Grandmaster Caz on Coke La Rock Being Hip-Hop's First MC 

Elders ? Hahaha

Facts bro bless up

@@QueenAnitaSoul1 it's a priviledge to get old.. not a guarantee right

All day

Coke la rock got played by herc.

The concept of rapping comes from a Jamaican. Name daddy u- Roy. That’s how cool Herc I nows about and mcing or toasted. Look up king tubby from Jamaica in late 1950s sound system. People in America wasn’t doing that in those times

Buddy he was one of the founding fathers of hip hop ofc other people were involved. Stop tryna discredit the man

@@johnlewis314 In the late 1950s deejay toasting was developed by Count Matchuki.[2] He conceived the idea from listening to disc jockeys on American radio stations. He would do African American jive over the music while selecting and playing R&B music. Deejays like Count Machuki working for producers would play the latest hits on traveling sound systems at parties and add their toasts or vocals to the music. These toasts consisted of comedy, boastful commentaries, half-sung rhymes, rhythmic chants, squeals, screams and rhymed storytelling.

@@johnlewis314 Learn the history before you open your mouth with nonsense Before it was known as the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll, Sun Studios-then known as Memphis Recording Service-was the home to some of the greatest Black R&B musicians of the 1950s. Among them was a pianist named Rosco Gordon, a member of the Beale Streeters who was known to perform with his whiskey-drinking rooster Butch sitting atop his piano. In 1952, Gordon scored a hit with his track “No More Doggin’,” which would inadvertently prove to be a major influence on early ska and reggae. Although Gordon was unfamiliar with the music of Jamaica (and would remain so for decades), the island nation was absolutely enamored with American R&B, buying records from the American South by the droves. When “No More Doggin’” reached the Caribbean, it quickly became a local sensation, due in large part to Gordon’s signature piano technique. Known as “Rosco’s rhythm,” the pianist’s unique style emphasized the off-beat, a quirk that would become an important hallmark of ska and reggae for generations. “Ump-ska, ump-ska, ump-ska…” During the 1960s, artists from Memphis and Kingston were in regular conversation with each other, at least musically speaking. Stax artists such as Otis Redding proved to be particularly influential to reggae legends such as Dennis Brown and Toots Hibbert, while Memphis acts such as Booker T. & the MGs began incorporating elements of ska into their own music. The MG’s 1968 single “Soul Limbo” is a particularly notable example.

@@johnlewis314 Bullshit, Jamaicans learned how to rap from African Americans. There are African American records with rapping that predate the entire existence of Jamaica's music industry.

I chill with him most of the time on the Bronx….real humble dude

Am from the senegal west africa .i agree with you.

Right. Rappers Delight was the first commercial rap song to hit the airwaves. But King Tim the 3rd by The Fatback Band was the 1st rap song on wax that came out a few months before Rappers Delight.

Like gtfoh. 😑

As if vlad was right there schooling them on their own foundation lol

Puerto Ricans didn't invent hip hop

SatanDynastyKiller ignorance...maybe hopefully they are disliking just cuz it's Vlad and not disliking Caz

Wack rappers hate this!!!

Hahaha

Jamaicans

I hope he does, he still hasn’t

mugen it’s nothing like the discovery of electricity lol but it is a big accomplishment. That’s like comparing two totally different things. Lol should of said it was like Franz Liszt being the first rock star over 150 years ago.

Thomas Edison did not “discover” electricity lmao 😆

gradle Correct. Ancient Egyptians and Persians were using electricity a couple thousand years ago, there is substantiated evidence.

Hahaha

Nikola Tesla discovered electricity

Big big respect for having the Ramp album cover. What an album!

Yeah but that ain't the hip-hop of today. The hip-hop as we know it was first done by Grand Master Caz just like he said.

Nope not true

@@stanleyshack26 it is. Coke is the first Hip Hop MC.

@@wulaeofthetengu8336 Right, where as Melle Mel is the 1st emcee to set the blueprint for the modern emcee. He was the prototype that had the package as a recording artist.

@@DefSquadFanthere are 5 elements to Hip Hop and emceeing is only one.

+djmaneone WORD! i know a legend who hates the term "breakdancers" and his name is Rich Colon aka Crazy Legs and sure do i Lol. The term Breakdancers came at the 90s even at the end of the 90s, the term bboying was since the 70s and till this day!

andrey germanov Breakdancers is an 80's term.

You should watch the classic documentary Freshest Kids, you will see something else, I thought the exact same thing before I saw the movie

andrey germanov I've seen plenty of times.

I grew up with the term break dancing and I grew up in the 80's. Hollywood made that term popular and I never even heard anybody use the word B-Boying until the Source came out. My point is we have been using it wrong almost since the beginning. At least since the mid 80's.

