FIRST SPARK OF HIP HOP---HIP HOP'S EVOLUTION - THE BLACK SPADES - BRONXDALE HOUSES 

R.I.P. Sunshine!

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Love the info, keep it coming

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NO DISRESPECT TO THE BROTHERS BUT THERE WERE WRITERS IN MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX IN 69 70. WITH OUT QUESTION. TAKI 183, JOE 136, JOE 182 TO NAME A FEW FROM MANHATTAN AND LARRY 936, MEAN GENE OP, LEE 163D! SLY II..EL CID FROM THE BRONX. THE BROADWAY TRAINS WERE ALREADY BEING HIT BY 70'.

I worked with Snoopy and Light Skined Slatter in Hills super market , my older brother ran with Freddy Miller he was the best fighter in the Bronx

damn, i was born in 1971, so this was definitely before my time, lol

THEY WOULD HAVE BECAME FAMOUS, HAD HITS, ETC. MUCH RESPECT FOR CREATING HIPHOP.

I worked for the Monroe houses they put the tag on the wall I took it off the wall. Jimmy mac

Wait a minute... so dudes were actually "rappin" to girls at parties when they were trying to get their numbers and get their mack on? So that's where the phrase, "rap to a girl" came from. I never knew that. I thought it just meant talk. Yo, I would've had some funky fresh lyrics to spit to a chick if I grew up back then. I

How many different divisions the black spades had? My brother was down with the 3rd division in soundview.

2:27-3:33 Is that what they call Burning before It was call B-Boying & Breaking or Rocking?

YOU HAD STYLES GOING ON IN THE BRONX THAT WASNT AT ALL INFLUENCED FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE BRONX.

PEOPLE TEND TO FORGET THAT REGARDLESS TO YOUR LIFESTYLE WE DID OTHER THINGS. THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT OTHER LIFESTYLE. LIKE DANCE AND CREATE ART AND MUSIC. IT WAS DONE THROUGHOUT OUR EXISTENCE. THE OTHER LIFESTYLE DIDNT INFLUENCE THAT. YOU WERE A DOPE DANCER JUST BECAUSE. JUST FOR HISTORYS SAKE: THE HEVELO HAD ANOTHER NAME BEFORE IT WAS THE HEVELO. *(NOT GONNA GO THERE AT THE MOMENT) AND A LOCAL DJ WHO USED TO ROCK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRONX IN ANOTHER POPILAR CLUB WAS ROCKING THERE AT FIRST. BUT THERES NO DOUBT THAT IT WASNT POPPING LIKE IT WAS WHEN HERC CAME IN AND BROUGHT HIS EQUIPMENT ON THE MAIN FLOOR. THAT WAS THE PLACE TO BE EVEN BEFORE THE EXEC STARTED REALLY POPPING...AND THEN TURNED INTO THE SPARKLE AND HERC WAS ALSO ROCKING THERE...