COKE LA ROCK, A DJ WITH KOOL HERC.. INSPIRED BY THE LAST POETS... "I INTRODUCED HERC TO THE STREETS" 

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@@TheCulture..Started1971 I hear you brother 👊🏿👊🏿

@@TheCulture..Started1971 In ur opinion, Where did Hip hop fashion come from, NYC or somewhere else?

@Michael smith... hiphop fashion came from the young bronx teenagers who was buying clothes mainly from Harlem

@@TheCulture..Started1971 I challenge that respectfully, u been woefully misinformed My bro.

Dont forget to mention the Jamaicans we put in the work for hip hop too

@@tonytuffers Yes indeed but But Hiphop was created by Foundation Black American here in America but yes shout out to Jamaicans for contributing.

@@tonytuffers Let us have our own ethnic cultural pride without interfering

@@commonsenseisnowasuperpowe5275 I’m a black american as well but explain how would others legitimately being involved take away from what black americans contributed? Most black americans didn’t like hip hop at first so now ALL black americans get to claim it like they were down? Y’all so mad at people who been lied to for decades for regurgitating the bs they been told and taught but not mad at the pioneers for not dispelling the myths and soldifying their legacy until it was damn near too late.

And the Latinos and Caribbeans 🗽🇵🇷🇯🇲💯

What impostors?

South Bronx is the birthplace of Hip-Hop, it comes to no surprise that the intermingling of Puerto Rican and West Indies along with Black styles are the main contributors to the basic Hip-Hop essence.Rap music originated on the island of Jamaica in the early 1960's and not in black ghettos of the United States. In the early 60's, when Jamaican sound-system operators had only a single turntable, they would employ the services of a slick-talking, rhyme-every-time person on the microphoneOften, when people here Hip-Hop they associate it with only African-Americans. However, Hip-Hop is actually the combination of West Indian, Puerto Rican, Blacks of New York. Hip-Hop has always been open to a diverse audience, and thus is not limited to one specific group. DJing started in Jamaica, where the artist would mix and scratch music with repetitive phrases mixed it. In Jamaica, and in many area of the West Indies, music is used as important as politics. Music was used to express the voice of the citizens. Political parties themselves used the musics of DJs to represent their positions. As people from the West Indies moved into New York and specifically the Bronx, they began to incorporate their values of music as a form as expression. When the West Indians began to live with the Puerto Ricans and African Americans of the South Bronx, their art of music mixed in with the rapping and rhyming of the people living there. Hip-Hop began to include in general, Rapping, DJing, Graffiti and Break Dancing. DJ Kool Herc and other DJ from the West Indies, gaining popularity from their style of music, began to encourage the youth to get involved in the art of Hip-Hop. Soon some gangs began to focus their concentration on Hip-Hop rather than using violence to express their anger with the environment they were in. Afrika Bambaataa would find the Universal Zulu Movement, which was a gang that focused on Hip-Hop. What all the people involved in Hip-Hop do have in common is how the merge the struggles of every day life, and their environment into their various forms of art in a way that people facing similar difficulties can also relate. Hip-Hop then turns into a voice of all those New Yorkers, and even beyond, who are constantly trying to improve their lives in a difficult environment.Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Bambaataa are the Holy Trinity of hip-hop. Bambaataa's role was carrying the gospel of hip-hop first downtown to white audiences, then to the rest of the world." Coke La Rock is known for being the first rapper to ever spit rhymes after teaming up with DJ Kool Herc in 1973 and both are recognized as the original founding fathers of Hip Hop. Rap music was originally underground.The first major hip-hop deejay was DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), an 18-year-old immigrant who introduced the huge sound systems of his native Jamaica to inner-city parties.The location of that birthplace was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, and the man who presided over that historic party was the birthday girl's brother, Clive Campbell-better known to history as DJ Kool Herc, founding father of hip hop.Afrika Bambaataa is largely considered the Godfather of Hip-Hop. DJ Kool Herc is a forefather of hip-hop.DJ Kool Herc is the father of the breakbeat, the deejay practice of isolating and repeating "breaks," the most danceable portions of songs; breakbeats make up the foundation of modern hip-hop.Mar 30, 2005DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was the blueprint for hip hop music. Herc used the record to focus on a short, heavily percussive part in it: the "break". Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players.A Jamaican native who moved to New York City's Bronx borough at the age of 12, Kool Herc is widely credited as the originator of Hip Hop.

