I grew up in Harlem and now live in Queens and this gave me a new found respect for the hip hop movement in Brooklyn and Queens. Back in those days, I never really heard of anyone except Cypher Sounds, Infiniti Machine and the Disco Twins. I thought Brooklyn and Queens was more into the club music and the Bronx and Harlem was more into those hard to find Break beats and the MCs doing routines. One thing I gotta admit is that the Bronx and Harlem bought out bullshit sound systems and Queens and Brooklyn had systems that we could only dream about or hear when we went to a club. When I think about Richard Long Berthas, I think about the Paradise Garage , Studio 54, etc. I never thought that cats where actually bringing them outside. I had two 18 inch base bottoms and two tops and some horns and my mother was ready to kick me out the house!!! This was one of the best videos on Hip Hop that I've seen. One thing I don't like is that everytime I hear an interview or watch a documentary, you hear the same names all the time. Kool Herc, Flash, Bambaata, etc when I know they were a lot more people who contributed to the movement who don't get credit and this video filled in a lot of blanks.
As a documentary director from Baltimore City, this documentary is literally a GOLD MINE of history and should literally have almost about 500,000 views on here which shows that the marketing of the OLD SCHOOL Hip Hop history isn't being marketed properly or "its intentionally" being suppressed by mainstream media.
Intentionally being suppressed? Do you comprehend how business works ? Mainstream media isn’t obligated to inform the masses about the origins of hip hop music
The mainstream is evil dark and dirty so you can best believe that they're going to suppress all the real talent. They only let a few in at a time and the rest is garbage. I've always been an underground cat.
@@evanscott8951 And Francis Grasso and Nicky Siano and much more cats. There are some errors in this docu. Soul Makossa was David. Nicky then copied David and pushed love is the message. Hell this whole docu is a disco docu and so much cats are missing. Francis Grasso invented extending the break with needle dropping.
Not sure what your skin colour has to do with anything. I'm a white man if it means anything, and have been DJ-ing 46 years 🙂 I was a BBoy in 82 (in the UK).
Did you go see Grandmaster Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones, and Kool DJ Dee and what DJ skills were they using the breakbeats, the get down part.
I so appreciate this documentary! Busta erroneously said that Hip Hop started from Jamaicans & Lations. Smh It's too many reciepts in this one! Love it!
Was crazy about these facts is that it's narrated by Chuck D. Chuck D. is the one who came up with Busta Rhymes in name when he first started in the music business. He also was the same one that came up with the Leaders Of The New School concept too.
Reggae Rasta style was Jamaican Culture just look at old videos. This Urban Hip Funky Style is Blk American the Musics Black American and so is the Fashion and dances. The real question is how could you immigrate to America ( after the Civil Rights Movement) during the Funk & Disco era and create a music that already existed and cultural art form that never existed in your homeland?
Here in the U.k back in the day Grandmaster Flash was getting all the recognition when Hip Hop first started, this documentary was a real eye opener! Enjoyed every minute on the History! ✌️
It's just absolutely crazy that all of these different black American deejays have gotten written out of the history of Hip Hop, their own ethnic culture, just to give all of the credit to 3 Caribbean immigrants that learned everything they knew from them.
Non of these Americans deejays mentioned created the hip hop genre they were from the disco or funk Era the word hip hop was created and coined after DJCoolHerc introduce the distinguished rules of toasting on the flip side of record by breaking the beat and scratching. It can't be twisted in any way or form. This documentary is over reaching by assumption narrative.
@@franklynbramwell2593 Everything you just typed is a lie. American deejays have titled themselves pioneers of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is literally a spinoff and continuation of Funk and Disco. The name of Hip Hop came from Lovebug Starski if I'm not mistaken. If it wasn't him then it was Eddie Cheeba, they are both American. Both word "hip" and "hop", as well as "rap" are all Foundational Black American slang terms that go back to the Jazz era of the early 1900s. Herc wasn't an advanced DJ and he did not scratch, nor was he the first to extend breakbeats. Herc also was not a toaster and Jamaicans got toasting from Foundational Black Americans in the first place. You Caribbean culture vultures are the ones twisting facts and stealing Foundational Black American culture because you have none of your own to be proud of. I really hate you Caribbean culture vultures. Y'all are worse than whites.
Hiphop was started by immigrants in the bronx and considered ghetto, look up the definition of that word oh and in the bronx, which is and was considered the most ghetto borough... it's not like it matters ya stole it and turned it into gangsta rap and look at the mess today yall also made all the real money and got all the real fame & pu$$y that comes with it, but it's not enough? Now ya gotta lie and steal credit for its orgins as well? Smh
@@noewey8821 Lies on lies, culture vulture. Every element of Hip Hop was goin on in Foundational Black American culture before you tree climbers even came here. ua-cam.com/play/PL77OcsA0H7EgEx7fm5771RzAo5KYYKivf.html
@@noewey8821 the orgins & elements come from the black american community with elements used from funk/soul/jazz/disco all mixed in. No need to lie ab the orgins of the whole style of HipHop
I’m at least 5-10 years younger than these guys and have had a chance to be around some of the people mentioned in my years growing up in Queens NY. I’ve been to their homes when I was older and heard the stories of the so-called inventors of hip hop coming to our little part of NYC to hang out and go to 127 park jams and I would think to myself Queens? I thought to myself interesting but didn’t ask a lot of questions because I was focused on something else at the time. I don’t doubt any of what’s said in this documentary, because the story is consistent with what I was told decades ago. Since then I’ve chose to believe that a lot more people contributed to this thing called hip-hop and the Bronx but the Bronx is just a little bit more special. I’ve lived in East Elmhurst but I never saw breakdancing until my mother took me to the South Bronx in the 70’s when I was in the 4th or fifth grade. Graffiti was an important part of it too back then. Out of that rose Basquiat. Much respect Kool Herc, grandmaster flash, and the rest of them but they’re not any more special than these legends. Good job, Hasaan, Lawrence and Wiz. This is an excellent documentary.
Hip Hop as we know it today was created in the Bronx. The combination of 2 Turntables and a Mic, Break Beats, Scratching, Breaking, Emceeing, Graffiti and of course the Fashion. Nowhere else combined all of these components. Hip Hop is a NYC Urban cultural creation.
MR. Ron Lawrence, That man is a Super Duper Hip Hop Historian. Thank you to you and the team involved for pulling the layers back on FACTS!!!! Appreciate this Doc
I started with Clubman mixer and 2 Sony turntables given to me from DJ BOHANNON IN 1983. I started out carrying records for him for his shows, learned how to mix and scratch from watching him, DJ Birdy Bird and DJ Kid Nice. Kept me out of trouble lol DJ'ing saved my life no doubt.
As a DJ Hip Hop was created by the DJ just to be forgotten today! I remember when it was about the DJ and then the rapper. Eric B and Rakim, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince! You went to the club to hear and dance to the music by the DJ!!!
