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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 

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Category: Life
Sup people, we asked Dave (plug 2), What was your first Hip Hop experience, what pulled you in and made you want to be apart of it? Here's his answer..



Dave:

Umm, two things..well people actually. One day [this is like, when I first moved to the Island (Long Island) think I was 11 yrs. old] I was walking up the block, to Gary G's house to go play with my friends..in the distance I heard this wierd noise..I could see somebody on rollerskates headed down the block..it was this dude who live on County Line rd, Andre Barlow. He was an older dude..well known cause he DJ'd a lot of parties. Man, he had the boom box on his shoulder, I remember... Burgandy Le Tigre shorts, wife beater and a Burgandy Kango..Black Cazels, wooo..like the shit was moving in slow motion. He was playing "Good Times" being cut up. Shit is crazy man, the wierd noise I said.. that caught me from jump (laughing) was, what I later learned, phazing...you know when two records are played together and they are milliseconds off. I was stuck..I felt the essence right there at that moment. I changed that day, no lie yo... I what I heard, saw and experience was...I repeat....was the Matrix.

The second was my man, Gary Small. If it wasn't for Gary G, I wouldn't be an Emcee. One Xmas Gary's pops got him turntable's and a mixer...nigga practiced every day and got nice! Prince Paul knows about Gary G (laughing). He was so good that I had to rhyme. I couldn't compete, but his passion for it encouraged me be a find what I could be good at. I remember being like, shit I'll pick up the mic and say something. His passion taught me how to stick to something and master it. Back in the day, it was strictly about showing ya skills...even if we was only two in the basement...Thanx Gary.

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So, what was your experience? When were you first body snatched by Hip Hop?
Those of you who are Hip Hop artist or maybe Hip Hop inspired another career choice.
What lead you to your embracement of the culture, share your moment with us?

Peace


Jake Measurements
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CRUMSABI

 
ahh man, i was in 3rd grade, jacksonville fl,,and i was going to play video games at the community center in mayport naval base,,walking down the side walk with my bro Glen(R.I.P),, and this dude had a boom box riding a 10 speed bike towards me,,he was bumpin whodini's joint,"FRIENDS" and it took me away from listening to the "THRILLER" album lol,,i was hooked ever since,,,pretty much after that i was raised on the Fat boys and Run dmc..but what really got me into the music,,was when i moved to orlando fl,,and this peurto rican dude named DJ Davey D,,used to sell me mix tapes for 10 bucks,,with roxanne shante,,run dmc,fat boys,and once he let me touch his mixer and scratch on his tables,,i knew i wanted something to do with hip hop,,anything,,it stayed in my heart so long but i couldnt afford equipment,all i had was my beatboxing skillz, and love for it,,now that i can afford what i want,,im trying everything from djing to production,,rhyming,,all for the Lord,,but i love that underground east coast flavor,,,being from the south i hear a lot of what i call garbage (not saying all southern artists are garbage,,but im really pickey) and its a must to stay plugged in with the real hip hop artists,,or this music will drive you nuts,,De la soul kept it real for the longest and i respect them the most,,,thanks for giving us real music to look forward to....Love ya'll and God bless....
 
Posted by CRUMSABI on Friday, March 30, 2007 - 3:29 AM
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ƒunkyƒresh
Marlon Brice

 
Tell you the truth, a damn video game got me into hip hop really. I wasn't a big music head b/c all I was expose to what was on the radio plus this is when the Westcoast was popping. I'm from Cali so if you weren't Snoop, Dre, Cube, or Pac you were considered wack to me.


Fast forward...

So I'm on the original Playstation and I get this skateboarding game called "Thrashers: Skate & Destroy." Back then that was my shyt. Well the soundtrack was a lot of vintage rap records. So they had Sugar Hill on there of course but they also had EPMD, Gangstarr, Kool Keith, PE, Eric B. & Rakim and so on. I was really feeling the vibe of these songs but then I heard "Award Tour" by ATCQ and it was a wrap. I NEEDED this damn song so I went to the record shop and copped a cassette (Who listens to tapes in the 2k? I do LOL) of their "Anthology" which was my first rap purchase. I bought every damn Tribe record even the "Revised Quest For The Seasoned Traveller" joint. I actually got to see them perform in like 2004 and that was the best experience I ever had musically.

From Tribe I got into the Native Tongues collective and then I got into Nas from there. I got one more story and this shyt was funny as hell. This is around the height of Stillmatic and the whole Nas vs. Jay thing and Nas released "One Mic" as a single and I was really feeling the song and I figured that I go cop the album. So I'm down at the record shop and I accidently get Illmatic with "One Love." Then I realized that I got the wrong CD so I was pissed. I listened to it like 2 times and thought it was garbage and I didn't pull it out until 3 months later to give it a real listen and I was blown away. Maybe the greatest rap record ever and I thought it was garbage. That's funny in itself.
 
Posted by ƒunkyƒresh on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 8:02 PM
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joe

 
Man.

I was in 1st grade. My neighbor was a little older than me but he had 2 tapes. License to Ill and Raising Hell. I was hooked from that moment on.
 
Posted by joe on Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 9:13 PM
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Ryan
Ryan Riddington

 
Being only about ten or younger when I first heard things like Chad Jackson's 'Hear The Drummer Get Wicked' (Mark The 45 King must have got mad royalties off that one?) and the hip hop influenced 'Pump Up The Volume' by MARRS. Oh yeah , the Coldcut remix of Eric B and Rakim, 'Push It', 'Jump Around', 'Now That We've Found Love' by Heavy D and The Boys and other UK chart records, 'Boom Shake The Room' etc.

