Aight Analysts, I had a wide ranging conversation with Tariq Nasheed. The cultural historian and documentarian released a fantastic documentary called "Microphone Check: Hip Hop's Hidden History" which covers the true origins of each element of Hip Hop. The film interviews several founders including Grandmaster Caz, DJ Hollywood, Busy Bee, Sha-Rock, Corn Bread, and dives deep into the early days and origins of the culture that captured the world. Spoiler alert: I'm interviewed in the film as well. This conversation tackles Fat Joe's assertion that Puerto Ricans were 50/50 in Hip Hop's creation story, how Drake vs Kendrick Lamar resonated with Foundational Black Americans, debating President Barack Obamas legacy in regards to FBAs, being considered "divisive," and the hilarious story about how an incarcerated youth named Corn Bread created modern graffiti. Visit microphonecheck.com/ to view Hip Hop's Hidden History. Also, thank you to everyone who's donated to the linktree or Cashapp to help forward the mission of the channel. It's all happening. LinkTree: linktr.ee/thecompanyman
😂😂😂 Mississippi birthed music in America and rapping started there! You all need to give Mississippi there flowers and give respect to your ancestors. Then the music jumped a crossed the river into Louisiana and Jazz other genres were born!!!! So you lying azz people who want to erase Mississippi and Louisiana out of history for birthing the music in America you have another thing coming!
I'm 65 years old from Marcy, Tompkins and Sumner Projects in Brooklyn. At the beginning of Hip-hop, there were Hispanics people in the neighborhood but they did not participate in our Parties or when we had Music in the Streets. They were heavily into Salsa, "Not James Brown". Now out of the 3 Projects I just named I can name 2 Hispanic guys that used to hang out with us. One was from Marcy and the other one was from Tompkins. It wasn't 50/50 then and it never was 50/50.. Not even now.. Look at Terror Squad., there's only one Black artist and that was Remy Ma.. Plus Big Pun brought her in, Not Fat Joe so I don't get what he's talking about??? If it was 50/50 someone please named the Hispanic rap artist's that was out at the beginning? I'll Wait.. I mean there's no hate it's just reality. Jamaican was and still is mainly in Flatbush Brooklyn and in the 70s there wasn't really that many Jamaican families there so how was we influenced by them??
Thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 . The movie " Rubble Kings " showed how heavy in the 70s gang culture along racial lines were . Black people were moving away from the street gangs and got into creating Hip Hop before the Puerto Ricans started to give up the gang culture . I remember the Hip Hop park jams in south Brooklyn and the Puerto Rican street gangs like the " Savage Skulls " and the " Crazy Homocides " would come around and most times it would break out in fights between the Black attendees and the PR gangs . The gangs might of not been having the big gang wars with each other like in the past but they still were going around f*cking with people , and the PR gangs liked f*cking with Black people . They were holding onto that gang sh*t up until the Black urban street styles started making them look like old played out glue sniffing dusty bums .
I remember an old magazine interview with Remy, and she is part Spanish. In another old Magazine interview, Armageddon said he was just light skinned Black and wasn't Spanish at all.
I was born on 1962, still to these days Latinos/Hispanics and Jamaican are Caribbeans nationalities which all Caribbeans music sound the same even Afro Beats music sounding the same in every song that’s out, and it’s still only a couple of Hip Hop rappers who’s Latinos/Hispanics or Jamaicans/Caribbean which is Cardi B and Nicki Minaj It is so many Freedmen/Foundation Black Americans Hip Hop MC, Rapper’s that it will take a few hours to type in the names !!!!!!!!!!!!! The question is when is the Latinos/Hispanics, Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans/Caribbeans going to make a Hip Hop documentary so the world can hear and see something they’re claiming on the totally Hip Hop culture !!!!!!!!!!!!
That's right brother I was there back then in Queens Bridge projects and we had some PR's but they were doing their own thing They gravitated more to Disco then later Hip Hop I went to a high school in Manhattan called Printing H.S. (now called Graphic Communications and Arts) and down the block from Park West High Printing High was mostly Harlem and the Bronx and some of my classmates and friends grew up with alot of these guys like Charlie Chase n Cold Crush practicing In his apartment I got all my party tapes of Harlem World jams and Conventions from school
I was in a mostly Puerto Rican gang called the Savage Skulls is the 70s. My PR friends were not into “Nigga or Jungle Music”. That’s what they called it. Some of my friends had to sneak to do it and they weren’t at the parties. Fat Joe needs to apologize.
I'm Puerto Rican and been around since the 70s and you are full of it..I was part of a crew and we had Morenos with us all day long ...of course you come from the racist biker gang demographic everyone has their group of racists
It’s amazing how the people “with no culture “always have people trying to copy theirs. Here’s a little side note, the modern drums that everyone use was made by an FBA named DD Chandlier who’s parents were born during slavery and he’s from New Orleans. Every genre of music in America we created.
The first shall be last and the last shall be first we special people survived the most brutal chattel slavery the most high love us all these other races and different ethnic blacks don't have to like us we just need to love and unite within black Americans
Thank you for pointing that out. It was one of our own who created the drum set which ended up allowing us to further come up with genres that work best with certain drum patterns that you can't get from those separate drum ensembles that marching bands use. You get those modern drum patterns from drum sets only. Without the drum set, no one would've come up with the "On the One" concept that James Brown came up with because drum ensembles in a marching band always come up with polyrhythms that don't work in that steady rhythmic manner that works for Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, etc. With that being said, how in the world could any other group come up with our music when our music, rhythmically, is heavily based on an instrument one of our own had created?
Some of those slaves had descendants from Africa right? Thus the African slaves passed on their traditions from generation to generation in the new land, right? Why does this so-called FBA generation not acknowledge that? A seed blown away by the wind, growing 40 000 KM away from it`s roots, doesn't change it's roots, right? I'm i tripping? FBA are ashamed of their African roots, because White Supremacy told them to do so. What a shame ... smh
@user-xd2zc7lg2t Kool herc mixed and extended soul & funk beats both FBA genre's so herc brought nothing from Jamaica and biggie was born here fully assimilated into FBA culture rhyming and rapping in our style slang and cadence
@user-xd2zc7lg2t FBA's rhyming and rap style comes from the dozens and that's the style biggie busta and Caribbean blacks in hip hop assimilated too we know our FBA history and we know ur and y'all not us 😂
Tariq needs his PROPS. I am from Harlem in the 80s (shoutout to Dr. Clarke) and have always been about KNOWLEDGE of OUR people. Starting w Hidden Colors, Tariq has continually put OUR people in the correct context.
@@icanseaclearnow It makes perfect sense in light of the fact that some in the diaspora have already used their culture to delineate themselves from black Americans. Now that black folks in this country are claiming our culture, all of a sudden it's a problem. Make that make sense!
I remember going to Jamaican clubs in Oakland CA in the late 80s and 90s and saying damn there is a Jamaican version of every song from my childhood. Lol, there is no way hip hop came from them, now they influenced British 80s music for sure.
Lmao facts you ain't lying my g, I'm Trinidadian born I'm 33 now and you absolutely right coming up we hear it all every remixed you can hear of american blacks music b1👊🏿😂.
@@7771croy You clown, I didn't say it was bad that they made versions of 70s soul music and they did, however back then Black Americans was not making remakes of Jamaican artists and that's a fact. Whenever someone says, You cant make this shit up and there not coming with facts too back up that statement they have already lost the argument. Hip Hop didn't come from Jamaica but they did influenced British music from the late 70s and 80s.
@@ponderosafuture Do you know DJ Kool Herc is and is role in the founding of the genre? What about U-Roy, are you familiar with his music at all? th-cam.com/video/guhdPYnq-gc/w-d-xo.html
What Non FBA's don't understand, Hip-hop is all about paying homage to the records we grew up on at the Bar B Q and Family reunions. Or being played on Sundays while Momma cleaning the house. It's all about celebrating BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE. That's what HIP-HOP IS. It has nothing to do with Caribbean culture because that wasn't in our house holds growing up.
