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The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.

Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.

Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Pröfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.

Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.

Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.

What Is Hip?
Various Artists Lyrics

[Who Is He and What Is He to You by Me'Shell NdegeOcello]

A man we passed just tried to stare me down
And when I looked at you you looked at the ground
I don't know who he is but I think that you do

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Something in my heart and in your eyes

Tells me he's not someone just passin' by
And when you cleared your throat was that your cue

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Now when I add the sum of you and me
I get confused and I keep coming up with three
You're too much for one but not enough for two

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Now you think I'm one not much for intuition
Lord is that what you really think or are you wishin'
Before you wreck your old home be certain of the new

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@JBGAMBIT

34w↑1

Firstly, this documentary should’ve been done by a music historian who’s familiar with the genre and culture. Netflix might still have its hip hop series up.. not sure.

Secondly, it wasn’t a mistake that he didn’t get the info right regarding AA’s and the creation of hip hop and Rap as the world knows it.

Even in the sports world, they have AA tokens trying to destroy
Athletes and their place in history.

The US, media etc., has always tried to deny or mitigate anything positive about the AA experience in the US.
They only accentuate the negative for AA’s.
Hollywood is good for that one.. as well as cable news.

So many Patents, inventions and intellectual property was stolen from AA’s. This includes everything from Medicine to Music.
Can you believe that the NBA wants the world to believe that a white man created the game of basketball?? 😂 All of these great AA NBA players have to accept an award based on a lie.

It’s amazing to me that once Rap went mainstream, it only took 20 years before it outsold all other genres combined!

When I travel the US and the world, you see people wanting to walk, talk, dance and dress in the style of the AA. I saw the same thing from Japan to the Mideast. Once while on a flight from Kuwait to the States, once the pilot mentioned that we were in International airspace, off came the
Local dress to reveal typical hip hop dress
underneath. Btw, the liquor started pouring too! 😊

Breakdancing and rap is world wide. I remember when every time AA’s started something, everyone else laughed, joked and talked smack.. especially with beat boxing. Eventually, white people and everyone jumps in and then it seems to become accepted and cool lol. Hollywood then finds away to market it. How many “Step Up” movies did they make?? Oh, and Breakdancing is slated to be in the next Olympics! I wonder what took them so long?? 🤔
.. and no one cared about sneakers more than AA’s. That’s a worldwide phenomenon as well. Not too mention all of the sub-genres of Rap that AA’s created; West Coast Rap, Southern Rap, “Chopped and Screwed”, Christian Rap, Horror Rap, etc.

You had many other dances that went far and wide, the Running man, the moon walk, kris kross “ jump jump”, the sprinkler, Poppin n Lock’n, B-boy’n, the worm, kid n play dance,
The robot, the cabbage patch, the Prep, the Wop, the snake, the biz, Roger Rabbit, Doin the butt, the Pendulum, the Alf and more.

Remember how they laughed about the big gold rope chains lol.

The AA is the most imitated, yet most hated. Unlike many others, I’ve always seen this as a Crown of a special people.

Having said that, we are all special people in own right, and we all make contributions to the whole. We all bring our own special ingredients to create a
Masterpiece!

Who doesn’t like the food, music and dancing etc from Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and so many other indigenous cultures! And when the Olympics come around, the entire world holds its breath to see if an AA or a Jamaican will win the 100m gold! This goes for the men and women! Who couldn’t wait to see Rosie Perez in the Soul Train Line?!?

When cultures meet, they inevitably rub off on each other. If you have an open mind and an open heart, you can enjoy any culture you come across.

Whenever I’d travel to Kuwait, I had an Arab friend who was always my driver. He didn’t speak English and I speak little Arabic; it didn’t matter as we got along exceptionally well and became good friends. He had an old Mercedes and we’d ride around town doing errands with the windows down blasting Egyptian uptempo Arab music and having a blast! I could hear the hip hop in the beats!

Old school classic rock, country.. especially some Johnny Cash, I’m all in.

It’s said we live many lives and I believe that, but the life being lived is most important. Don’t let artificial man made barriers, peer pressure and manipulation stop you from enjoying the sounds of this life!

All comments from YouTube:

@yamaarchive5919

3y↑181

It's not hip hop music, hip hop is the culture. The right thing to say is Rap music which is one of the four elements of the culture

@gufftrap999

2y↑13

Rap is the music of Hip Hop

@blueblaze9862

2y↑9

This is all just semantics

@gm9984

2y↑1

Break dancing, MCing, tagging, and...?

@yamaarchive5919

2y↑9

@@gm9984 Bboying*, Mcing, taggin, deejayin'

@gm9984

2y↑1

@@yamaarchive5919 word. Appreciate that man

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@nomad1517

1y↑50

One thing I love about this genre of music is that you didn't have to be classically trained, you didn't need to have a million dollar studio. You just needed a sampler, a turn table, and you could basically make platinum albums. Rap is such a flexible genre, you can literally mix it with anything and it sounds good, if done right.

@sls554

35w

Really everything in Hip Hop does not so good, and that's all genre of music Jazz blues,, rock, country, and r& b.

@sls554

33w↑1

Like any genre of music if it is done right, it will sound good. If not done right, it will sound bad this includes Rap.

@sls554

33w

Since you used the word Rap there are some Hip Hop artists refer emcee over Rap
and they are saying an emcee does more than a Rap. Some of these Hip Hop artists are making new definition for Hip Hop.

@sls554

27w↑1

Any can of music can be mix with any can of other music not just Hop. Well a system which are two turntables and a mixer cost that's why you see more people rapping than DJs with two turntables because a system cost to much.

@sls554

27w

It is good that everyone like their own genre of music. Jazz, Blues, rock, R& B, Country goes to far sometimes, and that include Hip Hop,also.

