first hip hop release you bought on lp 8track cassette or cd?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmi290EfnK8

Pretty sure it was Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin'

probably music madness by mantronix.

Honestly this is a pretty good jam that I haven't thought about in years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQQGX24Teg

I wanted to get Niggaz4life but my mom had "heard some things" about NWA and 86d that. Settled for Derelicts of Dialect cassette. Pretty sure that came before Apocalypse '91, and that I dubbed Fear of a Black Planet and Original Gangster from my sister rather than buying them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DED-fakMeE music madness came way later for me but this was their best track!

it was def Totally Krossed Out

please hammer don’t hurt em...

Wait, did anyone here buy their first hip hop release on 8 track? :)

Eazy-Duz-It cassette single

https://www.discogs.com/Sugarhill-Gang-Sugarhill-Gang/release/4681458

Paid In Full - on CD! Forgive me, it was the 80s and CDs were perfect then.

Xp funnily enough tho sugarhill gang s/t is the only hip hop album i've seen on 8track. There must be others?

https://www.amazon.com/Bacdafucup-Onyx/dp/B0000024IG
on cd when i was 12.

Onyx - Bacdafucup
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Ai1O%2BCz1L._SL1200_.jpg

It Takes a Nation of Millions..., but not until around the time Fear of a Black Planet was being released. It was a CD, already retailing at 'Nice Price' level.

^that’s probably very close to my story, as well.

Was there a music video that clowned Onyx for being supposedly fake or did I imagine that?

Nation Of Millions on cassette

Tribe called Quest, the first album. LP

Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock “It Takes Two” and De La Soul “Me Myself & I” on cassingles w allowance money in 6th grade on a mall trip w my mom

p sure I had some contraband Beastie Boys and Run DMC dubbed cassettes before that though

I can't remember the first but I remember buying all of these on CD around the same time when they were £2 in Virgin in the early 00s.

Paid in Full
Midnight Marauders
Raising Hell
Fear of a Black Planet
Illmatic
Enter The Wu-Tang
Three Feet High And Rising.

Criminal Minded, Paid In Full or Yo! Bum Rush The Show (all bought around the same time due to 1987 year-end lists)

Mickey Unrapped

Noel Coward Reads the Best of Ezra Pound, featuring the Al Bowley Ensemble

MC Hammer - Let's Get it Started. Yes, prior to the release of Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, and yes, I am indeed a trailblazer (also owned Mix-a-Lot's Swass long before a certain song about butts).

The first hip-hop releases that I picked out for myself were De La Soul's Me Myself & I and Young MC's Principals Office. The first time I bought an entire rap album was Hipocrisy is the Greatest Luxury by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy As Kosher As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Jews.

Run-DMC's Raising Hell in 1986. I don't even remember what song inspired me to buy it, but it wasn't "Walk This Way" as I didn't know who Aerosmith were yet at 14. (Though I must have bought their Greatest Hits cassette pretty soon after that because I remember having that with me on a family vacation in the late 80s and listening to it a lot.)

Nation of Millions on cd when it was their latest release

Rapper's Delight on 45.

Either Enter the Wu-Tang or Illmatic.

"Raising Hell" on cassette in 1986, at a department store (back when they had a music section; I bought the Thriller LP at a supermarket, iirc). I want to say there was a red cover and a green cover? I had the green cover. Around the same time I was listening to a Philly station called Power '99 (at 9) that would play a bunch of hip-hop that I would then tape off the radio. I never owned the actual single, but I had a recording of Dana Dane's "Nightmares" that might as well have been the single for how often I played it.

Incidentally, no MTV for me, so anything I heard was from the radio or on a boom box someone had on the back of the school bus.

Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather. Bought for 50p on cassette from the Our Price cut-out bin when I was about 10. Rinsed it to death.

haha, didn't see Josh In Chicago's post before I wrote that!

