When I was growing up in the small town where I grew up I was only into what my parents played me, which was Christian music (long story). Then I had a friend at school who liked jazz when she was about 11 (seriously) and she had tonnes of jazz tapes so we'd listen to them secretly. Then I started getting into electronica from jazz, stuff like Aphex and autechre. Then I got into a lot of the britpop stuff at the time (mid 90s) but then due to a number of reasons I got quite into the church again for about ten years, then for another set of reasons I left under unpleasant circumstances. I don't even like hip hop to be honest.