@OnceWasSomething

20w↑3

Not only is the video informative and concise for people like me to understand (never grew up with this culture at all), but the comment section here is full of people correcting and sharing more nuanced information that the video may have missed. A godsend, truly.

@louguzzo4977

1y↑21

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

@adriannogales1132

3y↑125

You all nailed a lesson I've been teaching for 8 years, that lesson feels so validated right now!! Glad to see you made 100 more videos like this with the small eloquent closed caption at the bottom to encourage young people to read along! Brilliant and I have 90 students this video tomorrow

@skillzmedina8745

3y↑3

I am now running across people who are pushing a revisionist narrative about hip hop because they don't like the fat the Kool Herc was born in Jamaica. For some reason it really upsets certain people when they find out Kool Herc was Jamaican

@Gigi-fp8pd

3y↑11

@@skillzmedina8745 no it only upsets ppl when y'all try to pretend he was the 1st founding father. Many others predate him.

@jeffking220

2y↑6

We will never allow anyone to steal hip hop. No hip hop in Jamaica now. And never was.

@jessicam.4777

2y↑2

@@skillzmedina8745 The actual revisionist history is that a Jamaican created Hip Hop.

@markeyosef1579

@@jessicam.4777 Jamaicans created not a thing. They are The Originators of copying.

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@benji.B-side

33w↑3

A very good snack sized video. As an old school breaker in the UK, these kids from the Bronx and such, changed our lives. B-Boys will always be boys!
Respect, peace and love!

@mdhbh

3y↑181

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

@BTman58

3y↑33

Hip Hop Hop is not just rap. In fact the rap part of Hip Hop was not the first part of Hip Hop.
The DJ playing the breaks is where it begins, the dancers, graffiti, and the MC is what forms Hip Hop.

@mdhbh

3y↑7

@@BTman58
I agree with you. I was only saying that rap has been around for a while but under a different jargon.

@sterlingturner5318

3y↑32

Black people created hip hop. We own it

@mdhbh

3y↑8

@@sterlingturner5318
I’m from the mecca of Hip Hop and grew up in it. Before Blacks were rapping it was called “The Dozens.”

@mdhbh

3y↑2

@@BTman58
Facts… I remember.

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@eydmz5766

3y↑6

Peace, unity, love, and having fun!

@ydmkid1732

2y↑12

Thankyou so much for sharing this !
Adding to my notes 🙏🏼

@reinaldogarcia70

1y↑2

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

1979 ❤ So i remember ❤

@BryanRo77

1y↑15

Hip hop music was born from the underground funk of the 70s. James Brown was mainstream but breakbeats were what set the underground apart

@commandercaptain4664

37w↑2

I need to know who dubbed that Herc party as the official start, cuz I don’t remember designating that one as Grand Poobah of When Things Get Started.

@BryanRo77

37w↑1

@@commandercaptain4664 I wasnt there but the breaks he was using came from the underground NY funk of the 70s-~~I uploaded some of it-~~ check it out

@sls554

35w↑1

@@commandercaptain4664 herc is a Fake. African American DJs in 1960s the one that some people called Disco DJs which is a Lie. The TRUE Fathers of Hip Hop are which are African Americans are Grandmaster Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones,Kool DJ Dee, and Mixologist Tyrone and some more DJs Invented Hip Hop before in the 1960s before herc.

@sls554

35w↑1

@@commandercaptain4664 These Pioneers Of Hip Hop were playing Disco and Funk music. They were playing the BreakBeats, and extending the Breakbeats too, playing with Two Turntables and a mixer and playing two records with the same Breakbeats before herc.

@sls554

35w↑1

@@commandercaptain4664herc Copy the early Pioneers Of Hip Hop. herc said he start djing in 1973. The true Fathers of Hip Hop Invented Hip Hop in 1960s before herc. African Americans DJs were playing the Breakbeats before 1973. herc was the only dj that did not know how to play the Breakbeats.

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@ConsiderMeReek

3y↑43

We watch you in school to celebrate black history month.

@pjangels609

But black folks did not invent rhymes, sorry. The Scots did!

@Kitty_bandida22

3y↑4

Yeah and its sad how people forget about Hispanic history month when it is big to

@royaltmusicc

https://youtu.be/I0OdXqcZn7o

@Robo311Star

33w

@@pjangels609No. Yall created having small DxxKs and soulless gingers

@Robo311Star

33w

@@Kitty_bandida22fuk Hispanic history when it's stacked up against blk culture.

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@globalmajority1310

3y↑10

✊🏾💥💥💥LOVE DR. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. “SKIP “ !

@blueblaze9862

2y↑10

I love how short but informative this is..jeez

@Lils0m

12w

Thank you so much it's so educationing also i needed information about history of hip-hop culture exactly
and will save it play it and study again and again !

@koreyp2845

2y↑14

Kool Herc never even said he created Hip Hop. It was going on before he even started Djing

@london8615

11w

i mean he refers to himself as the Father of Hip-Hop

@robertdavideldridge8109

Outstanding summary. Thank you

@AJ-pc5ln

2y↑108

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

@rodh3489

2y↑7

💯

@nyonjevista3829

2y↑16

It was started by Jamaican

@AJ-pc5ln

2y↑39

@@nyonjevista3829 That does not mean that Hip-hop is from Jamaican Culture. Kool Herc immigrated to the USA at 12 years old. He immersed himself into African American Culture. He began extending the Breaks on FUNK AND SOUL music especially the music of James Brown https://youtu.be/O7DpZCHRmqM They were not extending Breaks on any type of Music in Jamaica thats something he did while in Black American Culture in the USA. Other DJs like Grandmaster Flowers, and Disco King Mario did that before him. is derived from the Black American Cultural Art forms of Soul and Funk. Nothing about Hip-hop is Culturally from Jamaica.