@@aferrer74 You wrote complete nonsense. Every piece of Hip hop already existed in Black American cultures. Extending breaks were already done by DJs like Pete Jones. The sound system was copied from here. Older Jamaicans who worked the fields in Florida as seasonal workers already said this. Let the old lies and myths go and get caught up on what really happened.

@@aferrer74 all that is bs...here's the truth ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PcvWxe42QTM.html

@@aferrer74 That's a bunch of Oxtail, Ackee, Jerk Chicken and Curry Goat Dreams of delusions. Show me the Jamaican or Caribbean in the early 1960's and 1970's whose music influence hip hop?

Black culture is black culture. Just like white culture is white culture. Whites don't let themselves be divided unless it's war time.

Exactly!!!

Who partnered Kool Herc..black/African Jamaican..our culture is our culture.

@@ryrilo5078 He had it right the first time. Hip Hop is FBA culture, Point blank period 💯

@@ryrilo5078 ya got reggae maybe be content

He tours all the time bro…..that’s family right there I’m with him everyday and 2 hear these stories is amazing

Damn I would pay to hear his story like a Concert if he ever came to the Bay Area CA.... I can imagine a lot of Colorism at that time with the light skin and dark skin narratives. I listened to a New York PR guy talkin bout how he was ready to slice n***** up in a club in New York. ( Ill edit once I locate his name). They was black and down when they came in the 50's and now they seem to have assimilated into the system of white supremacy. "Embrace the culture deny the ancestry" 🤔🤨👊🏽

Nina513 Thank you for your comment

@@TheCulture..Started1971 You’re welcome. Continue the great work.

​@TheCulture..Since1971 appreciate you bro

R.I.P Kay Slay he showed the OGs love

ADOCS Have Class❤

Yeah he gave it up and just kept it real no additives. That's probably why he's overlooked because alot of these other dudes make grandiose statements and get caught in lies.

No tf we are nit all one people you are Caribbean we are Black Africans are Africans we are delineating island boi

@@Mia-840 We ARE one people. Where do you think Foundational Black Americans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Afro-Brazilians, and every other group of the African diaspora came from? They came from Africa. The main difference between a Haitian and a Black-American is where a slave-ship landed. We are all ultimately from the same set of African peoples, but we have all derived our own cultures, and Foundational Black American people/culture made Hip Hop. It's called giving respect.

Thee End

Did u watch the video? coke la rock verified almost the entire story that's been told about herc. Definitely doesn't invalidate Herc and he didn't conclude that anyone else was doin this before him and Herc. It's well known that afro Americans were Hercs primary audience that's why he used funk music instead of playing reggae like DJs in the UK...but this doesn't invalidate Hercs claim or story. U also have to remember that West Indian migration had just started and most of them weren't going to the Bronx yet so Herc didn't have an audience that would understand reggae music. And the few West indians in the area at the time did what most immigrants do they assimilated into their surroundings

Even Herc admitted he had assimilated somewhat by the time he started doing parties

@@sioul8485 let it go vulture

@@sioul8485 I'm not invalidating Herc. I'm simply pointing out that this video proves the claims of Jamaican toasting as one of hip hop's main origin is false and inaccurate as La Rock demonstrates.

Doesn’t really matter, those guys played in the parks before him but Herc wrote the the script for the creation of rap music as we know it

@@enosger Kool Herc was not a rapper he was a DJ (Disc Jockey). He did not create music or beats or rap. He played other existing music or beats that was created by funk musicians. If I am wrong, please tell me where I can found rap or beats or music that DJ Kool Herc created. I want to hear it.

