Your musical awakening. The song you heard that opened your eyes to what music realistically could be. The underground artist you discovered that opened your ears beyond what you were hearing around you.

I remember in the 7th grade I had moved to a different city. I was pretty lonely and didn’t have many friends so started spending more and more time on the computer. Somewhere at some point I remember finding a forum and someone posting a crystal castles song and it changed my life. At that point I only really listened to lil Wayne and whatever but for some reason that abrasive noise stuck with me. This perversion has followed me since that day, constantly seeking new beeps and boops to scratch my brain

When I heard Kanye west slow jamz on the radio at 5 years old. S*** ain’t been the same since.

Listening to Eminem as an angsty teen mad at my parents

Yeezus

either yeezus or rodeo

This is not what I’m talking about at all I’m sorry

Music: Lana Del Rey’s Young and Beautiful

Discography dives: Vampire Weekend

Rap music: GKMC first listen

Careers & Cukture: SoundCloud era

When i decided to randomly google snoop dogg in 2008

Rap, freestyle music, and funk been in my house since I was born so idk really

This song changed my life 2018 Christmas eve

I was 3 when my Mom left me in the backseat while she ran into my cousin’s house for a few mins and Big Poppa was on the radio. Its the first song I can consciously remember enjoying

Yeezus bc it made me listen to Death Grips

Radio los santos tbh

older kids at daycare put me onto tupac and g unit

Loved rap and music before this, but seeing this video at 8-9 years old was mind blowing

i seen odd future on tv

2007

Type s*** used to listen to walking to elementary school

Al green

I was 13 on da bus having a spiritual experience

There's a few key moments:

• 1. in the 90s when i was like 3 years old my dad doing a drag race against another dude in oakland in his all white chevy kitted n tuned out + the gold spokes and his subwoofer system blasting Hail Mary and Ambitionz Az A Ridah loud af it was bleeding thru the seats and my chest it felt like the rapture was happening with heartattack bass and whirrling sounds of big blocks, superchargers and turbo screams plus the earthquake bass (my dad also won LOL). my earliest music memory, back in like 98 or 99 i thot i was gonna die 💀💀

• 2. The Hyphy era happening right in my backyard of the Bayarea. Seeing it myself in person of side shows, turf talk dance battles, rappers from the area etc. But also seeing my older brother and his friends who were teenagers during the height of it and seeing them talk, get involved and bring the culture directly inside our home with the dances, the cds, the clothes, the cars, the freestyling etc.

• 3. When my ma gave me my own first personal walkman cd player and i was able to pick out 3 cds at our local record store in the bayrea, rasputins, and i picked out College Dropout, Ice Cube's Greatest Hits and Speakerboxxx/Love Below. In 2004. I think I was 7 years old.

• 4. When i discovered Kendrick with his KLEP mixtape online thru youtube in like 7th or 8th grade before OD dropped. It then showed me the whole life and culture of online mixtapes and where the modern underground lives.

• 5. 9th or 10th grade high school where i started to really explore outside of my comfort zone of what i grew up n such like rap/rnb/funkPop. James Blake Self Titled, Fleet Foxes Self Titled, Beach House Bloom, Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, XXYYXX self titled, Tokimonsta Creatures EP, Swans The Seer, FKA Twigs LP1 etc. Shout out class of 2014 High School.

• 6. A year or two after high school, a friend of mine who was a rapper invited me to be his hype man and take pictures for him on stage and to get a feel of a stage. was a venue filled with a few hundred people and the first time i ever been on stage. it was so fun and amazing. we went wild and just sent the s*** off that then turned it into an after party.

That's the 6 major points in my life

High school. One morning before school started. Waiting around by the gym with my friend. He showed me Nas - One Mic. It was 2008. I started listening to music on my own in like 2005, but all I ever got exposed to was whatever I heard on the radio. The blog s*** was just starting to pick up around that time though. But even then it was hard to really dig online for music and put yourself on. I mean families typically only had one household computer and sometimes your s*** would run slow so it wasn’t really fun to use lmao

such a special era bro

wish music was as mysterious, mystical and "ünknown" to me as it was then

My cousin showing me DatPiff. I grabbed all of these Wayne tapes, wrote a paper in English class about " No Quitter, Go Getter"