Run-DMC self-titled and Fat Boys self-titled on cassettes

This thread makes me feel young, thx all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDj54ZdJw_w

^ on a 45

I bought License to Ill on cassette in late 86 or early 87.

As for the first "real" hip hop cassette it was either Ice-T's Power or PE's Nation of Millions in early 1989 - I vividly remember discovering Yo MTV Raps on the night of the Pan Am flight 103 bombing in December 1988 and seeing "I'm Your Pusher" and "Night of the Living Baseheads" which both blew my mind and I bought the tapes as soon after as I could - which might have been a while because this was the middle of nowhere with only a Musicland around.

Run DMC - Raising Hell on cassette after hearing Tricky play while rollerskating.

the MM LP, except it was a CD. I loved it, my parents were right, it was awful. thread makes me feel like a baby

Never heard Electric Kingdom before, that's fire. I assume that's where "cause the way you feel ain't no big deal" originated.

to the extreme

I feel deprived for not having MTV as a kid, I think I would've discovered more hip hop earlier. One of my best friends was black but he wasn't super into music. I just remember his older brother hearing us listening to MC Hammer and going "pssht why y'all listening to this wack shit". I wanted him to hip me to some non wack shit but didn't have that type of relationship with him.
My uncle born in 1958 had some Sugar Hill records but I guess by the time I was a kid he lost his interest in hip hop, cause I only found out he had them many years later.

Run DMC - King Of Rock on vinyl.

As a Brit born in 1980 my first hip hop purchases as a pre-teen had no chance of being credible:

First hip-hop related 7": Paula Abdul & MC Skat Kat - Opposites Attract (hey it had a rap for the first few bars).

First Hip Hop album: MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hirt Them.

I was truly holding it down in the mean streets of Norfolk.

ahh, well, if are allowed hip hop related, then i bought Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren on cassette in 1983
(pretty sure i will have bought some other hip hop between Duck Ruck and King of Rock, possibly but struggling to recall the exact sequence of events).

of my own volition, a used cassette of mecca and the soul brother in the summer of 1993 after seeing the video for "t.r.o.y." on bet.

many others before that, more along the lines of the pop / radio hiphop of the day (mc hammer, vanilla ice, marky mark, etc.). all borrowed from friends though.

coolio gangsta's paradise

probably Cypress Hill "Black Sunday"

it was dr dre's 2001, my parents made me get the clean version.

lmao

a taste of the 2001 clean version, in which more words are omitted than included

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Sm7MqMs5Q

I had a cassette copy of Rap Traxx:

https://img.discogs.com/kqEFBnMZ_z5Ywifab6a2leq-SN8=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4396914-1404175479-5291.jpeg.jpg

I listened to it a lot

Bunch of classics on that track list plus one I've never heard of

yeah, it was a good introduction to the genre for me, who as a 11-12 year old had never really ever heard any rap before

Man, I still love Bust A Move so much. I'm pretty sure that was my first, on cassingle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDCTAVCLN-w another song by another name from the ones who made electric kingdom i had on an early breakdance cassette!

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Break-Master-Featuring-New-York-City-Breakers/master/135745

Bunch of classics on that track list plus one I've never heard of

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIOzM7SsMo

Is there a thread for lame Beastie Boys wannabes? I just realized that the first rap full-length I ever bought was not 2 Live Jews but Metal MC, who sucked real bad but also for some reason shared a drummer with Stacey Q.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzIPFPtvso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYk2f3GhdI i had their cassette too!

i didn't know that cypress hill cd's sold at walmart type stores without parental advisory stickers were clean. i also bought in utero on the same day but it does not say "waif me."

I can't believe nobody has said Shaq Diesel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-U8E-NiPlw

just popping back in here to say that edited versions of super profane hiphop songs are amazing. ol' dirty bastard's "brooklyn zoo" comes to mind as one that i think actually saw an improvement by all of the edits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0soiP_j_vQ8

always been a huge fan of censoring "you can suck mah dick!" with the sound of the cocking of a gun.

first 7 inch was "the show" by doug e. fresh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVoRCUyhnwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P5k6EiK0Rc

(also owned Mix-a-Lot's Swass long before a certain song about butts).

