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With the release of "DJ Hero" upon us, it's a good time to honor the true masters of turntablism. IGN lists the most influential: DJ Kool Herc. He invented the “breakbeat” by using the two-turntable style of disco DJs to play two copies of a funk record, switching between the...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGL3qigrgqk Lamentably, this is not a cover of the Peggy Lee via Madonna staple. Still, Ron Artest continues to fantasize that his life closely parallels Jay-Z’s “Reasonable Doubt” and who am I to argue. He is one of the few people capable of making Rick Ross seem subtle and restrained. You know Artest is from when [...]
There's a section of the book, subtitled Jamaican Roots where Higgins notes that the first acknowledged rapper is Jamaica-born Coke La Rock; hip hop's founding father is Jamaica-born DJ Kool Herc, the culture's first acknowledged deejay, who moved from Jamaica to the Bronx.
I usually have some form of download for you guys; some up and coming mix by the crate digging souls of this great planet. However, I felt that a State of the Union address was important to this column moving forward. We’ve all heard the age old saying that in order to conquer the future, we must first understand our past. In this installment of Wyllys and The World Party, we will give a quick...
Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media, � is someone that I want to highlight on these pages. � Not that you need to come...
Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Movies For decades, hip-hop historians have claimed that rap music was born in the Bronx and fathered by Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc , but a new documentary draws the Bronx story into question. In 'Founding Fathers,' filmmakers Ronald Lawrence and Hassan Pore make a case for "the original grandmaster," Grandmaster Flowers . According to the documentary,...
Well I got this email from one of our affiliated artists, and two of our artist spotlights. First one is from Jay Burna. He just released a track right now called Off The Freestyle, which is on a fucking hot ass beat. The mixtape with DJ Haze is in the works, even if DJ Haze [...]
Artist: DJ Kool Song: Let Me Clear My Throat Album: Let Me Clear My Throat Release Date: 1996 You can still hear this song on the radio from around 4-6 PM in the Washington D.C. area after work. This is one of the FEW artist from the Washington D.C. area that actually made it on to the mainstream in the late 90's. It was recorded live how we love it at Bahama Bay in Philadelphia and is still a good...
Beat This: A Hip Hop History BBC documentary from 1983 about the roots of hiphop – contains an interview with the legendary DJ Kool Herc, the father of hiphop…and Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McLaren, Arthur Baker and more.
PDS with the footage of Wale bringin’ it home to D.C.’s Love. I don’t care what a lil niglet tells you, the percussion on “Dig Dug” will forever go hard. This was the first track that got me open to Mr. Florian’s music. One day, I know I’ll find the perfect nighttime establishment & the [...]
bq..The album’s standout was “Apache,” a U.S. Number One for Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann in 1961, though it was never released as a single. Nevertheless, it became the prize cut for Bronx DJ Kool Herc, who began using two copies of the album to isolate and string together the lengthy percussion breakdown of “Apache” to keep his dancers moving. “Apache,”...
I was checking out allhiphop when I discovered that Hip Hop just had a birthday on August 11th, it’s 36th: It was 36 years ago to this very day that a young Clive Campbell aka DJ Kool Herc and a handful of kids in a small, sweltering rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue on August [...]
Tracklist: 01. Illusions Of Grandeure (Intro) 02. Til’ The Casket Close 03. Model For Me 04. Come Clean 05. No Jockin’ Allowed 06. In Cold Blood 07. Danger (I Want That) 08. Go Hrad (Feat. Vic Damone And Rick Ross) 09. To Whom It May Concern 10. What We Need 11. I’m A Get Mine (Feat. Keno) 12. Smashtime 13. Maybach Music Pt. 2 Freestyle 14. Fame (Feat. [...]
Barack Obama has marked history by becoming the first black man to be elected as the president of the United States. Obama created a wave of hope and change that led him to a historical victory. The new president proves that the ‘American Dream’ is real and that even a black man can achieve great things in America. Many times...
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