@nyonjevista3829

2y↑7

@@AJ-pc5ln what I needed to know is that hiphop wasn't started by black American. It was started by Jamaican period.No arguement so you can't claim or own it when the inventor is not black American in the first place.

@AJ-pc5ln

2y↑26

@NyonjeVista That means absolutely nothing Hip-hop was started in the Bronx New York and is derived from the Music of African Americans Period. Hip-hop is derived from Black American Culture Funk and Soul music especially the music of James Brown https://youtu.be/O7DpZCHRmqM Nothing about Hip-hop is Culturally From the Island of Jamaica. Kool Herc immigrating to America at age 12 means absolutely nothing for Hip-hop Culture has absolutely nothing to do with anything Culturally from the Island of Jamaica thats all derived from Black American Cultural Art forms of Soul and Funk Music not Jamaican Culture. They were not Extending The Breaks on anything in Jamaica. That's something Herc did while immersed in Black American Culture Using Black American Cultural Art forms Soul and Funk PERIOD! You cannot change The Facts.

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@ctuy-uy8dc

3y↑55

Rip DMX ✊🏾

@royaltmusicc

https://youtu.be/bG_bRQnE9Eo

@kamryncallen8519

3y↑1

Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid lost my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me.

@malachioakley3083

3y↑1

@Kamryn Callen instablaster ;)

@non-expertguy9805

3y↑3

R.I.P. MF Doom

@london8615

11w

RIP 2PAC ❤

@val13c59

3y↑40

I read that Muhammad Ali Spoken Word poetry and trash talk combine gave elements of Hip Hop. He is credited as to have influence the genre Hip Hop. I read it in a local entertainment magazine. I’m not saying it’s a fact.

@patrickzulu4242

2y↑2

😂😂😂 Muhammad Ali

@waynegriffith2402

11w↑1

Simultaneously in Jamaica was the birth of modern reggae dancehall (dub) music. These two genres (hip-hop and dancehall) are of similar origins and structure.

@kaminimbus6449

3y↑6

As a kid who's this is essential to know

@afro__g5217

3y↑7

Wish I learned this in school

@maxwellbrisk5622

2y↑42

Herc creating Hip Hop is like saying Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America lol..All the elements were here already, none of them till this day are even popular or dominate in Jamaica

@marshascott6107

2y↑7

Right, they taking crazy, because alot the old heads that was there when it started, said the Herc did'nt even want to be identified as Jamaican, because nobody was rocking with their music and style, and for the record... He got his techniques from a black american name DJ King Mario, and from black american music. Mario was Before Herc and he was a black american(*Talking)

@TheGeeLuv

2y↑1

I agree! My 81 old mother said the same thing.

@JUSLOFI

2y↑2

@@marshascott6107 Herc wasn't the first DJ but he was the B-Boys favorite DJ. That's why he gets the recognition.

@coepatte99

2y↑3

There is a difference in saying Hip Hop came from Jamaica and saying a Jamaican American created a sound that pioneered Hip Hop. Herc was a hip hop pioneer with Jamaican ancestry. And all that ancestry goes back to the motherland. Nothing is created from nothing. Everything is influenced by everything, so discovery when it comes to music is a wrong term, but pioneering, creating a new sound, new flow is. Herc was a DJ and only a part of all the elements. He was the creator of the break beat. No one else was doing that. I don’t understand why anyone wants to diminish his contribution as a pioneer.

@TheGeeLuv

2y↑3

@@coepatte99 Please look on my Playlist and watch the videos because you are clearly misinformed. You can hear out the horse's mouth that he mimics and copy the Americans. For a long time, we did not know he was Jamaican.

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@kingstonian7066

2y↑7

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 much respect Jamaicans hold your head up be strong 💪 🙏 be proud 👏

@johnfu3633

2y↑1

yes

@soonone8306

41w↑1

I don't know what for a lie . You better be worried about your country before the Chinese take it over with your lying ass

@jeromegardner1843

10w

Full time now for america to give recognition to dj kool herc the founder of hip hop. Instead of doing everything to hide the real history

@michaelmoss5040

37w

An almighty experience I’ll never forget! 🎶🎭🎹🎸😃

@rayantenna

40w↑1

Such a dope genre.

@user-bb3is5xd5h

34w↑1

Happy 50th birthday Hip-Hop!!

@WeedTacos

Happy Blessed Black History Month✊🏾

@dmmlp2965

Thank you

@willisgaines6882

2y↑23

People are gonna have to cut this "Herc created HipHop" nonsense out once and for all

@JUSLOFI

2y↑3

Herc didn't create it but he was the B-Boys favorite DJ from 1973-1977

@abdurraheemali9303

2y↑2

@@JUSLOFI true

@jeromegardner1843

Workout true history we are lost. Just accept that a jamaican started hip hop. It is what it is. And thats fact.

@willisgaines6882

1y↑5

@@jeromegardner1843 How do you invent something that’s already being done? Y’all made Kool Herc the Christopher Columbus of Hip Hop

@jeromegardner1843

Have u ever listen the dancehall music before. Just as how hip hop started with a person dj on the mike after a break from the sound system. It the same concept kool herc brought to new york and start hip pop. U guys have a problem because its not an American who started it. If it was an American u would not debate it. Just dont try to change the true history for a false one. Just let it be Because it is fact

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@jasonranaweera3630

1y↑1

That's freeeeeeeeking interesting ❤

@curtiswhiteheadjr1322

This is definitely gettin posted! #RealHipHopStillBreathes! 💯🎤💖

@weebi33

2y↑7

And for the people saying that people from the Caribbean and etc created it. Riddle me this, why was it not created in those countries until after us? We have a whole catalog of genres we made before hip hop came. I don’t know why it’s hard for y’all to give us our flowers.