I remember learning the lyrics to 'The Power' by Snap from Smash Hits magazine whilst on a school trip, followed by 'It's A Shame' by Monie Love - I bored some classmates to tears by reciting THE WHOLE TRACK to them in a lesson once. Of course Vanilla Ice and Hammer came along later too. MTV had a big influence with De La, Kriss Kross, Snoop and Naughty By Nature getting lots of exposure.

Although not hip hop, acts like C+C Music Factory and Eurodance stuff like Technotronic and Culture Beat had approximations of rap in them, for better or worse. Hearing Chuck D guest on Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' album was an attention grabber too.

I'd say my first forrays into 'real'/grown hip hop was seeing a review of 'Liquid Swords' in the NME, being intoxicated as an inquisitive and music thirsty 16 year old, buying it and then never looking back. The articulate aggression, affecting synchopation of a gammut of styles of words and music and the need to just bounce/nod/think will hopefully never leave me.
 
Posted by Ryan on Monday, April 23, 2007 - 6:20 PM
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HipHop Is Alive & Well
Lyric Assassin

 
You know what fam?I can remember my parents having the record "Jive Talkin'" by The Bee Gees!That was kinda my first experience to a Hip-Hop type of record.LOL.But what really solidified the Hip-Hop thing for me was "La Di Da Di" by Dougie Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew!After that I was sold!Hip-Hop since 1972!Peace!-Will
 
Posted by HipHop Is Alive & Well on Sunday, August 12, 2007 - 5:52 PM
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DEEPROCK CHAKRA

 
(87-88ish) I went to my cuzzins house in the inner city. My dad wasn't feelin no hip hop at all, so i had to play like i was rigid, but my blood was pumpin, cuz and his boys had cardboard down, a boombox, playin somethin that BLEW MY MIND, they were spinnin on their heads and shit doin the robot and shakin and just defyin the norm for me which was the fuckin matrix to me too. My cuzzins been missin since like 93, dunno what the hell happened to him, just had a baby too, loved his fam and everything. ?????? But that moment.....


DeepRock Chakra
 
Posted by DEEPROCK CHAKRA on Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 8:28 AM
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Bus Hus

 
Wow! I was a 8 year old kid in Louisville Kentucky. My uncle gave me a cassette tape with "Rappers Delight" on it, this was in, like, 82'....a little behind the fringe in Kentucky. He told me it was "the new thing" called hip-hop music. After hearing that, I was trying to make loop music on mom and dads dual cassette decks and scratching up all the good records. I was recording off the tv onto my cassette deck, mixing that in with it. recording mom and dad, mixing them up with the music. yeah, so that was what got me hooked.
Then, when Yo mtv raps came out and I got to SEE all the ..style..s and attitudes, DAMMNNN! I went and got a shower clock to wear around my neck for my 4th grade school mixer.
All the girls wanted to take turns wearing it!!! I got pictures to prove it!!!

Peace,

Matt P.

Louisville Ky
 
Posted by Bus Hus on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 11:43 PM
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@v@

 
Not to blow smoke, but it was a roller skating jam called saturday. I had heard 3 feet before (I was probably 8 at this time). But I was at my cousin's in pasadena who had '...is dead'. Listened to it that whole summer, and saturdays' was the absolute best mix of multiple samples and beats and statements put together in one song I ever thought possible.


It was the first time I had ever noticed a seperation of like...all the performance art out there for commodity's sake, and then brilliantly composed and arranged hip hop. It changed everything. It felt like looking into the matrix. All of the sudden...I could never look at music the same way. I thought about ti different, started formulating more complex thoughts, and ultimately what fuels me today. I am not a hip hop artist, but de la soul and pp's attention to detail, and craftsmanship set the bar to which I currently aspire.


I'd be a self loathing accountant with a penchant for trannies right now if I didnt have de la soul.

 
Posted by @v@ on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 11:38 PM
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Mobey Dillz AKA The Fuzzy Catterpillar
Dom D

 
Yo I was 4 years old. My gradpops used to take me to NY from jersey city so he could play the lotto. Back in 84 everybody in jersey would go to NY to play for them big bucks. I remember that this day we had another mission at hand. We were going to get Hulk Hogans autograph. I remember some kids b-boying at the subways station and I couldn't stop looking. And I remember pops was pulling me away saying don't look at those hoodlums. HAHAHAHA...my life was changed...DE LA IS THE GREATEST!
 
Posted by Mobey Dillz AKA The Fuzzy Catterpillar on Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 9:00 PM
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corinna
corinna young

 
When I was in the sixth grade I got a hand me down boom box and I remember my brother showed me the "cool" stations. Mostly I liked the oldies station 'cause that was what Mom listened to and I knew all the songs. One day I was listening to one of the "cool" stations and the announcer introduced a new song called "Juicy" by Biggie Smalls. I stopped what I was doing and was mesmerized. When I told my brother about this cool song I had heard on the radio he let me borrow one of his tapes... this is cheesy but it was called De La Soul Is Dead. I remember thinking it was weird how there was a comic book in it and read along and rewinding Saturdays over and over and dancing on my bed. .. 
 
Posted by corinna on Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 7:16 AM
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