Ty, back in 80-81. Kids wanted to be dope b-boys or bombers, shoot even beat-boxing. Noone really was taking emceeing serious until BDP, Chuck D, Kool G Rap, Rakim really enhanced the dynamics.
The First DJ was Grandmaster Flowers, Pete DJ Jones, Nu Sounds. Master D aka DJ Lance, Infinity Machine, DJ Hollywood and Chuck D K.C. The Prince of Soul was the 1st Mc rapper out there in New York East Coast USA. Brooklyn Started the Hip-Hop Culture way before the Bronx out there in New York East Coast USA.
But to be fair, these guys are disco DJs, not hip hop DJs, these guys have been written out of the history of Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, Larry Levan, not Kool Herc and Grandmaster flash
@@markdaniels4178 yes, but these guys were playing funk and disco at parties, and no doubt doing a great job, but they weren't isolating breaks, cutting between two copies of the same record, that's the essential part that distinguishes a DJ from a hip hop DJ
Salute to the pioneers from nyc as a whole We all contribute to the culture before it had a name.. I hit the scene with my guys in 1976....luv the era running through the streets playing music up through 8yrs later created the Choice mcs
you grew up on listening these dudes play Funk and Disco music at parties there is a difference between all three genre there was never a word called hip hop until coolDJherc came on the seen in the early 70's from Jamaica.. Tell me where in the USA did you hear hip hop music playing before coolDJherc appeared.. The genre was created by a system called toasting from the reggae genre not funk or disco genre..
@@franklynbramwell2593 that's NOT TRUE, First of all Toasting came from Jamaicans copying American disc Jockeys. They didn't CREATE ANYTHING. Jamaica entire music identity is based of copying Black Americans Soul and R&B. Reggae was born out of Jamaicans doing awful covers of Diana Ross and the Drifters and other Black American artists. Bob Marley was DIRECTLY influenced by Sam Cook. Cool Herc "invented" the break beat, and hosted some of the early Hip Hop parties with the Black Spades who played JAMES BROWN and APACHE records. ALL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE INFLUENCE.
@@franklynbramwell2593 OF COURSE you heard Hip Hop records before Herc, HE PLAYED JAMES BROWN! A Black American artists, THAT WAS HIP HOP. Playing Break Beats doesn't CREATE HIP HOP, they already had instrumentals. Also there's multiple elements of the Culture, Scott Laroc was the first OFFICIAL HIP HOP Rapper. He's BLACK AMERICAN. Herc didn't rap. Rap been in America since the early 1900's. A Black American named cornbread started modern graffiti back in the 60's. Everything comes from BLACK AMERICANS.
@@franklynbramwell2593 talking about were in the US did you hear Hip Hop music when Hip Hop is based 100% from American music genres Jazz, Soul, Funk record's. Them Caribbean records would CLEAR THE FLOOR.
@@franklynbramwell2593 WRONG ! You want to rewrite history but we won't let you ! Herc didn't start NOTHING ! He simply added his twist to what was already going on on in that burgeoning culture. At that time break dancing was in in it's infancy and Herc decided to cater to them. He played more of the segments of the music the break dancers liked so they continued to come to his parties. But Herc was a Jamaican hick he knew nothing about black american culture or nothing about hip hop. He learn it from studying the people who laughed at his ass and mocked him for looking like a fool when he first came to this country in their eyes.
The thing that seperated the South Bronx from the rest, is the grimy street kids from the Black Spades, becoming B Boys at Hercs party's. The breakdancing and the Breakbeats is the last element formed to create Hip Hop. But the idea that Herc created Hip Hop culture or that it was based on Jamaican culture is an ABSOLUTE LIE! Some Jamaican DJ's contributed to the Speaker Sound System culture, but they didn't CREATE OUR CULTURE 😂
@@AdamRangiaho yeah the reason your own people didn’t create it stop with that bullshit hip hop is culture not just a sound and songs those groups you mentioned were just sounds used on a few songs keep your feeble mind off our shit go do something that benefits your own ppl
The reason Hip Hop got the name and the Bronx was credited with it, they were the first to be interviewed by the mainstream media, through Fab 5 Freddy who, ironically, is from Brooklyn! That's how graffiti became part of the culture, which it was not! The Bronx is so fucking thirsty to be labeled the creators of "Hip Hop", they are willing to say it came from the Carribean and Puerto Ricans! This is what the world thinks!!!!
21:08 - 21:15 👈 THIS sums this whole video up. Brooklyn and Queens had the earliest “DJs” but they weren’t Hip-Hop. They catered to the “club” crowds, disco/club music and didn’t cater to street-vermin (aka: b-boys and b-girls) at their gigs. THIS is why Hip-Hop is considered a Bronx originated thing. It is what it is…
Most missing the point, the claim on Hiphop is that they are stating it is a certain type of records, scratching, break dancing, etc ....this Documentary, I might of watched it like 50 times given i lived this in the mid 70s growing up in Brooklyn is wonderful , but the claim here that most of these DJs looked down on what Herc coined, roughly speaking is correct, i would love to see another part with Queens & Bk Djs who claimed they were playing the breaks, I recall in 1974, 75, 76 block party in my small space in the 90s street, it was about Disco songs being played, not B-boys beats until later......but for sure I recall MCs on the mic calling out crews at block parties in BK, but not rapping like how we know....I say all this to say clearly these DJs laid down the roadmap, but like a lot of ppl pointed out, even in this video, they werent down with that B boys stuff, hence the beef, one set were Disco/R&B DJs....then you have B-Boy DJs who were playing the breaks, Dance to the Drummers beat, Apache, etc.....but these guys here should get their flowers for laying the Foundation...but they werent HipHop, or Breaks DJs...that is the point.
The graffiti writers were dropping acid and listing to sabbath The BBoys were dancing to James brown The DJ was spinning disco/funk/reggae The MC was just there to narrate the party The Street Hustlers were the celebrities.
Peace to all the pioneers I'm just saying before hip hop you had disco and funk both had DJ's and to be technical rap itself goes back to cab calloway and Shakespeare The Bronx identified classified categorized personified internalized and forever defined all four elements of hip hop DJing emceeing breakdancing and graffiti and wholeheartedly represented the culture consistently from when the whole world disregarded it and didn't know what to do with it and a lot of people still don't smh peace to all the pioneers!!!! Salute!!!! Thank you!!!!
@@MichaelSmith-qc7nk Hip hop went on to create it's own look though. It became the predominate culture of the world and it stayed around. Disco fell off and that's why all these guys wanna latch onto it now. These guys didn't even like hip hop at first. What they were doing wasn't called hip hop and the denounced it until it took off and then they wanted to attach themselves and claim ownership. That bs and not fair. If you weren't down from the beginning don't try to jump on the bandwagon when its convenient. These dudes are also wrong about their timeline. Hip hop was going on just as long as their culture almost because when the kids came in their spots and started break dancing they threw them out ! So that shows you they didn't like hip hop
@@djhardcorproductions6132 Don't understand why yall complain so much when yall do the same exact thing, ARE U TRYING TO TELL US U NYC BROS CREATED **(THE UNIFORM) iconic fashion statement that lasted +20 years in hip hop until the skinny jeans, men's purses, dresses etc of today's industry artist look took over, and can u 100% prove this? Let's go!
