All due respect to the campaign but I don't get how it's a problem to discuss La Rock's weed selling history but its cool to talk at length about the gang shit?? "Gang shit" is cool for kids?? 🤔
Mista KFresh... we never said discussing weed is a problem... We discussed weed in the past and we may discuss it again...but this channel wants to promote SOBER... more of us being sober... we feel our people are amazingly great!! and we feel our main obstacle (as a group of people) in America ..has been ..and still is.. drugs and alcohol !!.. YOU SAID..."GANG SHIT" IS COOL FOR KIDS?? 🤔... no!! .. but however UNIFIED YOUNG people can do great and powerful things.... IMAGINE if more of our young people was completely sober.. those "gangs" as you call them ... probably would transform themselves into powerful organizations!!... think about it.. most "gangs" as you call them... are young INTOXICATED PEOPLE!! ...Show me a "gang" with members thats completely sober... you probably won't find one.. so really.. drugs and alcohol is our issue
Respect, they try to silence the OGs in favor for imposters from the 80s & 90s. These are the only dudes I wanna hear from that created the foundation of Hip Hop. Coke La Rock was right there with Kool Herc.
South Bronx is the birthplace of Hip-Hop, it comes to no surprise that the intermingling of Puerto Rican and West Indies along with Black styles are the main contributors to the basic Hip-Hop essence.Rap music originated on the island of Jamaica in the early 1960's and not in black ghettos of the United States. In the early 60's, when Jamaican sound-system operators had only a single turntable, they would employ the services of a slick-talking, rhyme-every-time person on the microphoneOften, when people here Hip-Hop they associate it with only African-Americans. However, Hip-Hop is actually the combination of West Indian, Puerto Rican, Blacks of New York. Hip-Hop has always been open to a diverse audience, and thus is not limited to one specific group. DJing started in Jamaica, where the artist would mix and scratch music with repetitive phrases mixed it. In Jamaica, and in many area of the West Indies, music is used as important as politics. Music was used to express the voice of the citizens. Political parties themselves used the musics of DJs to represent their positions. As people from the West Indies moved into New York and specifically the Bronx, they began to incorporate their values of music as a form as expression. When the West Indians began to live with the Puerto Ricans and African Americans of the South Bronx, their art of music mixed in with the rapping and rhyming of the people living there. Hip-Hop began to include in general, Rapping, DJing, Graffiti and Break Dancing. DJ Kool Herc and other DJ from the West Indies, gaining popularity from their style of music, began to encourage the youth to get involved in the art of Hip-Hop. Soon some gangs began to focus their concentration on Hip-Hop rather than using violence to express their anger with the environment they were in. Afrika Bambaataa would find the Universal Zulu Movement, which was a gang that focused on Hip-Hop. What all the people involved in Hip-Hop do have in common is how the merge the struggles of every day life, and their environment into their various forms of art in a way that people facing similar difficulties can also relate. Hip-Hop then turns into a voice of all those New Yorkers, and even beyond, who are constantly trying to improve their lives in a difficult environment.Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Bambaataa are the Holy Trinity of hip-hop. Bambaataa's role was carrying the gospel of hip-hop first downtown to white audiences, then to the rest of the world." Coke La Rock is known for being the first rapper to ever spit rhymes after teaming up with DJ Kool Herc in 1973 and both are recognized as the original founding fathers of Hip Hop. Rap music was originally underground.The first major hip-hop deejay was DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), an 18-year-old immigrant who introduced the huge sound systems of his native Jamaica to inner-city parties.The location of that birthplace was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, and the man who presided over that historic party was the birthday girl's brother, Clive Campbell-better known to history as DJ Kool Herc, founding father of hip hop.Afrika Bambaataa is largely considered the Godfather of Hip-Hop. DJ Kool Herc is a forefather of hip-hop.DJ Kool Herc is the father of the breakbeat, the deejay practice of isolating and repeating "breaks," the most danceable portions of songs; breakbeats make up the foundation of modern hip-hop.Mar 30, 2005DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was the blueprint for hip hop music. Herc used the record to focus on a short, heavily percussive part in it: the "break". Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players.A Jamaican native who moved to New York City's Bronx borough at the age of 12, Kool Herc is widely credited as the originator of Hip Hop.
@@aferrer74 You wrote complete nonsense. Every piece of Hip hop already existed in Black American cultures. Extending breaks were already done by DJs like Pete Jones. The sound system was copied from here. Older Jamaicans who worked the fields in Florida as seasonal workers already said this. Let the old lies and myths go and get caught up on what really happened.
@@aferrer74 That's a bunch of Oxtail, Ackee, Jerk Chicken and Curry Goat Dreams of delusions. Show me the Jamaican or Caribbean in the early 1960's and 1970's whose music influence hip hop?
The first MC coke la rock says No PR or Jamaicans in the early days and Herc was influenced by the foundation black Americans. Bronxdale created Hip Hop.. case closed! Thanks for sharing
I’m confused, on “the freshest Kids” doc, herc says that Jamaicans were the first he heard mixing records bumping the loudest music on speakers. That doesn’t influence him and the culture?
Bruh Herc Jamaican but he was running in our circles. Notice he didn't even know Herc was Jamaican until a year after Knowing him. Every body else he named was FBA. Herc got ready for the battle by getting that Bootsie/Parliament energy. Notice Dj Dee and his Man's new more than Coke about the what and when Herc got his Equipment.
Well that closes the debate and argument. It's now very crystal clear that the Jamaican toasting theory was all nonsense and that Hip Hop was a wholly African-American creation from the start. I mean I knew all of this anyway, but for those who didn't know this is a conclusive and decisive video, and also greatly informative.