No it wasn't! It was all about getting together and having fun, smoking herb, drinking liquor, getting high and screwing. All that embellishing BS was for the media.
Latino Brothers and Sisters DID NOT help create Hip Hop at all. THIS IS NOT A QUESTION. The Puerto Ricans in The Bronx at that time ostracized the very few who CHOSE TO EMBRACE THAT PART OF FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE.. I remember they were actually racist against Foundational Black Americans and Darker skinned Puerto Ricans. They had their own jams in the park and never played any breaks or funk or soul. ONLY SALSA ... NOTHING ELSE. Even though they're my people too. I GOTTA TELL THE FACTS❗
You can only talk about those in the Bronx....what about Brooklyn ??? Did you go 2 the jams in Brooklyn....??? Dynasty Rockers, Together We Chill, Rock The House, Mastermind Rockers all 🇵🇷 Party Crews that Rock Dance to Jimmy Castor, James Brown, Funk & Boogaloo Beats by Puerto Rican & Black Latino DJs from Brooklyn that was doing the same thing the Bronx was doing from 70s-80s 💯 Gangs from the Bronx were invited to these jams Savage Skulls, Savage Nomads & Ching A Lings & they would jam with BKLYN PUERTO ROCKS. 💯 In Brooklyn their were many Black Latinos & Caribbean 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇯🇲 🇹🇹 🇬🇾 Different vibes Different Musix & Dancing in Brooklyn 💯 Hip Hop is the name the Bronx gave to that style of music since every boro was doing the same thing even Queens had their own Style of Rap Music 💯 Blacks Were not called Foundational Black American in the 70s they called themselves Afro-Americans 💯 they dislike the Term Negro/Black & embrace their African Roots...💯 Latinos used the term Negro alot even called white latino Negro because of Hair color...not skin color.... even Black Latino aknowledge this. & Black americans hated on Black Latinos because they were with Latinas... Blacks Americanz never Saw a white Latina & a Black Latino married & having kids...That was common among the Latino Community while Blacks never had this type of experience since they grew up racially disconnected & main reason why their was alot of frictions. If it wasnt for Latinos & Caribbean Folks Hip Hop wouldnt be ever it is....💯
@nuttabutter1963 I from Brooklyn 62 years young and the only thing Puerto Ricans created was Rice & Beans.They called what we were doing jungle music.
Or you can be like me, not like Tariq and think some of his conclusions to our history are misguided. But enjoy history and black American heritage so new untold stories are always welcomed. Message and messenger kind of thing 🤷🏾♂️
Congrats on this great interview Justin. We need more like this. Tariq’s breakdown of the beginnings of our beloved Hip Hop music and culture are essential learning from this point forward in all textbook conversations of how, when and why Hip Hip started.
Wow. This was a wonderful interview. I've yet to see Microphone Check but every review assures me of the positive impact it's having in the community. Tariq hit the nail on the head when noting how all our accomplishments are attributed to outside sources, but our dysfunctions are internal manifestations from slavery. Great job Justin. New subscriber.
Black Americans and Americans as a whole are tired of the arrogant disrespect(including sabotaging) and so we're not taking it anymore. A lot of foreign people tend to get comfortable then begin to act exactly like where they come from. ie. tribalist, hostile, passive aggressive, act dumb, and etc. Why do you think there has been such a backlash throughout the entire West including USA, Canada, Scandinavian Nordic countries, UK, Australia, Europe, and etc. when it comes to immigration. Why do you think Europe has moved more Conservative when it comes to immigration. And, those weren't questions but a realization of the negative effects of bringing in new people(legal and illegal). Wise Federal Governments invest heavily into their own native population and citizens first. Even as generous as those Scandinavian Nordic countries they are basically closed their borders because of recent immigrants not assimilating, are hostile, and think they are entitled to the same Rights and Freedoms that they didn't even create or fight for🇺🇸
Black American women are the freest and most prosperous black women to ever live and you pretending that you're "going through" something in America today is a slap in the face of black ancestors who actually lived through oppression.
Yes we are all that. So, we made a lane for all black immigrants to come to our country and share the same freedoms and prosperity of our hard work. But now these ones we helped are HOSTILE to use even to the point of mistreating our elders in medical facilities! Im ready for them to be DEPORTED!@HypnoticHollywood
Thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 . The movie " Rubble Kings " shows how divisive along racial lines with the street gangs in the 70s . Black people had dropped the gang culture before the Puerto Ricans finally gave it up . Black people were having rap jams in the parks and at Block parties when the Puerto Ricans were still walking around in their gang colors in the 70's . It was Black people who came out with the early 70s street styles like the gabardine dress pants with the stitching or the split along the side of the pants , the Mock neck sweaters and rocking the silver or gold medallion chain , the Cord Field coats , and the Lee jeans suit . The Puerto Ricans were slow on rocking the street styles .
This guy is definitely biased with this non-FBA politicians nonsense. I like his take on hip hop, but he should stick to that. Not politics!! He sounds way too ultra ethnocentric to me.
There is something special about us, something beautiful, something unique, something out of the ordinary, something devine 😮FBA are a very beautiful ethnicity. There culture dominate the world 🌎 Long Live FBA-Foundation Blaq Americans. Danny Tukes FVSC
We are the chosen that all nations hate but imitates...read and study everything that they said not to. All praise to YAHUAH the true and living Supreme Being Perfect without sin 🙏🏾...Our Father
Wow.. I loved this interview. The interviewer was able to dispel all of the different points people have been making about the creators of Hip Hop and the many allegations against Tariq Nasheed. I really enjoyed this interview. Respect to both of these brothers coming to the table having a intelligent, candid and respectful conversation. BTW you have a new subscriber. Keep up the great work.
Tariq once again brought truth to power, what a great tandem, allowed Tariq to dispelled all of the myths especially the LIE-tinos 50/5O bs. Interviewer did a great job asking the right question and keeping it interesting, new subscriber
I am from Trinidad and Tobago and i been listening to rap as a child in the early 90's i was caught up into Jamaicans creating hip hop but as listen to people like Mr Tariq i have gotten the knowledge that FBA created the hip hop .
Rap is one of the most popular genres in the world, but unfortunately its history has never been properly documented. Native Black Americans have rapped in music since the post emancipation era. However most books, articles and documentaries insinuate or outright claim that the genre is something new that started in New York with the Hip-Hop youth movement.
Don't you think that Black people "rapped" over African drums, calypso, Cuban son, Brazillian sambas, blues and jazz? Jamaican toasting emerged out of the mobile sound systems and they talked over pre-recorded music. This was something totally different.
@Ayinde65 You're off-topic, Rap is an exclusively Native Black American creation and what's being spoken of is the fact that the genre hasn't been properly documented.
It’s the same with the Latino fraternities and sororities, now they copied black frats and sors with stepping and strolling and the Greek letter jackets like we have. They copy everything we do.
@@TekniCaliSpeakinThe same people who cry when those Spainards don't even claim you and treat Latinos horribly even though Latinos try to claim Spain as their Motherland. The Irony💔
This was so insightful. Im a 42yo Black, excuse me, FBA that is very up on history and perspective but wow how i needed this. I was born in '82 so i aint see hip hop before that nor hear it told in this manner. These nuances about FBA lineage and others is 1 million % true, unless its negative.I feel so blessed to have come across this video. STREAM THIS SHXT MAN! I need to see this and so does my 15yo son. Man WE ALL DO...FR Thx to both of y'all ✊🏾
Brownsville BKLYN. Born 1969. When hip hop got popular with US, Hispanics acted like WE were corny. Once they saw WE didn’t give a damn what they thought, cause WE were loving it……even THIER women, THEN they got on board.
Bro. Brownsville is still the most backward part of NYC. Cablevision even refused to furnish that area, with cable lines, because NOBODY there couldn't even afford it! This is a true story!!!
