Ride wit me/dilemma by Nelly and Always on Time by Ja Rule are one of my earliest memories

Oh and DMX Ruff Ryder's anthem

Lowkey insane post lol

that year when rappers delight dropped

Watching my brother play Spyro listening to Country Grammar when it dropped

fugees - the score 1996

im really on this hiphop s***

Sitting in my dads car with this playing

This was all over radio/TV

doo wop

Been in my rotation past few years

S*** so nostalgic it almost hurts lol especially when the breakdown comes towards the end 😢

Type s*** my pops used to run while washing the car fr best time in my life

I heard aint no fun on the radio like 96ish

Nate dogg verse specifically

Lowkey getting groomed by ye beats before I even knew what happen

cant really pinpoint the exact first time but i can remember early memories bonding with my older sister cos she used to play it a lot around me, specifically these songs

she basically put me onto downloading lol

my dad also used to burn a lot of s*** on cds especially music videos so this was my very first exposure to 50 and the fugees

i’m like 90% sure it was this

also the weird al version

wait no cause i remember tlc crazy cool album which came out before this so there was def some rap song i heard before this came out

can’t remember tho oh well

There were some songs that would just go crazy in Baltimore city for some reason like this one

sicko mode or mo bamba

Roses music video MTV in 2003 getting ready for preschool

Listening to my dad play cassette tapes of Run DMC, Beastie Boys, and Grandmaster Flash on the way to school

Graduation first day of kindergarten

DMX, Xzibit, Eminem and 50 Cent

First album i listened to was Vultures 2. Changed My Life.

Sitting in the backseat of older my sister’s car as a kid. She was a huge Jay-Z stan and would always play his music, especially Reasonable Doubt. And I have vivid memories of when The Black Album dropped and she would play it nonstop

She also played a lot of Dipset

my dad had a CD that only had Hypnotize & I Got A Story To Tell for some reason, used to listen to that in the car a lot