Flash himself,said he went to Kool Herc parties and watched him play.1530 sedgewick ave bronx.August 11,1973.Flash came after! From watching Kool Herc.Every one in the Bronx in the early 70's ,know Kool Herc and the Hercaloids Crew that started the gentre.

I honestly don't think Rob knows how absolutely amazing he is .. So humble .. legit my favorite DJ as far as skills & personality goes! 🙏

When I first observed Herc and Flash perform in '77, I never new Hip Hop would become as big as it is. Who knew there would be classes on turntabalism. God Bless the Pioneers.

Herc laid the foundation, Flash built the house on it. All djs after have made upgrades to that house.

The energy of learning is amazing. You can see her "light up" when the light bulb went on....👏👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪💪💪💪

Way to go, Jen! I cringed watching her first moments here, but Rob is so right: that moment when she Gets it, is truly Magical. Each one Teach one indeed. I've been watching these vids for years, and there's just something about this new school. This is going to be an extra fun semester.

Rob-You’re the epitome of what a great instructor/teacher is. Your direction, demonstration, and demeanor are perfect for em parting your knowledge and cultivating the next generation of djs. It’s really a wonderful thing watching how you interact with your students and fill them with so much essential information. You’re not just passing on skills like a vocation, but passing down history so the next gen can grow bigger because they have solid roots. Much respect.

When she got it, I couldn't help smiling for her

GMFlash has the ultimate proof of turntablism decades before it was a household term...'Grand Master Flash on the Wheels of Steel' from SugarHill Records. I didn't realize it was all manual until I saw that kitchen scene in 'Wild Style', years later! Big up, this video is a good lesson for B-boys as well as DJ's!

Yeah Rob you make it look effortless :) and its great to watch these

So glad Rob is retelling these stories and documenting this history. WISDOM. #GoodShit

It’s crazy but I was sitting here cheering her on. I love this shit

I love that you make sure your students overstand and analyze the history. Very very important.

Asian Girl at the end went from Train Wreck to pretty damn good in about 5 mins. Well done that was great to watch man :)

Herc did not loop records..He was not an on beat dj.. he was the pioneer of playing multiple breaks.. Flash pioneered remixing these breaks in a dance able form..

I appreciate you starting the conversation, it was well needed and long overdue.

Thank you for contributing Rob Swift this Historical creative Knowledge It is Real I’m from the old school and I was missing so many pieces of The Puzzle. Being a BBoy and now a DJ Keep It Flowing brotha! Much Appreciated!

CLASS IS NOW IN SESSION😆grab your note books boys and girls🤣

Thanks for posting your class, excellent lesson

That's great stuff to watch. You're not just a great DJ, but you're a great classroom teacher, Mr. Swift!

Humble teacher. The work continues.

Good shit I was literally talking with you coaching her and was like yes when she started catching it

This was the best video I saw this year! :)

This is GOLD! I'm a Hip Hop dancer and we are slowly losing our pioneers :( We need to preserve!!

love your class man so much fun and lovely

Great to see that fragment with Flash again! I'm currently working on a follow-up to that documentary, revisiting all the interviewees from that film.

Very Nice class. Thank you

Awesome video!

Awesome class, and an important one for the beginning part of hiphop culture.

the 1st DJ player I started learning, was a Numark cdn88, and always wanted to try turntables. good class Rob

After 30 years I finally learned how to DJHip hip music 🎵 thanks.

that was sick. Thanks for sharing

Amazing instructor 👍👍👍

Cool shirt you wearing 💯👍

This was great 👍🏾

Dope Shhhh! You are the DJ for the breakdown. She completed a loop by the end of the video..

cool class greetings from Mexico

Awesome Jenn !!!

Bro your excellent.

Thank you so much for touching on this. As a very serious hip hop history enthusiast I always thought it was uncontested that Herc was the first to play 2 of the same or similar breaks and loop them.. It's funny bc during a hop honors show flash used the term Merry go round to describe 3 DJ's taking turn at the decks. I feel as the years go on and flash is getting older he seems to be wanting to take credit for creating everything that hop DJ's do and use, hardware and Technics. I do know that flash was a huge contributor and I was always a fan. Anyway sorry for the rant and thanks again Rob Swift