Well KRS -1 says otherwise and I was there..I'm the OG...and while of course the old school Puerto Ricas were not rocking hip-hop, their kids were ie my generation, we were going against our parents wishes and pursuing hip hop with our friends. Puerto Rican is an ethnicity NOT a race...WE are BLACK!
These are the interviews/in depth conversations we need. There is so much knowledge and history that isn't music related in Hip-hop that bleeds into every piece of American culture; and it nowhere near unpacked enough. This video is much appreciated and even more needed. Talks like this are why I subscribed. 🫡🫡
They know they didnt co-create shit. Thats why they tried to rewrite history and claim Trixie and Disco King Mario as Ricans, until that shit got debunked lmao
Shout out to Justin for bringing Tariq on & talking about this film a lot of reputable HipHop journalist and radio stations have outright avoided this project, probably due to industry politics but no one can argue against scholarship and empirical research HipHip is a Ethnic Black American Genre!
Brother I just published a book about Harlem 1977/78. It includes an essay about the origins of hip hop including photographs that I took. It's a true story about a teenager who took a train from California to NYC during the heyday of hip hop. The Dr Colons and other critics love to dismisses us for not being there, but I was.
Man, you can't drop source without a connection!!! Please, for the love of your scholarship, could you please provide an ISBN number or a link to your website so we can buy it? Thanks!
Absolutely amazing this interview deserves a standing ovation we appreciate The Company Man for sharing your platform to shine light on this historic moment in time and family pay attention to all the so called Hip Hop media platforms who haven't invited Tariq on to speak and promote this film, they haven't even so much as mentioned the documentary AT ALL. I'm talking about The Breakfast Club, Ebro, Drink Champs, Million Dollars Worth Of Game, Joe Budden etc. in the words of Katt Williams "In 2024 all truths will be exposed"
I'm glad somebody courageously stepped up to set the record straight, others could have - but they scared to deal the the massive whiny backlash that would follow. shalom
I can’t even see how it can be argued. Especially being the creators of so much music. These people haven’t done enough to be compared in no way whatsoever. We even went 50/50 on salsa with the Afro Cubans
Like it or not, Puerto Ricans and mexicans just werent around black people like that back in the days; just like they arent today. theres always a few stragglers that are around, but theyve never been around black people to the point where they would influence anything within black america. keep in mind this was fresh off the civil rights act being passed. so the racism against most poc was still thick. still, there was no STRONG unity amongst poc back then. most of these groups have historically created their own little enclaves, which were separate from black america. everyone tackled the issue in their own little way. I have audio of MLK having to request spanish people to come out to his rallies for civil rights - mainly because many of them werent out there, and instead just sat back and took abuse. they had chicano movements and things like that. but for the most part, they were more so trying to join white america, as opposed to fight back vs a group that didnt want to unify with them. the group that tackled racism to the point where change was produced was black americans. and asians, 1st/2nd generation africans, Caribbean, mexicans etc benefitted from that fight. hence the reason u saw the population numbers for all the aforementioned group shoot thru the roof after 1965. anyways.... its impossible to claim u help create something with a group that the majority of the people from your culture have historically kept their distance from. it doesnt make sense
Yep. Many of those groups were legally white in the deep South, Texas, Oklahoma and California, etc. They all served in white military units and attended "whites only" colleges and universities. The leaders of their main advocacy organizations opposed the Civil Rights movement.
@Ayinde65 I DO KNOW that signifying and playing the dozens while rhyming is 100% foundational black american culture. Send me a link of your earliest comedic rhymers...I'll wait. Wherever you're from, you just made a fool out of your people in this conversation🤦🏿♂️
Question is…will this documentary be displayed in the hip hop museum because it seems to me that it should be. This isn’t about a racial divide, it’s about the facts that always get misinterpreted as time goes on. That’s why we need to be thankful that the ones who created this are still around to shed the light👍🏾
55:10 Many people got caught in a trap. Because it was started by black people. Give us our flowers. But when the Puerto Ricans from New York got a hold of break dancing. They took the torch and ran with it. And took break dancing to another level. The same thing with the burner or wild style graffiti helped raise the bar very high in power moves and spins. So they played a big part in the 3 elements of hip hop and mastered it. Big props, though, to Tariq nasheed for giving the creators of hip hop their props, that is long over do much respect, that they deserve their recognition 👏🏿
Great interview Hip-Hop wise! As a Black American (Louisiana and Floridian lineage) I’m sympathetic to the FBA movement I just hate the political conclusions. Our self determination is irreconcilable with greater American society and we can’t work within their systems to get that self determination. We should look to thinkers like David Walker (of Walker’s Appeal), Harry Haywood, and other revolutionary Nationalists in the future.
Thank you guys, this was such an important video it's always important to revist the origins ever so often to make sure things don't get revised incorrectly keep the facts pure for the culture 🙏
I appreciate the perspective, getting the history right is important especially if we want to learn from it. As a Puerto Rican, i gotta speak on the Conquistador comment though cuz it makes it seem like Puerto Ricans in the Bronx at that time had the resources to be colonizers. On top of reflecting about race we also gotta talk socio-economics, there's a reason people live in the same neighborhoods. The Puerto Ricans were there in the first place because their homeland was and is suffering the effects of colonialism. There's a lot of history there and I think it's a stretch to compare people trying to escape poverty and lack of self determination to Conquistadors from Spain who came with the intention of taking all the gold. Also, there's a history of racism within Puerto Rican culture.. we're genetically a mix of Spanish, African and Indigenous. Obviously the Spanish were structurally racist against the Africans and Indigenous, and some of that has stayed in the culture, no doubt. But there's also an African lineage that has been preserved within specific communities and the culture as a whole, and these groups have always had close connections with Black America especially in the struggles against racism and neocolonialism, moreso than with other Caribbean peoples because of the relationship between PR and USA. So maybe some dudes are rewriting the history to feel more inclusion in the culture, but I don't see how they can be described as colonizers.
Most Black Americans do not know PR's. PR's are mostly in NYC - and most PR's still identify as White (race). So, that's probably why. Like Fat Joe is a WHITE man.
I've been rocking with you Justin, for well over a decade now and i have no issues with the message but your buddy Tariq has a lot to learn. I heard him on other platforms being downright abusive to other black peoples, using very derogatory language. I'm African but grew up hip hop. Nobody can tell me they co-created afrobeat with Fela so i completely get it. But you can teach him how to further the message correctly.
@notsogood9449 🤣everything and everyone is tethered to Africa dummy!..so for your first lesson go watch kendrick's visit to Ghana. Your second lesson is a summary of Justin's Oxford Union debate appearance. Now go be useful Brandon
@mr.r4910 most black people on earth live in Africa. And that's their music. How can you respect yourself if you have no respect for others. Educate yourself.
In 1978, I moved to Connecticut from California and had a friend from New York. I would hang out in the Bronx and attend Jungle Jams in the park. This was before King Tim III. was recorded. What I remember are black people with DJs and MCs. We went to Latino dances in hotel ballrooms, where Disco and Latin dance records were played.
I grew up on 139th Street in Harlem from 70 - 80. I then joined the Marines. We regularly walked over the 145th street bridge to the Bronx. I attest there were no Jamaican DJ’s or MC’s present at any party. Grandmaster Flash (Barbados) and the Furious 5 started in 1978 at the Fever in the Bronx. He is not and originator. There were no Puerto Ricans DJing or breakdancing in the early 70’s. They were playing bongos in the park. Crazy Legs came out with the Rock Steady Crew in 1979. I’m 61. I was a DJ and witnessed everything. I challenge anyone to refute my DJ knowledge from 1970 - 1975. Bring it on. 95% of you weren’t even alive at this time. 4% knew nothing about Early Hip Hop.
Super interesting and challenging video. I haven't had a chance to see the documentary yet but I wonder how the conclusions here would account for the amazing work done by Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. in his book "Break Beats in the Bronx."
