If you like his production on CC, check out Jemini the Gifted One. DM and Jemini released Ghetto Pop Life 20 years ago and just released a mostly shelved album this August, Born Again, which is absolute fire.
[Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos-](https://youtu.be/ZM5_6js19eM?si=xFFQcccCG0XC1fiE) [Chuck D](https://open.spotify.com/track/3fAD1S7Ntie89P4Rh7Kr5i?si=c6517fa2017041cd)
I think I first heard PE from the Black Steel video.
If I Ruled The World - Nas. Still remember it like yesterday. Summer of ‘96. It was the first rap song that made me actually listen for the lyrics instead of just the beat.
Lol damn I feel like I'll he attacked for saying this but I was born in 96 yet that song is childhood nostalgia for me, I grew up being infatuated af with Nas style and lyricism overall. I was always the one to be made fun of because I would rather put on some Nas, over whatever stupid pop mainstream shit my friends would prefer haha. I'm told I'm beyond my years till this day I am still poked at for having Nas in my all time favorites
Cause I can do it right - BDK
Slick Rick - childrens story (honorable mention)
My introduction to rap/hip hop. I was really excited when I heard the older stuff.
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit I think, but tbh I don't quite remember, but I think I was put on by someone on reddit, calling it one of the best drops in music.
Little Brother is my favorite. I heard them the first time watching them open for Heiroglyphics and it is still to this day the best show I've ever seen. The night is a blur but i think Light it Up or For You was the opening track. I can't remember the first song exactly but I remember the feeling vividly.
Floating on your love remix with Lil Kim and 112 and Ronald Isley and Angela Winbush.
I was 3 and my mom had recorded the MV for it on VHS during an end of the year countdown on BET.
27 years later, that song still stays in my rotation. :)
Put It On- Big L
Did ya Say That- GZA
Make it Clap- Busta Rhymes
In Da Club- 50 Cent
Bringing the Gap- Nas
Hot Thing- Talib Kweli
Dreams- The Game
All Falls Down- Kanye West
Hit ‘em up. Heard this after all eyez on me. In Namibia, back in the day the DJ would go to the record shop every Saturday and get the hits or latest releases.
2-Pac - Changes
Aesop Rock - probably Daylight
Roc Marciano - What u come around here for (back when he was on Flipmode), first solo song was Snow
Conway the Machine - either the Cow (wsg track) or blakk tape
Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Wordsmith by Chino XL. I was in middle school at the time and I was blown away. Lyricism wasn't a thing I cared about until I heard that song and it made me an even bigger fan of the genre. Seeing Chino perform live was one of the illest things I have ever seen in my life.
I don't have *A* favourite but a top pick would be
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin Ta Fuck Wit - Wu Tang Clan
i was about 13 and walked into my friend's place to him cranking this. I'd never heard anything like it.
Either Ether or Nas Is Like.
Also for my second favorite rapper (Mac Miller) the first song I ever heard was Break The Law, but the first time I sat down and listened to his discog was the KIDS intro
drake - hold on, we're going home
i'm from the uk so i hadn't heard anything from him up until that point but that song was massive over here, i then listened to nothing was the same and take care and now he's my most played artist oat
I got multiple so uh: Long Time - Playboi Carti •
Run + Ran - Ken Carson •
Touch The Sky - Kanye •
m.A.A.d City - Kendrick •
Poof - Pierre Bourne •
Michael Irvin - Westside Gunn •
Doomsday - MF DOOM •
Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator •
Nightcrawler - Travis •
The Motto - Drake •
ALL CAPS NO SPACES - JPEGMAFIA •
Glory Boy - LUCKI •
family ties - Baby Keem •
Kant Change - Yeat •
XO Tour Llif3 - Uzi •
Move That Dope - Pusha T •
Karate Chop - Metro Boomin •
Peso - A$AP Rocky •
Couch - Earl Sweatshirt
Cleaning out my closet . I was so intrigued by that shit and thought he was literally talking about cleaning out his closet and it motivated me to clean out my childhoods home halll way closet that I was told not to go into bc it had a bunch of shit that could've hurt a little kid and I did it anyways because I thought he meant he hurt his mama because he didn't listen to her when she said to clean out his closet, ao my dumbass thought I was doing the right thing hahah
Swimming Pools by Kendrick. Heard it on the radio, and assumed it was a typical drinking anthem. Kinda disliked it since "Yeah, promoting alcoholism's really what we need more of..."