Hip Hop point blank is an evolution of disco and funk who songs was used who's style they used Black Americans not no one from the Caribbean. All these people from the Caribbean should do research instead of just repeating rumors from those who are culture vultures.
Flowers didn't scratch. He didn't mix with two turntables and a crossfader like Flash. Flash innovated the craft like no other before him. If you want to get into history of DJs playing tracks and such, you can even mention the DJ scene in Jamaica. But those DJs werent scratching and mixing like Flash and the DJs after him
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Why is this even a debate?I'm from Georgia but my family used to come up to great uncle in Brownsville NY back in the days.I never heard of any carribeans during hip hop back then.One love and respect to my NYC bros,Bronx,queens,Harlem, Brooklyn,.
With much Respect to all this pioneers. human from million years ago (before David Belle) ran, jumped, climbed, and ... . but it does not mean that David Belle didn't create Parkour. It's about who collect everything, made a foundation, introduce it as a specific thing and developing it. yea, as it's clean in this documentary Brooklyn had pioneers in this things, as maybe all other boroughs had, or even other countries had. but it's about who collected, developed and promoted it as a culture and artform ! it's clear THE BRONX did it.
@@QueenAnitaSoul Not a big difference at all. Rapping, toasting, the dozens, cappin, snappin, call and response, ad-libs, signifying, child's play folk songs, word games are all relative black American oral traditions.
I remember hearing Flowers playing music (mostly disco if I recall) while in 3rd grade class at p.s.307 from out a window across the street in those projects... that's real talk
One thing that most of interviewees fail to mention. Is that Herc was was born in 1958. So that would make him 18 years old in 1973. Even if he went out of his way to copy everyone in Brooklyn/Queens before him. The success he developed at that age while playing mostly in the Bronx no doubt set what he was doing on the path to being a genre. All of the Bronx founders were extremely young when looking at the dates of 1973, 74, 75. Their contributions are phenomenal in that context. Herc -April 1955 Bambaatta - April 1957 Flash - Jan 1958 Theodore - March 1963
This is a great video, IF you wanna know who was D.J.ing in NYC back in the 70's! I wanna know who was the first to REALLY emcee lyrics!!! Most of these guys are referring to 1977 & up! Is there anyone who was spitting rhymes over a break beat, like "Coke La Rock", BEFORE Coke La Rock did it???!!!
This is a great documentary but lets be real its about the musical culture that Hip-Hop was partly born outta, this is pre-Hip-Hop history, the process that help lead to its culmination, but there were other elements involved that formed our culture, this is more like the fathers of the "founders"..and I cant confirm how accurate this is but I always heard that Hollywood hated Hip-Hop in the begining, he was a disco DJ
I'll say this. I liked much of the info about the djs, the equipment, timeframe, promoters, places and whatever else. I like how they tied up how hip hop had many influences coming from many different places. But I must tell yall that even folks in Washington D.C. say that hip hop originated in their city. We all know the disco vs. b-boy street sound. We all know what hip hop ended up becoming in the 80s and what it is now. Generally speaking, in music, what becomes the long lasting trend in a genre tends to get the prize. That's just the way it is.
Why because Coxon and Duke Reid had sound system going on in Jamaica around 1959 in the downtown area and in the early 60's flipping the version side of records and speaking on the rhythm which is known as toasting and toasting was the foundation of which hip hop music was created introduced by KoolDJHerc in the Bronx after migration to the US.. hip hop is not disco or funk they are different genre. The hip hop genre as its own distinguish feature and not a precursor of other genre. No matter how its twist or turn the woed hip hop as a genre was created after the intervention of DJCoolHerc there was no hip hop genre during the funk and disco Era of Flowers, Mario or who else being fitted into the narrative. We can't change history for personal reasons or distort the truth
@@franklynbramwell2593 You island blacks are blithering idiots of the highest order. You actually think you know Foundational Black American culture better than we do. Early Hip Hop was literally Funk and Disco music. You people don't even know your own history and culture. Why don't you do a little research to find out where your forefathers and mothers got soundsystems and toasting from in the first place. I'll answer that for you. Y'all got it from Foundational Black Americans, the ones from the south to be exact.
Its a fact dub music was the forefather of hip hop and other genres that was influenced by dub. Who cares? At the end of the day, it's about the music.
@@CraigN74 Thats not a fact. The forefathers of hip hop are other Black American artforms such as Soul,Funk and R&B. None of which are influenced by “Dub”. Nothing about Hip Hop is jamaican. These lies have been debunked.
DJ Hollywood was the best, he know how to blend that music. u dance 9 or 10 straight before sitting down! Those was the good old days. D jays these day don't have that gift of knowing how to blend the music one into other smoothly.
1:16:00 regardless of who was 1st, all 4 boroughs worked to help create Hip-Hop. A community of unity and love for music is what Hip-Hop is all about. Happy 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop.
I SAID IT IN A TEXT 6 DAYS AGO AFRICAN,JAMAICAN, PUERTO RICAN,DOMINICAN, MAYBE IF WE STIK 2 GETHER WE ALL C A N !!!!!!!!!!! LOVE HIP-HOP 50!!!! BUT AT 500? THEY'LL SAY A WHITE KID FROM DETROIT STARTED IT!!! THIS IZ WHAT THEY DO 2 TARNISH OUR LEGACY?????????
I wouldn't say that all the boroughs worked together. I think almost every Borough did their own thing and it was able to all be meshed together later on.
I THOUGHT THERE WERE 5 BOROUGHS?? BIG UP TO DOCTOR ROC. & THE FORCE M.C.'S FROM STATEN ISLAND!!!!!!! HE HAD A WOODEN TURN-TABLE & IT WORKED 2 & UV KORSE WU-TANG!!!!! SHAME ON YAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Yes it began there but it was created off of the music of old funky music and disco it is an evolution of Black Americans music in America we are the culture.
What I got from this was the early DJS played disco break and funk, What was the early rap songs that was they playing? no mention of Coke la rock who is considered first MC, or King Tim 3, Kurtis blow? no mention of Kool Herc? Would of been nice to go in-depth on the graffiti and b-boy scene.
CHUCK I GIVE IT 2 ALL THESE DUDE'S & THIER STORIES BUT THEY WEREN'T PLAYING DENNIS COFFEY, & CERRONE,KING ERRISON, BOB JAMES THEY WERE PLAYIN' ECSTASY,PASSION,PAIN! & DEADOTO? WE PLAYED BREAK-BEATS UPTOWN!!
