Jan 8, 2015

Simple thread. Who was your first favorite artist? Who popped your stan cherry?

Include your age, year, and song/album from that era.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Mine was Nelly. 6th grade. 2000-2001. Downloaded most of the album on Napster and got the edited version of Country Grammar for Christmas.






Listened to the s--- out of this on my Walkman CD player while mowing, road trips, I remember sneaking my headphones into church youth group to listen to it under my hat. I printed off the lyrics of Ride Wit Me to memorize the song and my parents found it. Those were the days.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Lloyd Banks 2004 Hunger For More was on repeat for awhile

Edit: Actually nah 50 cent was f--- was I thinking. GRODT was in 2003 so 50 Cent.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Eminem SSLP 1999. I was in third grade and would steal it from my older brother to listen to on the bus. I'll never forget my teacher pulling my headphones off of me in class to try to see what I was listening to.

His face was priceless.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Like many on the site it was Eminem. I became a fan late 02 after Lose Yourself dropped when I was 12. The Aftermath years from 02-05 were great apart from Encore.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Lol mine was Country Grammar as well. I was in the fourth grade and my Grandma decided to buy me a present for doing good in school... Walked into HMV and picked this up and listened to it for a solid few months on my piece of s--- CD player.

 

Jan 8, 2015

50 Cent, even though I caught on late because I wasn't feeling Wanksta at the time which was '02 I was in 8th grade, but after awhile I started liking it because it was everywhere then came In Da Club and after that it was a wrap. 50 was the talk of school, didn't matter where..gym, lunch room, classroom, and recess. I was in the Cafeteria one day at school and a group of kids busted saying "go, go, go go, go" then literally the whole cafeteria rapped the first verse of In Da Club. I used to walk home then too, after Get Rich dropped that's all you heard coming from cars passing by crazy times man

 

Jan 8, 2015

I got into rap kinda late. I was initially a rock fan as a kid. But my freshman year of high school (1999, age 15) was when I started drinking, smoking, and partying in general, and my best friend suggested Snoop Dogg- Doggystyle to me. I loved it immediately. It was like the soundtrack to what we were doing at the time. My friend copied it for me on cassette tape and I took it home and played it nonstop for days and memorized the whole thing. Shortly after that I went and bought Doggystyle on CD, then the rest of Snoop's albums. Listening to Snoop got me into Dre. I went and bought both Chronic albums, and that's when it really blew up. Listening to Dre got me into artists like Warren G, Kurupt, Eminem, and Xzibit. And it just continued to expand from there. That's probably why til this day the Death Row/Aftermath family tree of artists is still my favorite. That's who got me into rap.

Side note: Snoop got me into rap. But Eminem is my favorite artist of all-time. Funny thing is I didn't like him at all first listen. The first time I heard Eminem was My Name Is being repeated on the radio all day back in 1999. And I thought who the f--- is this wack a--- one hit wonder? This song sucks. After seeing the video for the song I thought the same thing. Then I saw his interviews on TRL and I thought what a stupid wigger with a fake a--- accent. Then I heard Guilty Conscience and his Chronic 2001 features and thought okay this guy isn't bad. Then MMLP came out and I was like okay I gotta give this guy a chance. I went and bought both his albums and was immediately blown away. I've been a die hard fan ever since. The Eminem Show is the album that took the title of "my favorite rapper" away from Snoop and gave it to a Em and it's been that way ever since.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Stephen Marley. Loved reggae as a kid, still do.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Haha those were the days. I remember I printed out the lyrics to Stan and my parents found it (this was in 2000, I was 16). Which lead to them doing an investigation into my music collection. They sat me down for a lecture in the kitchen and my mom took my copy of MMLP and put it in the CD player so they could explain to me how bad it was. We made it through the intro and into the first verse of k--- You and when Em started rapping about raping his own mother my mom ran out of the room crying and my dad stopped it and sent me to a counselor and the counselor was asking me if I was thinking about acting that song out in real life and raping and killing my mother. Lmao! Perfect example of how controversial Em was back then. My parents confiscated my entire CD collection after that. I wound up buying alot of albums multiple times because of this. And you wonder why artists sold so much back then. Lol.

 

Jan 8, 2015

2 live crew was my first go at hip hop.I used to jack my sisters tape deck and hide in the closet to listen to it. f--- I couldn't of been older then 5-6. But when I was actually like "Rap is the music i listen to f--- everything else" was when the slim shady lp came out. I was about 7-8 when that came out. Couldn't of told you back then what a single song was about, but that was my s---!

 

Jan 8, 2015

If we're including any genre, I started stanning Linkin Park when I was in 5th grade, starting with these two albums



I disregarded Minutes to Midnight cuz that b---- only had like three or four good songs

I still f--- with them, other than A Thousand Suns they were fooling these last couple years but Hunting Party was a nice return to form

As far as rap, either Childish Gambino with


Or Kanye with


Because I started listening to those two at the same time

 

Jan 8, 2015

Linkin Park's first two albums were absolutely flawless.

I seriously think 2000 was the best year in rap history. 2000-03 was an amazing time in music. I'm glad that's the era I grew up with.

 

Jan 8, 2015

Only concert I've ever been to was their tour right after A Thousand Suns and it was so dope. It was like a greatest hits with their weird A Thousand Suns artsy techno interludes in between

I remember they closed out with like Faint I think and then everyone was chanting "we want linkin park! We want linkin park!" and had their phones out cuz the lights were still off

And mike came out and was like "this is the coolest f---ing thing I've ever seen" and brought everyone back out and they did an encore and then five more songs for the h--- of it and ended up finishing with a version of Bleed It Out where they extended the guitar into a solo and performed A Place For My Head to the guitar of Bleed It Out and that was the least leg of their tour so that's how they finished out the whole thing it was sick

 

Jan 8, 2015

Beasties Boys, Run DMC, and Grandmaster Flash. Six years old. Listened to them with my dad in the car all of the time. Taught my friends in kindergarten the lyrics to Brass Monkey. Got Licensed to Ill and Lil Bow Wow's debut for my birthday.

 

Jan 8, 2015

I always remembered hearing songs by Puff & Ma$e (Biggie and Jay to an extent) on the radio as a youngin, eventually I came back to listen to that era as I became more knowledgeable in hip-hop years later. My real 1st favorite artist was Nas, back when I came back from a vacation visiting my family in Mexico, my uncle gave me Stillmatic as a christmas present. Since then, that started my love for this genre and Nasty Nas still remains as my favorite artist.