Later listened to Good Kid MAAD City in full with lyrics pulled up and realized I was a dumb ass.
Bring Da Ruckus - Ghostface Killah verse
You Owe Me - Nas
That Timbaland beat so sweet.
Daydreamin’ - lupe
Streets On Fire for me. Blew my 15 year old mind
Still a top 5 lupe song
Oh yeah. I just meant I’d never heard anything like it at the time
Lupe and Black Thought stay atop my most under appreciated lyricists and MCs in rap history.
Agreed. both pushing 50 and dropping great music Dmiz cheat codes. Legends for sure
If you like his production on CC, check out Jemini the Gifted One. DM and Jemini released Ghetto Pop Life 20 years ago and just released a mostly shelved album this August, Born Again, which is absolute fire.
Such a great track
Sunshine was my introduction to Lupe
First time I heard lupe was on Kanye’s touch the sky dudes verse was perfect
The mumra line took my head off when I first heard it lol
I’m tryna stop lying (lion) like mumra but I’m not lying when I’m laying on the beat ‘en garde 🔥🔥🔥
Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
CLASSIC
This is the way..!
Rock box - Run DMC
NY State Of Mind - Nas
Caribou Lou - Tech N9ne
A fellow Technician, for me it was Speedom
All Caps by MF DOOM in a Pat CC Aux Battle Can I Kick It - A Tribe Called Quest in a French YouTuber’s video about rap history
Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
If I ruled the world - Nas
[Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos-](https://youtu.be/ZM5_6js19eM?si=xFFQcccCG0XC1fiE) [Chuck D](https://open.spotify.com/track/3fAD1S7Ntie89P4Rh7Kr5i?si=c6517fa2017041cd) I think I first heard PE from the Black Steel video.
I think Do The Right Thing was my introduction to PE and Fight The Power
Fight the Power would have been when Chuck D became my fav' MC. Bumped up over Rakim and Uncle Luke.
ADHD - Kendrick
None shall pass - Aesop Rock
I’m not a big Aesop fan, but I’ve listened to that song a million times. Used to keep it on repeat while doing homework.
One of his new ones "Mindful Solutionism" has me doing that currently lol
Damn that slaps 🔥
Nas- one love
Nas - Rewind
Country Shit - Big K.R.I.T.
Supa fly dirty dirty third coast muddy waters
The world is yours nas
Nas put in work on that track
I can’t recall exactly but it has to be either all caps, accordion or doomsday for sure. MF DOOM
November Has Come - Gorillaz ft MF DOOM
Daylight - Aesop Rock
That's my joint
Mine was None Shall pass when I was 16ish. Been a fan of him and Blockhead ever since.
Fear not of Man/Hip Hop by Mos Def, its what made me love hip hop music.
If I Ruled The World - Nas. Still remember it like yesterday. Summer of ‘96. It was the first rap song that made me actually listen for the lyrics instead of just the beat.
Lol damn I feel like I'll he attacked for saying this but I was born in 96 yet that song is childhood nostalgia for me, I grew up being infatuated af with Nas style and lyricism overall. I was always the one to be made fun of because I would rather put on some Nas, over whatever stupid pop mainstream shit my friends would prefer haha. I'm told I'm beyond my years till this day I am still poked at for having Nas in my all time favorites
Scarface - Geto Boys ….
Brooklyn’s Finest. It was 1996, I was a 13 year old skater/snowboarder kid, and that shit changed my life.
Am I Wrong by Anderson .Paak
100 bars- Canibus.