I remember the park jams in queens P.S. 176 in Cambria Heights with DJ Jazzy Jay. Great time to grow up. what gets me about this documentary is who had a 40lb video camera back then lol
Of course everything that exists was inspired by somthing before it, these legendary cats where what i would call mastermixers, playing full records, extending and bringing back different parts of great records. Beautiful relevant historical NYC black culture. But it was not Hip hop until the DJ was only jumping on the breaks of all kinds of records, not just park jam party rocksrs. Hip hop could take a few seconds of a song nobody would ever listen to and bring it back again snd again for minutes snd minutes shaking the walls and rocking the dance floor.
EVERYTIME I SEE IT I GET SOMETHING NEW. SALUTE TO EVERYONE AND BIGI UPS TO MY BRO RALPHY CASANOVA FROM BUSHWICK WHO PUT ME ON TO ALOT THAT WAS SAID ON THIS VIDEO. GREAT JOB EVERYONE INVOLD WITHOUT YOU ALL WE WOULDNT HAVE THIS WONDERFUL CULTURE CALLED H🎙P⭐️H💽P NYC⭐️ GAVE THE W🌎LD SOMETHING TO BELONG TO TO BE PART OF. PEACE LUV N STRENGHT 🟧👊🟦⭐️22 🙏✨️BLESSINGS BIGI UPS TO DJ HOLLYWOOD .....OFCOURSE
All of them are from the generation before us the Disco error. We as their little brothers took it to the next level and made a business out of it they have their legacy they are free to tell their story and they are free to make records movies whatever they want to do. Hip-hop is a culture now in a business. They are free to have remixes of your disco albums or whatever they do I still respect them and I give thanks to them all. Everyone knows we started out on our big brothers and aunties and our grandmothers equipment but look what we've organized and done with it There ain't nothing else in the world like hip hop
Salute and Respect. But no one is not going to tell me that this started in Brooklyn.... SMH. The BX is where it Started Hands down. Word got out and many wanted to immolate what Kool Hurc was doing.
Exactly. There talking about who was the first fj. That's not beginning of his job because you were the first dj. It's who started scratching. Sampling and rap on top of a beat and that was Kool herc.
I grew up in Harlem and now live in Queens and this gave me a new found respect for the hip hop movement in Brooklyn and Queens. Back in those days, I never really heard of anyone except Cypher Sounds, Infiniti Machine and the Disco Twins. I thought Brooklyn and Queens was more into the club music and the Bronx and Harlem was more into those hard to find Break beats and the MCs doing routines. One thing I gotta admit is that the Bronx and Harlem bought out bullshit sound systems and Queens and Brooklyn had systems that we could only dream about or hear when we went to a club. When I think about Richard Long Berthas, I think about the Paradise Garage , Studio 54, etc. I never thought that cats where actually bringing them outside. I had two 18 inch base bottoms and two tops and some horns and my mother was ready to kick me out the house!!! This was one of the best videos on Hip Hop that I've seen. One thing I don't like is that everytime I hear an interview or watch a documentary, you hear the same names all the time. Kool Herc, Flash, Bambaata, etc when I know they were a lot more people who contributed to the movement who don't get credit and this video filled in a lot of blanks.
As a documentary director from Baltimore City, this documentary is literally a GOLD MINE of history and should literally have almost about 500,000 views on here which shows that the marketing of the OLD SCHOOL Hip Hop history isn't being marketed properly or "its intentionally" being suppressed by mainstream media.
Intentionally being suppressed? Do you comprehend how business works ? Mainstream media isn’t obligated to inform the masses about the origins of hip hop music
It is incomplete without the mention of David Mancuso.
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The mainstream is evil dark and dirty so you can best believe that they're going to suppress all the real talent. They only let a few in at a time and the rest is garbage. I've always been an underground cat.
@@evanscott8951 And Francis Grasso and Nicky Siano and much more cats. There are some errors in this docu. Soul Makossa was David. Nicky then copied David and pushed love is the message. Hell this whole docu is a disco docu and so much cats are missing. Francis Grasso invented extending the break with needle dropping.
As a Black man that's been Dj'ing for over 37 yrs. I remember these days. I love this walk back down memory lane.
So djbxandsbr451 what do you say.
Not sure what your skin colour has to do with anything.
I'm a white man if it means anything, and have been DJ-ing 46 years 🙂 I was a BBoy in 82 (in the UK).
Did you see these DJs Grandmaster Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones, Kool DJ Dee.
@@sls554 Hi buddy,
No they were all in the US and had never travelled to perform in the UK yet.
I have lived in the UK all of my life.
Did you go see Grandmaster Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones, and Kool DJ Dee and what DJ skills were they using the breakbeats, the get down part.
Respect. True. "Love is the Message" - RIP 'Flowers' Thank you for the everlasting Hip Hop evolution.
Did I just run into a historical gold mine here? I think I just did. Big ups to whoever put this documentary together. 🤘🏾
Propaganda .
My Boy Ron Lawrence, I grew up with most of the people in this Video. 127
As a 58-year-old who grew up in Queens, this documentary was all facts. It reminded me of things I forgot.
So, the Caribbeans introduced the sound system that is used in HipHop to African Americans? What was that guy DJ Charles from Jamaica?
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True facts
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Man I love this doc!! I have watched it about 1000 times!!!!! So much history!!! RIP to Grandmaster Flowers!!!!!!!
We gotta respect our music from these jealous Jamaicans
Word!! And DJ Lance.
I so appreciate this documentary! Busta erroneously said that Hip Hop started from Jamaicans & Lations. Smh It's too many reciepts in this one! Love it!
Wait till Tariq Nasheed's comes out.
Right…..way too many receipts, denying this is just a flat out lie
Was crazy about these facts is that it's narrated by Chuck D. Chuck D. is the one who came up with Busta Rhymes in name when he first started in the music business. He also was the same one that came up with the Leaders Of The New School concept too.
Reggae Rasta style was Jamaican Culture just look at old videos. This Urban Hip Funky Style is Blk American the Musics Black American and so is the Fashion and dances. The real question is how could you immigrate to America ( after the Civil Rights Movement) during the Funk & Disco era and create a music that already existed and cultural art form that never existed in your homeland?
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Here in the U.k back in the day Grandmaster Flash was getting all the recognition when Hip Hop first started, this documentary was a real eye opener!
Enjoyed every minute on the History! ✌️
He was the first to rap about the inner city struggles
Listen Flash is who he is the grandmaster I can tell you more they talking about 1976 Herc 1973 and in the Bronx we had casket for turntable
@truthhurts79 Flash actually didn't rap about anything, it was his MCs, the Furious 5.
@@Mikegee63No 💩 but his djaying was pioneer, and I was talking about Melle mel
It's just absolutely crazy that all of these different black American deejays have gotten written out of the history of Hip Hop, their own ethnic culture, just to give all of the credit to 3 Caribbean immigrants that learned everything they knew from them.
Non of these Americans deejays mentioned created the hip hop genre they were from the disco or funk Era the word hip hop was created and coined after DJCoolHerc introduce the distinguished rules of toasting on the flip side of record by breaking the beat and scratching. It can't be twisted in any way or form. This documentary is over reaching by assumption narrative.
