>this post is about the first time you heard a song that
>changed your life or hit you in that special place.
>
>Like the first time I heard Egyptian Lover.
>
>I fucking bugged out and stood next to the DJ for 30 minutes
>at the pool asking him to play it again. Dude was annoyed af
>but I didn’t care. That shit was like a drug and I needed
>another hit.
>

I have so many of these but this is one of the first ones that came to mind for me.

I heard the album for the first time the Friday before it dropped on 9/11. Yep, that 9/11.

Me and two of my homeboys did a listening session for it. We loved it and I remember us all being blown away and impressed that JayZ had finally made a self-aware rapper album. So much of the stuff before was him recounting hustler stuff and basically acting like he wasn't comfy with where he was at. Blueprint was the exhale.

And the title track at the end just brought it all home for us. Even something simple like the beat dropping out for the 'kitchen table, that's where I honed my skills' part worked like a charm on us. And the end with him shouting out the Roc dudes with personal messages made it even more clear that dude was onto something. I loved the weird Al Green sample too so there's that.