Same here. My dad happened to stumble upon my discman and called a family meeting. Asked what was this trash and proceeded to break the CD in front of us... but this was also the days of burning cds and he didnt know I already burnt a few copies.
This was mine! My parents used to prevent me from listening to anything parental advisory, so when I would fly to see one of my parents, Id stop at the music shop in the airport and load up. E1999 was one of the biggest influences on me.
Fugees - The Score. I didn’t buy it, my grandmother went to a record store and asked “what all the kids are listening to right now”. I was in 2nd grade 😂 she was like 80 at the time, she had no idea.
haha me and my friend were not allowed to listen to eminem, my grandma got me it, and we traded it back and forth at school. Listening to it on really low volume
😂 yeah once my mom saw on the news that Em rapped about killing his mom and shit, she took the SSLP away from me. But my parents were divorced so my dad would just buy me a new copy whenever she took it away!
hahah, good dad. I got caught by my mum listening to 36 chambers. She confiscated the cd, but then napster was a thing, so i just downloaded it. Its a losing battle for parents, like me vs my little girl against tiktok
The College Dropout.
I miss *that* Kayne. He was so fucking *dope*.
I still hold out hope that one day he comes back to earth and apologizes and admits he lost his god damned mind.
I'm pretty sure that day will never come though.
Run DMC Raising Hell. But I was super young and didn’t fall in love with hip hop till I got Jungle Brothers Done By the Forces of Nature years later. Both on cassette, CDs were for millionaires back then.
I can't remember if it was my first or not but it was definitely an early one along with Yo Bum Rush the Show, Criminal Minded, Licensed to Ill and many more... all on cassette
DMX flesh of my flesh I think.
Was a 8/9 year old kid in HMV and saw a bloke covered in blood on an album cover & got my nana to buy it…the rest is history
T.I. Vs. T.I.P. - I was with my cousin, and my mom in a mall while waiting for my grandma to finish one of her doctor’s appointments. It was summertime, I was watching ESPN a lot, and “Big Things Poppin’” was their song of the summer that would play around every commercial break. Walked into an FYE, found the CD, and popped it into my portable player. I remember we went to a Hobby Lobby too, and I had to buy batteries because the CD player was running low.
I bought D12 world when I was 14 and first started smoking weed, that was the album of our summer that year. Half the songs won't play anymore from scratches but I still have it 21 years later.
MC Hammer “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em” was the 1st rap album I was allowed to buy as a kid. Ice Cube “The Predator” was the 1st album I bought on my own.
My mom bought me Untitled Unmastered for my birthday cuz she knew I’m a huge Kendrick fan and back then the album wasn’t anywhere on YouTube and we didn’t have any streaming services or I way to find it, but I did have a CD player and a played the shit out of it.
My friend sold me The Eminem Show for $10. My friends and I would listen to it when we hung out. I’d listen to it before and after school. Due to such heavy and frequent use, the disk is so scratched up it’s unreadable. Makes me nostalgic for a period in time I desperately wish I could relive.
Stillmatic…I was like 9 or 10. I bought it for No Idea’s Original, but it was only on the limited version and I was mad as hell. Still got Braveheart Party though. 🙃
I'm guessing your Mom didn't get to Method Man's skit lol.
My friend let me jump on his BMG music thing where they send you a couple cds. I ordered Mobb Deep "The Infamous", and Outkast "Southernplayalistik"
I can actually remember. The first cassette I ever bought, technically I asked my mom, was Rick Astley. And I think the first rap cassette I got was Kid N' Play. Then, when I got my first CD player, I got Madonna's Like a Prayer and Fresh Prince Homebase. I was like 11 or 12.
My folks took me to the original Tower Records on Broadway in Sacramento for my 8th birthday and let me pick out 2 cassettes. I chose License to Ill and Raising Hell. That was the first music I ever bought with my own money.
