roguejuror
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Hip Hop indeed was born in the Bronx. Going back all the way to the 1930s you can find negro musical groups with rhyming lyrics, but it was a comedian named Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham in 1968 doing a skit that composed a song with hip hop beats and rhymes. The beats of hip hop comes from negro funk music popularized in the 1960s through acts like James Brown and Little Richard.
Here is: Pigmeat Markham - Here Come The Judge (1968)
In the late 1960s and 70s in Europe, mostly in France and Germany there was a big movement in electronic and synth music. It was silly and wonky and experimental.
Like this one: Jean-Jacques Perrey - The Elephant Never Forgets (1968) which is a sample of Beethoven's Turkish March.
But this movement grew and by the mid 1970s it was producing commercial acts and legit artists.
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (1977), any hip hop fan will recognize 01:02 mark
All these euro acts were coming over to New York City and spreading. The blacks from the Bronx started sampling this music and they fused it with funk beats. And they started timing themselves with the beats and synth to get the rhythm. This is where hip hop was born.
This was street culture, it was reaching the clubs, it was break dancing, it was organic and localized. The New York music industry used to call it black pop.
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (1982)
Planet Rock was a huge viral hit that exposed it to the rest of the country. By the time that song made it big there was already all the ingredients set, it was it's own thing born out of euro electronic synth and funk, it was no longer black pop it was hip hop.
Here is: Pigmeat Markham - Here Come The Judge (1968)
In the late 1960s and 70s in Europe, mostly in France and Germany there was a big movement in electronic and synth music. It was silly and wonky and experimental.
Like this one: Jean-Jacques Perrey - The Elephant Never Forgets (1968) which is a sample of Beethoven's Turkish March.
But this movement grew and by the mid 1970s it was producing commercial acts and legit artists.
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (1977), any hip hop fan will recognize 01:02 mark
All these euro acts were coming over to New York City and spreading. The blacks from the Bronx started sampling this music and they fused it with funk beats. And they started timing themselves with the beats and synth to get the rhythm. This is where hip hop was born.
This was street culture, it was reaching the clubs, it was break dancing, it was organic and localized. The New York music industry used to call it black pop.
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (1982)
Planet Rock was a huge viral hit that exposed it to the rest of the country. By the time that song made it big there was already all the ingredients set, it was it's own thing born out of euro electronic synth and funk, it was no longer black pop it was hip hop.
