The Birth of Hip Hop

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In 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His ability to switch from record to record - as well as isolate and repeat music breaks - led to the discovery of the hip hop genre.
From school yards to gatherings, boomboxes housed the exhilarating sound that people couldn’t get enough of. Soon, freestyling over the beat became popular, and we’d have one of the most noted songs of the genre released in 1979, entitled “Rapper’s Delight.” As the genre evolved, artists used their platform to speak on social issues near and far. These lyrics became the melody that told the narrative of the artist’s world to a beat.
Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from author Joan Morgan, Jelani Cobb of Columbia University, rapper Nas, and filmmaker Ava Duvernay, we celebrate an underground cultural movement that has unified people and has become the most streamed genre of present day.
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Additional Archival by:
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Executive Producers:
• Robert F. Smith
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Dyllan McGee
• Deon Taylor
Produced by:
• William Ventura
• Romilla Karnick
Music By:
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Additional Music:
• Fight The Power by Public Enemy
• Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang
• The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
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@aniyax4023 2 жыл бұрын

Hip-hop is black American creation

@AJ-pc5ln 2 жыл бұрын

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

@maxwellbrisk5622 Жыл бұрын

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

@mdhbh 2 жыл бұрын

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

@yamaarchive5919 2 жыл бұрын

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

@stanleyshack26 2 жыл бұрын

dj herc did not start Hip hop

@Gigi-fp8pd 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@Antwan881

Rap actually started in Africa, I can’t remember the name they would call travelers who would just travel around telling their stories to the beat of the drums. Blk Americans took it a step further and started rhyming with it.

@sls554

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

@bryangalloway5731 Жыл бұрын

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

@louguzzo4977 Жыл бұрын

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

@reinaldogarcia70 Жыл бұрын

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

@benji.B-side

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!

@ConsiderMeSpades 3 жыл бұрын

We watch you in school to celebrate black history month.

@nomad1517 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ydmkid1732 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much for sharing this !

@user-bb3is5xd5h

Happy 50th birthday Hip-Hop!!

@Lils0m

Thank you so much it's so educationing also i needed information about history of hip-hop culture exactly

@REAusetkmt

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.