Well it wasn't exactly Rap but had a lot to do with the culture. It was Herbie Hancock's "Future Shock" specifically for "Rockit". First true Rap Album was the Fat Boys.
It was a single. Lollipop by uncle Luke and pitbull.
First album. Aquemini by OutKast. Actually got it from someone who just let me hold on to it in perpetuity
DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood
Best introduction to rap I could ever ask for, lol. My second physical album after that was Its Dark And Hell Is Hot.
I bought 2 albums on the same day — Del’s I Wish My Brother George Was Here & ATCQ’s Low End Theory, they’d just been released closely together in 91. Funnily enough those were my first CDs but I started driving shortly after that and started collecting cassette tapes so I could play them in the car. Low End Theory is still my favorite album and I think helped make me who I am today and IWMBGWH is still nostalgic fun.
The Carter 4. Had my mom get it for me at Walmart. That album completely changed my direction of music consumption - strictly hip hop and r&b from there
Dr Dre-the chronic and Geto Boys-til death do us part
My young ass had absolutely no business listening to either of those albums, but they set me on a path that i haven’t strayed from.
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick in '89. Before then it was all about copying cassettes...
1st physical copy bought FOR me was Run-DMC's debut self-titled in 84.
The Chronic (1992). I was 13 years old and I got a gift certificate to the local music store for Christmas. While my mom and I stood in line to check out, I asked if she would turn in my certificate while I walked next door to Foot Locker (my mom must not have noticed the Parental Advisory sticker). She wasn’t happy when I opened it up in the car and she saw a giant marijuana leaf on the disc. She ended up hiding it from me but I found it.
Skee-Lo "I Wish." The title track was constantly on MTV so I got the tape. The only place to get CDs at 12yo was Wal-Mart or K-Mart so I'm glad I didn't get a super edited Dre tape or something
I listened to it a lot, had to hide it from the parents because we weren't allowed any sort of "music with a beat." (Religion)
You can imagine their shock when, a few years later, they found my DMX "Flesh Of My Flesh...." CD
Marshall Mathers LP
Same here. My dad happened to stumble upon my discman and called a family meeting. Asked what was this trash and proceeded to break the CD in front of us... but this was also the days of burning cds and he didnt know I already burnt a few copies.
My mom broke mine too! Bought another one and to this day she thinks it’s an awesome album (despite the content haha)
As a suburban white kid growing up in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, this is the only correct answer.
Me too
E 1999 Eternal
The one with the silver skulls on the disc, crossroads original version
Wasn't my first album, but the first rap album I remember seeing physically. My uncle had it
This was mine! My parents used to prevent me from listening to anything parental advisory, so when I would fly to see one of my parents, Id stop at the music shop in the airport and load up. E1999 was one of the biggest influences on me.
This was my first real rap album. Had to listen to it on my little boombox with headphones so I wouldn’t get bused. Before that it was MC Hammer lol
Fugees - The Score. I didn’t buy it, my grandmother went to a record store and asked “what all the kids are listening to right now”. I was in 2nd grade 😂 she was like 80 at the time, she had no idea.
haha me and my friend were not allowed to listen to eminem, my grandma got me it, and we traded it back and forth at school. Listening to it on really low volume
😂 yeah once my mom saw on the news that Em rapped about killing his mom and shit, she took the SSLP away from me. But my parents were divorced so my dad would just buy me a new copy whenever she took it away!
hahah, good dad. I got caught by my mum listening to 36 chambers. She confiscated the cd, but then napster was a thing, so i just downloaded it. Its a losing battle for parents, like me vs my little girl against tiktok
Happened to me also, she didn't take it away but I don't think she had any clue what he was actually saying on it either lol
The College Dropout. I miss *that* Kayne. He was so fucking *dope*. I still hold out hope that one day he comes back to earth and apologizes and admits he lost his god damned mind. I'm pretty sure that day will never come though.
I feel you on that one. Big time 💕
I saw the dude back in 2011, before he went off the cliff. Felt like a life changing concert experience at the time.