Great conversation. One thing i would disagree with is the comparison between dj hollywood and drake. Dj hollywood may have been Black disco but he's the direct influence for modern rap. Hollywood is also the direct influence for djs like kid capri, he's also the first dj to drop mixtapes. In my opinion hollywood is definitely a founder of hip hop
Good break down Tariq really did his truth clearing the airwaves towards Hip Hop and lack of information on media. Rapping been going on long time but it was not a music genre but a style. 1970's to 80's things got upgraded in making it a music genre, FBA Hip Hop all the way straight from Jamaica.
What do you think about Lupe’s critique on Obama back in 2011? I would love to see you do a video about that in a longer video though. Because that is a historical moment in hip hop history and was the beginning of the industry turning their back on Lupe.
I saw a video that discussed the homogenization of European culture into white culture. And how a rich a varied heritage of distinct cultures was distilled down into, for lack of a better word, mayonnaise. Protecting African American culture should not be seen as offensive to anyone. African Americans were forceably removed from participating in most facets of American industry. Entertainment was the only place we were allowed to contribute to society for centuries. So it should not be a surprise that African Americans dominate in this arena. This very dominance is a double edged sword, since pop culture is largely based on black culture other ethnicities and even worse corps can coopt our culture and sell it back to us.
Foundational BLK American (FBA) culture and excellence. We are delineating. It's not African American culture, it is specifically Foundational BLK American (FBA) culture.
I don't know about that because Jimmy Castor himself used Tito's music to get to the breakdown. If you don't know what that is then you're not from here.
A Nigerian told me: Black in other places base their lineage on their TRIBAL roots. It is only us, due to our being split from our culture and history, only identify ourselves and others based on skin color. Part of getting back to loving ourselves, it identifying ourselves by our UNIQUE history, culture & epxperience HERE in the US. We are unique and have influenced the world in a way that many have not. We must be proud and preserve this heritage at all costs...
Rap and Hip-Hop are both Black AmericanDOS creations, however they're two different things with different histories. Ninety-nine percent of the time when people say Hip-Hop what they really mean is Rap, the "Hip-Hop" term needs to be phased out when discussing music. Technically, Hip-Hop is a youth movement that was birthed in the Bronx and died there. The Hip-Hop term has been misused and thrown around loosely and inappropriately for decades, it's caused confusion and that's one of the reasons Rap doesn't have a proper standard history as a music genre. You don't associate the creation of Blues or Jazz with any type of separate youth or cultural movement so why would you do it with Rap?
This guy does an absolutely excellent job with this interview...By the way....Where is the other culprit in this mayhem....... "Pete Rock"..... he needs to step forward and get these papers served...
This is on par with the year of Truth that started with Kat Williams, continued with Terrence Howard and will progressively grow into the Ultimate Championing of Our Real Culture!!! FBAs Stand Up!!!
Aight Analysts, I had a wide ranging conversation with Tariq Nasheed. The cultural historian and documentarian released a fantastic documentary called "Microphone Check: Hip Hop's Hidden History" which covers the true origins of each element of Hip Hop. The film interviews several founders including Grandmaster Caz, DJ Hollywood, Busy Bee, Sha-Rock, Corn Bread, and dives deep into the early days and origins of the culture that captured the world. Spoiler alert: I'm interviewed in the film as well.
This conversation tackles Fat Joe's assertion that Puerto Ricans were 50/50 in Hip Hop's creation story, how Drake vs Kendrick Lamar resonated with Foundational Black Americans, debating President Barack Obamas legacy in regards to FBAs, being considered "divisive," and the hilarious story about how an incarcerated youth named Corn Bread created modern graffiti.
Visit microphonecheck.com/ to view Hip Hop's Hidden History.
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Very good information and a great interview by THC too. Didn't come here for an opportunity we are the opportunity #bars
😂😂😂 Mississippi birthed music in America and rapping started there! You all need to give Mississippi there flowers and give respect to your ancestors. Then the music jumped a crossed the river into Louisiana and Jazz other genres were born!!!! So you lying azz people who want to erase Mississippi and Louisiana out of history for birthing the music in America you have another thing coming!
If you're platforming Tariq Nasheed, it's time to unsubscribe. It's a shame. I had been watching since the HipHopDX days
@@juwonikemoses2045 Truth hurts🤭
@juwonikemoses2045 get to the button fast 😂😂😂
I'm 65 years old from Marcy, Tompkins and Sumner Projects in Brooklyn. At the beginning of Hip-hop, there were Hispanics people in the neighborhood but they did not participate in our Parties or when we had Music in the Streets. They were heavily into Salsa, "Not James Brown". Now out of the 3 Projects I just named I can name 2 Hispanic guys that used to hang out with us. One was from Marcy and the other one was from Tompkins. It wasn't 50/50 then and it never was 50/50.. Not even now.. Look at Terror Squad., there's only one Black artist and that was Remy Ma.. Plus Big Pun brought her in, Not Fat Joe so I don't get what he's talking about??? If it was 50/50 someone please named the Hispanic rap artist's that was out at the beginning? I'll Wait.. I mean there's no hate it's just reality. Jamaican was and still is mainly in Flatbush Brooklyn and in the 70s there wasn't really that many Jamaican families there so how was we influenced by them??
Thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 .
The movie " Rubble Kings " showed how heavy in the 70s gang culture along racial lines were .
Black people were moving away from the street gangs and got into creating Hip Hop before the Puerto Ricans started to give up the gang culture .
I remember the Hip Hop park jams in south Brooklyn and the Puerto Rican street gangs like the " Savage Skulls " and the " Crazy Homocides " would come around and most times it would break out in fights between the Black attendees and the PR gangs .
The gangs might of not been having the big gang wars with each other like in the past but they still were going around f*cking with people , and the PR gangs liked f*cking with Black people .
They were holding onto that gang sh*t up until the Black urban street styles started making them look like old played out glue sniffing dusty bums .
I remember an old magazine interview with Remy, and she is part Spanish. In another old Magazine interview, Armageddon said he was just light skinned Black and wasn't Spanish at all.
Umm why are we focusing on Brooklyn? Jamaicans and Hispanics were more mixed in together in the Bronx earlier anyways.
I was born on 1962, still to these days Latinos/Hispanics and Jamaican are Caribbeans nationalities which all Caribbeans music sound the same even Afro Beats music sounding the same in every song that’s out, and it’s still only a couple of Hip Hop rappers who’s Latinos/Hispanics or Jamaicans/Caribbean which is Cardi B and Nicki Minaj It is so many Freedmen/Foundation Black Americans Hip Hop MC, Rapper’s that it will take a few hours to type in the names !!!!!!!!!!!!! The question is when is the Latinos/Hispanics, Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans/Caribbeans going to make a Hip Hop documentary so the world can hear and see something they’re claiming on the totally Hip Hop culture !!!!!!!!!!!!
That's right brother I was there back then in Queens Bridge projects and we had some PR's but they were doing their own thing
They gravitated more to Disco then later Hip Hop
I went to a high school in Manhattan called Printing H.S. (now called Graphic Communications and Arts)
and down the block from Park West High
Printing High was mostly Harlem and the Bronx and some of my classmates and friends grew up with alot of these guys like Charlie Chase n Cold Crush practicing In his apartment
I got all my party tapes of Harlem World jams and Conventions from school
I was in a mostly Puerto Rican gang called the Savage Skulls is the 70s. My PR friends were not into “Nigga or Jungle Music”. That’s what they called it. Some of my friends had to sneak to do it and they weren’t at the parties. Fat Joe needs to apologize.
@@dfwherbie8814Hold on. I’m FBA. Are you saying this man is lying about telling his truth. Unbelievable.
@@dfwherbie8814you are a guest in our culture speaking have several seats 🤡 hahaha
I'm Puerto Rican and been around since the 70s and you are full of it..I was part of a crew and we had Morenos with us all day long ...of course you come from the racist biker gang demographic everyone has their group of racists
More and more of people that was there stories are coming out. Thanks for your story sir
You know if it wasn't for benji doing the gang truce? That being slingshot of hip hop, you really don't know your facts in history
It’s amazing how the people “with no culture “always have people trying to copy theirs. Here’s a little side note, the modern drums that everyone use was made by an FBA named DD Chandlier who’s parents were born during slavery and he’s from New Orleans. Every genre of music in America we created.
