When did you start losing interest in Hip Hop and start listening to other genres?

Darkest Hour · 04-22-2009, 03:47 AM

in 8th grade when i realized wearing polo jeans and ecko shirts while listening to shyne and juvenile were too gangster for me. I then moved on to nu-metal and rock and slowly converted to metalcore. I now realize that metal is much better than rap.

Adonai · 04-22-2009, 07:21 AM

The first second I was born

sidewinder · 04-22-2009, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Well hip-hop wasn't my starting point with music, I came into it when I was already very well-versed in other genres and I've never particularly lost interest in it. So I guess I can't really relate to your question.

IWP · 04-22-2009, 12:02 PM

I've had a very brief rap phrase back when I was 12-13 years old with Eminem and ****, but I soon discovered better music.

Rainard Jalen · 04-22-2009, 03:46 PM

I started listening to other genres after Ice Ice Baby came out. I heard that track and thought, wow, what a riff. So then I got into Queen and David Bowie, ditched hip-hop for good, and never looked back.

lucifer_sam · 04-22-2009, 04:00 PM

huh, for some reason i thought you younger than that. you should check out the stuff that came out from '91-'93, it was a revolutionary era in hip-hop and quite a bit of good stuff has come out since then.

Molecules · 04-22-2009, 05:33 PM

i was into the so-called parent-baiting hip-hop around the turn of the millenium, I inherited a bunch of classic gangsta CDs (like the best of NWA, the Chronic etc) from a well-to-do mate who 'ditched' hip-hop and took up metal (?!). One of my favourite albums when it came out was 'the W'.
I moved out of that 'phase', only to come back to hip-hop several years ago via the older stuff (De La, Tribe etc), appreciating it in ways I hadn't before - lyrically, philosophically, blah di blah. So it's all good in the hood. I came full circle last year and re-acquired the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs having long since ditched the CDs. haha, They're really good.

Sparky · 04-22-2009, 08:36 PM

I've never lost interest in Hip-Hop, though it did definitely help me get into other genres(especially reggae.)

I don't get this idea that hip hop is a kids starter kit to get him into real music, i still listen to rap more then any other genre.

Surell · 04-22-2009, 09:26 PM

Metal was the first music I started getting into. Then my mom used to listen to the Rap stations a lot, which got me into the scene, and this video game Def Jam: Fight for New York had a lot of rap on it along with the hood culture. It sounds weird but I picked up a lot of stuff from that game. But anyway, Dangerdoom was my first rap album I got big into, then it was either Lil Wayne or Ice Cube.

But that's how I started out.

Sneer · 04-22-2009, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught

I must be doing this wrong, I lost interest in other genres and started listening to more hip hop.

Precisely

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Darkest Hour Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 764	in 8th grade when i realized wearing polo jeans and ecko shirts while listening to shyne and juvenile were too gangster for me. I then moved on to nu-metal and rock and slowly converted to metalcore. I now realize that metal is much better than rap. __________________

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lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	huh, for some reason i thought you younger than that. you should check out the stuff that came out from '91-'93, it was a revolutionary era in hip-hop and quite a bit of good stuff has come out since then. __________________ first.am

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Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	i was into the so-called parent-baiting hip-hop around the turn of the millenium, I inherited a bunch of classic gangsta CDs (like the best of NWA, the Chronic etc) from a well-to-do mate who 'ditched' hip-hop and took up metal (?!). One of my favourite albums when it came out was 'the W'. I moved out of that 'phase', only to come back to hip-hop several years ago via the older stuff (De La, Tribe etc), appreciating it in ways I hadn't before - lyrically, philosophically, blah di blah. So it's all good in the hood. I came full circle last year and re-acquired the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs having long since ditched the CDs. haha, They're really good. __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

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IWP A S T H E T I C Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 532	I've had a very brief rap phrase back when I was 12-13 years old with Eminem and ****, but I soon discovered better music.

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Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	I started listening to other genres after Ice Ice Baby came out. I heard that track and thought, wow, what a riff. So then I got into Queen and David Bowie, ditched hip-hop for good, and never looked back.

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Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	I've never lost interest in Hip-Hop, though it did definitely help me get into other genres(especially reggae.) I don't get this idea that hip hop is a kids starter kit to get him into real music, i still listen to rap more then any other genre.