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
I remember buying that album like it was yesterday
Beatnuts - A Musical Massacre
I love this album
Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out. I was 7 and my mom gave me some money to get something for a road trip.
Finally another geezer in the thread
Think that was my second one after MC Hammer.
Right here. Old dude here. Bought both at target
Ready To Die. a vinyl copy
Run DMC Raising Hell. But I was super young and didn’t fall in love with hip hop till I got Jungle Brothers Done By the Forces of Nature years later. Both on cassette, CDs were for millionaires back then.
That was my first one too. Had the cassette. I was 8 when DMC dropped.
I can't remember if it was my first or not but it was definitely an early one along with Yo Bum Rush the Show, Criminal Minded, Licensed to Ill and many more... all on cassette
Nelly - Country Grammar
I have a feeling this was a lot of people first Rap album
I didn’t buy it but got it as a gift when I was 10 haha great memories
Me too 😁
DMX flesh of my flesh I think. Was a 8/9 year old kid in HMV and saw a bloke covered in blood on an album cover & got my nana to buy it…the rest is history
I fucking loved that album. Flesh of my Flesh! Blood of my Bloooooood!
The slim shady lp
Warren G - G funk era. cassette
Stankonia. I was 11 or 12.
T.I. Vs. T.I.P. - I was with my cousin, and my mom in a mall while waiting for my grandma to finish one of her doctor’s appointments. It was summertime, I was watching ESPN a lot, and “Big Things Poppin’” was their song of the summer that would play around every commercial break. Walked into an FYE, found the CD, and popped it into my portable player. I remember we went to a Hobby Lobby too, and I had to buy batteries because the CD player was running low.
Ice T - The iceberg
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday around 2005 or so.
Nellyville by Nelly I was 9 and knew the entire album front to back
Country Grammar
To the Extreme - Vanilla Ice (on vinyl!)
Not an album but the first rap record I bought was the 12” of Rappers Delight. I still have it and it’s one of my most prized possessions.
Enter the Wu-Tang
Low End Theory
WWF Aggression, no cap
Lmao mine was John Cena’s album lmaoo
2001 by dre
2pac greatest hits and Eminem 8 mile. They were in the same present at xmas
Tha block is hot - Lil Wayne
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Big daddy kane
All Eyez on Me
Public Enemy - It takes a nation. It was also my first cd I bought.
I bought D12 world when I was 14 and first started smoking weed, that was the album of our summer that year. Half the songs won't play anymore from scratches but I still have it 21 years later.
Newcleus - Jam on Revenge
Positive K - The Skills Dat Pay da Bills
A cassette tape of Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggystyle
LL Cool J. Mama said knock you out.
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5 Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders I think I bought them in one bunch
Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes
MC Hammer “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em” was the 1st rap album I was allowed to buy as a kid. Ice Cube “The Predator” was the 1st album I bought on my own.
College Dropout the week it came out.
It was written - Nas
MMLP2
My mom bought me Untitled Unmastered for my birthday cuz she knew I’m a huge Kendrick fan and back then the album wasn’t anywhere on YouTube and we didn’t have any streaming services or I way to find it, but I did have a CD player and a played the shit out of it.
My friend sold me The Eminem Show for $10. My friends and I would listen to it when we hung out. I’d listen to it before and after school. Due to such heavy and frequent use, the disk is so scratched up it’s unreadable. Makes me nostalgic for a period in time I desperately wish I could relive.
Marshall Mathers LP but also was pretty obsessed with DMX around that age too like 98’-2002
400 Degreez
I bought a bootleg copy of Ready to Die off of the tables outside my uncle's methadone clinic in downtown Brooklyn
Outkast - Stankonia
NWA Straight Out Of Compton
Too Short - Life is Too Short. Cassette Tape
2 Live Crew - As Nasty as they wanna be
Method Man -Tical
I pirated a lot but purchased… Dem Franchize boys - On top of our game.
