Peter Gunz/Lord Tariq (DEJA VU) UPTOWN BABY! { Hip- Hop Started In The South Bronx }
Yaiqab is hyped because we love the original genre of "hip-hop" lyrical genius in raw form !
Before it went ratchet !!!!!
Attached is the founder/originator of hip hop DJ "KOOL HERC"
History Of The Genre:
Hip-hop's foundations were being laid in the 1970s, brick by brick, by DJs in the South Bronx, sometimes even in burnt out or deteriorating buildings. These pioneers invented sampling (isolating one sound and reusing it in another song) and hip-hop's other key elements through trial and error, mostly by fooling around with records at home.
DJ Kool Herc, a.k.a. Clive Campbell, laid the first building block of hip-hop down in 1973. That was when he reportedly hosted a party in his building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue with a sound system, or sound equipment used to DJ a party. Herc's sound system was a guitar amp and two turntables.
"Kool Herc brought the idea of the Jamaican sound system to America," says Marcus Reeves, journalist and the author of Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power.
Herc also invented the now commonplace DJing technique of breaks, or breakbeats. He would, for example, play James Brown’s “Give It Up or Turnit A Loose” on two turntables, and would spin one of the records back to the break repeatedly. "His innovation was bringing the breakbeat to the sound of this new movement," Reeves says. "He would just kind of drop a needle on the record, and just kind of go back and forth."
DJ Afrika Bambaattaa, who formed the famous non-violent hip-hop crew Universal Zulu Nation in the Bronx, used DJ Kool Herc's breakbeats in his own DJing. "Then you would have innovators of that sound, like Afrika Bambaataa, who would take global sounds like West Indian music, salsa music, great beats from rock records," Reeves says." Bambaattaa may be best known for his 1982 song "Planet Rock," which samples an electronic piano sound from the German group Kraftwerk.
Grand Wizzard Theodore, a.k.a. Theodore Livingston, also incorporated breakbeats into his music in the Bronx. And he added another technique to the hip-hop toolbox: scratching. Grand Wizzard Theodore reportedly invented the technique (when DJs move records back and forth while they are playing) in his bedroom; while talking to his mother one day, he started moving a playing record back and forth. "He thought it would be a great percussive sound to add to the arsenal," Reeves says.
Then, there was Grandmaster Flash, or Joseph Sadler, who may be best known for his song "The Message," which was made with The Fabulous Five. Flash began experimenting with turntables and records at home, and the results were astounding. He invented cutting, which is achieved by playing the same record at two turntables at the same time and cutting back and forth between the two turntables (and records) to repeat a phrase or sound. Another Grandmaster Flash innovation, Reeves says, was "back spinning, pulling the record back, so you could make it repeat."
Not only did these DJing techniques invented in the South Bronx form the basis for the hip-hop we know today, they also brought about the rise of a new kind of aggressive dancing: b-boying, known to most people by its more generic term, break dancing. B-boys' moves are physically demanding: the top rock (steps in a standing position), the downrock (footwork on the floor with the hands supporting the dancer), power moves (athletic moves like head spins), freezes (suspending oneself off the ground with one's arms) and suicides (a controlled movement that looks like loss of control).
Before it went ratchet !!!!!
Attached is the founder/originator of hip hop DJ "KOOL HERC"
History Of The Genre:
Hip-hop's foundations were being laid in the 1970s, brick by brick, by DJs in the South Bronx, sometimes even in burnt out or deteriorating buildings. These pioneers invented sampling (isolating one sound and reusing it in another song) and hip-hop's other key elements through trial and error, mostly by fooling around with records at home.
DJ Kool Herc, a.k.a. Clive Campbell, laid the first building block of hip-hop down in 1973. That was when he reportedly hosted a party in his building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue with a sound system, or sound equipment used to DJ a party. Herc's sound system was a guitar amp and two turntables.
"Kool Herc brought the idea of the Jamaican sound system to America," says Marcus Reeves, journalist and the author of Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power.
Herc also invented the now commonplace DJing technique of breaks, or breakbeats. He would, for example, play James Brown’s “Give It Up or Turnit A Loose” on two turntables, and would spin one of the records back to the break repeatedly. "His innovation was bringing the breakbeat to the sound of this new movement," Reeves says. "He would just kind of drop a needle on the record, and just kind of go back and forth."
DJ Afrika Bambaattaa, who formed the famous non-violent hip-hop crew Universal Zulu Nation in the Bronx, used DJ Kool Herc's breakbeats in his own DJing. "Then you would have innovators of that sound, like Afrika Bambaataa, who would take global sounds like West Indian music, salsa music, great beats from rock records," Reeves says." Bambaattaa may be best known for his 1982 song "Planet Rock," which samples an electronic piano sound from the German group Kraftwerk.
Grand Wizzard Theodore, a.k.a. Theodore Livingston, also incorporated breakbeats into his music in the Bronx. And he added another technique to the hip-hop toolbox: scratching. Grand Wizzard Theodore reportedly invented the technique (when DJs move records back and forth while they are playing) in his bedroom; while talking to his mother one day, he started moving a playing record back and forth. "He thought it would be a great percussive sound to add to the arsenal," Reeves says.
Then, there was Grandmaster Flash, or Joseph Sadler, who may be best known for his song "The Message," which was made with The Fabulous Five. Flash began experimenting with turntables and records at home, and the results were astounding. He invented cutting, which is achieved by playing the same record at two turntables at the same time and cutting back and forth between the two turntables (and records) to repeat a phrase or sound. Another Grandmaster Flash innovation, Reeves says, was "back spinning, pulling the record back, so you could make it repeat."
Not only did these DJing techniques invented in the South Bronx form the basis for the hip-hop we know today, they also brought about the rise of a new kind of aggressive dancing: b-boying, known to most people by its more generic term, break dancing. B-boys' moves are physically demanding: the top rock (steps in a standing position), the downrock (footwork on the floor with the hands supporting the dancer), power moves (athletic moves like head spins), freezes (suspending oneself off the ground with one's arms) and suicides (a controlled movement that looks like loss of control).
