One thing I love about this genre of music is that you didn't have to be classically trained, you didn't need to have a million dollar studio. You just needed a sampler, a turn table, and you could basically make platinum albums. Rap is such a flexible genre, you can literally mix it with anything and it sounds good, if done right.

It's not hip hop music, hip hop is the culture. The right thing to say is Rap music which is one of the four elements of the culture

I am so glad I grew up in NY at this time. Just a pure sound and art form!

Black people have been rhyming since the 1940s. It wasn’t called HiP HoP then. It evolve over time.

We watch you in school to celebrate black history month.

Hip-hop is not from Jamaican Culture Hip-hop is from Black American Culture Soul, Funk, Jive Talk period.

I was 13 years old & i lived in 138 st & saint Anns Ave the NYC housing projects in the south Bronx 1979 ❤ So i remember ❤

Thankyou so much for sharing this ! Adding to my notes 🙏🏼

Not only is the video informative and concise for people like me to understand (never grew up with this culture at all), but the comment section here is full of people correcting and sharing more nuanced information that the video may have missed. A godsend, truly.

Hip-hop is black American creation

African Americans we have to pay to get our story how African Americans Invented Hip Hop.

You all nailed a lesson I've been teaching for 8 years, that lesson feels so validated right now!! Glad to see you made 100 more videos like this with the small eloquent closed caption at the bottom to encourage young people to read along! Brilliant and I have 90 students this video tomorrow

A very good snack sized video. As an old school breaker in the UK, these kids from the Bronx and such, changed our lives. B-Boys will always be boys! Respect, peace and love!

✊🏾💥💥💥LOVE DR. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. “SKIP “ !

Thank you so much it's so educationing also i needed information about history of hip-hop culture exactly and will save it play it and study again and again !

This is definitely gettin posted! #RealHipHopStillBreathes! 💯🎤💖

I love how short but informative this is..jeez

Kool Herc never even said he created Hip Hop. It was going on before he even started Djing

Outstanding summary. Thank you

As a Jamaican-American, I can say that I am so proud to have this connection to the birth of Hip Hop 😌✨🇯🇲

Hip hop music was born from the underground funk of the 70s. James Brown was mainstream but breakbeats were what set the underground apart

Rip DMX ✊🏾

An almighty experience I’ll never forget! 🎶🎭🎹🎸😃

this leaves the whole base history out - HipHop came from the BRONX in the early 1970's - Remember DJ's like King Mario Flowers. the roots of HipHop came from the BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITY not foreigners. this was homegrown speech about being "Close to the edge" yeah.

I don’t know why there is a Heavy emphasis on “Kool Herk” being Jamaican-born. Dj Kool Herc assimilated into black American culture and was influenced heavily by African American culture. I saw the videos on KZfaq of him in his early days, you wouldn't even know that he was Jamaican because he looked like just an ordinary brotha. Afro, sideburns, some cool shades, a nice shirt and matching bellbottom pants. He wasn't even talking patois or with a Jamaican accent. Dude was completely assimilated as a black man in America. Kool herc looked up to guys like Disco King Mario, who was the man at the time and was out and popular before Dj Kool herc. I’m not saying any of this to discredit Kool herc but some of you folks from the island just jumped on some crazy bandwagon madness about the Origins of hip-hop being Jamaican because Kool herc is Jamaican. When all reality he definitely contributed but you can’t put cool herc over guys like disco king Mario. He was one of the dudes who started mixing and scratching on turntables. This entire rumor going around that Jamaicans created Hip Hop is absurd. You can’t create something that was already here. All elements of hip hop were born here in America not Jamaica or any Caribbean island for that matter. Hip hop is an African American art form that was shared with folks from Jamaica, Puerto Rico ex…. And they all contributed to it on a major scale, that will and can never be denied. We love our Caribbean family but to say that you guys created hip hop Because Kool Herc is Jamaican and contributed is disingenuous. See I can’t go to Jamaica learn the language and assimilate into Jamaican culture, contribute to the already exciting culture, and then turn around and say that I created the culture. Folks would look at me crazy. Do you know what created hip hop? Jazz, blues, Funk music, soul music, rock music, and even gospel music. All of which are African American art forms of music. Even Kool herc admits this.

WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHRONOLOGICAL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY: Hip hop came directly out of The Black Power/Black Is Beautiful/ Black Arts Movement of the 1960's &1970's. This was the most culturally and politically active era in African American history. The teen contingent of the movement played out as presented on Soul Train produced by Don Cornelius beginning 1970 when the show was nationally broadcast from Chicago from 1970 to the end of 1971. He moved the show to LA, but he took several of his teen dancers with him to ensure the dance quality of the show would remain the same after the move. The TV show became our most powerful Black teen cultural influence for 36 years. Soul Train hit American popular culture like a cultural tsunami. It instantly eclipsed Dick Clark's American Bandstand in international popularity. Chicago is the capitol of African American Blues and Gospel Music. Chicago due to The Great Migration is Mississippi once removed. Chicago developed the best social dancers in Black America. Michael Jackson comes from that dance enclave. Because break dancing had been a part of the Chicago dance lexicon since the 1950's, most likely influenced by the Black dance crews seen on TV variety shows in the 1950's, the Chicago teens on Soul Train showcased break dancing as part of their dance repertoire. For the first time in or cultural history we had a national stage to spotlight Black music stars, show-off old and new Black dances, and to premiere new Black talent. Teens across this nation copied the break dancing seen on Soul Train, including The Black Spades. They sang James Brown's (who was a frequent guest on ST) "Soul Power." They personalized it by singing "Spade Power! They put their influence on break dancing to make it uniquely their own. James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" was the Black teen national anthem. Those who recognize James Brown as the Godfather of hip hop, rarely mention the Black Power aspect of what he was promoting, along with other Black Protest stars like Curtis Mayfield (Movin' On Up), Nina Simone (To Be Young Gifted and Black), and Marvin Gaye (What's Goin' On) among many others, that sparked the impetus for Black teen heightened involvement. The Black Arts Movement elevated rhyming Black Protest poets like H Rap Brown, Amir Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Don L. Lee aka Haki Madhubuti, The Last Poets, and Mari Evans among others, to the forefront as the rapping voices of Black Power that politicized Black American teens. This Black teen cultural revolution was televised. Neither Puerto Ricans nor Jamaicans were singing, dancing, rapping about, nor identifying with our Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement. They still don't. Their great jealousy grew out of the international excitement generated by Black American teens dancing on national TV that did not include them. Because the broadcast came out of Chicago, not NYC, it singularly showcased Black American teens only. Soul Train is the genesis of the NYC PR and Jamaican great cultural jealousy. The emergence of The Black Spades Black Power gang culture gave PRs in the Bronx a local Black cultural expression they could cosplay in their jealous quest to leech the Black American teen international pop culture spotlight. Their desire for the same fame that Black teens had, is the reason NYC PRs in mass set aside their long-standing antipathy towards NYC African Americans in order to surreptitiously enter their ranks to gain acceptance so they could cosplay Black American dance, music and style. Five plus decades later Latinos have delusionally convinced themselves that they actually created what they effetely copied. Anyone who speaks about the development of hip hop and doesn't mention the worldwide influence the Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement or the impact of Soul Train, they don't know what they are talking about. The 10 years following the assassination of MLK, Black America was politically and culturally ablaze. Hip hop grew directly out of the tenor of those times. No immigrant group was powerful enough to influence Black American teen music, dance, nor style during that Black Power period, no matter where they were located. All other teens, white American teens and white college students, American immigrant teens in and outside of NYC, and teens around the world copied the powerful music, dance, and political colloquialisms (like "Right-On" and "Power To The People!") presented by African Americans from various regions across this nation. Contemporary self-aggrandizing cultural history revisionists like Colon and certain descendants of island immigrants have chosen the most active, the most vocal, and the most recorded period in Black American history to try and hijack. All their ever-changing revisionist folklore narratives are continually being debunked by authentic Black Americans, because they have no visual or journalistic documented evidence to support their delusional wishful claims, nor do they present acceptable reasoning that ratifies Puerto Rican/Jamaican bizarre demands to force their way into African American culture that resists their irrational intrusions.

Herc creating Hip Hop is like saying Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America lol..All the elements were here already, none of them till this day are even popular or dominate in Jamaica

People are gonna have to cut this "Herc created HipHop" nonsense out once and for all

I read that Muhammad Ali Spoken Word poetry and trash talk combine gave elements of Hip Hop. He is credited as to have influence the genre Hip Hop. I read it in a local entertainment magazine. I’m not saying it’s a fact.

As a kid who's this is essential to know

This video was 9 months ago. Now a life is being born into this world... a legend... #johnnyx100 👈👈👈💿💿💿👈👈👈

Such a dope genre.

