Exactly.... Respect to people who know true hip hop and thank you for putting this out there because I'm sick of people celebrating the ganger rap and don't understand true hip hop need more egnolagment like this.... Thank you...

Nobody said Run DMC were the original rappers. They were just pioneers in the genre. Don’t play with Hollis

@@notawallflowerx I don't think anyone needs to... as I think we all know what they did for main stream hip hop and if they don't then we'll island boys it is for you then.... run DMC are the kings of rock and there is none higher......

@@notawallflowerx nobody is attacking run dmc. It's just a fact that was stated, but as usual people get emotional and become defensive over something that need not be. I am also form NYC and I know what I am talking about

Hip hop has never been anything much deeper than "throw your hands in the air" party. It's easy to get into revisionism when looking back. Any artist that did anything beyond that is in the minority.

It's very disappointing that such a revolutionary music with such a diverse cultural thing as a pure cultural meaning that only one can say "I am hip hop" with so many art forms that's not in any other music to see it reduced to the senseless disrespectful garbage called rap music....

​@@monember2722that's definitely not true. In it's early days it had plenty of substance with the black empowerment mentality.

@@jayjones251 brief period from approx. 89-91.

Sellouts...... like the graffiti thanks to banksy etc like b-boys in the next olipics sellouts.... Hip hop, graffiti,b-boys was from the street by the streets for the streets it was becouse we were the gutter not excepted by mane stream money grabbers..... Shame on all involved thanks for selling us out.....

It's about hip hop 50 year anniversary not a race thing .

@@brianharechmak5555 people always do this.... Hip hop is a multi cultural thing anyone says it's just one don't know what there on about it's not about that at all look at the b-boy movement crazy legs just to say one and now what b-boy championships are made up of,and the graffiti movement was just to say one name lee for who know subway train jumpers no the GALLERY sell out it's become today then the lowrider movement thanks again for those who know kid frost and the song terminator that tune still blows my mind today... so no I got no time for anyone that got to go it was just one race of people it was a cultural movement by meny the geto streets are who's responsible for hip hop.... Shout out to Bob james for those who know and part of meny that get no props.....

@leek487 What is multicultural about hip-hop besides everybody wanting to become rappers. Hip-hop as a whole comes from black american music/culture. Yall just happen to live there.

@@jayjones251 it never happend due to one race of people every nationalaty had a part to play in what hip hop was and has become to date period as for rap and gangster rap you can clame that as whatever u want it's rubbish noncance negative rubbish anyway it glorifies all the bad things that black people do anyway all u got to do is look at how the mindless act and the rolls that are played all to often in films... As for hip hop black white Mexican Latino Asian Irish etc all got a roll in it and in the positivity that is hip hop there's no violence in it at all from graffiti to breakin to djs and the sampling of others music... so lets shout out to Bob james who's white and who run DMC sampled by the way just incase people don't know..... And let's mention craftwork who are German and who Africa bambatta sampled again for those who don't know......and the education side of it it's not just one race of people responsible for hip hop that's utter noncance hip hop would never be what it is today without all natianlitys involvement. No one owns or solely made hip hop no one can clame it its a multi cultural movement by all involved rap and gangster noncance you can clame black Americans made if u like it's poisen negative noncance anyway with nothing for the youth of today can take or get involved in.... And that's a fact all rap and gangster rap has done is spoiled good music... Drugs guns gangs pimpin utter noncance....

@@jayjones251 utter noncance.... I bet u listen to rap and gangster rap by that statement....