Its funny, I never cared for music at all till I was 13. I remember once upon a time though, I heard this beautiful song play on the radio black eyed peas "Where is the Love" . Thats all it took for me to get hooked. I sought that song day in and day out, I couldnt find it and it was only at 15 till I accessed the internet world and heard it again. Then, my friend Jarred, an avid rap fan since 5 bought Chamillionaires album "sound of revenge" and that just fucking blew me away. Chamillionaire became my favourite up until 2012 where he started kinda going on his own way rather than blending in with whats popular. Oh well, kudos for uniqueness hes still a good rapper and I've now moved on to predominantly Eminem, Hopsin, Tech N9ne and even Tyler the Creator. Macklemore is great too, hes very unique and uses hardly any useless multi rhymes like Tyler and both deliver a story in compelling manner.
Dre, Easy E, Nate & Snoop Dogg, Tupac & Biggie, respect forever. As for Sir Mixalot, thanks to him, we have a track that will be played for thousands and thousands of years.
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Vanilla ice, that motherfucker was dope. Eminem was influenced by him being the small white fish in a big black pond. Sucks he one hit wondered it but meh, I still like ice ice baby to this day.
Oh and one more thing, I can't not mention MC fucking Hammer. "Hammertime" come on. Listen to it now, its still alright haha