@@enosger herc aint write a blood clot thing foh

@@enosger Herc did not write any raps, he was only a DJ that mixed records, he was not a rapper in way shape or form. Coke La Rock was the one rapping, doing what was already being done in the African-American community. La Rock just made it sound cool when doing it Hip Hop style while acting as MC in Herc's parties.

@@enosger no he didn't.

Absolutely 👏🏾‼️

What is Trixie

I’m confused, on “the freshest Kids” doc, herc says that Jamaicans were the first he heard mixing records bumping the loudest music on speakers. That doesn’t influence him and the culture?

Bruh Herc Jamaican but he was running in our circles. Notice he didn't even know Herc was Jamaican until a year after Knowing him. Every body else he named was FBA. Herc got ready for the battle by getting that Bootsie/Parliament energy. Notice Dj Dee and his Man's new more than Coke about the what and when Herc got his Equipment.

@@williamdrayton7352 In that interview Trixie proudly stated he was FBA from the Carolinas. He just looks Puerto Rican.

True

James Brown is considered the Godfather of Hip Hop, not Soul. Which was because Kool Herc would use his samples at his block parties that began Hip Hop.

@@wulaeofthetengu8336 James Brown is the Godfather of Soul

​@@wulaeofthetengu8336How Kool herc Jamaican self knew James Brown music before us?.😑 We showed him how to do this here

How many DJs you met or knew during this time?

There will be others. Coming soon. Some of the OG's don't remember everything accurately. Some of us who are younger and was there can add to the facts that are left out so that the people who are interested can get a better picture of how it was.

Because it’s mostly lies

Because most Hip Hop publications and forums are foreign ran/owned and they don’t want to promote the truth about FBAs being the creators of ALL American music genres. That’s why men like this are never revered, he knows too much.

You was at jams, at age four???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@randee4550 Damn you stay stalking FBA'S, I know y'all are extremely jealous and envious of us but this is ridiculous smh

@@melanatedwarrior3530 FBA can SMD

@@randee4550 It amazes how you're jealous and envious of FBA'S, While at the same time mimicking and appropriating our style. Poor guy LMFBAAO 🤣

@@melanatedwarrior3530 Fuck FBA

He didn't even bring in two elements

He brought no elements

Herc was not being shady at all. It is just that people got the wrong impression of what it was that they did. It wasn't about bringing anything to the "table". There was no table to bring anything to at the time. What they did was play in a style that no one else was doing. Their style is what caught on and that style is what spread throughout the Bronx. It was mainly the records they played that no one else was playing that got the got crowds hyped. All I can say is that you had to be there to see the distinction between what they were doing and what other DJ's were doing. Cholly Rock explained it several times in different videos.

@@soulknob but, Cool D and Phase said that Herc copied their and Disco King Mario’s records, playing style and Sound system. In other words, they did hip hop before Herc. I’m not trying to argue for the sake of arguing, but a whole new side of the story about the origin has risen from the East Bronx and I just want to know which one is the truth and why Herc is the only one who get credit as the Father

@@hbsoltpk Kool Herc isn’t the only Father, this dude with DJ fake(phase) just trying to discredit Kool Herc bc he’s Jamaicans who gave flowers to other Jamaicans who Influenced him, Dj Mario own Mc said he told him he gonna get the same records like Kool Herc to get him started Like Herc mcee

They foolin the fools

​@@johnjack902 THEY ARE THE FOOLS if they think folks are going to believe their goofy asses. They cared about the US sooooooooo much, they decided to bring their beggin' asses over here and gift us Hip Hop

@@johnjack902 FACTS!!!

You bugging bro, Reggae Music is international just like Hip Hop and Salsa is international just like Hip Hop. Both Reggae and Salsa were international before Hip Hop. Nothing got to be bigger then the other. Be respectful, or at least be knowledgeable and not ignorant

​@@smezierThey don't know, excuse their ignorance.😂😂😂

And Felipe Luciano was in the last poets and he was Boricua 🇵🇷🗽

@@BoricuaNyc True but not a founding member

@@BoricuaNyc he didn't start nothing!! He was just a member

Step pops put me on the Last Poets as kid in late 70’s all dope material

@@stacytaylor4876 My uncle is a original member. He was rapping in the mid 60s Philadelphia then he moved to Harlem NY and met the other members of The Last Poets in 1969 . Melle Mel got his flow from my Uncle and many other rappers around 1974 on up

facts

Wtf? Hip hop was a evolution of of what was going on in the bx in that time yall way to simple minded to understand it.

