Trapped in a Culture, Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation, Part 28 of 44, Chuck D

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In Part ONE of his interview, Chuck D discusses the socioeconomic conditions that enveloped the evolution of Black Music in the 60s and 70s, white flight, the Bronx fires, and the influence of Black Radio. How did technology aid the spread of Hip Hop across New York?
More on the lawsuit against Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation here: www.metropolisnewspaper.com/a...
Bronx-Lance Taylor took on the name Afrika Bambaataa and started a hip-hop awareness group. But former members say the Universal Zulu Nation was a violent gang that disintegrated into a cult with Bambaataa as the god-head. In 2016, several men came forward with disturbing tales of what they say took place from the 1970s into the 1990s. Although Peace, Unity, Love, and Having Fun was the motto of the Zulu Nation, Bambaataa fashioned the organization’s doctrine after Malachi York’s Nuwabian Nation, the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple, and the 5% Nation.
“Today, the Zulu Nation counts hip-hop royalty like Nas, Lil Wayne, and Big Boi as affiliates, in addition to younger rappers like Joey Bada$ and Freddie Gibbs. Acclaimed TV series The Get Down-not to mention countless documentaries and a recent showcase at Cornell University-credit Bambaataa with uniting a divided neighborhood, offering a way out of gang life, and helping to launch a movement that would place African American art forms at the center of global popular culture.” wrote Dave Wedge, Vice Magazine.
Since the story broke, hip hop has yet to come to terms with the importance of this subject.
In this series, original interview footage is being shown to the public for the first time, encouraging a broader conversation and deep dive into what may have taken place.
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@LeilaWills 2 года назад

The issues uncovered in the Zulu Nation and Afrika Bambaataa situation forces us to go back in history. It is not JUST about the allegations. They have promoted a history that has been repeated in books, documentaries, college courses, etc. Some of which is FALSE. Excuse us as we unpack these various issues. Each interview offers insight. And, whether we agree or not, we can see the damage that has been done by promoting falsehood. I had tremendous b-roll for this interview but cannot air it on RU-vid. In Part Two of Chuck's interview, we hone in on Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation and the invention of Hip Hop Culture. The above interview is extremely important for people not from New York. Thank you and see you soon!

@ContentScientist 2 года назад

Thank you for this Leila - this is wonderful. I can watch this and see how our development (ATL Hip Hop) mirrored what happened to you (NY Hip Hop).

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

Chuck's interview flew over people's heads because in order for our people to get to a place where a predator could roam free and have easy pickings, we had a serious breakdown. We cannot arrive at such a dilemma without putting it in the context of history. I had great b-roll for this segment and I'm sorry if you don't get the relevance. People want to hone in on what happened in Bambaataa's bedroom without any context whatsoever. Chuck's interview was scholarly and well-informed. He is an historian not just a rapper. Peace.

@ContentScientist 2 года назад

@@LeilaWills Of course, this is the same approach I take when dealing with ATL Hip Hop and its first 40 years. I am well aware of the "allegations," but in ATL, I was there for the experience and know exactly how it happened. I thank you for allowing me the "context" to see it somewhere else.

@alianshampoprisioners7056 2 года назад

@@LeilaWills No doubt the exquisite contribution of Chuck d. A person consistent with his speech and knowledgeable about that historical context that he lived in the first person...

@asapdelivery7067 8 месяцев назад

pure truth Chuck D, when the sound systems came up from jamaica and mixed the american sound, what a mix

@inzo313 2 года назад

This documentary series is absolutely tremendous!

@ronpaizley9349 2 года назад

Thank You Chuck D the voice of reason 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎯💥⚡🚨

@butterflylovenj7300 2 года назад

Had the pleasure of seeing him speak live as a kid. Chuck is an open history book. My dad's family migrated from Barbados and Trinidad to NYC back in the day. Pops was raised in BK then in the 60s they moved to Uniondale. Some of them migrated from FL too. The great migration explains why people in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Detroit have southern accents. Another excellent interview Leila! ♥️🙏🏾

@yamomma6479 2 года назад

The migration from the south extends to Cali as well...most of our grandparents came from the south and still have southern dialects.

@butterflylovenj7300 2 года назад

@@yamomma6479 True. I've met people from Cali, and their families migrated from Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana!! Especially the folks that I met from Oakland.

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

Thank you!