I was b boying in a cipher with KRS One at his show Thursday night here in Glasgow, Scotland!!

PATHH88 thats so dope man krs one is a true artist

I grew up listening to GMC's (Grandmaster Caz) music on tape in the 70's in the Bronx as a kid, and I can say he was the best at that time in the streets and a lyrical genius.

Rapping is included in MC'ing

DJRICKRULER were u a dj ya self or that just ya name?

DJ myself. Not back then. Kool DJ Dee is my mentor who was around way before him.

I've heard disco King Mario wax around before bambataa and kool herc?

Clement "Sir Coxson " Dodd was the guy who introduced toasting and dj'ing to Jamaica got it from America when he came here to work in the sugar cane fields of Florida in the 1950s. He has a RU-vid video of him talking about getting it from America dj's like Jocko Henderson. He also said in that video when he got back to Jamaica, he taught Count Machuki and his wife Mrs. Dodd who became Jamaica's first female dj.

Alright.

G Shit

sexyrose93 how about this for recognition to DJ Hollywood: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8HSjiNDMtM0.html

He’s definitely not ignored trust me i chill with him everyday

DJ Eddie Cheebia was before DJ Hollywood, and they were before Coke La Rock. dj caz twist things up. He said there was no Rapping or EMCEE or Hip Hop before DJ herc the Jamaican in 1973. Yes there were DJ Eddie Cheebia and Hollywood and others DJs too.

The Fathers of Hip Hop were Grandmaster DJ FLOWERS and Pete DJ Jones, King Disco Mario, Pete DJ Jones, and Kool DJ Dee. They Started Hip Hop before DJ herc. They started Hip Hop in 1960s, and 1970, ond on, on.

Nobody is debating about DJs Becuz it’s wasn’t a need for mcs until the 70s and Coke La Rock is definitely the first official rapper to rap over a beat

RIP🙏🏽Roberto Clemente🇵🇷❤️

Lol you got it!!

wesley griffin COOL

What about RnB

Also R&B Rhythm And Blues. The Rap in Hip Hop is Rhythm And Poetry.

@@Grandmaster__GeeEminem is a racist trash weirdo rapper manufactured by white execs which is why nobody is playing is trash gimmicky music today.

Eddie Cheeba was before Hollywood, and they were before DJ herc, Coke la Rock in 1973.

@@stanleyshack26 And Prince Whipper Whip and Ruby Dee were the first Boricuas🇵🇷🗽in 1970.

That’s what an MC literally does 😂

You're Right. Lol 😆

He wasn’t

Cornbread did tag's nad he is first graff writter...

total rubbish

Not the first rappers but they are one of the pioneers. They say Coke La Rock is the 1st official emcee. But you had ppl like lovebug Starski. Dj Hollywood that were before Coke La Rock and many others DJs that would say short phrases of rhymes but not rap verses or songs and things of that nature. Melle Mel is the 1st emcee to call himself one and was the prototype for the modern emcee.

​@@AmariMarvelousYes Grandmaster melle mel is the first Lyrical rapper because his A child is born with no state mind verse in 1979 superappin'.

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Because it was irrelevant to the development of Hip hop. Kool Herc himself said that toasting and Jamaican soundsystems had nothing to do with the formation of Hip hop. Hip hop is African American bro, not Jamaican.

@@americasmaker I know and Jamaicans keep denying this. Yes, there is a Caribbean influence on Hip-Hop but its mainly African American.

@@garlandowls1134 I'm not trying to be funny but I fail to see any Caribbean influence in Hip Hop.

@@americasmaker Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Kool DJ Red Alert, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Monie Love, Pepa, DJ Disco Wiz, DJ Charlie Chase, Biggie, Special Ed, Busta Rhymes and many others are of Caribbean descent.

@@garlandowls1134 I know that but these were Americanized people participating in African American culture.

You left out that Big Bank Hank (who's from the Bronx) had to get that job at that pizzeria in New Jersey in order to pay back his parents for the money he borrowed from his them that he used to buy dj'ing equipment for Grandmaster Caz

Was Kool Herc raised around Jamaican culture or Foundational Black American culture?

GET A LIFE!@@hmenef

​@@Earthquakeslightningthunderyou mad

Just to think hip hop music is still the youngest genre of music despite it being nearly 50 years old.

D.J.SMOKEY AND LUCKIE. GRANT AVENUE . YALL MEDIA NEWS BELIEVE BULL SHIT.AND PUT IT OUT LIKE THAT SHIT IS REAL.THE. G.M.caz AKA.D.J.CASANOVA FLY. WHAT A BOUT THE NAMES OF HERCULIODS AFTER .COKE LR..WHAT GOES AROUND COME AROUND. TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH. TRY THAT . BIG HANK WAS SMART. REST.R.I.P

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