@tbphillips9649

Immigration and who is us

@tudevoid

1y↑1

Bro the Puerto Rican influence in hip-hop culture is enough to shut you up.

Taggin', graffiti,, bboy

@SOULAANI_

48w↑1

@@tudevoidthose things were already present in african american culture before you immigrants got here. You didnt create anything you rode the wave we had😂

@ricanredru4760

40w

@@tudevoid yeah these clowns don't be understanding Jack they just want to hear themselves yapping a bunch of ignorance.

@abdissagebre3275

1y↑3

Excellent job, Robert. Keep up telling the black history.

@complexsoulthegreat

2y↑115

I don’t know why there is a Heavy emphasis on “Kool Herk” being Jamaican-born.
Dj Kool Herc assimilated into black American culture and was influenced heavily by African American culture. I saw the videos on YouTube of him in his early days, you wouldn't even know that he was Jamaican because he looked like just an ordinary brotha. Afro, sideburns, some cool shades, a nice shirt and matching bellbottom pants. He wasn't even talking patois or with a Jamaican accent. Dude was completely assimilated as a black man in America. Kool herc looked up to guys like
Disco King Mario, who was the man at the time and was out and popular before Dj Kool herc.
I’m not saying any of this to discredit Kool herc but some of you folks from the island just jumped on some crazy bandwagon madness about the Origins of hip-hop being Jamaican because Kool herc is Jamaican. When all reality he definitely contributed but you can’t put cool herc over guys like disco king Mario. He was one of the dudes who started mixing and scratching on turntables. This entire rumor going around that Jamaicans created Hip Hop is absurd. You can’t create something that was already here. All elements of hip hop were born here in America not Jamaica or any Caribbean island for that matter. Hip hop is an African American art form that was shared with folks from Jamaica, Puerto Rico ex…. And they all contributed to it on a major scale, that will and can never be denied. We love our Caribbean family but to say that you guys created hip hop
Because Kool Herc is Jamaican and contributed is disingenuous. See I can’t go to Jamaica learn the language and assimilate into Jamaican culture, contribute to the already exciting culture, and then turn around and say that I created the culture. Folks would look at me crazy. Do you know what created hip hop?
Jazz, blues, Funk music, soul music, rock music, and even gospel music. All of which are African American art forms of music.
Even Kool herc admits this.

@mrl3129

2y↑19

Word!

@dorothycrawley3327

2y↑31

I've heard Jamaicans on other channels saying they invented hip hop which is not true..Just because a Jamaican man assimilated into American music style and rhythm does not mean that it came from Jamaica..They have calypso and reggae..People probably didn't know this man was Jamaican being that he looked black American Truth..Jamaicans don't want black Americans in their culture yet try to claim ours..

@newestbarbee3250

2y↑12

dj herc kool incorcopated what Jamaicans have using all along which is the act of djaying which is now rap American style. No one was spitting rhymes over a beat except Jamaicans in the past. Clash is what we do since forever , it's what rappers now do when they go head to head. It's what Jamaicans been doing when no one else was. He basically used Jamaican influences to start a genre. Jamaica invented EDM too, much he genre and several other genres were invented by Jamaica. An example of Jamaica's influence on another cultures music is

@newestbarbee3250

Reggaeton

@dorothycrawley3327

2y↑24

@@newestbarbee3250 Stop the LIES..Hip Hop and rap are AMERICAN black culture..They've been rapping since the 40s and 50s..This Jamaican man just found this genre of music and started playing it..

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@RaymondBrown-xw4cj

22w↑4

WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHRONOLOGICAL BLACK AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY: Hip hop came directly out of The Black Power/Black Is Beautiful/ Black Arts Movement of the 1960's &1970's. This was the most culturally and politically active era in African American history. The teen contingent of the movement played out as presented on Soul Train produced by Don Cornelius beginning 1970 when the show was nationally broadcast from Chicago from 1970 to the end of 1971. He moved the show to LA, but he took several of his teen dancers with him to ensure the dance quality of the show would remain the same after the move. The TV show became our most powerful Black teen cultural influence for 36 years. Soul Train hit American popular culture like a cultural tsunami. It instantly eclipsed Dick Clark's American Bandstand in international popularity. Chicago is the capitol of African American Blues and Gospel Music. Chicago due to The Great Migration is Mississippi once removed. Chicago developed the best social dancers in Black America. Michael Jackson comes from that dance enclave. Because break dancing had been a part of the Chicago dance lexicon since the 1950's, most likely influenced by the Black dance crews seen on TV variety shows in the 1950's, the Chicago teens on Soul Train showcased break dancing as part of their dance repertoire. For the first time in or cultural history we had a national stage to spotlight Black music stars, show-off old and new Black dances, and to premiere new Black talent. Teens across this nation copied the break dancing seen on Soul Train, including The Black Spades. They sang James Brown's (who was a frequent guest on ST) "Soul Power." They personalized it by singing "Spade Power! They put their influence on break dancing to make it uniquely their own. James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" was the Black teen national anthem. Those who recognize James Brown as the Godfather of hip hop, rarely mention the Black Power aspect of what he was promoting, along with other Black Protest stars like Curtis Mayfield (Movin' On Up), Nina Simone (To Be Young Gifted and Black), and Marvin Gaye (What's Goin' On) among many others, that sparked the impetus for Black teen heightened involvement. The Black Arts Movement elevated rhyming Black Protest poets like H Rap Brown, Amir Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Don L. Lee aka Haki Madhubuti, The Last Poets, and Mari Evans among others, to the forefront as the rapping voices of Black Power that politicized Black American teens. This Black teen cultural revolution was televised. Neither Puerto Ricans nor Jamaicans were singing, dancing, rapping about, nor identifying with our Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement. They still don't. Their great jealousy grew out of the international excitement generated by Black American teens dancing on national TV that did not include them. Because the broadcast came out of Chicago, not NYC, it singularly showcased Black American teens only. Soul Train is the genesis of the NYC PR and Jamaican great cultural jealousy. The emergence of The Black Spades Black Power gang culture gave PRs in the Bronx a local Black cultural expression they could cosplay in their jealous quest to leech the Black American teen international pop culture spotlight. Their desire for the same fame that Black teens had, is the reason NYC PRs in mass set aside their long-standing antipathy towards NYC African Americans in order to surreptitiously enter their ranks to gain acceptance so they could cosplay Black American dance, music and style. Five plus decades later Latinos have delusionally convinced themselves that they actually created what they effetely copied.

