How old is Hip Hop?

by **BGizzle** » Oct 3rd, '10, 23:48

kamilniewulis wrote:what's the earliest signs of hip hop? (if that even makes sense)

Grandmaster Flash and Sugar Hill Gang

by **classthe_king** » Oct 3rd, '10, 23:52

On August 11, 1973, Jamaican DJ Kool Herc was a DJ and Emcee at a party in the recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx adjacent to the Cross-Bronx Expressway. It was not the actual "Birthplace of Hip Hop" -- the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s -- it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred. Specifically, DJ Kool Herc:

extended an instrumental beat (breaking or scratching) to let people dance longer (break dancing) and began MC’ing (rapping) during the extended breakdancing. ... [This] helped lay the foundation for a cultural revolution.