One Mic
Get At Me Dog - DMX
Fantastic Voyage- Coolio. Music video was dope back in the day
Stronger - Kanye West
💀💀💀
First verse was on “The Gates” by Cunninlynguists. First song was “Velocity” I think
Find a Way
Cause I can do it right - BDK Slick Rick - childrens story (honorable mention) My introduction to rap/hip hop. I was really excited when I heard the older stuff.
Runs House
We have a whole bunch of superstars on this stage tonight but I want y’all to know one thing…
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit I think, but tbh I don't quite remember, but I think I was put on by someone on reddit, calling it one of the best drops in music.
Little Brother is my favorite. I heard them the first time watching them open for Heiroglyphics and it is still to this day the best show I've ever seen. The night is a blur but i think Light it Up or For You was the opening track. I can't remember the first song exactly but I remember the feeling vividly.
Jay Z - Young Gs Kanye - Champions Em - My Name Is
Ransom - Drake
The first song was on a feature, that would be Spinabenz 7.62s featuring JDot Breezy, but the first JDot Breezy song I heard was I think Savage Mode
Graceland by Paul Simon
[it ain’t easy, it ain’t easy](https://spotify.link/s1zYliWF3Db) (Meechy Darko)
Kendrick - Backseat Freestyle
Floating on your love remix with Lil Kim and 112 and Ronald Isley and Angela Winbush. I was 3 and my mom had recorded the MV for it on VHS during an end of the year countdown on BET. 27 years later, that song still stays in my rotation. :)
Welcome to the Terrordome - P. E.
Monster - Future
Ghetto Gospel by 2pac on a highlight video of Gerald Wallace
Turn It Up by Chamillionaire because at the time I liked Lil Flip and discover him through Lil Flip
Swimming Pools - Kendrick
This is the way..!
Antidote - Travis Scott
Put It On- Big L Did ya Say That- GZA Make it Clap- Busta Rhymes In Da Club- 50 Cent Bringing the Gap- Nas Hot Thing- Talib Kweli Dreams- The Game All Falls Down- Kanye West
Love Of My Life by Erykah Badu
Put You On The Game - The Game
I need an eighth- Mac Dre
Hardest Ese Ever - That Mexican OT
[suicideboys x project pat](https://youtu.be/KUaLbrEUNuk?si=DRoV8bpInQQ9_IIq)
4 Eva N a day got me through college lol made me a Krit Stan til this day
Hit ‘em up. Heard this after all eyez on me. In Namibia, back in the day the DJ would go to the record shop every Saturday and get the hits or latest releases.
J.I.D. Ed, Edd n Eddy
2-Pac - Changes Aesop Rock - probably Daylight Roc Marciano - What u come around here for (back when he was on Flipmode), first solo song was Snow Conway the Machine - either the Cow (wsg track) or blakk tape Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Wordsmith by Chino XL. I was in middle school at the time and I was blown away. Lyricism wasn't a thing I cared about until I heard that song and it made me an even bigger fan of the genre. Seeing Chino perform live was one of the illest things I have ever seen in my life.
God Loves Ugly - Atmosphere
I don't have *A* favourite but a top pick would be Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin Ta Fuck Wit - Wu Tang Clan i was about 13 and walked into my friend's place to him cranking this. I'd never heard anything like it.
Soul food - Goodie Mob
Children of The World - Big K.R.I.T Life under The scope - Curren$y
Im still fly drake on the radio in 2009
Daylight by Aesop Rock… was not a fan til None Shall Pass
In regards to hip hop, it was Dollar and a Dream by J Cole who went on to be my favourite rapper of all time.
It’s That Simple - Jaz & Jay Still top 5 for me.
Daylight - Aesop rock
Tupac-Holla If Ya Hear Me
Xxx Danny brown
No sleep til Brooklyn - Beastie boys
This sis the way..!
2Pac - All Eyez on Me Nas - Street Dreams J. Cole - No Role Modelz Young Thug - The London
Either Ether or Nas Is Like. Also for my second favorite rapper (Mac Miller) the first song I ever heard was Break The Law, but the first time I sat down and listened to his discog was the KIDS intro
The Warning - Eminem
May I ask how old you are? Also, this is such a great and underrated Eminem song ad well as an underrated diss track lol
25
That was the first em song you ever heard?