Anyone who speaks about the development of hip hop and doesn't mention the worldwide influence the Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement or the impact of Soul Train, they don't know what they are talking about. The 10 years following the assassination of MLK, Black America was politically and culturally ablaze. Hip hop grew directly out of the tenor of those times. No immigrant group was powerful enough to influence Black American teen music, dance, nor style during that Black Power period, no matter where they were located. All other teens, white American teens and white college students, American immigrant teens in and outside of NYC, and teens around the world copied the powerful music, dance, and political colloquialisms (like "Right-On" and "Power To The People!") presented by African Americans from various regions across this nation. Contemporary self-aggrandizing cultural history revisionists like Colon and certain descendants of island immigrants have chosen the most active, the most vocal, and the most recorded period in Black American history to try and hijack. All their ever-changing revisionist folklore narratives are continually being debunked by authentic Black Americans, because they have no visual or journalistic documented evidence to support their delusional wishful claims, nor do they present acceptable reasoning that ratifies Puerto Rican/Jamaican bizarre demands to force their way into African American culture that resists their irrational intrusions.

@planetz1111

1y↑27

As a Jamaican-American, I can say that I am so proud to have this connection to the birth of Hip Hop 😌✨🇯🇲

@Smitty753

https://youtu.be/Wx0oU1OnHf8 I'll just leave this here for some evidence they might not started we thought it did

@jayjones251

1y↑16

What's the connection?

@SOULAANI_

48w↑25

No connection bro, it was Mađe and pioneered by only african americans, immigrants simply copied what was already there

@user-hx8zm4fe4q

38w

Nope they keep this herc lie going to steal from ADOS/ FBA

@craigrankine9867

37w

@jayjones251 a Jamaican created hip hop goggle it

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@royaltmusicc

This video was 9 months ago. Now a life is being born into this world... a legend...
#johnnyx100 👈👈👈💿💿💿👈👈👈

@wackyval6898

15w

friend of mine had this biggie tape he never wanted to lend to me......finally i got it.....copied it.....switched the tapes in the cassette .....gave him back the copy in the original case... for letting me beg so long

@noeasyprops4535

3y↑21

Should have started with the Bboys since the dance is what really gave the visibility and set everything in motion, and no mention of graffiti art? hmm this should have been called the birth of rap music.

@royaltmusicc

3y↑1

#johnnyx100 👈💿🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@PlutoSevenTbb75

Absolutely true, many speak on the culture but don’t know the true history, it started with the Bgirls and Bboy’s…

@tudevoid

Yeah alot of black people try to claim hip-hop as just the music and dj part.

Forget about the taggin', graffiti, and bboy. Which had huge latino/ Puerto Rican influence.

@errylkingracinez8850

33w

HIP HOP IS MY GENRE TOO. ALL MY LIFE.
IM FROM PHILIPPINES.

@REAusetkmt

26w↑5

this leaves the whole base history out - HipHop came from the BRONX in the early 1970's - Remember DJ's like King Mario Flowers. the roots of HipHop came from the BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITY not foreigners. this was homegrown speech about being "Close to the edge" yeah.

@vnorm2907

30w↑1

They left out Mr. Magic on WHBI.
Hip Hop was first on the radio, this was 1978 or 79, I was in the 8th grade.
There were records recorded before the Sugarhill Gang bit Rappers Delight from Grandmaster Caz.
The Graffiti was also a part of Hip Hip.

@geraldblount4159

30w

Like a crippled crab on crutches

@jays4dayzllc164

36w

THANK YOU for this!!! I promise you this needs to be taught in schools around the world!! This is a culture like any other black ground breaking history for our community. I am truly proud to be a BLACK descendent of the HIP HIP legacy ;)

@robertjohnson2916

36w

Hip hop is trash.

@misterw591

3y↑1

Happy Birthday Hip Hop

@Tashaten

2y↑6

JJ. Fad and I'm here to rap!!! No one should step out of line black americans are the creators of it all!!! Love black america our history shouldn't never be forgotten ❤️

@athugnamedldybug9795

Black and Latinos

@Tashaten

2y↑3

Latinos came in later, but not in the beginning.

@xtraprebel6274

1y↑1

@@athugnamedldybug9795 they came after they didn't influence nothing.

@xiaomeili1145

3y↑2

I like this

@thebiggestfinesser

2y↑3

I’m gonna rebirth hiphop…idk how but imma do it before I leave this earth #222

@axilmar254

35w↑3

Rhyming was a big part of black culture...there are a few videos surfaced in youtube with songs from the 30s and 40s that contain parts of pure 100% hip hop style rhyming.

I once met someone from south Africa that told me that families used to rhyme on poems over dinner or lunch.

It seems rhyming comes straight from the heart of the black man - and quite a few whites too.

@INCHATT

18w

I listen to music from the 1920s 1930s and 1940s and I can say with all certainty that a lot of the Blues and Jazz from that era did contain rhyming lyrics. I don't know why Luke Jordan's "Pick Poor Robin Clean" comes to mind off the bat. But people like Memphis Minnie and or even Blind Willie McTell come to mind too! And those people were African Americans. So this Jamaican and Puerto Rican thing is strange to my ears.