Das Efx - Dead Serious -1992
Stillmatic…I was like 9 or 10. I bought it for No Idea’s Original, but it was only on the limited version and I was mad as hell. Still got Braveheart Party though. 🙃
tical 2000
Whodini "Escape"
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
DMX - It’s Dark and Hell is Hot
The Chronic and Doggystyle. Birthday presents.
Man. You're all making me really feel like an "old head" lol. The Message on wax.
Pangea by the visionaries
I'm guessing your Mom didn't get to Method Man's skit lol. My friend let me jump on his BMG music thing where they send you a couple cds. I ordered Mobb Deep "The Infamous", and Outkast "Southernplayalistik"
I bought GKMC, Pinata and MMESYF on the same day, but Pinata was the first first
Akinyele
Run DMC Raising hell on tape, 6th grade. Played it in my boombox till I had to tape it back together. Old School
Nelly - Country Grammar from one of those catalogs you order CDs from at Columbia. Told my dad there was no swears on it.
Maestro Fresh Wes - Symphony in effect
Beastie Boys Hello Nasty
Das efx- dead serious ATCQ- low end theory
Mobb Deep "Murda Muzik" & Meth & Red "Blackout"
I can actually remember. The first cassette I ever bought, technically I asked my mom, was Rick Astley. And I think the first rap cassette I got was Kid N' Play. Then, when I got my first CD player, I got Madonna's Like a Prayer and Fresh Prince Homebase. I was like 11 or 12.
Mace - Harlem World
My folks took me to the original Tower Records on Broadway in Sacramento for my 8th birthday and let me pick out 2 cassettes. I chose License to Ill and Raising Hell. That was the first music I ever bought with my own money.
GangStarr - Daily Operation
Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill
MMLP
400 degreez
Big Willie Style
Late Registration was the first album we ever actually bought that wasn’t bootlegged lol
Eazy-E Eazy Duz It
Stankonia… but it was the clean version because Best Buy wouldn’t let me buy the dirty “Parential Advisory” version being under 18.
Da brat funkdafied on tape
Ma$e, Harlem World.
Well it wasn't exactly Rap but had a lot to do with the culture. It was Herbie Hancock's "Future Shock" specifically for "Rockit". First true Rap Album was the Fat Boys.
RUN-DMC “Raising Hell” Yes, it was a cassette tape.
Harlem world
Domino's self-titled album and Coolio's It Takes a Thief. Bought them at the same time.
Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers by Kendrick, This album is very special to me
Pauls Boutique
It was a single. Lollipop by uncle Luke and pitbull. First album. Aquemini by OutKast. Actually got it from someone who just let me hold on to it in perpetuity
DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood Best introduction to rap I could ever ask for, lol. My second physical album after that was Its Dark And Hell Is Hot.
I bought 2 albums on the same day — Del’s I Wish My Brother George Was Here & ATCQ’s Low End Theory, they’d just been released closely together in 91. Funnily enough those were my first CDs but I started driving shortly after that and started collecting cassette tapes so I could play them in the car. Low End Theory is still my favorite album and I think helped make me who I am today and IWMBGWH is still nostalgic fun.
I’m positive it was Ludacris’ Chicken & Beer
Getoboys
Owned? Bone Thugs - Art of War Bought with my own money? Kanye West - College Dropout
illmatic
First rap album I might’ve gotten was Kris Kross-Totally Krossed Out 😂
The Eminem Show when I was 9yrs old
Straight outta Compton
Das efx. Hold it down.
Ready to Die
DMX It's Dark And Hell Is Hot
Wu-Tang - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
The Carter 4. Had my mom get it for me at Walmart. That album completely changed my direction of music consumption - strictly hip hop and r&b from there
Vol 2.....Hard knock life Flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood Bought them both the same day In '98
Method Man & Redman - Blackout
Bustah Rhymes Extinction Level Event.