Did u watch the video? coke la rock verified almost the entire story that's been told about herc. Definitely doesn't invalidate Herc and he didn't conclude that anyone else was doin this before him and Herc. It's well known that afro Americans were Hercs primary audience that's why he used funk music instead of playing reggae like DJs in the UK...but this doesn't invalidate Hercs claim or story. U also have to remember that West Indian migration had just started and most of them weren't going to the Bronx yet so Herc didn't have an audience that would understand reggae music. And the few West indians in the area at the time did what most immigrants do they assimilated into their surroundings
@@sioul8485 I'm not invalidating Herc. I'm simply pointing out that this video proves the claims of Jamaican toasting as one of hip hop's main origin is false and inaccurate as La Rock demonstrates.
Damn I would pay to hear his story like a Concert if he ever came to the Bay Area CA.... I can imagine a lot of Colorism at that time with the light skin and dark skin narratives. I listened to a New York PR guy talkin bout how he was ready to slice n***** up in a club in New York. ( Ill edit once I locate his name). They was black and down when they came in the 50's and now they seem to have assimilated into the system of white supremacy. "Embrace the culture deny the ancestry" 🤔🤨👊🏽
Not even halfway through this, but I just wanted to comment and shout out all of the FBA men and women of NYC that contributed to our culture. They’ve literally tried to erase y’all out of history. It’s over for that. This man is deserving of so much MORE. It’s a shame how even the Hip Hop “icons” of NYC from the 80s and 90s with major wealth and influence have turned a blind eye to this man and others. I’m really appreciative for this information.
Thanks for this video! Outstanding work. As I stated on many of your videos of Kool Herc. As I spent all of the 70s in Bronxdale I said I didn’t recall Kool Herc playing at Cedar Park or any park in the early 70s when I was a kid. Not saying he didn’t but to compare to other DJ rocking park jams. Herc was non existence, like I said in other videos your posted. I didn’t really hear of Kool Herc until 75ish. I took a lot of BS on my statements and I am happy that it was finally cleared up.
@@enosger Kool Herc was not a rapper he was a DJ (Disc Jockey). He did not create music or beats or rap. He played other existing music or beats that was created by funk musicians. If I am wrong, please tell me where I can found rap or beats or music that DJ Kool Herc created. I want to hear it.
@@enosger Herc did not write any raps, he was only a DJ that mixed records, he was not a rapper in way shape or form. Coke La Rock was the one rapping, doing what was already being done in the African-American community. La Rock just made it sound cool when doing it Hip Hop style while acting as MC in Herc's parties.
Yeah he gave it up and just kept it real no additives. That's probably why he's overlooked because alot of these other dudes make grandiose statements and get caught in lies.
I'm a second generation Haitian immigrant, and Hip Hop has been a staple of my childhood being raised in Miami. Much love and RESPECT to the Foundational Black American fam for creating Hip Hop and all the rich cultural traditions that preceded it (Jazz, Funk, Disco, Rock, R&B, and Blues). We all one people, but we still need to acknowledge the work done by each part of the black family, and FBAs are the cultural progenitors and direct creators of Hip Hop.
@@Mia-840 We ARE one people. Where do you think Foundational Black Americans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Afro-Brazilians, and every other group of the African diaspora came from? They came from Africa. The main difference between a Haitian and a Black-American is where a slave-ship landed. We are all ultimately from the same set of African peoples, but we have all derived our own cultures, and Foundational Black American people/culture made Hip Hop. It's called giving respect.
the lie died hard today. its good to hear the facts finally getting told the way it actually went. the whole world needs to hear it all come out from the cats that was actually there. its way too many ppl that wasnt there- not knowing- putting B$ in the game. deceiving the masses
GaFFLe...yes there is a reason...because yes the battle did happen... but I think coke la rock may have mistaken the year.. and we don't wanna give out false info.. so that's why the year was muted
Papa didn't cuss He didn't raise a whole lotta fuss But when we did wrong Papa beat the hell out of us - James Brown, Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother #1, King of Hip Hop When I was a kid, I remember having cassettes with just scratching and mixing and no rapping. We used to do the Freak Dance in the late 70s; that one I remember.
James Brown is considered the Godfather of Hip Hop, not Soul. Which was because Kool Herc would use his samples at his block parties that began Hip Hop.
There will be others. Coming soon. Some of the OG's don't remember everything accurately. Some of us who are younger and was there can add to the facts that are left out so that the people who are interested can get a better picture of how it was.
Because most Hip Hop publications and forums are foreign ran/owned and they don’t want to promote the truth about FBAs being the creators of ALL American music genres. That’s why men like this are never revered, he knows too much.
Thanks to all involved for documenting this history👍 I've always been Blues, Soul and R&B oriented, never truly got into Hip Hop and Rap but, I'm learning.
Great interview and great shows as always! Keep up the good work! Now we need to get the East (Soundview) and West Bronx brothers together for a nice discussion…
Coke is telling his Truth ! I grew up around Coke, Herc Butch, Trixy aka Larry Myers. This is my era. 1969-70 went to 82 in the 6 grade. Mark was Coke's best friend.
@@nadimovitch9237 I think the narrative that the brother of this page is trying to portray is that hip hop predates 1973. That's why I believe it's being censored.
He was talking about the battle between Pete Dj Jones and Kool Herc, which took place in 1977. Pete Dj Jones was the most dominant dj in the Bronx, not just in the clubs but also in the parks starting in 1970 (when he migrated from North Carolina)
Dan Tyn... because yes the battle did happen... but I think coke la rock may have mistaken the year.. and we don't wanna give out false info.. so that's why the year was muted
Herc was not being shady at all. It is just that people got the wrong impression of what it was that they did. It wasn't about bringing anything to the "table". There was no table to bring anything to at the time. What they did was play in a style that no one else was doing. Their style is what caught on and that style is what spread throughout the Bronx. It was mainly the records they played that no one else was playing that got the got crowds hyped. All I can say is that you had to be there to see the distinction between what they were doing and what other DJ's were doing. Cholly Rock explained it several times in different videos.