@Antwan881

16w↑1

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

@paola24jb

Excelent short video!!!!

@level100tv

24w↑1

Jamaicans are the greatest. God bless our nation

@DamonMiller-uq9nt

19w↑2

Go back to your nation.

@me109cito5

41w

I'm hip to this 😅

@ConquerWealth.network

2y↑3

Kool Herc went on Maury Polvich show to take a lie detector test' and the test came back "YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER"

@jeffreyharnden7523

1y↑1

I hope to see a documentary of the birth of gospel music but I heard that it got started in Chicago I once had a vhs tape a longtime ago called the roots of gospel which talked about the black isrealites and how they used to sing hymes I guess that part of how it got started but it would be cool to see a documentary posted in YouTube of how one of the best music genre ever got started

@geraldblount4159

30w

And they lied they said nothing about Jimmy Castor the first real rapper in New York they believe it came from the Bronx it came from Queens Bertha butt Boogie King Kong it just began the b-boy dance over it just began Jimmy Castor the first rapper there were artists in the thirties and forties that rap and sound like a rap on the record

@jessicam.4777

46w

I think the recent piece, The Country Idiom of Hip Hop, by Dr. Imani Perry would shed some light on the actual origins of Rap Music and Hip-Hop culture.

@ethanripault5205

2y↑1

it’s a very good rap

@adrienrosier5319

2y↑1

#HIPHOP raised me!

@Gigi-fp8pd

3y↑35

Dj Herc didn't start hip hop nor was he the first to isolate musical breaks. See what happens when you get your black history info from Wikipedia?

@jonathanvelez4182

3y↑4

Who was it then?

@americasmaker

2y↑2

@@jonathanvelez4182 Disco DJs, Hip Hop DJ culture came from Disco DJ culture, not Jamaica. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77OcsA0H7EgEx7fm5771RzAo5KYYKivf

@jessicam.4777

I was informed that anyone could add info to Wikipedia. 🤦🏿‍♀️

@Gigi-fp8pd

36w

@@jonathanvelez4182Dj Pete Jones had been doing it for years

@mejulian01

2y↑3

Nice. I'm just starting to explore hip hop music and I appreciate the history bits.

Is there a difference between rap and hip hop?

@tudevoid

Hip-hop is a culture.. rap is just a genre

@reeferfranklin

19w↑1

Herc did not improvise that technique, Pete DJ Jones had been wandering from borough to borough since 1970 looping the drum breaks of his favorite records by using duplicate records on two turntable with a crossfader...Herc definitely threw the first Hip-Hop party on Sedgwick Ave. and added the element of toasting that he learned from DJs in Jamaican on his vacations visiting family...but he didn't invent the essential technique, Pete DJ Jones did, and he also didn't invent scratching (Grand Wizard Theodore did) or the block party (Grandmaster Flash did) but he did invent the Hip-Hop party itself.

@skoldmplus6763

Ols School 😎💪🎤

@awesomeasever8370

3y↑28

Rap is music, Hip-Hop is a subculture. Rap started in the South, Hip-Hop started in New York. Rap is sometimes called Hip-Hop because it's the music of Hip-Hop.
Both are EXCLUSIVELY Foundational Black American creations. 🇺🇸 ✊🏽 🇺🇸 ✊🏽

@royaltmusicc

https://youtu.be/bG_bRQnE9Eo

@geraldblount4159

30w

No it didn't South had hillbilly Music Man acting like it came from the south I used to go down south as a kid they didn't even know what that s*** was from New York

@thyshallrunitup5297

37w↑2

The earliest origins of hip hop/rap started with Pigmeat Markham back in the '40s. Kool Herc didn't start hip hop.

@Volcanic_Eruption

2y↑48

DJ Kool Herc was not the first, a group called the Black Spades were having hip hop parties in the very early 70s

@danieljulbe2162

2y↑17

Ogs where I’m from in bk told me about grandmaster flowers and dj pete jones were before herc

@whitewavewaterfall

2y↑10

I remember the first time I had heard the term rap music it was in 1970 the upper west side of Manhattan from kids my age who had attended a party at our community center. They said that it was new and it was called rap music. They came to school and told me all about the next day. Because I was allowed to hang out pass 5. I was ten at that time.

@kay-marie1076

2y↑2

Just because he's Jamaican you think they didn't invent hip hop. Next you will be saying Black Americans invented Reggae, Ragga and Dancehall!!!

@ohreally6231

2y↑14

@@kay-marie1076 Respectfully ALL Jamaican reggae icons followed American Motown Music and used their cadence lyrics as their foundation sorry sistren don't be jelly we love Jamaicans eventhough you don't love us:)

@marshascott6107

2y↑7

@@kay-marie1076 The old head Jamaicans said it

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@kjw111

3y↑1

Al Jarraeau pioneered alot of vocal techniques in Hip Hop . on albums Glow . & Breakin Away . 😎❤✌🏽

@dreddthaseeker6492

22w

Cholly Rock tells a more detailed story that goes back further than this.

@myrnafernandez1835

That right the DJ in the park 70s 🎉

@TyTy-wf1df

42w

Cant mention origins of hip hop without Kraftwerk they influenced the genre hard!!!

@wardatkins1320

So what about Rudy Ray Moore and Rap Dirty ? What year was these are the breaks?

@bwada8410

3y↑13

I am Asian and a big fan of blacks interms of music and dance..

@lildurk3004

3y↑2

Have you heard of MC Jin

@sterlingturner5318

3y↑2

Hip Hop.is black culture

@Phriffo

Let's thank the Sugarhill for the "first" hip-hop song.

@joshdiaz378

21w

Was it really created in the SOUTH Bronx or was it actually created in the WEST Bronx? 😳 Some historians & pioneers think otherwise. Any thoughts from people who grew up in that era or actually from the Bronx Burrough?