@toddrobinson4228 2 года назад

Great lesson

@LitBoxTv 2 года назад

I’m looking forward to hearing what Chuck has to say.

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

Thanks so much. Just FYI - This is Part 1 of his interview...we will air Part 2 soon.

@dbradyonline 2 года назад

@@LeilaWills I think what you have done is an incredible piece of journalism. These interviews are often so hard to watch, but essential viewing at the same time. It’s such a shame the wider media isn’t as interested in this subject as it should be. It is arguably the biggest story in hip hop, full stop. One question for you, have you ever interviewed Q Tip, or Baby Bam from the Jungle Brothers to get their perspective on this subject? I get the feeling they would each have very insightful information. Keep doing what your doing! Peace

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

@@dbradyonline Thank you so much...No, I did not interview either one. I did try to reach Q Tip at one point but was not successful.

@butterflylovenj7300 2 года назад

@@dbradyonline A Baby Bam interview would be interesting. Being that Bam named him.

@dbradyonline 2 года назад

@@LeilaWills thank you for response!

@TruutSeeka 2 года назад

🙏🏿this is one of the ones we wanted. Keep killing it 💯

@typerk 2 года назад

The only tattoo I have is the PE logo. Love Chuck

@alianshampoprisioners7056 2 года назад

Best logo ever!!

@dshofner 2 года назад

Love it. Thank you.

@BigTweez9 2 года назад

This is gonna be good Ms Leila , you doing your thing Mam

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

Thanks SO much!

@TheUnitedRoninNetwoR4ks 2 года назад

This man needs to be teaching, if he's not already.

@hamiddaain7877 2 года назад

He lectures often

@TheUnitedRoninNetwoR4ks 2 года назад

@Malachi Pork apropos name. Lol. Public Speaking is one. History another. HipHop 101 And Yes...Rapping too. 👑🤟🏾

@TheUnitedRoninNetwoR4ks 2 года назад

@@hamiddaain7877 I can listen to him all day.

@X-Factor-22 2 года назад

@Malachi Pork Wow, why all the hate fella?

@Pownow777 2 года назад

Giving you your flowers now Leila...your work is awesome!💯

@roachfatthenostalgist7535 2 года назад

Great insight into the atmosphere of how Hip-Hop was created. 👌🏿

@Doggfan 2 года назад

This is Legendary work your doing

@abdellahismail8708 2 года назад

O girl waiting for the perfect chance to say "SOOO when did YOU find out what O BOY WAS DOIN?" LOL

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

lol - we get there in Part Two.

@MichaelSantos-ru3bb 2 года назад

@@LeilaWills part 1 was honestly good enough.

@Nepenthe4life 2 года назад

@@LeilaWills guess I will be back for part 2. This setting the stage to soften the blow. No pun intended. I want to know why he supports Bam Bam.

@unc1589 2 года назад

She asks great questions

@kjersey6781 2 года назад

I love and appreciate your hard work but I'm confused what does this interview have to do with Zulu Nation?

@themessengeromari 2 года назад

I guess Chuck taking us through the scenic route to Bam😂

@rebelfa20t91 2 года назад

🤦🏾‍♂️😂

@TheresaofTheWorld 2 года назад

For real doe

@theharshtruth8563 2 года назад

Chuck turned onto the Hershey highway to get into Bam's butt tunnel.

@themessengeromari 2 года назад

@@theharshtruth8563 😂😂😂😂

@georgel4093 2 года назад

@Malachi Pork 😂

@chopitupradio4286 2 года назад

Black Americans were rapping on the mic way before Kool Herc and Toasting made its way to America. I thought someone like Chuck D would have known this. 🤦🏾‍♂️ Most Early MC,s were emulating people like Pig Meat Markhum, Hollywood and a host of other Black American radio disc jockeys and musicians who were rhyming and rapping going all the way back to the 1930’s and 40’s.

@enosger 2 года назад

But it wasn’t hip hop, any one can rap, there’s rapping on pop songs, and in the U.K. there’s rhyming over music, Herc created hip hop and brought rapping into hip hop culture. Please put things into context.

@chopitupradio4286 2 года назад

@@enosger HipHop is an amalgamation of different elements of black American culture. Break beats from Disco and Funk records, the first Break dancers emulating James Brown, rapping over beats, sound systems and two turn tables are all rooted in Blk American culture way before Jamaican culture. Kool Herc just brought a couch into a house that was already built with a foundation and all. He took the ingredients of Blk American culture not Jamaican culture. All the elements of HipHop come from Blk American culture. If HipHop came from Jamaica where was the HipHop scene in Jamaica prior to the 1980’s?