Herc had the idea of using break beats, and flash used his disco dj techniques to improve on it. Disco Dj's were already mixing clean, and extendeding breaks before herc, and flash. Flash came up under Pete"dj" Jones, and improved by making everything faster. A lot of misinformation when it came to Jamaica and Equipment/Dj Styles. DJ Styles are a disco NYC dj thing, you know this because Jamaican dj's have no techniques, there thing is about the music, that's it. The same with equipment, Jamaicans dj's only used ONE turntable, this is why they say "rewind", and literally start the song over, while American dj's did it but clean with blending styles, and extending records. The more I study dj history, there is no doubt in my mind Black american dj's of the 60's, and early 70's CHANGED the world with their dj techniques, the story is just not told to the world, so people start putting myths like the Jamaica thing. They only say that because herc is Jamacian, but herc didn't rap(coke la rock did), and his style of sound system came from American dj''s, he said this on the combat jack show. Herc was too young to attend the Parties in Jamaica, and toasting is nothing but Jive talking, count matchuki admitted he got the idea from listening to black american radio dj's, even his idea of having a sound system came from him seeing southern people have outdoor parties, and getting some money from it. Radio dj's are why rappers sounded like they did before Rakim, they were emulating the jive talking the radio dj's did. The islands didn't add anything to hip hop UNTIL the late 80's, and this is because dj red alert played dancehall with hip hop, and made it big in NYC, this is why the 90's had so many caribbean type of sounds in the late 80's/early 90's, yet before that you NEVER heard any caribbean influenced hip hop Go to Michaelwaynetv here on youtube to hear a lot of the truth from the actual older heads, which Bambatta, and Herc, acknowledge because some of them came up before them like Disco King Mario, and Kool Dj Dee. It was GANGS, and NYC disco dj's who created what we know as hip hop culture, and music! The founding fathers documentary also deals with NYC DJ culture of the 70's.

peace rob... i'm 57 from the bx & was around alot of jams... i went to school with grand master caz, jdl, prince whipper whip, funkmaster wiz & dotarock (r.i.p.) herc is the man cause he was 1st in the bx but was'nt that dope... neither was bam... flash, theodore & chase came after but were way doper... none of these guys can mess with you or your crew of course but i salute you all... also i'm a pretty dope breakbeat dj & mc since 1976... peace & blessings

Damn i wish they had School like this when i went i might have actually turned up for class xD

Excellent!

Wow I'm impressed by the third one who speaks at the beggining that talks about Kool Herc jamaican origin and the soud systems, she is totally right, I think that this aspect of things is not really well documented. I watched a video about the soud system in queens at the very beggining of the ouvement and one of them was jamican too, he said that he got everything from King Tubby is jamaica before he went to the USA.

😂 we did too because we didn't have equipment. By the time we got mixers we were so intune already. Same with turntable without pitch control. We started by manually adjusting the pitch.

Great teacher

That's a well cool demo of both

Great instructions

Rob dropping gems

the best class i never had real talk

Excellent class man,it's to good to see Rob teaching these youngster's how to mix n scratch the original way coz there's to many fake ass DJs out there just button pushing with auto mix n syncing with just one push of a button.Big up to all you guys

Perfect.

I wanna join his class..... He is so good in explaining

good times 🎵🎵🎵

Flash was in the crowd at Herc shows, but Flash cleaned the Merry and invented the scratch? The Renaissance didn't just become flowers from nothing. Herc stared it, and Flash took it to new levels

Great

Herc might've extended the break beats but Flash took it another level

Kool Herc Grandmaster Flash And Jazzy Jeff The Legends of Hip Hop DJs

She did it 😂😂😂 Ur great 😊❤

its a shame Flowers is not around to call out the "newbies"

Let’s really start to think about who influenced Herc to DJ like this when his family came to the Bronx from Jamaica? If we start from that timeline then we’ll get the facts. Respect to DJ Disco King Mario, DJ Sinbad, DJ Dee, Chuck Chuck City Crew etc.

ERICK SMASHED IT

La mera crema

This young kat was cuting up like back in 1977

Herc was a mixer of records he knew how to put records together he didn't really scratch GM came after and scratched they both are even to me but herc was really throwing parties and mixing since 73 with James brown Jimmy castor baby Huey them Mexican and I loved it u want to get into something by the Isley brothers

Now I understand why Bilal from House Party (played by Martin Lawrence) had his ear to the record in one of the party scenes.

flash was more scientific/ use mathematical approach flash also was a student at a technical school so it would make sense that flash would beat count or place dots where as herc not taken away he used the old school straight drop the needle on the correct point of the timing of the song

Student: Grafitti Rock only had one episode? Rob: Only one episode. Student: So why is it people talk about it?!(proceeds to lol like a goof) OMFG I wish I was in that class! That'd be the last day I'd be in that class! Jussayin'

No doubt!

Herc discovered gunpowder by accident. Flash perfected the chemistry for the best bang.

Herc certainly had the breaks !

REAL TALK SWIFT, How do I get info on your class?

I think Herc would get to the break but not at the exact point to the instrumental and I think Flash was more refined getting to the break scratch, juggling between loops, and use the beatbox machine.

Blues bros, soul train.......i'm dead....😂😂😂

SAY ROB, Where can I grab one of them T-shirts ("Just DJ")?

These kids just made ma realize how old I am. They did even know who Run DMC was.

