"Ridin" for me

Not specifically but my older brother always played Slim Thug/Lil Flip/ChoppednScrewed stuff in his Impala so it went from there.

speaking of slim thug, idk what radio station it was, but I remember " I Run" being on the radio and thinking like " this is hard as f***"

My mom played graduation in the whip when she was taking me to school

Not sure

Though my earliest memories of rap are Kanye and ice cube / NWA and still love them

my mom played Neil diamond

Yeah unfortunately most people here are white

my mom's from Middle of Nowhere, Iowa so Neil Diamond is par for the course. She f***s with " Love Lockdown" & Heartless though

Stronger - music video and everything about the track was both immediate and alluring

biggie - juicy
nas - memory lane
hov - dead presidents

whats either sad, or to be expected given how you look at it, I learned about this song from that " Tha Carter documentary" and hearing the Weezy Ambitions" first and then later reading that he beat was a Pac song

I was visiting New York and my cousins were bumping A Wayne mixtape they got from that datpiff that they burned into a cd and then played NY state of mind the rest was history

no shame in that at all it's a great song, Dedication 2 is a classic too. Wayne is really a student of the game

Would have either been boys in the hood, it was a good day, or dear mama.
Then Luda red light district was the first album I became obsessed with

im still curious what Jay would've done with "the potion"beat

never change and dead presidents are top 2 jay z songs

Empire state of mind

Not the song but 2pac all eyez on me album

Moms was a huge 2pac fan

And after that it was Wayne D2-D3 era with a ton of features in between that

Black and yellow, black and yellow
Black and yellow, black and yellow

I liked Stronger when I was real young but Studio by ScHoolboy Q was the song that made me want to listen to more rap