Was Hip Hop the first music genre you liked?

Question

or did you like something else before you got into Hip Hop?

Answer 1

I liked Tejano(Tex-Mex) Music 4 like a Year, when i started listening 2 music. then i started listening 2 rap in about `95 & i havent stopped since!

Answer 2

No, when you're black...you also grew up listening to Marvin, Al Green, Stevie, Chaka...because of your parents.

edit: Sweet James is on it!

And I'd like to add that I hate when some non-blacks feel they know hip-hop better than Blacks. Which is BS because we can listen to a track and identify a Franky Beverly sample, or Ohio Players sample (because of our folks) and they can't....sorry had to go there.

edit: Sweet James, have you heard this Johnnie Taylor track?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDGfeD6g...

edit: Yeah, love that track, but here's my favorite Isley Bros. track. Most people never heard of this it's a rare classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714-Dsoj1...

edit: No, it sounds like it's from the Curts Mayfield era.

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

nope.  never liked hip hop.

Answer 5

I grew up with my dad listening to Pink Floyd, so I kind of got into that, but as soon as I heard hip hop I fell in love with H.E.R.  

Answer 6

hip-hop is the first and only.

Answer 7

i was on some rock and roll stuff...but hiphop was at the same time.

Answer 8

Everyone has their own perspectives on music, but when i was a kid i liked Pop, but as a grew up Underground Hip hop was my favorite genre  

Answer 9

Nah , when I was a kid I listend to Spanish Music Los Temerarios , Caminantes,Tigeres del Norte,Ramon Ayala, Vicente Fernandez and Sonora Dynamita. Still love my musica .

Answer 10

I used to think that ish was scary when I was younger...I used to like Backstreet Boys lol. Eminem was the first rapper I liked tho.

Answer 11

No R&B was, because I grew up listening to it(mostly because of my parents), and because I wasnt allowed to listen to RHH until I got to high school because my parents didnt want me exposed to the cussing

Answer 12

Nah. I liked Jazz until about 11 years old lol.

Answer 13

I might have like other stuff more many probably singing and stuff but I think I always like some rap and hip-hop.

The only reason why I use to like them other genres (no not just singing) was because well I was younger and people listened to it around me and I just got use to it and then I got use to the rap/hip-hop/r&b and now that's my final one I know that for sure I might like others later on but I will always like hip-hop and I can relate to it and I know it pretty wel and I wanna be a singer/rapper to.

Answer 14

when little I listened to Rock Latino

Answer 15

i must say it was

Answer 16

I liked pop & rapcore (Linkin Park ect.), but then I soon (within weeks) found those genres sucked so I started listening to rap, and that's all i listen to now.

Answer 17

no when i was younger i used to like pop

Answer 18

Nah, I grew up listening to RnB and Blues and Jazz.  My gramps was the first person to sit me down and teach me about music and he is who introduced me to RHH.  He also told me to always keep an open mind.  So I listen to a little bit of everything.

Answer 19

R&B before because that's what my parents listen to.Now I like Hip Hop but I will still listen to R&B.

Answer 20

yeah i first started listening to rap

Answer 21

hip hop wasnt exactly the first music genre that i LIKED but it was the first that i felt passionate about and that i loved and actualy cared about the lyrics and the artists

i first listened to pop some mainstream rhh but never was amazed by the music and cared for it  

Answer 22

hip hop was my first

Answer 23

I listened to Soul before I was introduced to Hip Hop.

Answer 24

yes it was prolly the 1st genre i heard

Answer 25

Not really...mom and pops had me listening to salsa and merengue music...It used to annoy me when I was younger...but I appreciate the music now that Im older...

Answer 26

no

Answer 27

Old School R&B & Blues.

My pops and momma used to play it around me. I remember those songs before I heard hip-hop. Songs like....

Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On

Al Green - Lets Stay Together

Kenny Latimore - Lets Straighten It Out

Johnnie Taylor - Good Love

EDIT - I agree with that fully. Not knocking nobodys knowledge but its also certain songs nobody else will really truly feel like we do. Any song aimed at the young black youth if you not living it you just don't know how it feels. You might think you do but you don't.

EDIT - Aww man you took me back. I got the greatest hits album playing right now. Remember this...

Ohio Players - I Want To Be Free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InG2lLAgf...

EDIT - I never heard that track before. Have you heard this Willie Hutch song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1cRaYMlJ...

EDIT- Thats the song Three 6 Mafia sampled for Stay High. Right when you said something about Curtis Pusherman started playing.

Answer 28

No, Merengue and Salsa were. Then Pop & R&B, then I fell in love with Hip Hop.

Bobby: Hey love, what's good?

Answer 29

Grew up in the 80's listen to R&B & Pop music but then I really started to get into hip hop around 88'

Answer 30

Hip-Hop was the 1st

Answer 31

Yes it was, but it was not the first genre I listened too.