My story is a lot shorter, but here it goes.
?????-2009: Watching hip hop videos on TV
Eminem, 50 Cent, Kanye West. MTV Brazil played videos of these artists and I watched it a lot. Good old times. Simple. I was too young, so I didn't had a computed or something to archive and know more music, so that was it.
2009-2012: It was mostly a Pop fase, the only hip hop I listened was still 50's, Kanye's and Eminem's music. I bought Relapse album and it was my addiction in 2010, before came out. I liked Recovery at first, so I listened to it a lot. It was only those 3 artists.
April-August, 2013: Stannerism
I became a true Stan on April, when I got tired of pop music and started to search on the internet for everything about Eminem. During April-August I listened to all of his albums like 1000 times. I also searched the internet for Kanye's albums and listened to them a lot. Eminem #1 and Kanye #2, forever. The GOATs.
August, 2013 - ?: Explosion of new music
Nas, 50 Cent discography, Dre, Kendrick, B.I.G., Tyler, the Creator, Yelawolf albums. All of them. I mostly thank TRShady and KTT for opening me for new music, and expanding my knowledge about lyrics, beat, flow, all that rap stuff. I became more hungry for rap music since then.
Some random albums aswell: The Heist, Doris, My Name is My Name, 7 days of Funk, The Cutting Room Floor 3. All of them are good-great albums, in my opinion. And now I'm willing to listen to more rap.
Whew, that's it. I'm still a newbie.