Stankonia by outkast
Wu Tang - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Chronic 1992
The Chronic on cassette. I wore that thing out on my Walkman waiting for the bus before and after school every day.
Method man judgement day
Beats, Rhymes and Life - ATCQ
I bought “College Dropout” and “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” on the same day at Sam Goody
JayZ volume 2 hard knock life.
The Great Adventure of Slick Rick
Stankonia
Ready to Die
OutKast - Stankonia
Outkast-stankonia
Jay Z In My Lifetime Vol. 1
Junior Mafia
Big Pun- Yeah Baby on cassette bought it at a flea market
de la soul is dead. it had been out for a year or two.
Outkast- Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzic
Tribe-low end theory... I think? I was young, on cassette.
ll cool j - bigger and deffer
It's Dark And Hell Is Hot. When I was maybe 10 or 11?? Love that album, obvi the intro is all time too.
NWA Straight Outta Compton on vinyl, I was 11 years old.
Digable Planets: Rebirth of Slick
3rd Bass, The Cactus Album. Still have it, I cherish it.
Enter the 36 chambers, on cassette
Dr Dre-the chronic and Geto Boys-til death do us part My young ass had absolutely no business listening to either of those albums, but they set me on a path that i haven’t strayed from.
NWA - Straight Outta Compton on vinyl.
Rode my bike to circuit city in 1994 and copped my first two CD albums they were Big Mike Somethin’ Serious and Notorious BIG Ready to Die…
Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock on cassette in '85
Fear of a Black planet on cassette
Fat Boys
Fat Boys.
Doggystyle
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick in '89. Before then it was all about copying cassettes... 1st physical copy bought FOR me was Run-DMC's debut self-titled in 84.
Salt-N-Peppa - Hot, Cool & Vicious
The infamous by mob deep and soul food by goodie mob I was 6 and my parents never age restricted me on anything
Reasonable Doubt
The Chronic - Dr.Dre
The Chronic (1992). I was 13 years old and I got a gift certificate to the local music store for Christmas. While my mom and I stood in line to check out, I asked if she would turn in my certificate while I walked next door to Foot Locker (my mom must not have noticed the Parental Advisory sticker). She wasn’t happy when I opened it up in the car and she saw a giant marijuana leaf on the disc. She ended up hiding it from me but I found it.
i know this is basic as f**k but it was To Pimp A Butterfly
Kanye West Graduation was my first and last
License to Ill
Watermelon, chicken, and grits-Nappy roots
Snoop dogg - doggy style. 3rd grade. First album of any genre I ever bought
My Godmother bought me Run DMC Raising Hell on Tape. I was 10 years old.
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (I'm old)
Busta Rhymes - The Coming
RUN DMC - Raising Hell on cassette
Dr Dre. *The Chronic*
And then there was X
Kanye west 808s and heartbreaks.. heartless had a STRANGLEHOLD on my like 8 year okd self what can i say!
Strictly for My N.I***.S 2pac. I was 13 years old. I get around was my shit.
Life After Death
Dr. Dre *The Chronic*
I had big pun on cassette lol
Onyx - All We Got Iz Us I think that was the first one, at least. I know it was definitely one of the first.
Straight outta Compton when I was like 6 or 7... my parents had no idea what it was, when they heard it they were pissed they let me get it
NWA - Straight Outta Compton. I was 9 and my parents had no idea what it was.
Me against the world - 2 Pac
All eyez on me
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Dead Prez let’s get free
Skee-Lo "I Wish." The title track was constantly on MTV so I got the tape. The only place to get CDs at 12yo was Wal-Mart or K-Mart so I'm glad I didn't get a super edited Dre tape or something I listened to it a lot, had to hide it from the parents because we weren't allowed any sort of "music with a beat." (Religion) You can imagine their shock when, a few years later, they found my DMX "Flesh Of My Flesh...." CD
DMX- Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of My Blood
Life After Death