@@soulknob but, Cool D and Phase said that Herc copied their and Disco King Mario’s records, playing style and Sound system. In other words, they did hip hop before Herc. I’m not trying to argue for the sake of arguing, but a whole new side of the story about the origin has risen from the East Bronx and I just want to know which one is the truth and why Herc is the only one who get credit as the Father
@@hbsoltpk Kool Herc isn’t the only Father, this dude with DJ fake(phase) just trying to discredit Kool Herc bc he’s Jamaicans who gave flowers to other Jamaicans who Influenced him, Dj Mario own Mc said he told him he gonna get the same records like Kool Herc to get him started Like Herc mcee
@@johnjack902 THEY ARE THE FOOLS if they think folks are going to believe their goofy asses. They cared about the US sooooooooo much, they decided to bring their beggin' asses over here and gift us Hip Hop
You bugging bro, Reggae Music is international just like Hip Hop and Salsa is international just like Hip Hop. Both Reggae and Salsa were international before Hip Hop. Nothing got to be bigger then the other. Be respectful, or at least be knowledgeable and not ignorant
I recall a comedian talking about growing up in New York. He said that he never knew that his friends were foreigners until he went to their house and met their Mother.
My uncle, who is 69 yrs old said the exact same thing as a teenager in the 1970's. They were brutal with the jokes. While hanging out together, they would call their homeboy a "coconut" once they went to his house and learned he was a brother from the West Indies. In my old Brooklyn neighborhood, I noticed that most dudes who came to America during this time worked EXTRA HARD to get rid of their accents.
I Agree absolutely, they only telling certain stories. It's the same thing with me. One of the 1st female MC Shorty Tee via Queens an entire history trying to omit.. Along with intellectual properties. I refuse to be silent. I MC'd in #1976 in North Carolina. Billy Woods Place. @waynetv
@@stacytaylor4876 My uncle is a original member. He was rapping in the mid 60s Philadelphia then he moved to Harlem NY and met the other members of The Last Poets in 1969 . Melle Mel got his flow from my Uncle and many other rappers around 1974 on up
When you analyze the 1968 song Here Comes the Judge by Pigmeat Markham you hear MCing with Cadence, storytelling, Funk beats n Break Beats, clearly placed Hooks, interludes And Skits... The bridge is over beginning even sounds similar with singular snare hits and 1 crash cymbal hit.. FBA all day
Well I'm in my 60s from Bed-Stuy Brooklyn and we was doing the same thing they were doing in the Bronx. DJing with Music in the streets along with Project Center parties but the first brother I heard rapping from the Bronx was DJ Hollywood and nobody seems to mention him??
The difference between what Herc and them did and what everyone else was doing is the style of play and their presentation. They were cool AF and the records with the break parts was mesmerizing. No one else was rocking those records. Cholly Rock said as much on this channel.
Sitting in my room Saturday August 12th 1973 in the afternoon and heard a song from my living room. Bestowed to me was a tall stature of a man we called Clive who was Kool aka Kool DJ Herc playing a song called Skin Tight by the Ohio Players . The equipment was column speakers horns bass bottom Altec Speakers and Cerwin Vegas with the technic turn tables and echo chamber. My building 1600 shared the park with 1520 on what we know now is Hip Hop Boulevard . That day my friend Jeffrey Wyatt known as Spooky who could break dance and introduced me to the art. He yelled Akbar come on down. When I asked what’s happening he said It’s a block party. I said a block party ? What’s a block party? That day it was so many people in our neighborhood walking across the 174st bridge and from University Avenue and beyond , because we lived in what we called the valley . To us the West side was the best side. Herc had B Boys and B Girls battling being introduced on the microphone and echo chamber. Her. And Coke was our outlet to all sounds like hustling break dancing skating dancing and slow grinding. R and B Soul Disco Breaking beats, listening music, rap and such . They gave us a sound that personifies Hip Hop all the way until the break of dawn as him and Coke la Rock known as the Father MC would say on the mic. Coke along with the Father of Hip Hop Kool Herc with a Base in your face and the hi’s in your eyes.. This Transcended world wide and crossed all points of the world and became a Global Phenomenon . Hip Hop Stories Akbar aka Ak la Rock 1600 Hip Hop Boulevard!
Yo..... as a brovah from the Boogie Down Bronx. born at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, year 1973 and raised on the West Side. 169 Washington Ave, Webster Ave. I've Witnessed alot of these Jams and 1977 1978 thru the early 80s. IM STILL Proud and Grateful that had a Chanceto have witnessed Hip-hopat beginning stages..it's a Honor to hear the stories... I have Alot of Key Stories to tell Aswell... lol!!! I Really Enjoyed this Classic interview with one of the Greats , Coke La Rock.....Plus the B footage was On Point my brovah. . Zalute !!! Keep up the good work fam✊🏾💯🎤
Update: based on the information I just received coke la rock is indeed telling the truth. The video from a year ago was vlad lying on the origins of hip-hop he just made it seem as if coke la rock agreed. It's important that coke la rock and dj phase continue to spread the truth to counter dj vlads lies! As well as fat Joe and others who lie on the origins of hip-hop
@@bangswift the comment I left addresses Vladimir lying about hip-hop, vlad said "hip-hop came from Jamaica and other races of people". Which is a lie, Vladimir tried to set coke la rock up by pulling him into his agenda! He made it seem as if coke la rock was telling that lie but he wasn't.
Hip hop would never have materialise without Soundsystem .Mobile Sounds systems started in Jamaica in the 50s when migrants wanted to copy the Black American Shuffling Blues but couldn't not afford the Blues Artist to perform . In the late 60s Soundsytems were in Carolina and Queens , Brooklyn bought over by Carribean workers Sound men N DJs when they saw the Girls like the Rnb they switched to Rnb Dance later Disco when it got to the Bronxs they changed it to the Funk and Latin grooves and some Rock.. But Black Americans created Bronk Hip hop and not aware of Reggae . Its disgusting how Carribean are being demonised for bringing a positive to Black Rnb music . Which mostly created by Black Smericans from Carolina . The one thing apart from Reggae they did copy from Jamaicans was SOUNDSYTEM ....show a bit of respect instead of disrespecting Carribeans .If u feel like to argue with me I'm on face book .
