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defjam 12:25 Fri Aug 11
Happy Birthday Hip Hop, Google that yo!

It's the 44th anniversary today of the alleged start of Hip Hop when Kool Herc first mixed two records at a party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.
Google is celebrating with an interactive doodle where you can mix.

Cheezey Bell-End 11:53 Mon Dec 18
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I thought he was Richard Simmons.

East Auckland Hammer 8:58 Sun Dec 17
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Holy shit, defjam is Russell Simmons?

Toe Rag 2:59 Sun Dec 17
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The Ghetto Brothers instigated the Hoe Avenue peace meeting that mostly stopped the gangs from fighting and allowed everyone to get together and get down if you believe the fable.

Bambaata was one of the the Black Spade’s warlords and was at the meeting.

Northern Sold 2:54 Sun Dec 17
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I thought it started with Karate Charlie and the Ghetto Brothers...

"WE'RE GHETTO BROTHER POWER"

11MDE 2:50 Sun Dec 17
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Russell Simmons (Def Jam) is an alleged rapist.

Toe Rag 2:34 Sat Dec 16
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Is it OFFICIAL that Bambaata allegedly likes or liked to touch young gentlemen from where they wee and poo?

collyrob 1:55 Sat Dec 16
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https://twitter.com/ilovemyegotoo/status/941442186545172480

Listen to this 10 minute freestyle from black thought. Even if you don't like hip hop you have to respect the unbelievable talent to do this.

Don Ravioli 9:02 Fri Aug 18
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Watched a good series on Netflix called the " evolution of hip hop" went right back to the cool herc and Africa bambaataa parties and ended at the start of gangsta rap with ice t, nwa and dr dre solo career.
Well worth a watch.

11MDE 11:06 Sun Aug 13
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Jimmy Saville was the first DJ to mix records together.

The Kronic 9:01 Sat Aug 12
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Brand Nubian, Dead Prez and Four Owls are pretty much the only acts I've listened to post 80's. Hip Hop turned to shit just as house was entering its prime.

mashed in maryland 8:56 Sat Aug 12
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Gonna spend all evening listening to Cage.

No Cage... no Eminem. Fact.

monto 8:20 Sat Aug 12
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Listening to KMD and Brand Nubian at the moment.

claypole 8:08 Sat Aug 12
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Dj chris read mixes classic albums with the samples that formed the album. Really good series. Black sheep, a tribe called quest the pharcyde. Can be found on the wax poetics soundclound and chris reads as well.

BRANDED 5:59 Sat Aug 12
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New hip hop lyrics are

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.

Yeah. Some things have changed.

Crassus 5:49 Sat Aug 12
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Gil Scott-Heron
'I can't pay the medical bills but whitey is on the moon' - The Bottle

Nothing changes much does it?

Yes, running a few tracks now whilst flitting about between the football

mashed in maryland 5:35 Sat Aug 12
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Check the WP and LP as well. There's loads more of that sort of stuff from the 60s spread all over YouTube as well. Were never classed as musicians, but poets. Listening to Watts Propets and putting it next to (for example) NWA or Ice T in the 80s/90 it's like the relationship between the Beatles and Oasis. Foundations shit.

Also a lot of the old Blues stuff from people like Muddy Waters, all half-spoken and talking about day to day life being poor and black. The influence is clearly there.

Crassus 5:24 Sat Aug 12
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Mim

Gil Scott-Heron - excellent call mate
Playing The Bottle now

mashed in maryland 5:04 Sat Aug 12
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Go back even further Crass.

Watts Prophets, Last Poets, and of course Gil Scott Heron.

Spoken word revolutionary poetry over bongos in clandestine Harlem/LA jazz clubs = the real old skool.

Crassus 4:52 Sat Aug 12
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Too many pups upon here

Refer to early hip hop and see Gary Byrd's The Crown - huge cross over track that went global

Also, cast a mind to Punk Funk as the genre's root - Afrika Bambataa and the Soul Sonic Force; Planet Rock.

Love a touch of K9, Dog Rap, barking mad to ignore it....

mashed in maryland 3:11 Sat Aug 12
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Very well put

ohgodno 3:07 Sat Aug 12
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mashed in maryland 4:14 Fri Aug 11

They are good.

Bristol is what Brighton thinks it is.

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