@@franklynbramwell2593 Everything you just typed is a lie. American deejays have titled themselves pioneers of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is literally a spinoff and continuation of Funk and Disco. The name of Hip Hop came from Lovebug Starski if I'm not mistaken. If it wasn't him then it was Eddie Cheeba, they are both American. Both word "hip" and "hop", as well as "rap" are all Foundational Black American slang terms that go back to the Jazz era of the early 1900s. Herc wasn't an advanced DJ and he did not scratch, nor was he the first to extend breakbeats. Herc also was not a toaster and Jamaicans got toasting from Foundational Black Americans in the first place. You Caribbean culture vultures are the ones twisting facts and stealing Foundational Black American culture because you have none of your own to be proud of. I really hate you Caribbean culture vultures. Y'all are worse than whites.
Hiphop was started by immigrants in the bronx and considered ghetto, look up the definition of that word oh and in the bronx, which is and was considered the most ghetto borough... it's not like it matters ya stole it and turned it into gangsta rap and look at the mess today yall also made all the real money and got all the real fame & pu$$y that comes with it, but it's not enough? Now ya gotta lie and steal credit for its orgins as well? Smh
@@noewey8821 Lies on lies, culture vulture. Every element of Hip Hop was goin on in Foundational Black American culture before you tree climbers even came here.
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@@noewey8821 the orgins & elements come from the black american community with elements used from funk/soul/jazz/disco all mixed in. No need to lie ab the orgins of the whole style of HipHop
I’m at least 5-10 years younger than these guys and have had a chance to be around some of the people mentioned in my years growing up in Queens NY. I’ve been to their homes when I was older and heard the stories of the so-called inventors of hip hop coming to our little part of NYC to hang out and go to 127 park jams and I would think to myself Queens? I thought to myself interesting but didn’t ask a lot of questions because I was focused on something else at the time. I don’t doubt any of what’s said in this documentary, because the story is consistent with what I was told decades ago. Since then I’ve chose to believe that a lot more people contributed to this thing called hip-hop and the Bronx but the Bronx is just a little bit more special. I’ve lived in East Elmhurst but I never saw breakdancing until my mother took me to the South Bronx in the 70’s when I was in the 4th or fifth grade. Graffiti was an important part of it too back then. Out of that rose Basquiat. Much respect Kool Herc, grandmaster flash, and the rest of them but they’re not any more special than these legends. Good job, Hasaan, Lawrence and Wiz. This is an excellent documentary.
Hip Hop as we know it today was created in the Bronx. The combination of 2 Turntables and a Mic, Break Beats, Scratching, Breaking, Emceeing, Graffiti and of course the Fashion. Nowhere else combined all of these components. Hip Hop is a NYC Urban cultural creation.
Another Gem! Everyone that loves hip hop. Especially DJ's no matter what genre you play. Please watch these videos/online hip hop history lectures.
MR. Ron Lawrence, That man is a Super Duper Hip Hop Historian. Thank you to you and the team involved for pulling the layers back on FACTS!!!! Appreciate this Doc
Thanks to the poster! I can't get enough of everything Hip Hop! It's in my DNA, my heart, my blood and soul!
Interesting fact about Malcolm X and Louis Armstrong, basically both lived in the same neighborhood Corona/East Elmhurst
I love my FBA culture!
B1
Embrace your black American culture because you are the best of the best; don't allow these hating Jamaicans and some west Indians still your culture
#FBA
If you think everyone on this documentary is so-called fba, then you don't know the demographics of Brooklyn and Queens 😂😂😂
@@blackpalacemusic Who?
Absolutely eye opening and I thought I knew a little something, thank you
I started with Clubman mixer and 2 Sony turntables given to me from DJ BOHANNON IN 1983. I started out carrying records for him for his shows, learned how to mix and scratch from watching him, DJ Birdy Bird and DJ Kid Nice. Kept me out of trouble lol DJ'ing saved my life no doubt.
Wow❤, that’s what’s up 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
Reminds me of the old song " Last night a DJ saved my life" lol
As a DJ Hip Hop was created by the DJ just to be forgotten today! I remember when it was about the DJ and then the rapper. Eric B and Rakim, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince! You went to the club to hear and dance to the music by the DJ!!!
Ikr...dj first...then dance...then rhyme
Ty, back in 80-81. Kids wanted to be dope b-boys or bombers, shoot even beat-boxing. Noone really was taking emceeing serious until BDP, Chuck D, Kool G Rap, Rakim really enhanced the dynamics.
Thank you, thank you , thank you for producing this video. As a 73 Y.O
Latina I throughly enjoyed washing every minute of this!!!
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@@onceagain6184you a cornball
God Bless the Creators of this video. It's beautiful. Knowledge and Wisdom and Recognition much needed now more than ever in that Culture of ours.
Thanks for this masterpiece of Hip Hop history!! So good!!!
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A truly amazing documentary about the culture and truth of Hip Hop.
All lies
@@IAMHIPHOP974 what’s the lie
Obviously this documentary is the ground tools for becoming a dj.
@@tycoonstwin Brooklyn and Queens was Disco dj’s
@@IAMHIPHOP974 Disco didn’t even come out until 74
No way Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans created hip-hop.
You can't tell fat Joe that.
They didn’t lol
When they talk about Jamaica they're talkin about Jamaica, New York.
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@@Jay_Kayy No they're not. They're speaking about the actual Jamaica!
The First DJ was Grandmaster Flowers, Pete DJ Jones, Nu Sounds. Master D aka DJ Lance, Infinity Machine, DJ Hollywood and Chuck D
K.C. The Prince of Soul was the 1st Mc rapper out there in New York East Coast USA. Brooklyn Started the Hip-Hop Culture way before the Bronx out there in New York East Coast USA.
Wow, Grandmaster melle mel's brother - Kidd creole used that name "The prince of soul"!
But to be fair, these guys are disco DJs, not hip hop DJs, these guys have been written out of the history of Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, Larry Levan, not Kool Herc and Grandmaster flash
Thank you. It mentions Flowers finding Soul Makossa, that record was first played by David Mancuso.
Well, hip-hop started from disco and funk beats
@@markdaniels4178 yes, but these guys were playing funk and disco at parties, and no doubt doing a great job, but they weren't isolating breaks, cutting between two copies of the same record, that's the essential part that distinguishes a DJ from a hip hop DJ
It all came together 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!
The best Hip Hop Documentary I ever seen.. That is more visual/Realistic 💯 💯 💪🏿
I saw Microphone Check film by Tariq Nasheed. It has a lot of details on hip-hop. I'm glad that I saw that movie.
Where/how? I live in DR and can't find it.
@elirivera3880 It's on Blu rays DVDs.