@CHowes8055

1y↑1

The first hip-hop was Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan!

@jackbuddoo5016

2y↑4

When the slave ships left África most of them headed for Jamaica because of the British strong hold on Jamaica .Jamaica was a ship point base on it location in the carrribean so Jamaica was used as a distribution centre for the carrribean and North America, central American and South America.....The point I am making is we are all African people and de should not try to seperate ourself from each other ...We should make ourself an international community because out of one came all ........Out of one music came all music .............

@scootscoot6974

2y↑1

No they was drop of at different spots. They drop off the weaker slaves to the Caribbean islands & brought all the other slaves to the Americas. Do your research. Simply base on number you could obviously see there were Blacks in America’s with the native before slavery as well.

@WhenTheLionRoars

38w

So if the stronger slaves were dropped off in America, why didn't they revolt and fight and gain their freedom like what happened in Haiti or Jamaica? You people are crazy

@amanijohnson5246

I was watching this in class
And its sad how no one knows the history of hip hop
But they wanna listen to Cardi n and Megan ect.

@sterlingturner5318

3y↑4

Hip Hop.is black music/culture

@michelrood2966

43w

When rap was real...

@ripadipaflipa4672

1y↑1

I remember dancing to the sugar hill gang but didn’t learn how to dance to them till the early 80’s after hitching through central Africa for 8 months. That was when I stopped dancing like a white woman.

@avinash.m7839

3y↑1

48th happy birthday hip hop

@laboricuadeborinquen2007

2y↑3

DJ Kool Herc would be both proud and horrified of what hip hop is today

@blueblaze9862

2y↑2

Lol he'd be confused

@nodnoh-2174

2y↑7

he's alive 😂 wtf

@littyagain9402

bro he prolly proud of what it became, tf lol

@jayjones251

1y↑1

Who cares, without him hip-hop still would of been created

@geraldblount4159

30w

He wasn't the first rapper in New York Jimmy Cassidy from Queens this guy came in the 1980s I'm talkin about 69 70 go listen to this guy's music Bertha butt Boogie it just began King Kong by Jimmy Castor you will change your mind they didn't give this man no credit talking about the Bronx had nothing to do with it

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@mariaantoinettefaris9792

2y↑1

I am Hip hop 4ever Boogie Down. One Love

@luly2369

2y↑3

PIGMEAT MARKHAM. and others from 50s and 60s. They are the founders of rap.

@ImRichBych

Hell no. Rap/Hip hop should’ve came into fruition then at that time at that place. A few isolated incidents at best.

@down-b8197

2y↑1

@@ImRichBych
She's correct. James brown and Muhammad Ali also played a huge role.

@JBGAMBIT

34w↑1

@tyjakkty8668

40w

it was a good thing in the beginning dance battles instead of killing each other with guns

@moshefabrikant1

2:10
Hip hop it's a way to reflect/move a message across to the audience like a cnn

@sempercompellis

37w

america's last truly great musical genre and yes another one made by black americans- it really is crazy how many musical genres black americans invented and it really is a tragedy how many they have walked away from..... (blues, jazz etc....)

@user-eo1wm4yc8h

10w

That's right

@OGGOAT23

3y↑5

Youngsters must watch this

@bankrolljay6907

I’m watching this at 14

@antoniobarnes694

I’m 34 and I’m watching it. I once told a older white man about black hip hop and black culture and how it was formed by our suppression and hard times turned into something fun and good he wanted to argue with me and told me it was formed by jazz music. I’m like I’m black I think I would know about my culture. That’s like me trying to tell a asian guy about Asian culture when I was never exposed to it

@kymanibrown8039

@@bankrolljay6907 Hip Hop's brother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thNWIM5Oe6w

@Jonnhy_24

Harry Mack is bringing hip Hop Magic to us like we had on the past

@americasmaker

@@kymanibrown8039 No, that is the offspring of Hip Hop.

@johnathanclark1

12w

Okay for me hiphop is Jungle Music as 1920s describing jazz. They consider our music from the jungle of Africa. So please stop debating between African Americans and Caribbean when it’s all Rhythmic Beats. Hiphop true father is really rhyming Black radio DJ switching records. Radio DJ like Jocko Henderson was influential for both Rap and Dancehall. During the early 70s Jamaican had Dub records already out. During the late 60s and 70s block parties were called the Jam. Overtime the records were cut to best parts which became the breakbeat. It seems kinda symbolic that forgotten people in the inner city identified with disregarded 5 seconds of records and make epic performances stretching and looping them. Also HipHop is more of New York thing because GoGo in DC could have been just as big, or even Garage/House/club”disco” NYC/Chicago is influential as well. Not to mention Detroit Techno and Miami Bass Playing kraftwerk could have been something if Hiphop didn’t jumped off. Either way it’s all Jungle music because we all come from the jungle and we separated by boat stop.

@jose4148

1y↑3

it's not only black American created. Black Americans wasn't the only ones on the streets of NY back in those days. Puerto Ricans was all over the streets side by side (watch the get down) It's a street creation by street gangs already living the culture. At a very dark time, the streets brought their ideas and music together to create hip hop. Cool herc and Africa bombataa was present when this sound was first presented and brought it to the radio giving the genre a name. They did not create it, they named it. The streets created hip hop, the ghettos. The rich now dominates it and blocks out the true facts in order to take away the free power hip hop gave us. They advertise it's a "black culture" in order to separate the ones that truly created the culture in unity.... Black Americans, Puerto Ricans and Caribbean people on the streets of NY, all those on the streets back then.

