's old glory. But then again anything is possible.

It was in 1988. To me 1988-1992 were the most creative years in hip hop. Then it didnt seem so one dimentional. Back then the c/rappers went into obscurity just as fast as they came out. Back then Eminem was Vanilla Ice, P-Diddy was M.C. Hammer, and cats like Nelly and 50 Cent would have been relegated to the "one hit wonder" category. It wasnt all about the benjamins, it was all about the skills, and it didnt hurt that you had some kind of a hook that set you apart from the others. Digital Underground had Humpty Hump, Kwame Rocked the polka dots, Heavy D was the "Overweight Lover" and instead of being sex objects, females like MC Lyte, Monie Love and Queen Latifah proved that not because of but in spite of their being female,they could rip it just as well if not better than some of the guys.

Nia, I AM FIENDING TO GET MY GRIPS ON THE ORIGINAL SINGLE FOR LASTNIGHT by KID & PLAY,if you have it ,PLEASE let's make this connection, so I can at least have a cassette copy of it; THAT WAS THEIR HOTTEST JAM!!! Moving right along,remember the FATBOYS,& CHUBB ROCK,our original BIGBOYS of HIPHOP? CHUBBROCK was spittin fire in '86 on wax with his CARTOON cover album,{featuring Hitman Howie Tee,lol} with cuts like "DJ Innovator",& "Caught up" {the ORIGINAL version, which used the same breakbeat KID & PLAY did for Last Night}before there ever was a BIGGIE SMALLS...& Heavy D, was tearing up the scene with Mr BIG STUFF. Prince Markie D was a PIONEER Boriqua emcee{last name Morales}DOIN HIS DANG THANG,with the FATBOYS,nomesain? These kids of today NEED TO LEARN THEIR HISTORY! In 1983,T LA Rock was the FIRST to prove that emcees could be ARTICULATE with his SLAMMIN CLASSIC It's YOURS {that Nas loves so much, he sampled it TWICE} & UltraMagnetic took emceein to a SCIENTIFIC level in '87 with EGO TRIPPIN...Ultra....{magnetic, magnetic}m.c. Ultra.....{magnetic, magnetic}MCs....THEY definitely gave suckas a CRITICAL BEATDOWN in '88..... & What yall know about RAP'S NEW GENERATION, HUNH? Don't get me started! :roll:

I've always been a hip hop fan. I think I fell in love with it when I started to have a real appreciation for Mos Def. That man is amazing. After really listeing it him and Dead Prez and Common, it gave me the inspiration to go back and listen to what mainstream hip hop use to be. When artist talked about the struggle. I like rappers like Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent...but sometimes I want to listen to Run DMC, or MC Lyte. Public Enemy blew my mind. But that's just me.

wow....i fell in love with hip hop when my mother read me paul laurence dunbars "the colored soldiers", in three diffrent rhythms.I didn't think of it or what was to follow, like melvin van peeples, or nikki giovannis' 'ego trippin', the last poets,among many others until i heard whodini or my daughter introducing me to bones thugs..or listening to public enemy.I really fell inlove with the rhythms and the words and the music in the rhythm and the words when i was a very young child...and the hiphopness of it all , the what you say and how you say it..the what you live and how you live it started with dunbar and a mother who was filled with consciousness