@@rbgalldayeveryday ok, thank you
@@elirivera3880, no problem
Salute to the pioneers from nyc as a whole We all contribute to the culture before it had a name.. I hit the scene with my guys in 1976....luv the era running through the streets playing music up through 8yrs later created the Choice mcs
Must be a different choice MC's...the group I remember would've been like 7..8..9..or 10 in 1976
@@habtamneftenya1203 I'm 62
@habtamneftenya1203 in 1976 there wasn't no choice mcs we went under solo names Master D von K keithy B...before recording era
I watch this every week. This is what I grew up on in the culture of Hip Hop. The early days of exposure. Park Jams Block Parties
you grew up on listening these dudes play Funk and Disco music at parties there is a difference between all three genre there was never a word called hip hop until coolDJherc came on the seen in the early 70's from Jamaica.. Tell me where in the USA did you hear hip hop music playing before coolDJherc appeared.. The genre was created by a system called toasting from the reggae genre not funk or disco genre..
@@franklynbramwell2593 that's NOT TRUE, First of all Toasting came from Jamaicans copying American disc Jockeys. They didn't CREATE ANYTHING. Jamaica entire music identity is based of copying Black Americans Soul and R&B. Reggae was born out of Jamaicans doing awful covers of Diana Ross and the Drifters and other Black American artists. Bob Marley was DIRECTLY influenced by Sam Cook. Cool Herc "invented" the break beat, and hosted some of the early Hip Hop parties with the Black Spades who played JAMES BROWN and APACHE records. ALL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE INFLUENCE.
@@franklynbramwell2593 OF COURSE you heard Hip Hop records before Herc, HE PLAYED JAMES BROWN! A Black American artists, THAT WAS HIP HOP. Playing Break Beats doesn't CREATE HIP HOP, they already had instrumentals. Also there's multiple elements of the Culture, Scott Laroc was the first OFFICIAL HIP HOP Rapper. He's BLACK AMERICAN. Herc didn't rap. Rap been in America since the early 1900's. A Black American named cornbread started modern graffiti back in the 60's. Everything comes from BLACK AMERICANS.
@@franklynbramwell2593 talking about were in the US did you hear Hip Hop music when Hip Hop is based 100% from American music genres Jazz, Soul, Funk record's. Them Caribbean records would CLEAR THE FLOOR.
@@franklynbramwell2593 WRONG ! You want to rewrite history but we won't let you ! Herc didn't start NOTHING ! He simply added his twist to what was already going on on in that burgeoning culture.
At that time break dancing was in in it's infancy and Herc decided to cater to them. He played more of the segments of the music the break dancers liked so they continued to come to his parties. But Herc was a Jamaican hick he knew nothing about black american culture or nothing about hip hop. He learn it from studying the people who laughed at his ass and mocked him for looking like a fool when he first came to this country in their eyes.
The thing that seperated the South Bronx from the rest, is the grimy street kids from the Black Spades, becoming B Boys at Hercs party's. The breakdancing and the Breakbeats is the last element formed to create Hip Hop. But the idea that Herc created Hip Hop culture or that it was based on Jamaican culture is an ABSOLUTE LIE! Some Jamaican DJ's contributed to the Speaker Sound System culture, but they didn't CREATE OUR CULTURE 😂
@@AdamRangiaho yeah the reason your own people didn’t create it stop with that bullshit hip hop is culture not just a sound and songs those groups you mentioned were just sounds used on a few songs keep your feeble mind off our shit go do something that benefits your own ppl
Speaker sound system culture is from America since the 30’s and 40’s. Jamaicans got it from us. Even their pioneers are on record saying it.
The reason Hip Hop got the name and the Bronx was credited with it, they were the first to be interviewed by the mainstream media, through Fab 5 Freddy who, ironically, is from Brooklyn! That's how graffiti became part of the culture, which it was not! The Bronx is so fucking thirsty to be labeled the creators of "Hip Hop", they are willing to say it came from the Carribean and Puerto Ricans! This is what the world thinks!!!!
Something else, SKA and Reggae comes from Roscoe Gordon, who is from Tennessee and Queens NYC.
@@chopitupradio4286 there were sound systems in Jamaica in the 30s and 40s
21:08 - 21:15 👈 THIS sums this whole video up. Brooklyn and Queens had the earliest “DJs” but they weren’t Hip-Hop. They catered to the “club” crowds, disco/club music and didn’t cater to street-vermin (aka: b-boys and b-girls) at their gigs. THIS is why Hip-Hop is considered a Bronx originated thing. It is what it is…
You should listen the man talking at 4:13. He said they were rapping in Brooklyn before it was a thing.
Incredible documentary !!!!!! Very Very important !!!!!!
Gem! And it hit me at just the right time. Thnx 4 upload all the way from Croatia!
Most missing the point, the claim on Hiphop is that they are stating it is a certain type of records, scratching, break dancing, etc ....this Documentary, I might of watched it like 50 times given i lived this in the mid 70s growing up in Brooklyn is wonderful , but the claim here that most of these DJs looked down on what Herc coined, roughly speaking is correct, i would love to see another part with Queens & Bk Djs who claimed they were playing the breaks, I recall in 1974, 75, 76 block party in my small space in the 90s street, it was about Disco songs being played, not B-boys beats until later......but for sure I recall MCs on the mic calling out crews at block parties in BK, but not rapping like how we know....I say all this to say clearly these DJs laid down the roadmap, but like a lot of ppl pointed out, even in this video, they werent down with that B boys stuff, hence the beef, one set were Disco/R&B DJs....then you have B-Boy DJs who were playing the breaks, Dance to the Drummers beat, Apache, etc.....but these guys here should get their flowers for laying the Foundation...but they werent HipHop, or Breaks DJs...that is the point.
The graffiti writers were dropping acid and listing to sabbath
The BBoys were dancing to James brown
The DJ was spinning disco/funk/reggae
The MC was just there to narrate the party
The Street Hustlers were the celebrities.
Actually during the early days, the DJ was the celebrity, and then it became the crews like the cold crush Brothers, etc.
😂😂😂😂 the truth in this
This is priceless. Thank you.
Peace to all the pioneers I'm just saying before hip hop you had disco and funk both had DJ's and to be technical rap itself goes back to cab calloway and Shakespeare The Bronx identified classified categorized personified internalized and forever defined all four elements of hip hop DJing emceeing breakdancing and graffiti and wholeheartedly represented the culture consistently from when the whole world disregarded it and didn't know what to do with it and a lot of people still don't smh peace to all the pioneers!!!! Salute!!!! Thank you!!!!
Funk and Disco are the parents of HipHop and Blues and Jazz are the grandparents of HipHop
Here are the basic elements of hip hop music
It started in Jamaica
Deal with it
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The part everyone miss is the fashion which hip hop borrowed, but never gave credit, from a previous Black culture music genre.
@@MichaelSmith-qc7nk Hip hop went on to create it's own look though. It became the predominate culture of the world and it stayed around. Disco fell off and that's why all these guys wanna latch onto it now. These guys didn't even like hip hop at first.