The first shall be last and the last shall be first we special people survived the most brutal chattel slavery the most high love us all these other races and different ethnic blacks don't have to like us we just need to love and unite within black Americans
Thank you for pointing that out. It was one of our own who created the drum set which ended up allowing us to further come up with genres that work best with certain drum patterns that you can't get from those separate drum ensembles that marching bands use.
You get those modern drum patterns from drum sets only. Without the drum set, no one would've come up with the "On the One" concept that James Brown came up with because drum ensembles in a marching band always come up with polyrhythms that don't work in that steady rhythmic manner that works for Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, etc.
With that being said, how in the world could any other group come up with our music when our music, rhythmically, is heavily based on an instrument one of our own had created?
RIGHT ON ❤️🖤💚🇺🇲
Some of those slaves had descendants from Africa right? Thus the African slaves passed on their traditions from generation to generation in the new land, right? Why does this so-called FBA generation not acknowledge that? A seed blown away by the wind, growing 40 000 KM away from it`s roots, doesn't change it's roots, right? I'm i tripping? FBA are ashamed of their African roots, because White Supremacy told them to do so. What a shame ... smh
@hakeemakbar1575 Well said!!!
As a black Caribbean who grew up around alot of racist white LIETINOS im extremely proud of FBAs standing on business and owning yall shit.
THANK YOU!
Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.
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Moor?..
To rite I agree UK in the house
I’m so thankful that somebody was willing to stand for foundational black Americans
What exactly is a “foundational black American”?
@user-xd2zc7lg2tLYING “TETHER STOP !” LMAO 😭
@user-xd2zc7lg2t Kool herc mixed and extended soul & funk beats both FBA genre's so herc brought nothing from Jamaica and biggie was born here fully assimilated into FBA culture rhyming and rapping in our style slang and cadence
@user-xd2zc7lg2t FBA's rhyming and rap style comes from the dozens and that's the style biggie busta and Caribbean blacks in hip hop assimilated too we know our FBA history and we know ur and y'all not us 😂
you dudes fail to stand for yourselves ..bunch of crybabies
We’re delineating & preserving the culture 💯
Delineation is only going on in these you tube streets
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@@Black-Pill-7411 not true. it's real.
Tariq needs his PROPS. I am from Harlem in the 80s (shoutout to Dr. Clarke) and have always been about KNOWLEDGE of OUR people. Starting w Hidden Colors, Tariq has continually put OUR people in the correct context.
Oh please. What took yall 50 years to talk about this????????
@@Mya_water😂😂😂coz they capping thats why 😂
@@wambokodavid7109 It’s not adding up fr
@@wambokodavid7109Capping about what? 🤔
@@Mya_waterPeople only started lying on the origins pretty recently.
I'm glad to see that black Americans are coming out to stop the intentional co-opting of Hip-hop by other groups. FBA 🇺🇲
FBA doesn’t make sense. Is there a framework of vision on how that can actually be used in disaggregating the American Black diaspora.
@@icanseaclearnow It makes perfect sense in light of the fact that some in the diaspora have already used their culture to delineate themselves from black Americans. Now that black folks in this country are claiming our culture, all of a sudden it's a problem. Make that make sense!
@@icanseaclearnowstop in musty person u pathetic 💯
@@icanseaclearnowpower is exclusionary!! Kick rocks!!!
I second that, kick rocks😂
It’s about time the pioneers get their credit
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Great documentary
You're acting like no one knows hiphop is black original.what are u afraid of???
I remember going to Jamaican clubs in Oakland CA in the late 80s and 90s and saying damn there is a Jamaican version of every song from my childhood. Lol, there is no way hip hop came from them, now they influenced British 80s music for sure.
Lmao facts you ain't lying my g, I'm Trinidadian born I'm 33 now and you absolutely right coming up we hear it all every remixed you can hear of american blacks music b1👊🏿😂.
"Jamaican clubs in Oakland, CA" is your source. Lol, you can't make this 'ish up.
@@7771croy You clown, I didn't say it was bad that they made versions of 70s soul music and they did, however back then Black Americans was not making remakes of Jamaican artists and that's a fact. Whenever someone says, You cant make this shit up and there not coming with facts too back up that statement they have already lost the argument. Hip Hop didn't come from Jamaica but they did influenced British music from the late 70s and 80s.
Let’s hear your sources ?
@@ponderosafuture Do you know DJ Kool Herc is and is role in the founding of the genre? What about U-Roy, are you familiar with his music at all? th-cam.com/video/guhdPYnq-gc/w-d-xo.html
What Non FBA's don't understand, Hip-hop is all about paying homage to the records we grew up on at the Bar B Q and Family reunions. Or being played on Sundays while Momma cleaning the house. It's all about celebrating BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE. That's what HIP-HOP IS. It has nothing to do with Caribbean culture because that wasn't in our house holds growing up.
No it wasn't! It was all about getting together and having fun, smoking herb, drinking liquor, getting high and screwing. All that embellishing BS was for the media.
@@ev8318 You and your ppl wasn't even there, so how would you know🤔
No it wasn't. It was all about having fun. There were no embellishment.
@@melanatedwarrior3530
Here's blk and hispanics together in 1966 google title HiramMaristany “Group of Young Men on 111th Street”
They ain't going know about that because they didn't have no music before hip hop. They have no culture
Latino Brothers and Sisters DID NOT help create Hip Hop at all. THIS IS NOT A QUESTION. The Puerto Ricans in
The Bronx at that time ostracized the very few who CHOSE TO EMBRACE THAT PART OF FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE..
I remember they were actually racist against Foundational Black Americans and Darker skinned Puerto Ricans.
They had their own jams in the park and never played any breaks or funk or soul.
ONLY SALSA ... NOTHING ELSE.
Even though they're my people too.
I GOTTA TELL THE FACTS❗
Salsa is Jazz also the dance form is swinging.
I remember when the world was protesting against hiphop and us black original Americans stood our ground and kept pushing it to the public🤦🏾♂️
@@christopherstephens1129
What's your point?
Why try to equate everything to black American culture?
Stand on your own merit
@@ray1411 The fact is Salsa comes from Jazz it is not equating it is the truth.
You can only talk about those in the Bronx....what about Brooklyn ??? Did you go 2 the jams in Brooklyn....??? Dynasty Rockers, Together We Chill, Rock The House, Mastermind Rockers all 🇵🇷 Party Crews that Rock Dance to Jimmy Castor, James Brown, Funk & Boogaloo Beats by Puerto Rican & Black Latino DJs from Brooklyn that was doing the same thing the Bronx was doing from 70s-80s 💯
Gangs from the Bronx were invited to these jams Savage Skulls, Savage Nomads & Ching A Lings & they would jam with BKLYN PUERTO ROCKS. 💯
In Brooklyn their were many Black Latinos & Caribbean 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇯🇲 🇹🇹 🇬🇾
Different vibes Different Musix & Dancing in Brooklyn 💯 Hip Hop is the name the Bronx gave to that style of music since every boro was doing the same thing even Queens had their own Style of Rap Music 💯 Blacks Were not called Foundational Black American in the 70s they called themselves Afro-Americans 💯 they dislike the Term Negro/Black & embrace their African Roots...💯 Latinos used the term Negro alot even called white latino Negro because of Hair color...not skin color.... even Black Latino aknowledge this. & Black americans hated on Black Latinos because they were with Latinas... Blacks Americanz never Saw a white Latina & a Black Latino married & having kids...That was common among the Latino Community while Blacks never had this type of experience since they grew up racially disconnected & main reason why their was alot of frictions. If it wasnt for Latinos & Caribbean Folks Hip Hop wouldnt be ever it is....💯
To all the people in the comments that don't like Tariq. 👉🏾stay mad.
Hip Hop was created by Black Americans.