Peace, unity, love, and having fun!

Rap is music, Hip-Hop is a subculture. Rap started in the South, Hip-Hop started in New York. Rap is sometimes called Hip-Hop because it's the music of Hip-Hop. Both are EXCLUSIVELY Foundational Black American creations. 🇺🇸 ✊🏽 🇺🇸 ✊🏽

Happy 50th birthday Hip-Hop!!

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 much respect Jamaicans hold your head up be strong 💪 🙏 be proud 👏

Wish I learned this in school

Herc came over and tried to play Jamaican music but nobody wanted to hear it so he had to play what black Djs were already playing...he didn't create hip hop

That's freeeeeeeeking interesting ❤

Thank you

And for the people saying that people from the Caribbean and etc created it. Riddle me this, why was it not created in those countries until after us? We have a whole catalog of genres we made before hip hop came. I don’t know why it’s hard for y’all to give us our flowers.

Excellent job, Robert. Keep up telling the black history.

Dj Herc didn't start hip hop nor was he the first to isolate musical breaks. See what happens when you get your black history info from Wikipedia?

Happy Birthday Hip Hop

Rhyming was a big part of black culture...there are a few videos surfaced in youtube with songs from the 30s and 40s that contain parts of pure 100% hip hop style rhyming. I once met someone from south Africa that told me that families used to rhyme on poems over dinner or lunch. It seems rhyming comes straight from the heart of the black man - and quite a few whites too.

Should have started with the Bboys since the dance is what really gave the visibility and set everything in motion, and no mention of graffiti art? hmm this should have been called the birth of rap music.

HIP HOP IS MY GENRE TOO. ALL MY LIFE. IM FROM PHILIPPINES.

Foundational black Americans founded hip hop and country/blues/rock

Kool Herc went on Maury Polvich show to take a lie detector test' and the test came back "YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER"

I’m gonna rebirth hiphop…idk how but imma do it before I leave this earth #222

THANK YOU for this!!! I promise you this needs to be taught in schools around the world!! This is a culture like any other black ground breaking history for our community. I am truly proud to be a BLACK descendent of the HIP HIP legacy ;)

I'm hip to this 😅

DJ Kool Herc was not the first, a group called the Black Spades were having hip hop parties in the very early 70s

Nice. I'm just starting to explore hip hop music and I appreciate the history bits. Is there a difference between rap and hip hop?

The earliest origins of hip hop/rap started with Pigmeat Markham back in the '40s. Kool Herc didn't start hip hop.

They left out Mr. Magic on WHBI. Hip Hop was first on the radio, this was 1978 or 79, I was in the 8th grade. There were records recorded before the Sugarhill Gang bit Rappers Delight from Grandmaster Caz. The Graffiti was also a part of Hip Hip.

JJ. Fad and I'm here to rap!!! No one should step out of line black americans are the creators of it all!!! Love black america our history shouldn't never be forgotten ❤️

Can we take a minute to realize we black people are the most followed in everything!!! Especially Hip Hop and how it made the other races wanna do it !!! But yet they hate us 😭👩🏾‍🦯😃💀💀

2:10 Hip hop it's a way to reflect/move a message across to the audience like a cnn

Excelent short video!!!!

I am Asian and a big fan of blacks interms of music and dance..

Gill Scot Herron and Marvin Gaye music was like hip hop. American Blacks didn’t need Jamaicans or Spanish people.

Simultaneously in Jamaica was the birth of modern reggae dancehall (dub) music. These two genres (hip-hop and dancehall) are of similar origins and structure.

I like this

Hip-Hop is a subculture not a genre of music, there was NEVER any music created in the Bronx. Rap/Rapping was already a part of Black American society before the Hip-Hop Movement existed. Many books, articles and documentaries contain false and misleading information. The people who've spread the most misinformation and caused confusion in the process are from Caribbean backgrounds; first in the early 1980s it was Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, then KRS-One and most recently Busta Rhymes. In the early 80s white corporations marketed "Rap" and "Hip-Hop" together using the terms interchangeably creating the false impression that they're one and the same and have the same history.

PIGMEAT MARKHAM. and others from 50s and 60s. They are the founders of rap.

So what about Rudy Ray Moore and Rap Dirty ? What year was these are the breaks?

dj herc did not start Hip hop

Hip Hop CAME From Rap Music!🙏🏼😃

Ols School 😎💪🎤

I was watching this in class And its sad how no one knows the history of hip hop But they wanna listen to Cardi n and Megan ect.