What they were doing wasn't called hip hop and the denounced it until it took off and then they wanted to attach themselves and claim ownership. That bs and not fair. If you weren't down from the beginning don't try to jump on the bandwagon when its convenient. These dudes are also wrong about their timeline. Hip hop was going on just as long as their culture almost because when the kids came in their spots and started break dancing they threw them out ! So that shows you they didn't like hip hop
@@djhardcorproductions6132 Don't understand why yall complain so much when yall do the same exact thing, ARE U TRYING TO TELL US U NYC BROS CREATED **(THE UNIFORM) iconic fashion statement that lasted +20 years in hip hop until the skinny jeans, men's purses, dresses etc of today's industry artist look took over, and can u 100% prove this? Let's go!
📕📓📗📙 The Dark ages of HipHop - 💡💡💡 Much needed Doc! Thank you!
Hip Hop point blank is an evolution of disco and funk who songs was used who's style they used Black Americans not no one from the Caribbean. All these people from the Caribbean should do research instead of just repeating rumors from those who are culture vultures.
It's the sound system that's from the Caribbean.
Sound system culture set the vibe and energy of hip hop music
@@micahaelasamuels4272 we already had sound systems here tho
@@deewarren5682 where do you think those sound system came from my guy?
A lot of those early djs like Kool Herc were from Carribbean familes
@@deewarren5682 if u can read u wouldn't have @ me we added elements of more value that worked contributing to the culture.
Hip Hop to me is after Grandmaster Flash was Scratching the Breaks when Rapping, Break Dance & Graffiti all came Together as One
Yet no one care bout that but the rappers
Flowers didn't scratch. He didn't mix with two turntables and a crossfader like Flash. Flash innovated the craft like no other before him. If you want to get into history of DJs playing tracks and such, you can even mention the DJ scene in Jamaica. But those DJs werent scratching and mixing like Flash and the DJs after him
I grew up on Harlem and I remember hearing about guys like Flowers and Pete DJ Jones, etc and I just saw them as Djs who just played records
Facts
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Tell your Jamaican people stop lieing about the history of hip-hop
Word 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾Chester Stand Up 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
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@@markdaniels4178Did you watch the documentary??
The ones in this doc?@@markdaniels4178
☻all hip hop fans should embrace this documentary! Peace to Chuck D!
Soon as I heard Chuck D I’m sold
This was such a great piece on the History of Hip Hop. Thank you 🙏🏽
Sound more like party not hip hop
Why is this even a debate?I'm from Georgia but my family used to come up to great uncle in Brownsville NY back in the days.I never heard of any carribeans during hip hop back then.One love and respect to my NYC bros,Bronx,queens,Harlem, Brooklyn,.
The TRUTH must be told...
You got that right because these Jamaicans making false claims on black American music
Pete DJ Jones, DJ Flowers, Lance, Mario, Dee and so many others.... you had to be there. I wasn't but I wish I could witness. Thanks for the Upload.
Also check out Michaelwayne Tv on youtube for the Bronx perspective on who were the founding fathers of Hip Hop.
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Amazing info and perspective from a ORIGINAL ZULU KING Bboy. Shoutout to Cholly rock for giving his input on this documentary.
Fantastic video
With much Respect to all this pioneers.
human from million years ago (before David Belle) ran, jumped, climbed, and ... . but it does not mean that David Belle didn't create Parkour.
It's about who collect everything, made a foundation, introduce it as a specific thing and developing it. yea, as it's clean in this documentary Brooklyn had pioneers in this things, as maybe all other boroughs had, or even other countries had. but it's about who collected, developed and promoted it as a culture and artform ! it's clear THE BRONX did it.
Good documentary ❤ i got so much love in NYC😎🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 this is some good solid black history❤
Pigmeat Markham and some artists from the 50's, 60's were the first rappers.
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Rappers not MCs big difference
@@QueenAnitaSoul Not a big difference at all. Rapping, toasting, the dozens, cappin, snappin, call and response, ad-libs, signifying, child's play folk songs, word games are all relative black American oral traditions.
@@americasmakerthat’s a fact. They said Muhammad Ali used to rhyme when he talked all the time.
Sheet I’m glad to be here for this 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
I believe the way the story of its origins should be told from a generational point of view as opposed to "the creator" narrative. It was a evolution.
Thank you! 🖤🖤
I agree. Once you call it a Whopper, it's no longer a hamburger, the same with Hip-Hop music. You'd think it was made in a vacuum.
Yup. It wasn't created.
So Dope!! Thank you for posting. Deep roots, strong branches.
I remember hearing Flowers playing music (mostly disco if I recall) while in 3rd grade class at p.s.307 from out a window across the street in those projects... that's real talk
What year was that?
@@gaffle-411 75
This is awesome I’m glad I stumbled on this video. Then seeing Frankie D whom I grew up with in Bed-Stuy Marcy Projects 🙌🏽
Is there a soundtrack for this Masterpiece documentary?
One thing that most of interviewees fail to mention. Is that Herc was was born in 1958. So that would make him 18 years old in 1973. Even if he went out of his way to copy everyone in Brooklyn/Queens before him. The success he developed at that age while playing mostly in the Bronx no doubt set what he was doing on the path to being a genre.
All of the Bronx founders were extremely young when looking at the dates of 1973, 74, 75. Their contributions are phenomenal in that context.
Herc -April 1955
Bambaatta - April 1957
Flash - Jan 1958
Theodore - March 1963
Nice. Great Research for the history of The HIP HOP Culture.
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Founding Fathers The Untold Story of Disco
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Flowers played at the New World down the street from where I lived on Prospect Place near Flatbush Ave... I was a kid but I grew up on this music...
Man..these guys never get mentioned in the history books
That's because they had some personal problems with the magazines at the time.
This is a great video, IF you wanna know who was D.J.ing in NYC back in the 70's! I wanna know who was the first to REALLY emcee lyrics!!!
Most of these guys are referring to 1977 & up! Is there anyone who was spitting rhymes over a break beat, like "Coke La Rock", BEFORE Coke La Rock did it???!!!
I Love This Documentary it should have well overs millions of view...
This is a great documentary but lets be real its about the musical culture that Hip-Hop was partly born outta, this is pre-Hip-Hop history, the process that help lead to its culmination, but there were other elements involved that formed our culture, this is more like the fathers of the "founders"..and I cant confirm how accurate this is but I always heard that Hollywood hated Hip-Hop in the begining, he was a disco DJ
Not so the Media was calling all African Americans Music disco.
The true Fathers of Hip Hop which are African Americans played Funk music also not just Disco let's get it right.
DJ HOLLYWOOD before coke la rock emcee for herc. Herc did not have the first emcee.
Hollywood didn’t hate hip hop the kids was too young to get into his parties
Grand risings Diggers Of Flyness. I love sharing this work of art. Thank you kindly for your investigative excellence.
I'll say this. I liked much of the info about the djs, the equipment, timeframe, promoters, places and whatever else. I like how they tied up how hip hop had many influences coming from many different places. But I must tell yall that even folks in Washington D.C. say that hip hop originated in their city. We all know the disco vs. b-boy street sound. We all know what hip hop ended up becoming in the 80s and what it is now. Generally speaking, in music, what becomes the long lasting trend in a genre tends to get the prize. That's just the way it is.