@@davidcummings5984 Ya'll still pushing and living off that sound system lie?? That nonsense has been DEBUNKED and y'all still spewing it anyway. We don't need y'all, The influence has always been one way💯
Exactly!!! This is all by design. There has always been a concerted effort by the dominant society to make Non FBA's the face of our culture and these tethers don't have a problem going along with it, That's why they can't be trusted and it's time to Delineate from them.
@@davidcummings5984 🤦🏾♂️Saying that HipHop was created by Caribbeans is just as bad as saying Columbus discovered America... You're claiming credit for something people were ALREADY doing. Herc said himself, he was playing Black American Music for Black Americans trying to please Black Americans. Jamaica was a non-factor. Period.
I like Coke mentioned the robot ha, ha, even James brown did the robot!! I did it back in the day ever since I first saw Campellockers on Carol Burnette 73 n Campbellocking I was hooked!!
All due respect to the campaign but I don't get how it's a problem to discuss La Rock's weed selling history but its cool to talk at length about the gang shit?? "Gang shit" is cool for kids?? 🤔
Mista KFresh... we never said discussing weed is a problem... We discussed weed in the past and we may discuss it again...but this channel wants to promote SOBER... more of us being sober... we feel our people are amazingly great!! and we feel our main obstacle (as a group of people) in America ..has been ..and still is.. drugs and alcohol !!.. YOU SAID..."GANG SHIT" IS COOL FOR KIDS?? 🤔... no!! .. but however UNIFIED YOUNG people can do great and powerful things.... IMAGINE if more of our young people was completely sober.. those "gangs" as you call them ... probably would transform themselves into powerful organizations!!... think about it.. most "gangs" as you call them... are young INTOXICATED PEOPLE!! ...Show me a "gang" with members thats completely sober... you probably won't find one.. so really.. drugs and alcohol is our issue
@@TheCulture..Starts1971 I hear you brother 👊🏿👊🏿
@@TheCulture..Starts1971 In ur opinion, Where did Hip hop fashion come from, NYC or somewhere else?
@Michael smith... hiphop fashion came from the young bronx teenagers who was buying clothes mainly from Harlem
@@TheCulture..Starts1971 I challenge that respectfully, u been woefully misinformed My bro.
Respect, they try to silence the OGs in favor for imposters from the 80s & 90s. These are the only dudes I wanna hear from that created the foundation of Hip Hop. Coke La Rock was right there with Kool Herc.
What impostors?
South Bronx is the birthplace of Hip-Hop, it comes to no surprise that the intermingling of Puerto Rican and West Indies along with Black styles are the main contributors to the basic Hip-Hop essence.Rap music originated on the island of Jamaica in the early 1960's and not in black ghettos of the United States. In the early 60's, when Jamaican sound-system operators had only a single turntable, they would employ the services of a slick-talking, rhyme-every-time person on the microphoneOften, when people here Hip-Hop they associate it with only African-Americans. However, Hip-Hop is actually the combination of West Indian, Puerto Rican, Blacks of New York. Hip-Hop has always been open to a diverse audience, and thus is not limited to one specific group. DJing started in Jamaica, where the artist would mix and scratch music with repetitive phrases mixed it. In Jamaica, and in many area of the West Indies, music is used as important as politics. Music was used to express the voice of the citizens. Political parties themselves used the musics of DJs to represent their positions. As people from the West Indies moved into New York and specifically the Bronx, they began to incorporate their values of music as a form as expression. When the West Indians began to live with the Puerto Ricans and African Americans of the South Bronx, their art of music mixed in with the rapping and rhyming of the people living there. Hip-Hop began to include in general, Rapping, DJing, Graffiti and Break Dancing. DJ Kool Herc and other DJ from the West Indies, gaining popularity from their style of music, began to encourage the youth to get involved in the art of Hip-Hop. Soon some gangs began to focus their concentration on Hip-Hop rather than using violence to express their anger with the environment they were in. Afrika Bambaataa would find the Universal Zulu Movement, which was a gang that focused on Hip-Hop. What all the people involved in Hip-Hop do have in common is how the merge the struggles of every day life, and their environment into their various forms of art in a way that people facing similar difficulties can also relate. Hip-Hop then turns into a voice of all those New Yorkers, and even beyond, who are constantly trying to improve their lives in a difficult environment.Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Bambaataa are the Holy Trinity of hip-hop. Bambaataa's role was carrying the gospel of hip-hop first downtown to white audiences, then to the rest of the world."
Coke La Rock is known for being the first rapper to ever spit rhymes after teaming up with DJ Kool Herc in 1973 and both are recognized as the original founding fathers of Hip Hop. Rap music was originally underground.The first major hip-hop deejay was DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), an 18-year-old immigrant who introduced the huge sound systems of his native Jamaica to inner-city parties.The location of that birthplace was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, and the man who presided over that historic party was the birthday girl's brother, Clive Campbell-better known to history as DJ Kool Herc, founding father of hip hop.Afrika Bambaataa is largely considered the Godfather of Hip-Hop. DJ Kool Herc is a forefather of hip-hop.DJ Kool Herc is the father of the breakbeat, the deejay practice of isolating and repeating "breaks," the most danceable portions of songs; breakbeats make up the foundation of modern hip-hop.Mar 30, 2005DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was the blueprint for hip hop music. Herc used the record to focus on a short, heavily percussive part in it: the "break". Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players.A Jamaican native who moved to New York City's Bronx borough at the age of 12, Kool Herc is widely credited as the originator of Hip Hop.
