Crazy Legs Says No One Person Can Take Credit For Creating Hip-Hop

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9 жыл бұрын

Kool Herc is generally credited with being the creator of hip-hop with Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash also being recognized as forefathers of the culture. Though no one refutes them as being pioneers, resident b-boy of the Rock Steady Crew Crazy Legs says that culture was being birthed all over during the late 1970s, so there is no way one person can take credit for creating it.

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@dominiquesperspective 9 жыл бұрын

Hip Hop wouldn't exist if it wasn't for R&B and Soul music, American genres of music!

@MaggillaKutz71 7 жыл бұрын

Crazy legs is changing his story every week

@anthonyh7110 Жыл бұрын

Toasting in Jamaica was started by Count Matchuki in the late 1950s. He conceived the idea by listening to American DJs he heard on the radio talking jive and slick talk while the record was playing. Per Clement Coxsone Dodd, prior to Count Matchuki, toasting was not done in Jamaica.

@loopygod1357 Жыл бұрын

One thing we know is that he wasn’t no creator. He was a late contributor

@gregrichardson2623 2 жыл бұрын

Crazy Legs was not there in 1972 When Disco King Mario & the Black Spades were doing there thing but Herc was there studying

@grandmixerdeelob Жыл бұрын

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@soulknob 7 жыл бұрын

crazy legs admitted that the DJs that came after Herc was inspired by him, so what is he trying to say?

@blakep267 Жыл бұрын

The issue is people want to conflate additions and break through a with outright creating stuff. They want to boast about creating where as infuencing so just as important. Herc didn’t create anything. He took it and influenced which is fine

@CrowdPleeza 9 жыл бұрын

I agree with Crazy Legs. Kool Herc didn't create Hip Hop Culture. Hip Hop has several elements that Herc didn't create. Herc is more responsible for laying the foundations of Hip Hop music or rap. The other elements of graffiti,breaking and popping have their own origins/creators. Graffiti was started in Philadelphia by a guy named Cornbread. Breaking did start in the Bronx but not sure by who. Locking and Popping were started in California by Don Campbell(Locking) and Boogaloo Sam is credited with creating popping. Then you have the Strutting styles of the Bay Area in California. Anyway all of these elements eventually were brought together in the Bronx leading to the creation of Hip Hop culture.

@sexyrose93 9 жыл бұрын

I agree with you! The only thing DJ Kool Herc did in the 70s was playing records. Pete Dj Jones extended the "break" in 1969 or 1970 before DJ Kool Herc. The Sugar Hill Gang "rappers delight" is the first hip hop song. Keith Cowboy and Lovebug Starski coined the term "hip hop." Grandwizard Theordore invented "scratching." Kurtis blow said in an article that hip hop didn't start with DJ Kool Herc. Coke LA Rock is credited as being hip hop's first MC.

@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 8 жыл бұрын

+CrowdPleeza Breakin was started by 2 Black Male Twins named THE NIGGA TWINS,, they were the first BREAK DANCERS

@djhardcor4170 6 жыл бұрын

sexyrose93 some people say KC the Prince of Soul was MCing b4 Coke La Rock

@djhardcor4170 6 жыл бұрын

IRON MIKE the twins were not 1st bro

@gregrichardson2623 2 жыл бұрын

WRONG Breaking started in the mid 70's Hip Hop started in the early 70's

@hydroblast2209 5 жыл бұрын

Pigmeat Markham was doing it before all these guys. Hip hop is black American music. Google PIGMEAT MARKHAM

@ev8318 2 ай бұрын

Pigmeat was breaking and doing graffiti too?

@donaldmccall3968 5 ай бұрын

We wouldn't have no without the black radio djs, of Dr.Nepcat Lizzy Dizzy Jack The Rapper Gibson Jocko Henderson and Daddy O and WWLR with Hank Spann Gary Brid Frankie Crooker influences on the culture

@panthro6298 7 жыл бұрын

inventor and if not the best then one of the best b boys ..Always giving skills when poppin ...Boricua baby mad props 2 crazy legs Hip hop 4eva

@albertrosa8771 7 жыл бұрын

In July of 1979, the Fatback Band dropped King Tim lll (Personality Jock). A couple of months before Sugarhill Gang dropped Rappers Delight.

@gregrichardson2623 2 жыл бұрын

King Tim was not Hip Hop

@ev8318 Ай бұрын

@@gregrichardson2623 Pigmeat Markham either!

@RCLaROCK1 7 жыл бұрын

week said ..and done…….im still listening and learning thats living MUCH RESPECT TO CRAZY LEGS….cool cat good people

@JewelerTv 9 жыл бұрын

The shirt that Crazy Legs is wearing is of Charlie Chase on the turntables and Grand Master Caz on the right. The girl in the middle I don't know. I have that picture in my house.

@viejohans 9 жыл бұрын

Quien lo ayuda a traducir para Latino America?...

@Tee-yf9ss 6 жыл бұрын

I was a bgirl in 1970 i was born Manhattan break dancing was nite born in the bronx they where rocking in mahattan bronx brooklyn in the early years way before you crazy was born

@boogiejungle1 9 жыл бұрын

peace akhis ,for me also if i am a zulu, i think that afrika bambaataa try to taking the a honor of the creator of hiphop from cool herc ,cuz i read in some blogs that bambaataa and herc was in not good relation back in days,cool herc is the firt one who start making jam where all the the elment was reunited befor they know thay making hip hop ,baambataa ,just given a name for all that this is just my personal opinion opinion .peace ,respect

@soulknob 7 жыл бұрын

I know that this post is late but kool dj dee is not before Kool Herc. He lied about what he said. Herc never bought anything form dj dee. He didn't even know who he was.