Next time I pass Dick's (it's next to the comic shop), I'll imagine you hanging out.

first 12 inch i can remember having was "just buggin" by whistle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtHbF7Ps7wQ i had that song on the select records gift rapping collection on cassette https://www.discogs.com/Various-Gift-Rapping-The-Select-Best/master/807910

I should probably give an honorable mention to Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in tha Mist, which is the first one I remember walking into a record store *without my parents* and buying *with my own money," as an extremely pasty and awkward thirteen year old who was convinced that the clerk was laughing at me on the inside.

https://www.discogs.com/NWA-Straight-Outta-Compton/release/12188409

https://itbonlineservices.com/itbshopping/images/products/thesugarhillgangrappersdelightvinylalbum.jpg

(I’m old)

raising hell, cassette

Honestly? It was Mickey Mouse Unrapped:

https://www.discogs.com/Mickey-Unrapped/master/275196

Sorry, I was 8 at the time.

Buffalo Gals / Malcolm Maclaren, 7" from Woolworths

It’s weird my parents let me listen to that Hardcore Ganster Rap tape now that I think about it.

licenced to ill first tape bought for my newly purchased Walkman on the eve of a one week holiday to butlins holiday camp. it was the only tape I took with me so I played it hundreds of times. don't think I bought anything more hip hop related until nation of millions lp when I was in 6th form and the nme had declared public enemy the greatest rock and roll band in the world.

actually the paid on full single may have predated even my beasties purchase.

oh god 'the anfield rap' may have been before either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQc4A-XBzBY

Schoolly D made the first 3 hip hop records I bought. Then for the 4th I regressed to Beastie Boys ‎– Fight For Your Right.

licenced to ill first tape bought for my newly purchased Walkman on the eve of a one week holiday to butlins holiday camp. it was the only tape I took with me so I played it hundreds of times.

I remember seeing the "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" video about 10,000 times on MTV, but I never got into the Beastie Boys (and didn't know anybody else who was into them) until 1989, when I was living in L.A. and Paul's Boutique came out. I bought the cassette single of the "Love American Style EP" first ("Shake Your Rump," "Hey Ladies," and instrumental versions of the same), and then the full album not long afterward.

Cassette - Raising Hell or Licensed to Ill
CD - Big Tyme

I had a 7" for Rock Me Amadeus which...

1st LP: Sugarhill Gang (1980)
1st CS: Raising Hell (1985)
1st CD: either Born To Mack (1988) or The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are (1986?) or It Takes A Nation of Millions (1988)
1st 12": Boyz In Tha Hood b/w Dope Man (1989)
1st Cassingle: Fight The Power (1989)

I'm not sure I've ever owned a hip-hop 7".

oh, LP, right?! i failed to read properly. Still Schoolly D but the album. Still rules.

my first LPs were Raising Hell and Licensed to Ill, then I bought Yo! Bum Rush the Show and remember being astonished

Thinking back, it was all about 1987 for me. I bought Raising Hell, was listening to hip-hop radio, that summer I was really into Ice-T's "Colors" and LL Cool J's "I'm Bad," back of the bus kids played PE (which I loved) and 2 Live Crew (which I loathed).

Fat Boys first album on cassette in 84/85

I had a friend in high school who tried to return the "3 Gets High and Rising" cassette to Sam Goody because it was not all what he was expecting.

For me, I mostly had dubbed cassette copies of stuff. The first I plunked down money on might have been Ice-T's "Power" or Grandmaster Flash's "On The Strength"

I should have an answer to this, considering how many rap tapes I bought 87-89. Dubs of Run Dmc and LL Cool J, traded during recess, came before anything I bought. I almost need to look at a timeline of what came out when to be sure. Maybe He's the Dj I'm the Rapper