Silly
My question to you is did you live in the bronx in the 70s,
@nuttabutter1963 I from Brooklyn 62 years young and the only thing Puerto Ricans created was Rice & Beans.They called what we were doing jungle music.
Or you can be like me, not like Tariq and think some of his conclusions to our history are misguided. But enjoy history and black American heritage so new untold stories are always welcomed. Message and messenger kind of thing 🤷🏾♂️
@@nuttabutter1963It didn’t start in the Bronx or the 70’s. So what’s your point?🤣
✊🏾🇺🇸Great interview. This guy did a great job asking questions and not interrupting his guest. This is how to do an interview!👍🏾
Congrats on this great interview Justin. We need more like this. Tariq’s breakdown of the beginnings of our beloved Hip Hop music and culture are essential learning from this point forward in all textbook conversations of how, when and why Hip Hip started.
Wow. This was a wonderful interview. I've yet to see Microphone Check but every review assures me of the positive impact it's having in the community. Tariq hit the nail on the head when noting how all our accomplishments are attributed to outside sources, but our dysfunctions are internal manifestations from slavery. Great job Justin. New subscriber.
Thank you 🙏🏿
Hey I’m the girl from the video about the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef! I appreciate the conversation had from it
Black Americans and Americans as a whole are tired of the arrogant disrespect(including sabotaging) and so we're not taking it anymore. A lot of foreign people tend to get comfortable then begin to act exactly like where they come from. ie. tribalist, hostile, passive aggressive, act dumb, and etc. Why do you think there has been such a backlash throughout the entire West including USA, Canada, Scandinavian Nordic countries, UK, Australia, Europe, and etc. when it comes to immigration. Why do you think Europe has moved more Conservative when it comes to immigration.
And, those weren't questions but a realization of the negative effects of bringing in new people(legal and illegal). Wise Federal Governments invest heavily into their own native population and citizens first. Even as generous as those Scandinavian Nordic countries they are basically closed their borders because of recent immigrants not assimilating, are hostile, and think they are entitled to the same Rights and Freedoms that they didn't even create or fight for🇺🇸
Thanks for showing love to the FBA family. What platform did you make that video? This one said part 2 I'm tryna see both parts
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Black American women are the freest and most prosperous black women to ever live and you pretending that you're "going through" something in America today is a slap in the face of black ancestors who actually lived through oppression.
Yes we are all that. So, we made a lane for all black immigrants to come to our country and share the same freedoms and prosperity of our hard work. But now these ones we helped are HOSTILE to use even to the point of mistreating our elders in medical facilities! Im ready for them to be DEPORTED!@HypnoticHollywood
This is exactly why I love this channel. Non biased opinions based on factual information and evidence. Much appreciated
Thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 .
The movie " Rubble Kings " shows how divisive along racial lines with the street gangs in the 70s .
Black people had dropped the gang culture before the Puerto Ricans finally gave it up .
Black people were having rap jams in the parks and at Block parties when the Puerto Ricans were still walking around in their gang colors in the 70's .
It was Black people who came out with the early 70s street styles like the gabardine dress pants with the stitching or the split along the side of the pants , the Mock neck sweaters and rocking the silver or gold medallion chain , the Cord Field coats , and the Lee jeans suit . The
Puerto Ricans were slow on rocking the street styles .
I was born on 1962 and can learn something, thank you for the information on DD Chandelier the inventor of the Modern Drum Set !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This guy is definitely biased with this non-FBA politicians nonsense. I like his take on hip hop, but he should stick to that. Not politics!!
He sounds way too ultra ethnocentric to me.
@@andreray2784 What's your background 🤔
@@melanatedwarrior3530 I am African American. What's your background?
There is something special about us, something beautiful, something unique, something out of the ordinary, something devine 😮FBA are a very beautiful ethnicity. There culture dominate the world 🌎 Long Live FBA-Foundation Blaq Americans. Danny Tukes FVSC
We are the chosen that all nations hate but imitates...read and study everything that they said not to. All praise to YAHUAH the true and living Supreme Being Perfect without sin 🙏🏾...Our Father
Wow.. I loved this interview. The interviewer was able to dispel all of the different points people have been making about the creators of Hip Hop and the many allegations against Tariq Nasheed. I really enjoyed this interview. Respect to both of these brothers coming to the table having a intelligent, candid and respectful conversation. BTW you have a new subscriber. Keep up the great work.
Thank you!
That’s Right!… Biggie Smalls said it, “remember the Rappin Duke, Duh ha, Duh ha… you didn’t think Hip-Hop, would take it this far”
Tariq once again brought truth to power, what a great tandem, allowed Tariq to dispelled all of the myths especially the LIE-tinos 50/5O bs. Interviewer did a great job asking the right question and keeping it interesting, new subscriber
I am from Trinidad and Tobago and i been listening to rap as a child in the early 90's i was caught up into Jamaicans creating hip hop but as listen to people like Mr Tariq i have gotten the knowledge that FBA created the hip hop .
It’s not as simple as he is trying to make it
@@Mya_waterwhat music did your parents listen to when they were kids back home?
@@reckless1216 My dad's side is in the music industry. I grew up hearing all types
@@Mya_water where are your parents from. If not USA no need to respond
@@reckless1216 What relevance is that?
Rap is one of the most popular genres in the world, but unfortunately its history has never been properly documented. Native Black Americans have rapped in music since the post emancipation era. However most books, articles and documentaries insinuate or outright claim that the genre is something new that started in New York with the Hip-Hop youth movement.
Don't you think that Black people "rapped" over African drums, calypso, Cuban son, Brazillian sambas, blues and jazz? Jamaican toasting emerged out of the mobile sound systems and they talked over pre-recorded music. This was something totally different.
@Ayinde65 You're off-topic, Rap is an exclusively Native Black American creation and what's being spoken of is the fact that the genre hasn't been properly documented.
It’s the same with the Latino fraternities and sororities, now they copied black frats and sors with stepping and strolling and the Greek letter jackets like we have. They copy everything we do.
Nothing wrong with that tho. Just don't say you founded it
@@TekniCaliSpeakin
One of them told me that stepping, strolling and calling were "FOUNDATIONAL" to their heritage. So, the co-opt was in the mix.
@@TekniCaliSpeakin Yes it is. Black & White frats are night & day because of CULTURE. Stop stealing other ppls culture.
@@harrysmith-g8k 🤣
@@TekniCaliSpeakinThe same people who cry when those Spainards don't even claim you and treat Latinos horribly even though Latinos try to claim Spain as their Motherland. The Irony💔
Thank you so very much setting the record straight😊
This was so insightful. Im a 42yo Black, excuse me, FBA that is very up on history and perspective but wow how i needed this. I was born in '82 so i aint see hip hop before that nor hear it told in this manner. These nuances about FBA lineage and others is 1 million % true, unless its negative.I feel so blessed to have come across this video. STREAM THIS SHXT MAN! I need to see this and so does my 15yo son. Man WE ALL DO...FR Thx to both of y'all ✊🏾
Brownsville BKLYN. Born 1969. When hip hop got popular with US, Hispanics acted like WE were corny. Once they saw WE didn’t give a damn what they thought, cause WE were loving it……even THIER women, THEN they got on board.
Bro. Brownsville is still the most backward part of NYC. Cablevision even refused to furnish that area, with cable lines, because NOBODY there couldn't even afford it!
This is a true story!!!
of course. they always copy.
@@AnimalAlmighty who's "they"?
Well KRS -1 says otherwise and I was there..I'm the OG...and while of course the old school Puerto Ricas were not rocking hip-hop, their kids were ie my generation, we were going against our parents wishes and pursuing hip hop with our friends. Puerto Rican is an ethnicity NOT a race...WE are BLACK!
Brooklyn dudes can have a seat cuz it started in the BRONX I could care less what a Brooklyn dude says cuz he wasn't there in the BRONX
These are the interviews/in depth conversations we need. There is so much knowledge and history that isn't music related in Hip-hop that bleeds into every piece of American culture; and it nowhere near unpacked enough. This video is much appreciated and even more needed. Talks like this are why I subscribed. 🫡🫡
Thank you!