@@bangswift the comment I left addresses Vladimir lying about hip-hop, vlad said "hip-hop came from Jamaica and other races of people". Which is a lie, Vladimir tried to set coke la rock up by pulling him into his agenda! He made it seem as if coke la rock was telling that lie but he wasn't.

So why is he in Krs1's lyric then?

Hip hop would never have materialise without Soundsystem .Mobile Sounds systems started in Jamaica in the 50s when migrants wanted to copy the Black American Shuffling Blues but couldn't not afford the Blues Artist to perform . In the late 60s Soundsytems were in Carolina and Queens , Brooklyn bought over by Carribean workers Sound men N DJs when they saw the Girls like the Rnb they switched to Rnb Dance later Disco when it got to the Bronxs they changed it to the Funk and Latin grooves and some Rock.. But Black Americans created Bronk Hip hop and not aware of Reggae . Its disgusting how Carribean are being demonised for bringing a positive to Black Rnb music . Which mostly created by Black Smericans from Carolina . The one thing apart from Reggae they did copy from Jamaicans was SOUNDSYTEM ....show a bit of respect instead of disrespecting Carribeans .If u feel like to argue with me I'm on face book .

@@davidcummings5984 Ya'll still pushing and living off that sound system lie?? That nonsense has been DEBUNKED and y'all still spewing it anyway. We don't need y'all, The influence has always been one way💯

Exactly!!! This is all by design. There has always been a concerted effort by the dominant society to make Non FBA's the face of our culture and these tethers don't have a problem going along with it, That's why they can't be trusted and it's time to Delineate from them.

@@davidcummings5984 🤦🏾‍♂️Saying that HipHop was created by Caribbeans is just as bad as saying Columbus discovered America... You're claiming credit for something people were ALREADY doing. Herc said himself, he was playing Black American Music for Black Americans trying to please Black Americans. Jamaica was a non-factor. Period.

Kelly J. Monroe... good question I will ask him

Akademics needs to apologize for what he said. He is eating off of what these cats innovated.

😂🤣🤣🤣

This didn't invalidate Herc getting his style from Jamaican selectors. He was agreeing that alot of historians made claims that the pioneers themselves never validated. This interview doesn't invalidate Kool Herc like y'all was hoping it would

@@sioul8485 FBA's trying too hard to exclude Jamaican influence in hip hop

@@tonytuffers this interview solidified the story thats been told over the years. Coke acknowledges Mario but he doesn’t say that Mario was doin it before him and herc and he doesnt admit to him and Herc copying other people. Plus coke la rock said throughout the interview he can only speak for himself and he pays homage to his right hand man Herc on NUMEROUS occasions throughout the interview. these idiots didnt watch the interview

@@tonytuffers I agree it's kindve embarrassing cause Jamaicans don't never make any claims to Hip hop .But where they let themselves down is Soundsystem , Disco , that's the core of Hip hop .

