Listened to Kanye in middle school while playing Playstation and to Pre Game sports, but no other hip hop

16 when i started driving. Needed new music to listen to. decided on To Pimp A Butterfly and was changed ever since

infancy

Prolly like 7

When low by flo rida dropped. s*** was a smash

im so sorry

7-8 yrs old listening to get rich or die tryin

15, began actually digesting western culture at 12-13

lolol. so glad he dropped it or else I might still be listening to country music

First rap album was Country Grammar in ‘99, my Dad played it for me

Then, the Eminem Show In ‘02

After that, I stopped listening to rap until I was 16. I got into Ready To Die & it was all over from there

parents always played it around me when i was younger and my pops had old records he would play me but i never rly got into it myself till i wanna say 5th/6th grade?

My whole life

27

11

Since before I can remember. It was played in my household a lot. My moms was a huge Too Short fan and my pops is from NYC. Earliest that I can remember is DMX at like 8 years old (I'm 28, almost 29 now). When I was a kid everyone on the black side of my family would crack jokes by calling me 'Ice, Ice Baby' because I was a super fair skinned mixed kid in a black family.

Since I was born. Dad has massive rap collection

11 or 12 I would say is when I got INTO it

Always listened to it around my dad etc. but I didn't really start listening until middle school

MBDTF was the first rap album I bought

Started consciously following hip hop in between Jay dropping Blueprint 1 & 2.

So I was like 6 anticipating an album drop.

Heard hip hop throughout my childhood. Starting listening on my own at the age of 12.

7

11 was when I dove heavy like stanning the s*** out of Wayne and young money led to me doing my whole research on hip hop

10 or 11 eminem, dr dre and nwa mostly

Elementary school

1. Both my parents were hip hop dancers