@walteralexander689 2 года назад

@@enosger Hip-hop is a 1970s Bronx sub-culture, not a genre of music. Rap or rapping started in the South.

@williamwalsh3983 2 года назад

How about Cab Calloway?

@chopitupradio4286 2 года назад

@@williamwalsh3983 yep he’s another one 👍🏾

@unc1589 2 года назад

IN THE BEGINNING Harlem considered hip hop “ clown nigga music”. After about a year they embraced it. YOU GOTTA REMEMBER THIS! Hip hop culture started years before the first rap record. ALSO, IF YOU A TRUE HEAD THAT WANTS TO KNOW HOW THIS AMAZING MUSIC STARTED….. It started in the SOUTH bronx. SEDGWICK AVE IS NOT THE SOUTH BRONX! (It’s west) Neither is bronx river projects. (That’s east). People from those areas got on a crosstown bus (I used to watch them) like tourist and came to the real Mecca of hip hop. Here’s the square section that the culture was born. Southern Blvd and prospect ave to the south east. Up prospect ave to Boston Rd. To the north. As far west as maybe third ave. The core area in between was where hip hop CULTURE was born. You came through that area and was bedazzled by a completely different world. Then you took it back to your off brand neighborhood and imitated what you saw us doin. It spread around the world the exact same way. BLACK PEOPLE FROM THE BLACKEST SECTION IN ALL OF THE BRONX MADE HIP HOP CULTURE. THE “SOUTH” South BRONX. Not east or west or Africa or 1940s guys rhyming to music. ( Does that look like hip hop to you?) Nah. Hip hop was brazen and in your face and young and cocky just like it is today. You couldn’t even be like that anywhere but NYC. We did dirt all day and danced all night. It was the most exciting time to be poor and black in America. Everyday was like a movie. Every Single Day of our lives! Then around 16/17 it was about drug money and hustling for that first generation. Dancing, gangs, and writing on the train was over. But hip hop lived on. So potent that it still dominates in 2021! My life was frikn amazing. Cause I get to watch the whole world act like me and my generation.

@onedae 2 года назад

Facts.

@mckinley312 2 года назад

These people love talking in circles...

@fastpaced4861 2 года назад

His history is off. He should talk to members of the Black Spades.

@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10 Год назад

What did he say that was wrong?

@ortizmusic7115 2 года назад

There was another pipeline in the 70s the path train had a migration goin on from jersey city to manhattan, it was a 10 min ride, hoboken into manhattan, I was one who would catch the path train into downtown manhattan to the garage.

@jerrodlumpkin7132 2 года назад

She booked Chuck!! No surprise to see Cosby at this point.

@marvamaxwell4124 2 года назад

It's great Chuck put it out there the west Indian(Caribbean) influence on Hip-Hop culture the Art of Djing in different Caribbean countries go back to the 1950s

@NigeriaFunk 2 года назад

We can make music playing music

@BlazeOfGlory742 2 года назад

Mista Chuck

@sirpoppinchuck 2 года назад

They did have portable 8 track plAyers i just think it weren't popular. You couldn't carry like 5 8-tracks around. Tapes were more portable. n players came in different sizes, also you could tape your own created show or others from radio! My sister had the panosonic joints from like 76-77 they were different colors. I thought we was going to get into it. Chuck probably said he didn't want to speak on it. Hopefully there's a part 2. Interesting the bros that came before Bambaatta from the Bronx would disagree about the Jamaican culture in the Bronx. Ask the Original Black spades members i think after time things keep getting added on because certain people want to stand out n be recognized for their contribution. I guess its a territorial thing, a time thing, you had to be there thing.

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

There is a part 2 for sure. Please see pinned comment above and also video description.

@bigolbabyhuey 2 года назад

My brother got a portable 8-track for Christmas back then

@NinaChildsProductions 2 года назад

Well we knew Our good brother Chuck wasn't gonna talk about anything remotely related to Africa Bambatta...not shocked.

@theharshtruth8563 2 года назад

Probably because Chuck is guilty of the same crimes Bam is.

@shamelessplug5952 2 года назад

everybody is talking about how they hate how the history of hip hop gets told wrong, as if they are doing it on purpose. have you even thought that maybe they are being sincere in there ignorance?