Eventually you made a very interesting point obviously this documentary is bout laying the ground work tools for becoming a dj.
@@donaldmccall3968, indeed.
Why because Coxon and Duke Reid had sound system going on in Jamaica around 1959 in the downtown area and in the early 60's flipping the version side of records and speaking on the rhythm which is known as toasting and toasting was the foundation of which hip hop music was created introduced by KoolDJHerc in the Bronx after migration to the US.. hip hop is not disco or funk they are different genre. The hip hop genre as its own distinguish feature and not a precursor of other genre. No matter how its twist or turn the woed hip hop as a genre was created after the intervention of DJCoolHerc there was no hip hop genre during the funk and disco Era of Flowers, Mario or who else being fitted into the narrative. We can't change history for personal reasons or distort the truth
@@franklynbramwell2593 You island blacks are blithering idiots of the highest order. You actually think you know Foundational Black American culture better than we do. Early Hip Hop was literally Funk and Disco music. You people don't even know your own history and culture. Why don't you do a little research to find out where your forefathers and mothers got soundsystems and toasting from in the first place. I'll answer that for you. Y'all got it from Foundational Black Americans, the ones from the south to be exact.
@@franklynbramwell2593 Well said
Love this shit great video great characters! Much love and respect!
Very enlightening ..Proud to be a Black Man
Was searching for this documentary
Now they talking about Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, and even Italians created hip hop. Trying to rewrite history.
It started with the people who invented electricity, microphones, speakers etc. They were appropriating, hip hop comes from theft
You know they didn't it's all FBA history that everyone else wanted to jump on the bandwagon it's black American music know one else
they were trying to give Asians credit also
Its a fact dub music was the forefather of hip hop and other genres that was influenced by dub. Who cares? At the end of the day, it's about the music.
@@CraigN74 Thats not a fact. The forefathers of hip hop are other Black American artforms such as Soul,Funk and R&B. None of which are influenced by “Dub”. Nothing about Hip Hop is jamaican. These lies have been debunked.
Dub had a massive influence on the creation of hip hop and remixing. Especially the concept of using a mixing board as a musical instrument itself.
@@CraigN74 No it didn’t.
DJ Hollywood was the best, he know how to blend that music. u dance 9 or 10 straight before sitting down! Those was the good old days. D jays these day don't have that gift of knowing how to blend the music one into other smoothly.
This documentary is a goldmine if your a acid hip hop dude
1:16:00 regardless of who was 1st, all 4 boroughs worked to help create Hip-Hop. A community of unity and love for music is what Hip-Hop is all about. Happy 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop.
Naw….fuck the backpacker revisionism.
I SAID IT IN A TEXT 6 DAYS AGO AFRICAN,JAMAICAN, PUERTO RICAN,DOMINICAN, MAYBE IF WE STIK 2 GETHER WE ALL C A N !!!!!!!!!!! LOVE HIP-HOP 50!!!! BUT AT 500? THEY'LL SAY A WHITE KID FROM DETROIT STARTED IT!!! THIS IZ WHAT THEY DO 2 TARNISH OUR LEGACY?????????
I wouldn't say that all the boroughs worked together. I think almost every Borough did their own thing and it was able to all be meshed together later on.
I THOUGHT THERE WERE 5 BOROUGHS?? BIG UP TO DOCTOR ROC. & THE FORCE M.C.'S FROM STATEN ISLAND!!!!!!! HE HAD A WOODEN TURN-TABLE & IT WORKED 2 & UV KORSE WU-TANG!!!!! SHAME ON YAAAAA!!!!!!!!
I'm now years old hearing about this documentary
Did any interviewers visit Bronxdale projects to get hip hop origins? That's where the music, the lifestyle and the culture of hip hop began.
Yes it began there but it was created off of the music of old funky music and disco it is an evolution of Black Americans music in America we are the culture.
Hip-hop didn't start in the bronx
What I got from this was the early DJS played disco break and funk, What was the early rap songs that was they playing? no mention of Coke la rock who is considered first MC, or King Tim 3, Kurtis blow? no mention of Kool Herc? Would of been nice to go in-depth on the graffiti and b-boy scene.
A good documentary.
Great Documentary
I’m gonna need that Blue Hop Hop History shirt asap
CHUCK I GIVE IT 2 ALL THESE DUDE'S & THIER STORIES BUT THEY WEREN'T PLAYING DENNIS COFFEY, & CERRONE,KING ERRISON, BOB JAMES THEY WERE PLAYIN' ECSTASY,PASSION,PAIN! & DEADOTO? WE PLAYED BREAK-BEATS UPTOWN!!
I remember the park jams in queens P.S. 176 in Cambria Heights with DJ Jazzy Jay. Great time to grow up. what gets me about this documentary is who had a 40lb video camera back then lol
Good point. So much footage was missed because of that!
217th st. 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
I used to think hip hop in the 80’s in New York was the golden age but obviously it was the 70’s
I would consider that golden age of hip hop, the era in the 70s when there were no rap records, and it was in the parks and community centers.
@@Mikegee63 I would say anywhere from 83 to 92 was the golden era...before that was the ol' school & after was the new school
I always liked this doc. It used to be on Netflix
respect, the true history.
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History of disco dj’s
This need more views!!!!!
Of course everything that exists was inspired by somthing before it, these legendary cats where what i would call mastermixers, playing full records, extending and bringing back different parts of great records. Beautiful relevant historical NYC black culture. But it was not Hip hop until the DJ was only jumping on the breaks of all kinds of records, not just park jam party rocksrs. Hip hop could take a few seconds of a song nobody would ever listen to and bring it back again snd again for minutes snd minutes shaking the walls and rocking the dance floor.
Remember rapping Duke Da ha Da ha they never thought that hip hop would take it this far!!🎉🎉🎉
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Does somebody know the "I Feel Love"-ish Song starting at 09:24?
Thank your for any help!
This documentary
All of them are from the generation before us the Disco error. We as their little brothers took it to the next level and made a business out of it they have their legacy they are free to tell their story and they are free to make records movies whatever they want to do. Hip-hop is a culture now in a business. They are free to have remixes of your disco albums or whatever they do I still respect them and I give thanks to them all. Everyone knows we started out on our big brothers and aunties and our grandmothers equipment but look what we've organized and done with it
There ain't nothing else in the world like hip hop
Salute and Respect. But no one is not going to tell me that this started in Brooklyn.... SMH. The BX is where it Started Hands down. Word got out and many wanted to immolate what Kool Hurc was doing.
Exactly. There talking about who was the first fj. That's not beginning of his job because you were the first dj. It's who started scratching. Sampling and rap on top of a beat and that was Kool herc.
Rip Bernard Bovian, November 21, 2022, aka Dj Naughty Nard. Southside Jamaica Queens, 40p, rip my friend 💕!
We got our own thing is Disco music
this doc crazy. Amazing work