1977, the birth of hip hop: block party with DJ Stevie Steve, Lil Rodney Cee and Lil Shotgun

http://old-school-hiphop-tapes.blogspot.com/ Very rare hip hop tape from 1977. Clip also contains some great party flyers.
More old school hip hop on: http://old-school-hiphop-tapes.blogspot.com/

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Music

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• old school
• hip hop
• live
• block party
• 1977
• new york

[XxGuardianKnightxX]

this is pretty sweet. I didn't know rap was around before 1979-1980 with Rapper's Delight. I should show this to my friend because he's an amateur rapper. So this really is the first rap song, ever?

[DutchOldSchoolFan]

@XxGuardianKnightxX: You can't call it a 'song' and it's not, like rappers delight, a record. The tape is part of hip hop history because there are not many pre 1978 tapes around. In that way, you could say that you are listening to the birth of hip hop :-)

[appinoiden]

some of it is the same audio as the live convention 77 - 79 tape.

[DutchOldSchoolFan]

indeed, but that live convention 77-79 tape is a hoax (the storie is made up, the tape is produced later)

[dfuzz71]

umm...WOW!

[sasquatch13ja]

@XxGuardianKnightxX hip hop actually started in 1973 in the south bronx, by dj kool herc, but it was mostly dominated by dj's only, not mc's.

[artwearsusa]

This is the old hip hop tapes

[markbeatts]

foundation of hip hop elements was / are the break beats-james brown-Georgia,-Melvin bliss synthetic substitution-chicago,fat back band-jamaica queens/north carolina,incredible bongo band-LA,roy-c' impeach the president-jamaica queens NY,george clinton/funkadelic/Parliament-­new jersey.and on n on.so it was different elements of soul music because all music is soul that created what we call hip hop/rap music.it's a branch from the tree i get tired hearing this started here this started there

[markbeatts]

the labels they started spun legendary reggae artist.their sound system which they made from scratch which the bro on the mic would be toasting over the music thats what they called their singing it was a type of broken english.that was a part of the element of hip hop but the d.j.'s had big sound systems but mostly in the clubs a few would bring them outside for events or the beach like jones beach were they would set up really big systems thousands of peps there.but the foundation of hip hop

[markbeatts]

i know this may get some hate and mostly from people who do not really know the not history but our story moboya is from panama but grow up in brooklyn was the first know d.j. to tour over seas in 1971 playing funk,reggae,soul.and course grand master flash who master the back spin catching the break on time who studied under d.j.pete jones him and kool dj aj.in jamaica the jamaican d.j.'s battle each other with their big sound systems if you lose u lose everything alot of started labels.

[markbeatts]

add to my comment,grand wizard theodore stated in wax poetics kool herc started doing what we called hip hop when his older disco crowd he was playing for was dying out and he came over to the young crowd playing the whole record til it got to the break.he did not play the break back to back and alot of times other bro's would do the d.j.ing in his crew like clark kent.there where other bro's that was doing this before like d.j.plummer,d.j.flowers,and maboya who was the first d.j. to tour in 71

[markbeatts]

if you into hip hop and it's roots,you know hip hop did not start with kool herc or in jamaica in the island.it was different elements of soul music from north america.from black radio d.j.'s like jocko,rosco,in the late 50's cassius clay also know as Muhammad Ali who recored the first rhymes/ rap l.p. in 65,before that with duke jordan.the concept was wayyy before kool herc not taking away from herc he is a friend he had the big sound system and he was doing disco like pete d.j.jones

[Themaddprof]

Actually, rap as we know it today was going on in Jamaica in the late 60s with U Roy, Lone Ranger, King Stitt, etc. Kool Herc was a Jamaican American who brought this concept to the Bronx in the 1970s. Kids would make cassettes of parties of this kind throughout the 70s before it was professionally recorded. The first rap record was actually "King Tim III" by the Fatback Band or "Rhythm Talk" by Jocko. "Rapper's Delight" came out later that same year (1979). I was 15 at the time.

[bronxchica777]

THIS IS WHEN THE DJ'S WERE BEHIND DA ROPES IN DA PARK

[philwoodford]

@XxGuardianKnightxX Rapper's Delight was the first time rap music went 'mainstream' and was released on vinyl. The music already had a big following in NYC though - it was party/street music. People were amazed to hear it on the radio.