A Tribe Called Quest: my first ever hip hop album was People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. the album was released in '90, but i wasn't blessed with it until i was the ripe old age of 9 years old, in 1995. my uncle's friend gave it to me because he was not a fan & his cousin gave it to him as a birthday gift years back. personally, i think People's should be every child's first hip hop album. it gives you a different side of hip hop that, as luck would have it, i end as an adult completely & totally wrapped in. you are able to see that these cats were working on a mind set that was 180 from the others in the game. forever & ever, People's & Tribe will be classics.
Nasir Jones [aka Nas]: i know everyone has there favorite emcee & their reasons why but nas did something to my life yo. i was 12 yrs old when i first heard Illmatic. i don't know if you understand what it's like to be 12 years old & find yourself emerced in some shit that ill, pun not intended. i was never your typical ass kid. i had to grow up super quick to take over my sibilings. i was working in a 12 yr old body w/a 30 yr old state of mind. nas freed me. i could release w/this dude spitting over some of the sickest premo joints ever. nas was & still remains one of the reasons i write. 
Robert Nesta Marley [aka Bob Marley]: my appreciation for this man is absurd; shit is borderline insane. holla when you get your favorite artist tat'd on your inner bicep. i truly & honestly believe with 100000% of every fiber in my being that if the entire world had some Bob in their life, a lot of this useless violence & hate towards each other would cease. Bob, while getting fucked by the american music scene for a long time. [see: Eric Clapton's weeks in the top due to Bob's "I shot the sheriff"], never let go. His life was difficult, he used that for the positive & we lost an amazing man way too early in life. Legend is some shit you pop in when you're heading home & you know that rush hour is about to be a bitch. Bob soothes you; mind, body & soul. Bob will forever live on, if thru no one else, thru me. 
Wu-Tang Clan: where the fuck do i even start with these dudes?do i break them down individually? nah but while most of them held their own, some failed [see: U-God]. the Wu has been a symbol of what it was to love hip hop, what it was to be hip hop, what it was to try some odd shit out & hope it worked. you didn't need a tag to throw up once the "W" was introduced to us in '93 w/ Enter the Wu (36 Chambers). wu gave me an outlet for the anger i had in me when i was young. i was an angry ass child for a few good reasons & listening to wu-tang gave me the ability to release that negative energy in a positive way. even now, i let the wu release that shit for me....my work out playlist is heavy w/the wu.
i could go on all day but these are the people that i hold in the highest regard when it comes to music & my life. i love & appreicate all hip hop, jazz, soul, r&b, all that shit...minus any fucker who puts a lil,young, or eezy in front or of behind their name.
please feel free to post some of your influences. speak your mind on some of the influences i threw up here.
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enjoy, yo.
-fresh.
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