@@aferrer74 You wrote complete nonsense. Every piece of Hip hop already existed in Black American cultures. Extending breaks were already done by DJs like Pete Jones. The sound system was copied from here. Older Jamaicans who worked the fields in Florida as seasonal workers already said this. Let the old lies and myths go and get caught up on what really happened.
@@aferrer74 all that is bs...here's the truth th-cam.com/video/PcvWxe42QTM/w-d-xo.html
@@aferrer74 That's a bunch of Oxtail, Ackee, Jerk Chicken and Curry Goat Dreams of delusions. Show me the Jamaican or Caribbean in the early 1960's and 1970's whose music influence hip hop?
The first MC coke la rock says No PR or Jamaicans in the early days and Herc was influenced by the foundation black Americans. Bronxdale created Hip Hop.. case closed! Thanks for sharing
Absolutely 👏🏾‼️
What is Trixie
I’m confused, on “the freshest Kids” doc, herc says that Jamaicans were the first he heard mixing records bumping the loudest music on speakers. That doesn’t influence him and the culture?
Bruh Herc Jamaican but he was running in our circles. Notice he didn't even know Herc was Jamaican until a year after Knowing him. Every body else he named was FBA. Herc got ready for the battle by getting that Bootsie/Parliament energy. Notice Dj Dee and his Man's new more than Coke about the what and when Herc got his Equipment.
@@williamdrayton7352 In that interview Trixie proudly stated he was FBA from the Carolinas. He just looks Puerto Rican.
Well that closes the debate and argument. It's now very crystal clear that the Jamaican toasting theory was all nonsense and that Hip Hop was a wholly African-American creation from the start. I mean I knew all of this anyway, but for those who didn't know this is a conclusive and decisive video, and also greatly informative.
Thee End
Did u watch the video? coke la rock verified almost the entire story that's been told about herc. Definitely doesn't invalidate Herc and he didn't conclude that anyone else was doin this before him and Herc. It's well known that afro Americans were Hercs primary audience that's why he used funk music instead of playing reggae like DJs in the UK...but this doesn't invalidate Hercs claim or story. U also have to remember that West Indian migration had just started and most of them weren't going to the Bronx yet so Herc didn't have an audience that would understand reggae music. And the few West indians in the area at the time did what most immigrants do they assimilated into their surroundings
Even Herc admitted he had assimilated somewhat by the time he started doing parties
@@sioul8485 let it go vulture
@@sioul8485 I'm not invalidating Herc. I'm simply pointing out that this video proves the claims of Jamaican toasting as one of hip hop's main origin is false and inaccurate as La Rock demonstrates.
Coke LaRock deserves the world for his contribution to hip hop.
Michael Wayne puttin in that work for the black American culture.
Legend! COKE LA ROCK BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN✊🏿✊🏿💪🏿💪🏿💯💯 OUR CULTURE IS OUR CULTURE!!!
Black culture is black culture.
Just like white culture is white culture. Whites don't let themselves be divided unless it's war time.
Exactly!!!
Who partnered Kool Herc..black/African Jamaican..our culture is our culture.
@@ryrilo5078 He had it right the first time. Hip Hop is FBA culture, Point blank period 💯
@@ryrilo5078 ya got reggae maybe be content
These are the convos we need to piece together the accurate history.
This man need to do a world tour. This is how our history is stolen from us.
He tours all the time bro…..that’s family right there I’m with him everyday and 2 hear these stories is amazing
Damn I would pay to hear his story like a Concert if he ever came to the Bay Area CA.... I can imagine a lot of Colorism at that time with the light skin and dark skin narratives. I listened to a New York PR guy talkin bout how he was ready to slice n***** up in a club in New York. ( Ill edit once I locate his name). They was black and down when they came in the 50's and now they seem to have assimilated into the system of white supremacy. "Embrace the culture deny the ancestry" 🤔🤨👊🏽
Not even halfway through this, but I just wanted to comment and shout out all of the FBA men and women of NYC that contributed to our culture. They’ve literally tried to erase y’all out of history. It’s over for that. This man is deserving of so much MORE. It’s a shame how even the Hip Hop “icons” of NYC from the 80s and 90s with major wealth and influence have turned a blind eye to this man and others. I’m really appreciative for this information.
Nina513 Thank you for your comment
@@TheCulture..Starts1971 You’re welcome. Continue the great work.
@TheCulture..Since1971 appreciate you bro
R.I.P Kay Slay he showed the OGs love
Thanks for this video! Outstanding work. As I stated on many of your videos of Kool Herc.
As I spent all of the 70s in Bronxdale
I said I didn’t recall Kool Herc playing at Cedar Park or any park in the early 70s when I was a kid. Not saying he didn’t but to compare to other DJ rocking park jams.
Herc was non existence, like I said in other videos your posted. I didn’t really hear of Kool Herc until 75ish.
I took a lot of BS on my statements and I am happy that it was finally cleared up.
Doesn’t really matter, those guys played in the parks before him but Herc wrote the the script for the creation of rap music as we know it
@@enosger Kool Herc was not a rapper he was a DJ (Disc Jockey). He did not create music or beats or rap. He played other existing music or beats that was created by funk musicians. If I am wrong, please tell me where I can found rap or beats or music that DJ Kool Herc created. I want to hear it.
@@enosger herc aint write a blood clot thing foh
@@enosger Herc did not write any raps, he was only a DJ that mixed records, he was not a rapper in way shape or form. Coke La Rock was the one rapping, doing what was already being done in the African-American community. La Rock just made it sound cool when doing it Hip Hop style while acting as MC in Herc's parties.
@@enosger no he didn't.
I dig how he stand firm on not talking down on any man that's definitely a quilty many men are missing today
ADOCS Have Class❤
Yeah he gave it up and just kept it real no additives. That's probably why he's overlooked because alot of these other dudes make grandiose statements and get caught in lies.
Best interview about the origin I've ever seen. Kudos bro.