@@TheCompanyManThank you
They know they didnt co-create shit. Thats why they tried to rewrite history and claim Trixie and Disco King Mario as Ricans, until that shit got debunked lmao
Shout out to Justin for bringing Tariq on & talking about this film a lot of reputable HipHop journalist and radio stations have outright avoided this project, probably due to industry politics but no one can argue against scholarship and empirical research HipHip is a Ethnic Black American Genre!
This!
Brother I just published a book about Harlem 1977/78. It includes an essay about the origins of hip hop including photographs that I took. It's a true story about a teenager who took a train from California to NYC during the heyday of hip hop. The Dr Colons and other critics love to dismisses us for not being there, but I was.
Man, you can't drop source without a connection!!! Please, for the love of your scholarship, could you please provide an ISBN number or a link to your website so we can buy it? Thanks!
FBAs were there. It’s our culture… no matter where your from
^ facts
Absolutely amazing this interview deserves a standing ovation we appreciate The Company Man for sharing your platform to shine light on this historic moment in time and family pay attention to all the so called Hip Hop media platforms who haven't invited Tariq on to speak and promote this film, they haven't even so much as mentioned the documentary AT ALL. I'm talking about The Breakfast Club, Ebro, Drink Champs, Million Dollars Worth Of Game, Joe Budden etc. in the words of Katt Williams "In 2024 all truths will be exposed"
This is why..."I don't fu*k with .. charlemagne the"Fraud"....or the rest of " them"!!
Great interview. Creation v.s. influence is so different.
This was a great interview. The interviewer asked all the right questions ✅
I can't wait to see Tariq's hip hop documentary. Tariq has been talking about doing this film for a minute and, as usual, he executed.
LET'S GO!!! You get MAJOR POINTS FOR THIS INTERVIEW!!
Thank you brother Mr. Tariq Nasheed for your consent work of information for foundation Black American.🎉🎉🎉
This video need to be liked shared and favorited...
Pigmeat Markham is from SC and Blowfly is from GA
Rapping started in the south like most FBA genres.
A fun Fact: a street was named after Pigmeat Markham in Durham, North Carolina where he was born.✊🏾🇺🇸🔥🔥
I really appreciated and enjoyed this interview and the guest.
I'm glad somebody courageously stepped up to set the record straight, others could have - but they scared to deal the the massive whiny backlash that would follow.
shalom
Tariq Nasheed breaks it down so simply that it doesn't leave any room for anybody else's bullshit. Intelligent bravo!
This was dope. I love these deeper conversations.
Thanks brother!
I can’t even see how it can be argued. Especially being the creators of so much music. These people haven’t done enough to be compared in no way whatsoever. We even went 50/50 on salsa with the Afro Cubans
Like it or not, Puerto Ricans and mexicans just werent around black people like that back in the days; just like they arent today. theres always a few stragglers that are around, but theyve never been around black people to the point where they would influence anything within black america. keep in mind this was fresh off the civil rights act being passed. so the racism against most poc was still thick. still, there was no STRONG unity amongst poc back then. most of these groups have historically created their own little enclaves, which were separate from black america. everyone tackled the issue in their own little way. I have audio of MLK having to request spanish people to come out to his rallies for civil rights - mainly because many of them werent out there, and instead just sat back and took abuse. they had chicano movements and things like that. but for the most part, they were more so trying to join white america, as opposed to fight back vs a group that didnt want to unify with them.
the group that tackled racism to the point where change was produced was black americans. and asians, 1st/2nd generation africans, Caribbean, mexicans etc benefitted from that fight. hence the reason u saw the population numbers for all the aforementioned group shoot thru the roof after 1965. anyways.... its impossible to claim u help create something with a group that the majority of the people from your culture have historically kept their distance from. it doesnt make sense
Yep. Many of those groups were legally white in the deep South, Texas, Oklahoma and California, etc. They all served in white military units and attended "whites only" colleges and universities. The leaders of their main advocacy organizations opposed the Civil Rights movement.
Justin H. your questions are very focused and intelligent ... you are part of this ... much appreciated
Two of my favs linked up 💪🏾
Juvenile's "Huh" New Orleans porch rhymes. Signifying & playing the dozens throughout the entire song✊🏿💪🏿👏🏿👋🏿✊🏿
You do know that New Orleans culture has roots in the Caribbean don't you?
@Ayinde65 I DO KNOW that signifying and playing the dozens while rhyming is 100% foundational black american culture. Send me a link of your earliest comedic rhymers...I'll wait. Wherever you're from, you just made a fool out of your people in this conversation🤦🏿♂️
@@mlk.ali_X😂 it’s time to tell them like it is. My family is from the south no Caribbean influences at all
@@reckless1216 I don't think they understand who we are✊🏿🤷🏿♂️
just hearing the rapid huh's in that song hit like bullets with each bar
Chubby Checker and Fats Domino were the pioneer of what we call today " Rock and Roll" but Elvis is considered the king of " Rock and Roll".
Thank you! Cause fat Joe been trying to Latin-wash the genre for like 3 yrs now.
Lmaooooo, LATIN WASH 😂😂😂😂
he dont speak for everyone tho.
Question is…will this documentary be displayed in the hip hop museum because it seems to me that it should be. This isn’t about a racial divide, it’s about the facts that always get misinterpreted as time goes on. That’s why we need to be thankful that the ones who created this are still around to shed the light👍🏾
This was a great interview, spot on.
this why i rock wit tariq he thoroughly speak to issues that i want dealt with (voting for obama twice got us nowhere)
55:10 Many people got caught in a trap. Because it was started by black people. Give us our flowers. But when the Puerto Ricans from New York got a hold of break dancing. They took the torch and ran with it. And took break dancing to another level. The same thing with the burner or wild style graffiti helped raise the bar very high in power moves and spins. So they played a big part in the 3 elements of hip hop and mastered it. Big props, though, to Tariq nasheed for giving the creators of hip hop their props, that is long over do much respect, that they deserve their recognition 👏🏿
They did incredible things with breaking and graffiti
@@TheCompanyMan Yes sir
Much respect for this interview
Thanks for clarifying! Because FDA’s created every music genre here in America!……TheEnd!!!!!
🔥 conversation thank you company man & Tariq for this. Much respect for this needed dialogue.
Tariq a living legend and one of the greats for FBA
Great interview Hip-Hop wise! As a Black American (Louisiana and Floridian lineage) I’m sympathetic to the FBA movement I just hate the political conclusions. Our self determination is irreconcilable with greater American society and we can’t work within their systems to get that self determination. We should look to thinkers like David Walker (of Walker’s Appeal), Harry Haywood, and other revolutionary Nationalists in the future.
Speaking truth to power ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾Staying on business 👊🏾 #FBA
Thank you guys, this was such an important video it's always important to revist the origins ever so often to make sure things don't get revised incorrectly keep the facts pure for the culture 🙏
I appreciate the perspective, getting the history right is important especially if we want to learn from it. As a Puerto Rican, i gotta speak on the Conquistador comment though cuz it makes it seem like Puerto Ricans in the Bronx at that time had the resources to be colonizers. On top of reflecting about race we also gotta talk socio-economics, there's a reason people live in the same neighborhoods. The Puerto Ricans were there in the first place because their homeland was and is suffering the effects of colonialism. There's a lot of history there and I think it's a stretch to compare people trying to escape poverty and lack of self determination to Conquistadors from Spain who came with the intention of taking all the gold. Also, there's a history of racism within Puerto Rican culture.. we're genetically a mix of Spanish, African and Indigenous. Obviously the Spanish were structurally racist against the Africans and Indigenous, and some of that has stayed in the culture, no doubt. But there's also an African lineage that has been preserved within specific communities and the culture as a whole, and these groups have always had close connections with Black America especially in the struggles against racism and neocolonialism, moreso than with other Caribbean peoples because of the relationship between PR and USA. So maybe some dudes are rewriting the history to feel more inclusion in the culture, but I don't see how they can be described as colonizers.