@jayjones251

1y↑3

Nah Puerto Ricans use to call it jungle music they wasn't messing with hip-hop at the start and hip-hop is just an evolution of older black american music

@jose4148

@@jayjones251 that's not true at all, none of that. Puerto Ricans was out in that "jungle". No BS, Puerto Ricans was mixing different genres (not just black music) of music on turn tables as Djs just like we did with salsa. It wasn't only black people, it was the streets that created hip hop. Black most definitely was not the only ones on the streets and in gangs. Puerto Ricans was always most definitely about that life. True story, I'm from the BX.

@jayjones251

1y↑1

@@jose4148 I'm not saying anyone wasn't about that life. So would you say there wouldn't be hip hop without Puerto Ricans remember black folks where rapping in the south it just wasn't a called anything. Look man I get it growing up on hip hop especially it coming from your city it's apart of you but black american music don't have any foreign elements to it. That's just what it

@jose4148

@@jayjones251 exactly, without Puerto Ricans there will be no hip hop. Black folks in the south was rapping in different genres (rap is a form of poetry, I can call verses in several genres rap verses but rap alone don't make hip hop) not hip hop and not the way we did it. Hip hop isn't black American music though. It wasn't only black American minds that put the culture together. Jamaicans was apart of it as well, Puerto Ricans was just as much apart of it as black Americans. We was side by side in those times in those streets where hip hop was born. In fact, the ghetto brothers with turn tables put different sounds together and presented the music and idea for the first time. From there, the djs on the streets started doing it, Graffiti got popular and added to the culture (Puerto Ricans was known for Graffiti) breaking got popular and added to the cultures (Puerto Ricans was well known for that too) dj cool herc and Africa bombataa took it to the studios/radios and gave it a name. All together we created hip hop. Puerto Ricans was not standing on the side lines watching this happen while doing nothing. Even if you watch the get down (made by Nas) the crowds and characters was either Puerto Rican, Caribbean, or black Americans. That says it all right there. Even Busta Rhymes was in Puerto Rico paying homage saying people forget and need to remember that together Puerto Ricans and blacks created hip hop and fathered it to what it is today. It's not that I grew up on it and it's apart of me. I was born in the same place as hip hop was and was schooled by the same people who did made the culture. Even black Americans out here would tell you without Puerto Ricans hip hop wouldn't be alive. It takes a unity to create something that big. Maybe it would've just been rap lol nah but for real for real. I'm not just telling you this for fun, I'm dead azz. Im telling you this as someone that grew up on the history, I was born hip hop and I am hip hop. It means more than just music. Outsiders got the facts wrong because throughout the years Puerto Ricans involvement went un recognized. Now that it's world wide and mostly black Americans are in it (how many black Americans are on the planet compared to Puerto Ricans) people think it's a black culture. That's changing though, the truth is coming out. I'm telling you right now as a matter of fact

@jayjones251

1y↑1

@@jose4148 I disagree with that 💯. The world don't see it that way. Why wasn't you guys making this claim back in the 80s and 90s and some of 2000s why now I'm curious

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@PrinceBenjaminSu

History...

@sundiataoba6519

Thanks to dr.Gates for his synopsis the culture is world wide now and he points to the origin of that Bx Boro culture 👏

@jimmyjames6762

44w↑1

Beastie Boys!!! #1 in HipHop

@aniyax4023

3y↑538

Hip-hop is black American creation

@NATURALLYOLINA

3y↑30

Who are these African Americans you speak of?

@NATURALLYOLINA

3y↑43

@@aniyax4023 I know the doc however in my opinion that doesn't mean that it's AA. It took many hands to make this art form a thing and Caribbean people are a large part of this. There's no denying this. When ppl think the HIP HOP HERC and the house party comes up 99.9% of the time

@aniyax4023

3y↑120

@@NATURALLYOLINA what are you talkin about you did not watch the documentary black Americans been doing House parties with DJs before he even came to this country there are five elements of hip-hop. Graffiti a black American created that, rap the actual art form of putting words together black Americans created that, DJ we were already for DJing he was not the first DJ in New York four came up with that creation, beatboxing we created that and breakdancing we created that. He did not create Hip Hop he took Funk Beats that black Americans created merge them together and put the brakes in on the turntable and we give him credit for that but he did not create hip-hop

@aniyax4023

3y↑30

@craig rankine what did he create in hip-hop

@pjangels609

3y↑16

Actually, it's not. It was created by Scotsman several hundred years ago called "limericks", a form of praising and dissing.

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@darrylnelson05

2y↑1

You can't talk about the birth of Hip Hop with including DJ "Jacko" Henderson and the influence of Jamaican "Toasting".

@djuansmith7649

2y↑4

Who did Jamaican toasting in the Bronx in the 70's???

@ImRichBych

@@djuansmith7649 Jamaican toasting is what influenced the NYC version of it which became properly known as rapping. The genre came into existence from that specific timeline.

@down-b8197

2y↑9

Jamaican toasting had nothing to do with hip hop.

@xtraprebel6274

1y↑3

@@ImRichBych toasting didn't come from Jamaica.

@ImRichBych

@@xtraprebel6274 toasting is an old school Caribbean folk music

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@t-sane7858

22w

Put some respect on jamaica 🇯🇲

@jayjones251

18w

For what? There's no Jamaican cultural element in hip-hop. Let me guess Kool herc?

@t-sane7858

18w

@@jayjones251 DJ Kool herc ofc

@jayjones251

18w

@t-sane7858 what did herc create in hip-hop?

@seanberry1969

2y↑1

💕

@kingfillins4117

25w↑1

Rap originated in the 1500s with the country dance callers. The first hop hop musical rhythm was actually written by a composer in England in something like the 11th century.

@lindaelliott7224

11w

Shure lol you mean the West African griots

@kingfillins4117

11w

@@lindaelliott7224 Griots were from the 13 Century. Note he says he wants to try doing some hip hop outside his tradition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V16vf6Y8Zc

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