I'm a second generation Haitian immigrant, and Hip Hop has been a staple of my childhood being raised in Miami. Much love and RESPECT to the Foundational Black American fam for creating Hip Hop and all the rich cultural traditions that preceded it (Jazz, Funk, Disco, Rock, R&B, and Blues). We all one people, but we still need to acknowledge the work done by each part of the black family, and FBAs are the cultural progenitors and direct creators of Hip Hop.
No tf we are nit all one people you are Caribbean we are Black Africans are Africans we are delineating island boi
@@Mia-840 We ARE one people. Where do you think Foundational Black Americans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Afro-Brazilians, and every other group of the African diaspora came from? They came from Africa. The main difference between a Haitian and a Black-American is where a slave-ship landed. We are all ultimately from the same set of African peoples, but we have all derived our own cultures, and Foundational Black American people/culture made Hip Hop. It's called giving respect.
the lie died hard today. its good to hear the facts finally getting told the way it actually went. the whole world needs to hear it all come out from the cats that was actually there. its way too many ppl that wasnt there- not knowing- putting B$ in the game. deceiving the masses
WHY YALL EDITED OUT THE YEAR@8:18?
One love from South Carolina. Hip Hop definitely a part of my life lessons.
8:19 and 8:21 🤔 uhhh… is there any particular reason why you *bleeped* the dates out? 🧐
Yeah. That didn't make any sense. That battle supposedly tool place 1977
@@mackdabear from the sound of it and looking at Coke’s mouth, looks like he said ‘73.
He was talking about the battle between Pete Dj Jones and Kool Herc at the Executive Playhouse. That battle took place in 1977
GaFFLe...yes there is a reason...because yes the battle did happen... but I think coke la rock may have mistaken the year.. and we don't wanna give out false info.. so that's why the year was muted
@@TheCulture..Starts1971 yeah, that battle happened in the late 1970s and Flash was with Pete Dj Jones.
OG Coke La Rock..thank you for your contribution, salute!
Papa didn't cuss
He didn't raise a whole lotta fuss
But when we did wrong
Papa beat the hell out of us - James Brown, Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother #1, King of Hip Hop
When I was a kid, I remember having cassettes with just scratching and mixing and no rapping. We used to do the Freak Dance in the late 70s; that one I remember.
James Brown is considered the Godfather of Hip Hop, not Soul. Which was because Kool Herc would use his samples at his block parties that began Hip Hop.
@@wulaeofthetengu8336 James Brown is the Godfather of Soul
@@wulaeofthetengu8336How Kool herc Jamaican self knew James Brown music before us?.😑 We showed him how to do this here
Why are you the ONLY one who is doing this content? Amazing
There will be others. Coming soon. Some of the OG's don't remember everything accurately. Some of us who are younger and was there can add to the facts that are left out so that the people who are interested can get a better picture of how it was.
Because it’s mostly lies
Because most Hip Hop publications and forums are foreign ran/owned and they don’t want to promote the truth about FBAs being the creators of ALL American music genres. That’s why men like this are never revered, he knows too much.
I believe the debate is now over!
You b makin these dope ass videos. I can watch them all day. Mad props. U b diggin. I love it. Keep up the good work. Peace
Thanks to all involved for documenting this history👍
I've always been Blues, Soul and R&B oriented, never truly got into Hip Hop and Rap but, I'm learning.
Thanks so much for posting this. This guy deserves a statue!
Super DOPE interview!!! Salutes to the living Legend...
This was well needed... Thanks...
Great interview and great shows as always! Keep up the good work!
Now we need to get the East (Soundview) and West Bronx brothers together for a nice discussion…
Coke is telling his Truth ! I grew up around Coke, Herc Butch, Trixy aka Larry Myers. This is my era. 1969-70 went to 82 in the 6 grade. Mark was Coke's best friend.
How many DJs you met or knew during this time?
Great!
That was very informative. Where's the link to his merch?
Kelly J. Monroe... good question I will ask him
You can tell Coke is serious n passionate about his place in Hip-Hop history I love it he gives you tha real you wish yo was there to see it!
Why has @8:18 been censored? Still watching.
73
@@abyss104 Yes bro, I got that too, so why censor it twice?
@@nadimovitch9237 I think the narrative that the brother of this page is trying to portray is that hip hop predates 1973. That's why I believe it's being censored.
@@abyss104 but it does others he interviewed says 71
He was talking about the battle between Pete Dj Jones and Kool Herc, which took place in 1977. Pete Dj Jones was the most dominant dj in the Bronx, not just in the clubs but also in the parks starting in 1970 (when he migrated from North Carolina)
Thanks Michael Wayne TV for documenting “The Culture”!
It went out both times when y'all said they year. How is it possible?
Don Catalog because Coke La Rock may have been mistaken with the year... so we didn't wanna put out the wrong year ... so it was muted
Because they lying 🤥
I have nothing against coke la rock he should receive all the credit he deserves for the record!
Big ups to these authentic interviews from the original sources!!!!
Excellent interview! Hip-Hop is #Freedmen music!
My guy deserves so much more praise. It's honestly disrespectful he doesn't.
Whoa. That closing scene with Coke rapping. Where can I get that?
@josuearceo2178... look up dj kay slay
Great interview. I wish it was a part 2
Why did the sound drop out when he said the year in which cool herc had a battle
The battle happened in 1977.
Dan Tyn... because yes the battle did happen... but I think coke la rock may have mistaken the year.. and we don't wanna give out false info.. so that's why the year was muted
Good stuff right here. appreciate the interview.
Yo this is some REAL good stuff!!! I was born in 72 and this stuff was going on even back then.
Salute
Much respect to my brother the legendary Coke LA Rock!! 👑✊🏾🔎💎👍🏾💯
Hip hop legend right here it's like listening to the men that started jazz and rock n roll...tee la rock ..Scott la rock..nuff said.