Most Black Americans do not know PR's. PR's are mostly in NYC - and most PR's still identify as White (race). So, that's probably why. Like Fat Joe is a WHITE man.
Keep reminding people the truth about hiphop, keep it black and pure
I've been waiting on this interview
What’d you think?
@@TheCompanyMan🔥🔥🔥
Really interesting interview, will be watching this movie tonight!
Mr. Nasheed is a true warrior historian and treasure to the FBA Culture. 🇺🇲🏆🇺🇲
Fire interview, this guy is a great interviewer and journalist 🫡
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I've been rocking with you Justin, for well over a decade now and i have no issues with the message but your buddy Tariq has a lot to learn. I heard him on other platforms being downright abusive to other black peoples, using very derogatory language. I'm African but grew up hip hop. Nobody can tell me they co-created afrobeat with Fela so i completely get it. But you can teach him how to further the message correctly.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂DUDE Afrobeats is LITERALLY trash NO ONE really listens to that garbage😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tether babble
Hi Tether. LOL
@notsogood9449 🤣everything and everyone is tethered to Africa dummy!..so for your first lesson go watch kendrick's visit to Ghana. Your second lesson is a summary of Justin's Oxford Union debate appearance. Now go be useful Brandon
@mr.r4910 most black people on earth live in Africa. And that's their music. How can you respect yourself if you have no respect for others. Educate yourself.
Great discussion and interview once again brother Tariq 💪💯
As FBA’s we’ll work multiple jobs it just has to make sense. I run two businesses because they earn enough to make working 6 days a week worth it!
In 1978, I moved to Connecticut from California and had a friend from New York. I would hang out in the Bronx and attend Jungle Jams in the park. This was before King Tim III. was recorded. What I remember are black people with DJs and MCs. We went to Latino dances in hotel ballrooms, where Disco and Latin dance records were played.
Thank you 👍
This is some good info! I gotta check this movie
Hell yea!! Don’t miss it!!💪🏿🔥💯
I grew up on 139th Street in Harlem from 70 - 80. I then joined the Marines. We regularly walked over the 145th street bridge to the Bronx. I attest there were no Jamaican DJ’s or MC’s present at any party. Grandmaster Flash (Barbados) and the Furious 5 started in 1978 at the Fever in the Bronx. He is not and originator. There were no Puerto Ricans DJing or breakdancing in the early 70’s. They were playing bongos in the park. Crazy Legs came out with the Rock Steady Crew in 1979. I’m 61. I was a DJ and witnessed everything. I challenge anyone to refute my DJ knowledge from 1970 - 1975. Bring it on. 95% of you weren’t even alive at this time. 4% knew nothing about Early Hip Hop.
it wasnt long enough, i loved it
I’m glad he mentioned The Fatback because I remember them before I heard the Sugar Hill Gang but it was the jam back in the day.
Respect our fucking culture period 😑 and we are checking anyone not of the culture/lineage saying otherwise
The conversation is, is this FBA culture or NYC culture. Most NYC people would say it’s NYC culture.
Tariq is a god send
Yes he is.. we are so lucky to have him!!
Put him in a debate with an elder pro white man, and he falls to pieces, i.e., Jared Taylor.
"Justin"you have the right and"proper "intonation"..."and "you asked "great"questions"chopping"it up with"Tariq"..."Good"Job"!!
Didn’t see this one comin😂 Very dope blog!
Super interesting and challenging video. I haven't had a chance to see the documentary yet but I wonder how the conclusions here would account for the amazing work done by Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. in his book "Break Beats in the Bronx."
Great conversation. One thing i would disagree with is the comparison between dj hollywood and drake. Dj hollywood may have been Black disco but he's the direct influence for modern rap. Hollywood is also the direct influence for djs like kid capri, he's also the first dj to drop mixtapes. In my opinion hollywood is definitely a founder of hip hop
I always heard of both Herc and Hollywood playing a role. Agreed.
Good break down Tariq really did his truth clearing the airwaves towards Hip Hop and lack of information on media. Rapping been going on long time but it was not a music genre but a style. 1970's to 80's things got upgraded in making it a music genre, FBA Hip Hop all the way straight from Jamaica.
How can it be FBA and "straight from Jamaica"? Make it make sense.
@@tmsphere I live in Jamaica supporting FBA claim towards Hip Hop. Kool Herc made his name at his siter party marry go round.
@@harrysmith-g8k that is a new detail I hearing mis information. Nothing changes the bronx his community have Kool herc history, just like many
Justin you on fireeeeee right now lol. Im inspired,
Thank you brother! It’s all happening 🙏🏿
Great Interview!!💯
Thank goodness for Tariq he's a real one 👏🏽👏🏽
What do you think about Lupe’s critique on Obama back in 2011? I would love to see you do a video about that in a longer video though. Because that is a historical moment in hip hop history and was the beginning of the industry turning their back on Lupe.
Lupe was right.
@@devzeppalin oh thanks 🙏
@@devzeppalin 💯
@@GTACJGroveWords I never say by Lupe, says a lot.
This was a great interview, I don't have a blue ray player but I can't wait to see the film.
Dope! The collab I didn’t know I needed 🔥🙏🏾
We appreciate you brother Tariq
I saw a video that discussed the homogenization of European culture into white culture. And how a rich a varied heritage of distinct cultures was distilled down into, for lack of a better word, mayonnaise.
Protecting African American culture should not be seen as offensive to anyone.
African Americans were forceably removed from participating in most facets of American industry. Entertainment was the only place we were allowed to contribute to society for centuries. So it should not be a surprise that African Americans dominate in this arena.
This very dominance is a double edged sword, since pop culture is largely based on black culture other ethnicities and even worse corps can coopt our culture and sell it back to us.
Foundational BLK American (FBA) culture and excellence. We are delineating. It's not African American culture, it is specifically Foundational BLK American (FBA) culture.
Weren’t no Tito Puente playin in the hood 😂
I don't know about that because Jimmy Castor himself used Tito's music to get to the breakdown. If you don't know what that is then you're not from here.
I Like the way this Brother Interviews, He's Really Good.
Thank you .
A Nigerian told me: Black in other places base their lineage on their TRIBAL roots. It is only us, due to our being split from our culture and history, only identify ourselves and others based on skin color. Part of getting back to loving ourselves, it identifying ourselves by our UNIQUE history, culture & epxperience HERE in the US. We are unique and have influenced the world in a way that many have not. We must be proud and preserve this heritage at all costs...
Agreed.
The tribal groups and Nigeria as a country are considerably a new thing!!!
Hip Hop Sucks These Days! Old School Is The Best School. 💯
Rap and Hip-Hop are both Black AmericanDOS creations, however they're two different things with different histories. Ninety-nine percent of the time when people say Hip-Hop what they really mean is Rap, the "Hip-Hop" term needs to be phased out when discussing music. Technically, Hip-Hop is a youth movement that was birthed in the Bronx and died there. The Hip-Hop term has been misused and thrown around loosely and inappropriately for decades, it's caused confusion and that's one of the reasons Rap doesn't have a proper standard history as a music genre. You don't associate the creation of Blues or Jazz with any type of separate youth or cultural movement so why would you do it with Rap?
That's a damn good point!
@@andreray2784 Thanks.
🧑🏿🎓Beautiful Tariq.👩🏾🎓 Legend💯👍🏾
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 FBA 4 Life 🇺🇸✊🏾 Always giving Tariq Nasheed his flowers!
This guy does an absolutely excellent job with this interview...By the way....Where is the other culprit in this mayhem....... "Pete Rock"..... he needs to step forward and get these papers served...
Lmaoooooo. 😅
This is on par with the year of Truth that started with Kat Williams, continued with Terrence Howard and will progressively grow into the Ultimate Championing of Our Real Culture!!! FBAs Stand Up!!!