Hip Hop is 40 years old this week

[Buzzer]

Well...sort of officially. 11th August 1973 at 1520 Sedgewick Avenue.

http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/50665/

It was the hip-hop equivalent of the Sex Pistols Manchester gig.

So who's your favourite hip-hop artist? For me I'd go for KRS-1. Eric B and Rakim running close behind.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I think that my hips have way too much hopped these days for that sort of thing

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

Kool G Rap, and Rakim back in the 80s for me.

 

[BuddyBoy]

It's such a diverse genre, it's impossible (for me) to say.

But, Aesop Rock, Jurassic 5, Eminem, Nas, Foreign Beggas, Chiddy Bang and Tupac are my most played.

Fairly new school.

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

Oh, not forgetting Just Ice ( not especially a great mc, more that he and Mantronik made a couple of the best rap tunes of that time- as my moniker states!)

 

[GoingUp]

In no order

Masta Ace
Pac
Vinnie Paz
G Rap
Em

That will change pretty much every day haha

 

[Soulman]

The other day i saw a fat girl with a tee shirt that had "I love the hip hop" printed on it.....i reckon the 'C' and 'S' had fallen off it.

 

[BuddyBoy]

The other day i saw a fat girl with a tee shirt that had "I love the hip hop" printed on it.....i reckon the 'C' and 'S' had fallen off it.

 

[The Original]

Back in the day my most played were NWA, Easy-E, Schoolly D and the Beastie's. LPs confined to the attic these days.

 

[daveinprague]

The other day i saw a fat girl with a tee shirt that had "I love the hip hop" printed on it.....i reckon the 'C' and 'S' had fallen off it.

I'll be stealing that, the first time the opportunity arises.

A nice old school mix of Rnb/hiphop...I even like the French hiphop on this mix (shudder at the thought)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hthyw4
1hr 15m 13s

 

[Meade's Ball]

Public Enemy shone and spoke the loudest for me. Watching the documentaries about hip hop and seeing how Public Enemy jammed with noises and synths and beats for an age before picking out the nanosecond for them to loop and rip it on top of had me add a new layer of artistic appreciation to some of the great walls of sound they sometimes created and had me hooked. I adored them in my early teens, probably seeing them 13 times overall in and around Brighton and London. A sweet memory of mine is seeing them somewhere in east London for Fear of a Black Planet tour my friend with me just going absolutely mental when Terrordome kicked things off, his arms and legs simply disconnected and flailing for perhaps 3 embarrassing minutes before he came back down to earth, nodding inexpressively with an air of faux cool from then on. **** me ragged what an opening to their performance that was though.

Never got the chance to see them, but for UK stuff Hardnoise still have me for Untitled. That just poundingly hurt.

 

[mattpenfold]

Gil Scott-Heron for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Gil Scott-Heron for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

Interesting point, as this pre-dates the gig mentioned in the original post by 3 years. But I guess this is rap as opposed to hip-hop.

 

[1066familyman]

And the clue to where you could probably argue it all began is in the first sentence of that piece...


On August 11, 1973, in the rec room in an unassuming brick apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, hard by the Major Deegan Expressway, a 16-year-old Jamaican immigrant changed pop music forever.

Here's an excerpt from another article...

Afika Bambaata, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flash, are three legends of hip-hop. They are looked as the founding fathers. Kool Herc, is the only one out of the three that gives credit to his Jamaican roots for his early development of break spinning. "Hip-hop….the whole chemistry of that came from Jamaica…..In Jamaica all you needed was a drum and a bass. So what I did was go right to the ‘yoke’. I cut off all the anticipation and just played the beats. I’d find out where the break in the record was and prolonged it and people would love it. So I was giving them their own taste and beat percussion wise….cause my music is all about heavy bass."

Of course, you can keep going back forever, and that's what makes all musical history from every single genre so interesting, and music itself so wonderful.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

The other day i saw a fat girl with a tee shirt that had "I love the hip hop" printed on it.....i reckon the 'C' and 'S' had fallen off it.

Good Soulman...made me chuckle...

 

[the right footed denilson]

 

[Seagull on the wing]

And the BIGGEST revolution in music 'Rock 'n' Roll is 56 this year.....OK I'm an old git....

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

1520 Sedgwick Avenue on the Cross Bronx Expressway was the home of the first hip hop parties, led by the Godfather of Hip Hop a 6ft 5 Jamaican called Clive Campbell aka DJ Kool Herc. It was said his sound system was the one guys like Grandmaster Flash and Afrikaa Bambaataa aspired to. Happy 40th

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan and Public Enemy for me

 

[Theatre of Trees]

It's such a diverse genre, it's impossible (for me) to say.

But, Aesop Rock, Jurassic 5, Eminem, Nas, Foreign Beggas, Chiddy Bang and Tupac are my most played.

Fairly new school.

Speaking of Aesop Rock, he's just teamed up with Kimya Dawson of the Mouldy Peaches, the resulting album is rather good

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