Hip Hop.is black music/culture

Youngsters must watch this

#HIPHOP raised me!

That right the DJ in the park 70s 🎉

In the 70s puerto ricans and Cubans were rhyming nasty lyrics in salsa freestyles 🇵🇷🇨🇺 defending Africa and its people we been doing this for years. that video there was the beginning for ya in New York new York ricans and African Americans . Stop being disrespectful we love ya to but damn show some love .

This is false. Herc was not a founder he didn't even bring one element of hip hop

AND THAT TECHNIQUE WAS A KNOWN MUSIC MIX IN JAMAICA, AT PARTY

48th happy birthday hip hop

When the slave ships left África most of them headed for Jamaica because of the British strong hold on Jamaica .Jamaica was a ship point base on it location in the carrribean so Jamaica was used as a distribution centre for the carrribean and North America, central American and South America.....The point I am making is we are all African people and de should not try to seperate ourself from each other ...We should make ourself an international community because out of one came all ........Out of one music came all music .............

I hope to see a documentary of the birth of gospel music but I heard that it got started in Chicago I once had a vhs tape a longtime ago called the roots of gospel which talked about the black isrealites and how they used to sing hymes I guess that part of how it got started but it would be cool to see a documentary posted in KZfaq of how one of the best music genre ever got started

Herc did not improvise that technique, Pete DJ Jones had been wandering from borough to borough since 1970 looping the drum breaks of his favorite records by using duplicate records on two turntable with a crossfader...Herc definitely threw the first Hip-Hop party on Sedgwick Ave. and added the element of toasting that he learned from DJs in Jamaican on his vacations visiting family...but he didn't invent the essential technique, Pete DJ Jones did, and he also didn't invent scratching (Grand Wizard Theodore did) or the block party (Grandmaster Flash did) but he did invent the Hip-Hop party itself.

Just to be clear. It was called RAP before hip-hop!

Hip hop is an American creation from those of us who are called “Black”. No Black looking immigrant had any part in the CREATION of hip hop culture. Period

I think the recent piece, The Country Idiom of Hip Hop, by Dr. Imani Perry would shed some light on the actual origins of Rap Music and Hip-Hop culture.

The first hip-hop was Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan!

Busta would have you think Jamaican and Puerto Ricans created hip hop. This is not the case. The part I can't wrap my mind around is why would he lie on and disrespect the very people he made his fortune on. He didn't make it off Jamaicans or Puerto Ricans. Because if he did we'd probably wouldn't know of him. He made it off black America. The culture less people by his recollection. Busta was messing with the Bronx around the time hip hop was created and to miss that history so badly is stupid ish.

Herc started in the West Bronx! So Hip Hop started in the WEST Bronx.

Jamaicans are the greatest. God bless our nation

Happy Blessed Black History Month✊🏾

DJ Kool Herc would be both proud and horrified of what hip hop is today

One man created hip hop NO hip hop evolution happened over time.

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it's not only black American created. Black Americans wasn't the only ones on the streets of NY back in those days. Puerto Ricans was all over the streets side by side (watch the get down) It's a street creation by street gangs already living the culture. At a very dark time, the streets brought their ideas and music together to create hip hop. Cool herc and Africa bombataa was present when this sound was first presented and brought it to the radio giving the genre a name. They did not create it, they named it. The streets created hip hop, the ghettos. The rich now dominates it and blocks out the true facts in order to take away the free power hip hop gave us. They advertise it's a "black culture" in order to separate the ones that truly created the culture in unity.... Black Americans, Puerto Ricans and Caribbean people on the streets of NY, all those on the streets back then.

It's ok, just like how Jamaicans try to lay claims to creating a whole subculture known as Hiphop, the same can be said about their music. Ska music from which Rocksteady and Reggae essentially came from is a direct product of American Rhythm & Blues and Jazz music. In fact all of the pioneers of Reggae and Ska were influenced by African American musicians such as Sam Cooke and the Drifters, Curtis Mayfield (whom in fact cowrote One Love), Fats Domino, Roscoe Gordon, Otis Redding, James Brown, Ray Charles etc. The truth is we all influenced eachother to some degree or another. Even the honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey was greatly influenced by Booker T Washington.

friend of mine had this biggie tape he never wanted to lend to me......finally i got it.....copied it.....switched the tapes in the cassette .....gave him back the copy in the original case... for letting me beg so long

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