Happy 50th birthday hip hop

[Vic Damone. Jr]

No telling what song I heard that put me on rap music especially being a 90s baby where hip hop was everywhere from commercials and movies to magazines and billboards around the city. I do know what songs put me onto my favorite artists and certain things though

Spoiler

Snoop and Lowriders. Think I was already familiar with seeing Dre.


Solidified my status as a Snoop fan


DMX and seeing motorcycles and shyt being rode doing tricks left and right.


When I seen this video, it was over with Rest up X Thank you.


Both the movie and the song

BIG is tricky cause it was either One More Chance, Big Poppa, or Juicy…… When I seen this video though, it was over with

From the boat chase, the women, the car chase, etc Thank you BIG, rest up


Pac is tricky too. Wanna say it was Keep Ya Head Up, but if not then it was Dear Mama. Wanna say I Get Around was next, but I’m 100% sure it was


Didn’t know what was going on. All I know is George Clinton scared me and Chris Tucker did too at the beginning with all that yelling Rest up Pac, thank you



Thank you Nas, Lauryn, and Hype

HOV was either



Thank you Jigga
Bonus

I saw Foxy for the first time


I saw Amil and Rule for the first time.

Pun was 100% this

Thought Pun and Fat Joe were brothers. Thank you Pun Rest up.

I might do a follow up post the more I remember cause it’s a few others. Not gonna talk about the 2000s cause I was old enough to remember when certain artists got introduced to the public eye that already had a following underground. Ex: 50 with Wanksta and Nelly with Country Grammar.

 

[IronFist]

 

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[IronFist]

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

I was 7 when this came out and one of my real first cherished memories is singing hypnotize and every time we said a new classmate's name instead of Biggie's.

RIP Big and all the rappers we lost. We went astray somehow but I love hip hop. Reading rap magazines, racing home to watch 106 & Park, later racing home to hear the new Wayne tape, getting your fit right for concerts, choosing sides in a beef, hitting sam goody on tuesdays to hear 15 sec snippets of the new albums to see if it was hot. It's a beautiful lifestyle and I'm glad I grew up in it. Here's to another 50 years

 

[AkaDemiK]

Changed my life. Blessed to have the culture. It started with DMX, then mixtapes (some I made myself on cassette) and the rest is history.

 

[ABlackMan]

YO REMY MA OH MY fukkING GOODNESS

TOTAL PACKAGE

 

[Mega]

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Continued from my previous post

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Mobb


Knew about Kim already from the Benjamins video but that video introduced me to The Lox even though Styles ain’t have a verse I still remembered his face which brings me to the first ever Lox video I saw

The cars, women, clothes, and the beat. Thank you Timbo


Busta


LL



Forgot which video I saw first, but it was one of those

Missy


Brat


OutKast

Also introduced me to The Ruler himself

Eazy


Warren and Nate both


Daz and Kurupt


Bone Thugs


Mase is tricky cause it was either Feel So Good or Mo Money Mo Problems. Prob both around the same time.

Em

Thought Em was crazy af

Xzibit


Master P




Wu


Red

No particular reason I why remember seeing this video

That’s all imma post, but there’s tons more I have to salute for making me the rap head I am today.

 

[The_Hillsta]

 

[The War Report]

Common is a great performer. Even was flowing from the dome.

 

[The War Report]

Snoop did his thing paid homage.

 

[Low End Derrick]

 

[Danie84]

If a 84 Baby had to do the impossible and choose her Hip-Hop GOAT Song it'd be Gangstarr's Mass Appeal:

 

[The War Report]

Run DMC still got it after all them years. Crazy seeing all these old hip hop legends grow old.