@@sioul8485 herc himself has already invalidated the narrative. These are Herc's exact words: Q - What sort of year is that? Herc - We’re talking about 1969. Q - When did you start to get involved in it? Herc - I started to get involved in it right after my house got burned down. I was going to parties back then, see. A place called the Tunnel and a place called the Puzzle, right on 161st Street - that was the first disco I used to party at. Me, guys like Phase 2, Stay High, Sweet Duke, Lionel 163 - all the early graffiti writers - used to come through there. It’s where we used to meet up and party at. Then, years later, [there was this club] called Disco Fever. Disco Fever used to be right here on 167th. But before Disco Fever there was the Puzzle. That was the first Bronx disco. Q - So back then you still weren’t playing? Herc - I was dancing, I was partying. Right around 1970, I’m in high school. Q - That was when b-boying was starting. Herc- Yeah, people were dancing, but they weren’t calling it b-boying. That was just the break, and people would go off. My terms came in after I started to play - I called them b-boys. Guys just used to breakdance… Right then, slang was in, and we shortened words down. Instead of disrespect, you know, you dissed me. That’s where that came from. Q - Who was the DJ in the Puzzle? Herc - You never used to see him, they was in a room. But the guys in the Tunnel, I knew them. This guy named John Brown, he used to go to my school - Alfred E. Smith. It’s a store now, ain’t no club no more. Now it’s a shoe store. daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/01/kool-herc-interview . . In summary, Herc flat out said HipHop was going on years before he was even a DJ! He said he saw bboys at the Tunnel Plaza in 1970 with DJ John Brown playing breaks!!! How can you be start of something you witnessed 3 years before you were even a DJ? Make it make sense lol

Disrespect is going to be given when Disrespect is taken. When atleast 3 Major Hip-hop artists with West Indian lineages publicly go on RECORD in interviews saying they invented our culture and FBA'S have NO culture. Before we said anything disparaging about them. Tensions are going to arise. Them leaving Tweets and Tik Tok posts trashing FBA'S FIRST is going to issue alot of Blowback. If you think Nicky Minaj disrespecting El Haj Malik Shabazz and not apologizing is funny there's something wrong with you not the rest of us. So if we start telling the truth about the Caribbean and they feel offended. SO WHO CARES.

@@lroyjetsonson5060 I wouldn't invalidate your perspective. In fact, I saw one of your previous post on the other segment with Coke -La-Rock, which I think you did an excellent job making your argument and providing facts. My argument is that the historical origins could have been set straight if the pioneering DJ's and Emcees could have given credit to those who were rhyming and rapping between breaks way before the 70's in the states. The last part of my post regarding the disrespect comes from a place of seeing misdirected tension on both sides. I still have family who have no desire to go north because of how some Black northerners show disdain for Black southerners. Nor am I oblivious to the tension between those who come from the Caribbean. But they beef with each other too. On another note, GM Flash in his autobiography credits Pete DJ Jones for showing him how to mix and blend. I can't say that I heard Herc disrespect Black America, but Bam has tried to insert a Caribbean connection with Hip-Hop. I think you are referring to Busta and Pete Rock. That's why I said in the first sentence, it's not a hard debate. No matter what they say, it can't be disputed. The evidence of "where" and "who" is documented.

@@cimarronreed7556 I see your point Bruh but you know as well as I do when people say North or East Coast they mean NYC not Philly, Chicago,Detroit,Buffalo, Cleveland or Baltimore. The one City that looks down on the South the Most is because it's filled with TETHERS meaning People who look like us trying to steal our lifestyle by dressing and talking like us but are slightly off. They have infiltrated our circles because we were the first to believe in Pan-Africanism we taught Marcus Garvey at a HBCU. They were bringing half FBA half Caribbean dudes down south to talk their FBA cousins into letting them get some money. After a week they would go back to NYC and bring a Crew of big city Caribbeans to terrorize the little country towns. That's why they don't get along to this day. DC damn near had to do a ethnic cleansing to get their City Back. It's very insidious in hindsight.

@@lroyjetsonson5060 Honestly, I foresee another Rwanda where no one benefits from it but Western power's. The very same people who got us in this mess. Once we begin to hurl ethnic insults, we minimize one another's Blackness and humanity. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to be insulted, but in this instance, what's the outcome and what's gained? I just think as Black folks, there's a better way to address the issue. I was called a tether because I agreed with a sister from Jamaica who blamed Jamaicans for not understanding Black America's plight. He told me, he knows a tether when he sees one, with laughing emojis. Now, if he's convinced, do I have to rock my family tree around my neck? All I'm saying is, other Black people have no bearing on how I live, but white domination and white supremacy does.

