How old were you when you discovered you were into Hip Hop as well as Rock music?

I myself am going to say I was about 11 or 12 when I discovered I was really into hard rock music, then I started watching YO mtv raps and I was hooked on both since then. Around 15 is when I discovered reggae through listening to Bad Brains. I think it all shaped me into who am right now.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Irving on April 2, 2009 at 11:20pm

Started getting into rock when I was very little(about 5 or 6),then into Hip Hop when I was 10! Haven't looked back ever since ,not that BULLSHIT they have now!!

Permalink Reply by PolarVibez on April 3, 2009 at 12:39am

I was very young. Kids are great in the way that they like what they like. They usually don't decide to dislike a certain thing until someone(usually older) comes along and tells them that they shouldn't like it for whatever reason. I remember being equally into all forms of music, LL to Madonna, Run DMC to Prince, Lisa Lisa and Shannon to Tears for Fears, Devo to Cameo to the Fat Boys. Movie soundtracks were really big. They all had huge rock and new wave hits so by the time you left the movie you were hooked on the songs too. I can go on and on. That was a great time to grow up. I think I ended up falling for hip-hop because I was always a writer. I was like " these guys are just making words rhyme, I can do that!" I wrote my first rhyme in 2nd grade. My music teacher let me spit it over the school loudspeaker. I really started getting deeper into rock in the 90's though and that's stayed pretty consistent. I go through fazes with hip-hop. I'm staring to appreciate how much certain records both rock and hip-hop shaped who I am. When I think about those records it dosen't bother me as much that there are so many bafoons and hacks out there associated with the culture.

Permalink Reply by lyfenlyn on April 3, 2009 at 9:56am

The funny part is rock came first then hip hop. Of course there was always r & b and soul around, but I listened to rock radio and top 40 in the 70's (which was almost all white) all the time. It was no big deal. My parents were serious music heads and into just about everything under the sun. When hip hop broke it was like the first time I fell in love. I couldn't get enough. I was 11.

Permalink Reply by Rosenda on April 4, 2009 at 3:23pm

Grew up hearing rock as a kid in the mid-60's through early 70's in grade school, and at home.

My sister played all her records by Jimi Hendrix, early Jethro Tull, The Beatles, The Who, The Monkees, Jefferson Airplane, Chambers Brothers, Joe Cocker, Sly & The Family Stone, and on the radio I reeeeeeallly really like also all the songs on the radio stations by Arthur Lee and LOVE. Damn they were good. Later in junior high school, I totally got into a lot of old 50's rock that the oldies station KRTH used to play. I got heavily into hard rock/classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Cheap Trick, Starz, UFO, Boston, Sparks, early Scorpions, later Jethro Tull, Kiss, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer etc etc.

But what blew that soul universe opening in everything was those early punk songs that Rodney Bingenheimer started playin on his Sunday night radio show on KROQ, Rodney on the Roq. Germs, Sex Pistols, Generation X, Alice & the Bags, Ramones, and also a lot of old and 2nd wave reggae and ska, Althea & Donna, Madness, Specials, and first of those new wave bands like Milk & Cookies, Talking Heads, Blancmange, The Quick, The Last, etc etc.

Hell he broke so many new bands they need to give him a lifetime achievement award on every major network. Seriously.
And he'd have this music on his show, and still throw in some rock tunes and have people on his show in person or calling in from overseas, David Bowie, Rick Derringer, what a trip!

Seriously that show led me to sooooo many types of music and yes it all started with rock and punk. Crazy.

HIP HOP that happened in my ears like a lot of other teenagers in the 70's, with hearing " to the rhythm of the boogie de-beat!" Yup, "Rapper's Delight". The old AM station 1580 KDay were the ones who were playing a lot of hip hop, from early 80's stuff to way on to playing NWA.

You wanna know where I really discovered even more hip hop than on the radio? Every year we'd spend Easter week vacation at my Grandma Trancito's house way out in Nogales, Arizona. She lived on a VERY steep hill and tv reception was really bad, so the local cable station started business there and offered service to all the senior citizens and poor families there.

At first all MTV played was rock bands and at night they'd play Michael Jackson videos. Then each year I'd see Yo MTV Raps! I was SOOOOO happy! Then I'd go out to local record shops and look for those artists' music. That and Thursday nights at this club out here Circus Disco was R&B and Hip Hop night. Maaaan, I heard SO many good joints there!!!!

Permalink Reply by Kandyce on April 5, 2009 at 8:43pm

I realized I liked rock when I moved to the burbs around age 10. I was babysat by a white lady and her kids always listened to rock. I always listened to rap and hip hop on the radio because my parents did. However, it wasn't until college that I began to branch out and really became a hip hop head. I discovered all of the undergroup emcees and classics from the past that I had missed. It was like finding a long lost friend. I'm still catching up but I live for finding new/old quality hip hop.

Permalink Reply by The Outabodies on April 5, 2009 at 8:48pm

Well, I started with rock, pop, new wave. Because there was no Hip-Hop being played on the radio yet. Black folks never really tripped on what you listened to until Hip-Hop really broke. I was raised on funk, soul, and r&b. With an occasional rock record thrown in because my parents were cool like that.

Permalink Reply by Hitch on February 9, 2010 at 10:32pm

After high school, I was 18. I listened to punk and rock music during high school but I was always for clowned for not being "black enough". I really like some punk and rock but hip hop is closer to me

Permalink Reply by Lunakiss on February 23, 2010 at 8:26pm

I was about 10 or so when I heard Living Colour. Younger than 10 when I listened to rap thanks to the introduction from beat boxing and break dancing battling in the schoolyard among us kids.

Permalink Reply by Fast Eddy on May 19, 2010 at 9:52pm

When I heard this rap, "Peewees Dance," "Style (Peter Gunn Theme)," and what sealed it? In 1986 right B4 "Walk This Way" came out, my friend let me borrow his LL Cool J tape, RADIO. I played it all weekend and forgot all about my Iron Maiden and Metallica recordz for a lil' while. I was 17 years old, my senior year.

Permalink Reply by Nelson Scott on June 21, 2010 at 4:42pm

I heard about Bad Brains when I was 13 in '93! At the same, I was into Onyx, Wu-Tang all of that gangster stuff.

Permalink Reply by Fashionfreak on June 24, 2010 at 12:45am

Hmm, I grew up listening to both but I was attracted to HipHop first. I'm only 21 so I was merely a kid in the 90s but that era of rap enticed me. Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, The Fugees, Black Sheep, Cypress....When I was 10 I started getting into rock music but was still heavily influenced by rap. Then there was a period where I was listening to straight rock and ditched hiphop cuz I didn't like the direction it was heading. But then I said fuck it I like both I can't help it. I love each equally.....I'm bumping Drake as I type this lol.

Permalink Reply by Fashionfreak on June 24, 2010 at 12:52am

Oh and as far as todays rap goes, It may be foolish but its also apart of me. I will tell anyone straight up I have gucci mane on my ipod I was a teenager of the 00s. Sometimes music doesn't have to be deep, it can be stupid and still catchy. I think every decade has an influx of nonsensical music mixed with good stuff.