Man, much respect to Coke La Rock! 👑👑👑👑👑👑
As a teen we walked to JHS 82 for park jams from the east side of the Grand Concourse 💜
The spirit of Michael Wayne lives on!!!
Is Coke La Rock related to Scott La Rock from Boogie Down productions?
Whats the tune at 32.29 ?
The MC sounds like Rakim ? Love the rawness of it
@leefox1571 .. yes Rakim "teach the children"
@@TheCulture..Starts1971 Thank-you
20 minutes in ….. thank you for this history but more importantly, HIS story.
Sounds to me like Herc was shady. Sounds like He brought 1-2 elements to the table and is taking credit for 10
He didn't even bring in two elements
He brought no elements
Herc was not being shady at all. It is just that people got the wrong impression of what it was that they did. It wasn't about bringing anything to the "table". There was no table to bring anything to at the time. What they did was play in a style that no one else was doing. Their style is what caught on and that style is what spread throughout the Bronx. It was mainly the records they played that no one else was playing that got the got crowds hyped. All I can say is that you had to be there to see the distinction between what they were doing and what other DJ's were doing. Cholly Rock explained it several times in different videos.
@@soulknob but, Cool D and Phase said that Herc copied their and Disco King Mario’s records, playing style and Sound system. In other words, they did hip hop before Herc. I’m not trying to argue for the sake of arguing, but a whole new side of the story about the origin has risen from the East Bronx and I just want to know which one is the truth and why Herc is the only one who get credit as the Father
@@hbsoltpk Kool Herc isn’t the only Father, this dude with DJ fake(phase) just trying to discredit Kool Herc bc he’s Jamaicans who gave flowers to other Jamaicans who Influenced him, Dj Mario own Mc said he told him he gonna get the same records like Kool Herc to get him started Like Herc mcee
Big Ups to Coke LA Rock ! Thanks my brother for sharing you're Talent with us ...! Live long Brah !
Great Stuff!!$ I hope and wish to god that Coke La Rock will do his own documentary 🙏
Met the man last year. Cool azz brother. Salute to the original MC.
Much better interview than the one on Vladtv. You were asking all the right questions!
Thanks!!!!!
The Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans never created any other music that was influenchal like black Americans who y'all think y'all fooling
They foolin the fools
@@johnjack902 THEY ARE THE FOOLS if they think folks are going to believe their goofy asses. They cared about the US sooooooooo much, they decided to bring their beggin' asses over here and gift us Hip Hop
@@johnjack902 FACTS!!!
You bugging bro, Reggae Music is international just like Hip Hop and Salsa is international just like Hip Hop. Both Reggae and Salsa were international before Hip Hop. Nothing got to be bigger then the other. Be respectful, or at least be knowledgeable and not ignorant
@@smezierThey don't know, excuse their ignorance.😂😂😂
Fire information 🔥
Holy sh*t, Scott la rock got his name from coke la rock. I never made the connection. Mind blown 🤯
Great video!!!
I recall a comedian talking about growing up in New York. He said that he never knew that his friends were foreigners until he went to their house and met their Mother.
My uncle, who is 69 yrs old said the exact same thing as a teenager in the 1970's. They were brutal with the jokes. While hanging out together, they would call their homeboy a "coconut" once they went to his house and learned he was a brother from the West Indies. In my old Brooklyn neighborhood, I noticed that most dudes who came to America during this time worked EXTRA HARD to get rid of their accents.
Coke La Rock is a legend ✊🏾
La Rock is a LEGEND! Salute!
Them old cats had class and soul..FUNKY 4+1 ✌🏾
We need a Dj Smokey interview
facts
I Agree absolutely, they only telling certain stories. It's the same thing with me. One of the 1st female MC Shorty Tee via Queens an entire history trying to omit.. Along with intellectual properties. I refuse to be silent. I MC'd in #1976 in North Carolina. Billy Woods Place. @waynetv
Great Interview 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Dope NYC history love the 70s bless Coke La Rock
I can't tell if his utterance of 1973 at the beginning of the video was blocked, or if there were just technical issues.
Y’all hear it from the horses mouth. I told y’all The Last Poets are The Godfather of Hip Hop . Harlem and Philly 1969
And Felipe Luciano was in the last poets and he was Boricua 🇵🇷🗽
@@BoricuaNyc True but not a founding member
@@BoricuaNyc he didn't start nothing!! He was just a member
Step pops put me on the Last Poets as kid in late 70’s all dope material
@@stacytaylor4876 My uncle is a original member. He was rapping in the mid 60s Philadelphia then he moved to Harlem NY and met the other members of The Last Poets in 1969 . Melle Mel got his flow from my Uncle and many other rappers around 1974 on up
Interview kool herc
I like how you put this together! "Mari-o-o-o-o!"
Great interview! Keep up the good work on sharing to truth. Appreciate you brother. Peace ✌🏾
I have a feeling this is the brother that Akademics was referring to.
Akademics needs to apologize for what he said. He is eating off of what these cats innovated.
😂🤣🤣🤣
THIS IS GOLD!
When you analyze the 1968 song Here Comes the Judge by Pigmeat Markham you hear MCing with Cadence, storytelling, Funk beats n Break Beats, clearly placed Hooks, interludes And Skits... The bridge is over beginning even sounds similar with singular snare hits and 1 crash cymbal hit.. FBA all day
Mannnn!!! I’m loving this history lesson!! This is part we all need to know..
What is the implications behind your questions?? You're always alluding to something!
That's the difference between journalism and propaganda. 😂
Shout out to coke la rock a legend in the game he next to my building 1050 sound view Bronx dale stan up!
Well I'm in my 60s from Bed-Stuy Brooklyn and we was doing the same thing they were doing in the Bronx. DJing with Music in the streets along with Project Center parties but the first brother I heard rapping from the Bronx was DJ Hollywood and nobody seems to mention him??
The difference between what Herc and them did and what everyone else was doing is the style of play and their presentation. They were cool AF and the records with the break parts was mesmerizing. No one else was rocking those records. Cholly Rock said as much on this channel.