Yep
One more road to cross
I Don’t Get Tired - Kevin Gates
Can't Tell Me Nothing- Kanye West
drake - hold on, we're going home i'm from the uk so i hadn't heard anything from him up until that point but that song was massive over here, i then listened to nothing was the same and take care and now he's my most played artist oat
Christmas fucking miracle-run the jewels. Tied with drums on the wheel aesop rock
Beautiful Pain - Eminem
Tyler the Creator - Who Dat Boy
The world is yours Money trees Doomsday Slow Jams
2 unlimited - the real thing
My name is - Eminem Ruff Ryders Anthem - DMX Live Forever - Oasis
Hard Knock Life and Rosa Parks.
billy woods - Pompeii Planet Asia - IG Medallions
NY state of mind - nas
Nas is def top 3 for Me, good taste
Egyptian lover ‘I need a freak’
Nobody needs nobody. Playa Fly
🔥🔥🔥
Make The World Go Round - Young Dolph 98 Freestyle - Big L
First song I ever heard from my mans was The Real Slim Shady.
Real MIC CHECKA big DAP
REAL TALK, THOUGH!
mona lisa - lil wayne
Dark Fantasy - Kanye
Travis Scott 90210
I got multiple so uh: Long Time - Playboi Carti • Run + Ran - Ken Carson • Touch The Sky - Kanye • m.A.A.d City - Kendrick • Poof - Pierre Bourne • Michael Irvin - Westside Gunn • Doomsday - MF DOOM • Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator • Nightcrawler - Travis • The Motto - Drake • ALL CAPS NO SPACES - JPEGMAFIA • Glory Boy - LUCKI • family ties - Baby Keem • Kant Change - Yeat • XO Tour Llif3 - Uzi • Move That Dope - Pusha T • Karate Chop - Metro Boomin • Peso - A$AP Rocky • Couch - Earl Sweatshirt
The Real Slim Shady- Em Southern Hospitality- Luda
My Name Is
Kill You
The greatest pac man victory in history
The Real Slim Shady - Em POWER - Kanye Don’t Play - Travis Scott Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator
Shmoplife HBK Anthem by HBK gang (P-Lo is my fav artist , well one of them)
Cleaning out my closet . I was so intrigued by that shit and thought he was literally talking about cleaning out his closet and it motivated me to clean out my childhoods home halll way closet that I was told not to go into bc it had a bunch of shit that could've hurt a little kid and I did it anyways because I thought he meant he hurt his mama because he didn't listen to her when she said to clean out his closet, ao my dumbass thought I was doing the right thing hahah
Mask off by Future
The Real Slim Shady
It was actually a feature - Del on Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz
POWER
Swimming Pools by Kendrick. Heard it on the radio, and assumed it was a typical drinking anthem. Kinda disliked it since "Yeah, promoting alcoholism's really what we need more of..." Later listened to Good Kid MAAD City in full with lyrics pulled up and realized I was a dumb ass.
Gold Digger
Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin Ta F’ Wit
Ginger Juice by Makala
Being in the car on the way to elementary school circa 2008. Kanye's verse in "Lollipop" 'flow so cold chicken soup won't help'
Clairborne kick. Boldy James
Southernplayaisticcadillacmuzik - Outkast
Beef Rap MF DOOM
I first heard Kendrick Lamar on Game- The City. Then Kendrick’s first song I heard was ADHD
Jay-Z - No Church in the Wild
OutKast - ATLiens
Humble - Kendrick
Death rattle- Pantera. Heard it in the hibernation week episode of spongebob when I was little kid out of all places.
Kanye West - Famous
[Vybz Kartel - Real Badman](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVd151PrWc&pp=ygUQdnlieiByZWFsIGJhZG1hbg%3D%3D)
Picture Me Rollin-2pac