@@cimarronreed7556 You either don't have a clue or you are willfully ignorant if it's a Rwanda they started it for trying to flex under the guise of free speech. When the Caribbean gangs in the late 70's and early 80's were shooting our people for playing Hip-hop at their parties in NYC and Boston you wasn't talking about Rwanda. I gave you the DC example. Them calling people from Downsouth slow when they were traveling on mules and coppin squats in the Streets not even using outhouses before they got here. How do you figure a solution when I personally heard some Africans on Clubhouse talking about buying guns and killing FBA'S. So either I'm lying or I'm not 🤔.

Yo for real I second that.

I did all of this years ago. I carefully researched interviews and quotes from the very first rappers from real hip hop historians like Jay Quan and realised this all lead to Coke La Rock, The Last Poets and Pigmeat Markham. I knew that Jamaican toasting theory was bullshit da whole time it never made sense to me at all especially once I concluded my research of the facts.

@@ogwilliams8068 I never even knew that Jamaicans was even toasting at all. Let alone heard one do it. My Pops was a street dude born in 52 I always knew Pimps and Street Cats invented toasting.

Yeah, most people don’t know us FBA had our own form of toasting that goes back. Rudy Ray Moore took his name “Dolemite” from an old toast.

@@lroyjetsonson5060 yeah I'm fully aware of it. I read that in a 1993 issue of The Source describing Jailhouse toasts among black inmates in the American prison syustem going back to the 1930s.

Don Catalog because Coke La Rock may have been mistaken with the year... so we didn't wanna put out the wrong year ... so it was muted

Because they lying 🤥

Isn't Herc a DJ (Disc Jockey)? I thought he was only a DJ who played other people music or beats. Did he also created music or beats or break for people to dance to or rap over? Where can I go to listen to his creations?

@@lynnm2227 wasn’t Phase and Mario just dj’s as well? What beats or rhymes did they create and again you are disputing what this brother quoted directly from the description of this very video so you should probably direct that energy at the creator if this content.

@@napoleongee172 I do not have to agree with this video. Please Google looping (choppping) and sampling (beat-slicing), it is technique that has been used in the USA with music since the 1940s. Looping is a technique use to orderly and seamlessly repeat the same pattern from an existing song. Sampling is slicing a portions of an existing song. Both technique have been used since the 40s. I have never known anyone make a big deal out of looping or repeating pattern from someone else music. Herc looped the drum section of existing songs. People were already doing this. Are they saying DJ Herc created new music or beats that every rapper or rap song incorporate into their music? Did he create his own beats that are being used in all rap music? Is the drum beats he looped being used in all rap music? Where can I found are listen to these beats? Maybe he should get credit for contributing something. I am just not sure what it is. All DJs loop music.

@@lynnm2227 So then by your logic none of these brothers are true innovators bc Mario and Tyrone and those brothers were just Dj’s as well right they didn’t make any songs or anything like that breaks etc right? What your equating to looping or sampling was used in direct production or live stage productions. So just for clarification Herc was nothing but a participant and nothing he did REVOLUTIONIZED HIP HOP?

@@lynnm2227 wait didn’t you say the video didnt contradict your comment and now you saying you don’t have to agree with it 😂😂 So you know more than the brothers that were there or wait lemme guess you were there too….

That's the difference between journalism and propaganda. 😂

Those Brothers Kool D and Tyrone were Influenced by Dj's in Brooklyn and Queens but played more Funk than Disco

@@coolcazc I think i heard of Kool d and Tyrone but it's a lot to keep up with so many different names

Before Herc, King Charles was playing in same venues as Dj Hollywood and other cats and they say his soundsystem carries more shit than those cat and he’s Jamaican ppl acting like when the carnivals come in they never go and they never seeing Jamaicans Soundsystem

​@@skbosdgame8435 😂😂😂 it's so funny. Caribbeans have the longest running street party in New York City. The West Indian day parade started in 1937 in Harlem before it moved to Brooklyn.

​@@skbosdgame8435 I saw a video with Dj Hollywood who said Herc had the most powerful sound in the BX, but Brooklyn had more powerful sound systems. Dj Smokey also said the same about Herc and in this interview Coke confirms it.