Grandmaster Flash came up with all the buildings blocks for what we know as DJing from the needle to the slip mat and even the type of turn table that could actually speed up properly without it soundimg weird after scratching, he literally forced technology to do things it wasn't designed to do. DJ herc just happened to come up with a slightly different method for something Grandmaster flash already had a mathematical equation for. Not to discredit how great DJ Herc is

Great VIDEO my brother ..I love this …some history notes Correction ..THE DISCO DJS mixed the get down part …..the instrumental part ,,wasn't termed THE BREAK .. Break ..the Breaks... COMES FROM THE AFFECT it had on the dancers … B -boys ….reaching a BREAKING POINT ....the congas…..the drum parts..of particular records the club djz didn't play songs HERC did and the type he mesh together …yes they touched the common "Get-down parts" of the HUSTLE dance songs…and funk tunes .by soul artist in 73-76 until BREAK BEATS RECORDS HERC PLAYED Were DISCOVERED ….he played Afro rhythms and used SUB WOOFERS In 76…BRONX djz did have SUBS then ..the HERCULORD SYSTEM ….and he had his own B-BOYS and all B-boys flocked to HERC PARTY we all wrote graffiti ….70s era ... Grand Master FLOWERS R I P was the first I heard transition the GET DOWN""part …in 72 @coney island @Himayala ride …my Moms use to take us …it was a party all night DJ Pete dj Jones R I P was the teacher to the next generation of wannabe djz………. ..didnt mix on beat ..he used a flash like to find the GROOVE PART ..and push the song with the drums parts made it easy to do…no vocals ..CLUB DJZ TRUE were already mixing….and by 75-77 had cues- rotary knob mixers when Flash came out ….in 76 ………. HERC SET THE RECIPT ……FLASH DEVELOP THE FORMULA …..I WAS THERE FLASH was a B-BOY at HERCS party …….. it was known as A HERC PARTY …………..FLASH made it an art form …..he was off beat too …until much later …his emcees could not flow ..to flash …once he went into to his frenzy ….only Mele mel would talk over the off beat cuts of flash while the crowd watched ….the faster was thought to be better to flash ,,it wasn't ..the clubs didn't hire flash …no disrespect he was not a polished dj for transitions ..a bumpy ride …he entertained ….not maintained THERE WERE DJ SYTEMS /and Park Jams in Queens and Brooklyn long before HERC….lets not twist that ….. Im a Harlem Bronx Pioneer mc 1977-81 RC LaROCK recored …MICSTRO 1980 longest flow on wax still the ghost MC of Hip Hop …THE 1st of many MC styles …the records proves this….LISTEN …I would like to see this FLASH cue…mixer he used SONY MX 8 he added pre-amps and s/.pole 2way single throw ……SONY the mx 14 had cue why did he choose one without ..makes no sense to me ….imjussaying ..this mixer should be in museum …1975 .the GLI DISCO 300 cross fader was out ..flash used it at club …and got booted off the system he could not mix blend ..according to 1975 DJ KOOL DJ ….east bronx dj …and here was on west side ….

What's crazy is in this video I can clearly see how Theodore invented the scratch. He was trying to cue up the record and the cue was a bit off a few times and when he probably heard it on the tape the slip of the record was on beat.

Rob you should show them the art of hip'house an real blow there minds '

Make some noise for Jen! (thx to Swift)

Flash isolated the breaks on disk with markings...Bam put the 1st break beat disks together..Theodore introduced the scratch..Mario started it all

How can I take a class you teach? Much love to X-Ecutioners!

I only have one account. I have other posts throughout the thread. I definitely read your post incorrectly. Flash's autobiography is a good read. He and Kurtis Blow also credit Jones with having some of the first Emcee's. A good read is an interview Pete DJ Jones did with the Foundation. It should come up if you google it.

where was this class being taught at??

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I've spent decades wondering exactly what it was that Herc used to do, because there's never been any footage of him. By the way, mixers with cueing systems did exist before Flash built his. There's a video on here about it.

Flash himself says Herc was the first to do it. Flash took it from there.

In 1978 all mixers had cueing systems. Flash was the first one to do the quick cut. Herc needle dropped.

James Harden breaking ankles and Vinyl? Oh wait...... (On my small Smartphone he Really looks alike JH.)

Let’s keep it clear No one ANY WHERE thought about playing just breaks. Until Herc Let’s not confuse DJ culture and HipHop DJ culture. Flash for sure was the first to keep continuing with cutting breaks. As far as scratching. Neither flash or herc were doing until GWT As for the cue as in existence since 1971.

Ayo where I sign up bruh

I would love to be in the class on god

You look at the visual content, and we can realize Herc was first. Especially the party flyers. Are there any of Flash?

An interesting point is that flash said people weren’t dancing to his mixes

Flash is a Scientist

I read grand Master flowers and disco pete was the first ..

Let's not front. Sound systems in JA did NOT beat mix. The 'DJ's' toasted (rapped)----the guys spinning records played records, that's it. Herc may have TRIED to 'blend', but Herc never touched the records. He did NOT do anything NEAR what Flash did. Flash took the playing of records and turned it into the SCIENCE of every single thing we know as DJ-ing today. Flash created, invented, constructed, the ART AND SCIENCE of DJ-ing, which every single DJ in the world today uses techniques from. Let us NOT get it twisted please. FLASH is the one.

The Fathers of Hip Hop are Grandmaster DJ Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones, Kool DJ Dee the end.