They never mention DJ Tex Hollywood because he’s Boricua🇵🇷🗽
Sitting in my room Saturday August 12th 1973 in the afternoon and heard a song from my living room. Bestowed to me was a tall stature of a man we called Clive who was Kool aka Kool DJ Herc playing a song called Skin Tight by the Ohio Players . The equipment was column speakers horns bass bottom Altec Speakers and Cerwin Vegas with the technic turn tables and echo chamber.
My building 1600 shared the park with 1520 on what we know now is Hip Hop Boulevard . That day my friend Jeffrey Wyatt known as Spooky who could break dance and introduced me to the art. He yelled Akbar come on down. When I asked what’s happening he said It’s a block party. I said a block party ? What’s a block party? That day it was so many people in our neighborhood walking across the 174st bridge and from University Avenue and beyond , because we lived in what we called the valley . To us the West side was the best side. Herc had B Boys and B Girls battling being introduced on the microphone and echo chamber. Her. And Coke was our outlet to all sounds like hustling break dancing skating dancing and slow grinding. R and B Soul Disco Breaking beats, listening music, rap and such . They gave us a sound that personifies Hip Hop all the way until the break of dawn as him and Coke la Rock known as the Father MC would say on the mic. Coke along with the Father of Hip Hop Kool Herc with a Base in your face and the hi’s in your eyes.. This Transcended world wide and crossed all points of the world and became a Global Phenomenon . Hip Hop Stories
Akbar aka Ak la Rock 1600 Hip Hop Boulevard!
Yo..... as a brovah from the Boogie Down Bronx. born at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, year 1973 and raised on the West Side. 169 Washington Ave, Webster Ave. I've Witnessed alot of these Jams and 1977 1978 thru the early 80s. IM STILL Proud and Grateful that had a Chanceto have witnessed Hip-hopat beginning stages..it's a Honor to hear the stories... I have Alot of Key Stories to tell Aswell... lol!!! I Really Enjoyed this Classic interview with one of the Greats , Coke La Rock.....Plus the B footage was On Point my brovah. . Zalute !!! Keep up the good work fam✊🏾💯🎤
You was at jams, at age four???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@randee4550 Damn you stay stalking FBA'S, I know y'all are extremely jealous and envious of us but this is ridiculous smh
@@melanatedwarrior3530 FBA can SMD
@@randee4550 It amazes how you're jealous and envious of FBA'S, While at the same time mimicking and appropriating our style. Poor guy LMFBAAO 🤣
@@melanatedwarrior3530 Fuck FBA
I understand his frustration
Good interview
Update: based on the information I just received coke la rock is indeed telling the truth. The video from a year ago was vlad lying on the origins of hip-hop he just made it seem as if coke la rock agreed. It's important that coke la rock and dj phase continue to spread the truth to counter dj vlads lies! As well as fat Joe and others who lie on the origins of hip-hop
Wtf? Hip hop was a evolution of of what was going on in the bx in that time yall way to simple minded to understand it.
@@bangswift the comment I left addresses Vladimir lying about hip-hop, vlad said "hip-hop came from Jamaica and other races of people". Which is a lie, Vladimir tried to set coke la rock up by pulling him into his agenda! He made it seem as if coke la rock was telling that lie but he wasn't.
😤Now, the Caribbeans (Herc, Bambaataa, and Flash) do NOT even mention HIS name and try to CUT HIM OUT OF HipHop.
So why is he in Krs1's lyric then?
Hip hop would never have materialise without Soundsystem .Mobile Sounds systems started in Jamaica in the 50s when migrants wanted to copy the Black American Shuffling Blues but couldn't not afford the Blues Artist to perform . In the late 60s Soundsytems were in Carolina and Queens , Brooklyn bought over by Carribean workers Sound men N DJs when they saw the Girls like the Rnb they switched to Rnb Dance later Disco when it got to the Bronxs they changed it to the Funk and Latin grooves and some Rock.. But Black Americans created Bronk Hip hop and not aware of Reggae . Its disgusting how Carribean are being demonised for bringing a positive to Black Rnb music . Which mostly created by Black Smericans from Carolina . The one thing apart from Reggae they did copy from Jamaicans was SOUNDSYTEM ....show a bit of respect instead of disrespecting Carribeans .If u feel like to argue with me I'm on face book .
@@davidcummings5984 Ya'll still pushing and living off that sound system lie?? That nonsense has been DEBUNKED and y'all still spewing it anyway. We don't need y'all, The influence has always been one way💯
Exactly!!! This is all by design. There has always been a concerted effort by the dominant society to make Non FBA's the face of our culture and these tethers don't have a problem going along with it, That's why they can't be trusted and it's time to Delineate from them.
@@davidcummings5984 🤦🏾♂️Saying that HipHop was created by Caribbeans is just as bad as saying Columbus discovered America... You're claiming credit for something people were ALREADY doing. Herc said himself, he was playing Black American Music for Black Americans trying to please Black Americans. Jamaica was a non-factor. Period.
Kool herc era in jamaica sound system uses two turntales and mixers
Fun fact: The actor Russell Crowe started out as a singer called Russ La Rock.
I loved on Jesup...up that long as hill..then down the block..then up 5 flights, damn!!! Went to Taft too.
Lived on Jesup.
This the New York I remember I don't know what's going on nowadays
I like Coke mentioned the robot ha, ha, even James brown did the robot!! I did it back in the day ever since I first saw Campellockers on Carol Burnette 73 n Campbellocking I was hooked!!
this guy said he don't know kool dj dee??
Why you bleep out the year of when herc battled pete jones
I went to JHS 82, Class of'90.... And was born in 1849 Sedgwick Ave...
HIP HOP BABY!!! 🅱️❌
This was a good one
Why did you muffle the year when he said Herc battled DJ Jones?
That's the legend