@djhardcor4170 6 жыл бұрын

soulknob there were DJs playing breaks b4 Herc and Kool D

@soulknob 4 жыл бұрын

@@djhardcor4170 I know it's been 2 years, but no...there wasn't

@americasmaker 2 жыл бұрын

@@soulknob Yes, there were. Disco DJs were. Herc just extended the technique.

@soulknob 2 жыл бұрын

@@americasmaker Again...no they weren't.

@americasmaker 2 жыл бұрын

@@soulknob I ain't got time to keep arguing with you culture vultures. I made a playlist. You theories are debunked 100 times over on here. A Disco DJ in NY had Shaft soundtrack on a loop all night. kzfaq.info/sun/PL77OcsA0H7EgEx7fm5771RzAo5KYYKivf

@mr.jabbar6443 Ай бұрын

Dude beating around the bush it was some black American shit point blank

@daveeardley5386 9 жыл бұрын

Well said Crazy Leg's.Peace and respect's.

@Lee-fl6st 7 ай бұрын

He has no place on making a statement like this!

@losfornia Жыл бұрын

Before it was "hiphop" it was just Black American culture.

@ev8318 Ай бұрын

DJing and modern day graffiti art wasn't black American culture..

@AnimalAlmighty 2 күн бұрын

@@ev8318🧢

@panthro6298 7 жыл бұрын

BORICUA !!!

@Khambrell Жыл бұрын

We know there is no one creator, ppl keep playing dumb. What we’re saying is ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE, created hip hop black people from the US. All these other things these ppl keep throwing in the convo is to dilute our creation.

@ev8318 2 ай бұрын

You didn't create DJing or modern day graffiti. You did contribute.

@AnimalAlmighty 2 күн бұрын

@@ev8318🧢

@ev8318 Күн бұрын

@@AnimalAlmighty DJing or modern day graffiti art was already here. Blks and latino contributed.

@AnimalAlmighty Күн бұрын

@@ev8318 Name a latino pioneer who came before the year 1974. Name the pioneers who helped create hip hop in the early 70s late 60s that were PR. All the pioneers including Puerto Rican pioneers that were interviewed in the microphone check documentary says that all elements came from blacks. So Batch of TBB the first Latino BB group in hip hop lied? MC Coke La Roc the 1st rapper of hip hop lied? MC Sha Rock the first female MC lied? The 1st BBoys Trixie and Sasa lied? Lmfao. Everyone who was THERE is lying but the Latinos who WERENT THERE are telling the truth? 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♂️

@ev8318 Күн бұрын

@@AnimalAlmighty Whites were djing first with two turntables and mixer. Modern day Graffiti art comes from whites also. Graffiti art is simply graphic art. We had graphic art all over the city. Try to think what I'm talking about. Whites gave us the blueprint to lettering style, color scheme, proportion,3D lettering, background and also characters and placement.

@Sidenotez 9 жыл бұрын

black people created hiphop

@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 8 жыл бұрын

+Sidenotez TRUE

@Sidenotez 7 жыл бұрын

Puerto Ricans are black

@panthro6298 7 жыл бұрын

Sidenotez oh ok

@albertrosa8771 7 жыл бұрын

Blacks and Puerto Ricans were the creators of the hip-hop culture since day one. Period.

@joshuawisdom9694 3 жыл бұрын

@@albertrosa8771 that's not true. Puerto ricans rejected hip hop at first. Just ask the first latin dj Dj disco wiz. He said puerto ricans were asking him why is he doing hip hop and not latin music. Dj Charlie chase said the same thing. Puerto ricans werent jacking it.

@patriceturnipseed9226 6 жыл бұрын

Hip Hop originated in Kingston Jamaica. From a Sonundboy ending up being called an MC/DJ and so on. People need to give it up!!!!

@hydroblast2209 5 жыл бұрын

No it started in the American south

@StylistecS 4 жыл бұрын

Patrice Turnipseed hip hop did not start in Jamaica. It doesn’t sound anything like Jamaican music. It sounds just like what it was influenced from which is funk, soul, and r&b. There is no old school hip hop song that sounds like Jamaican music.

@kevinc3342 Жыл бұрын

How did Hip Hop/Rap culture start in Jamaica when it became popular in the UNITED STATES with BLACK AMERICAN music, fashion, activism, and culture? How Sway?!! 1960s/1970s Jamaicans were playing mento, ska, rocksteady, and reggae - NONE of those music forms are used in Hip Hop/Rap in the 1960 or 1970s.

@kevinc3342 Жыл бұрын

@@StylistecS Correct - 1960s/1970s Jamaicans were playing mento, ska, rocksteady, and reggae - NONE of those music forms are used in Hip Hop/Rap in the 1960 or 1970s.

@patriceturnipseed9226 Жыл бұрын

It started in Jamaica whether you want to accept it or not. There are too many documentaries available to watch that proves this point. When West Indians started to migrate to New York, they brought their culture with them. And black american culture adapted to their way of spinning records and used their method of call and response with the crowd. During the infancy of hip hop the DJ was the most important one. Not the MC. And besides, most of the pioneers of hip hop are West Indian. From Kool Herc to Grandmaster Flash to KRS-1 to Redman to Busta Rhymes and to Biggie. Do some research. If people don't want to accept the truth well that's on them.