@Madeyoulook64 2 года назад

It doesn’t matter. Hip hop was invented by black Americans in America. These foreigners trying to lay claim to it is ridiculous and I’m glad to see the push back

@vanessawomack1104 2 года назад

I agree. Sometimes the "aura" of a new thing is in more than one place and in more than one time. The universe is like that when it comes to spreading energy. One can only re-tell history from "his" point of view.

@ricgunzstreetfashion2480 2 года назад

The making of the movie beat street was a predators buffet . Man I got some stories about the break dancers who were sexually abused by execs of beat street movie

@nanaog8649 2 года назад

1st&4most greattttttttt interview Leila as always. I was born/raised&resided there for 34 yrs. an grew up in Freeport,Rockville ctr, Hempstead,uniondale,bayshore,oceanside,Baldwin&Suffolk county bc my family/cousin's moved from jam.queens betcha chuck know them we're a huge brood lolz anyway my fam in strong island is The Pettus Family xoxoxo an I can say I know why the Bx is called DA Boogie DN there's is always a ol skool party bussing 7 day's a wk an everyone is on theeeeee dance flr especially if DJ Hollywood is on the Tables an he is still rocking out at LEGENDS in HARLEM on thus ol skool that shittt be awesome ppl environment great energy/vibes an some happy asl ppl lmfaoo idc new generation music is in a different lane lolz but it will always be ol skool new ol skool 4Life xoxoxo

@Bxbomba2010 2 года назад

true historian

@harrypool71 2 года назад

This man’s historical account of the origins of Hip Hop always triggers me. It’s speculation and contradictory every time. If your parents moved to LI in 1969 Chuck, you weren’t there. The End. Just let the guys that were actually there talk about it please. SMDH. Your giving second/ third hand accounts straight out of history books and heresy

@JUSLOFI 2 года назад

Although he did somewhat give a romanticized account, To his credit, he did say it's debatable.

@harrypool71 2 года назад

@@JUSLOFI yeah but he should know better. “It’s debatable” kinda automatically disqualifies his story and he’s told this “ debatable “ story before.

@dziurawesample 2 года назад

Bam, Flash, Herc was there and so ? They push out cats like Kool Dee, never mentioned Flowers and sent him respect. Hip Hop history should be written by someone who has without emotions. Look at the facts and ask yourself why UZN change the hip hop history several years ago ? It's like they trying to grab it for themself. Like Kool DJ Dee said: "Hip Hip is political now"

@harrypool71 2 года назад

@@dziurawesample Let’s keep it real. The catalyst for the Herc, Bam, Flash Trinity is the early 2-3 hit songs of KRS One and his accompanying college lecture career. Those songs circled the globe and pushed that storyline simply based on a few bars he wrote for his hero’s. He then pushed that bias story on many college campuses for the past 30 years. How do you know people didn’t challenge it back then?!?! We’re in the information/ social media age now so the less recognized and less financed, that were actually there, can now have their voices heard on a larger platform, globally

@dziurawesample 2 года назад

@@harrypool71 Thank you for answer me. Of course they put their side of stories BUT ... it was to late. The history was already written. Book, many of them and movies was released. Thousand of UZN members cross the Globe also spread the "Trinity" version. For them it was like a religion. The myth of risen of hip hop. Nobody was able to hear another version. I am trying to speak about it since years, nobody want to hear that. Now is too late. UZN pushed out some people from the history of hip hop and people like KRS helped with that. UZN grab the history of hip hop and again they CHANGE the history of hip hop lately, so .... They are not in true within.

@bigolbabyhuey 2 года назад

I agree with almost everything he said but the notion that Kool Herc was the first is wrong. Even in the Bronx there were African American park dj's before him. Dj's like Kool Dee, Disco King Mario and Pete Dj Jones. Plus he's wrong about Herc being the first to utilize two turntables and a mic. When Herc started in 73, he had one turntable. Going as far back as the late 60s, Brooklyn and Queens park dj's were mixing with two turntables and Manhattan disco club dj's were definitely mixing with two turntables... Great interview though

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

They took issue with that in the live chat...you should've been in there lol...many debates going on.

@alwest4506 2 года назад

Herc was playing the breaks . Yes there were djs before herc but they weren’t playing what herc was playing . Come on bro . The break beat is the foundation of hip hop music

@alwest4506 2 года назад

You didn’t even mention grand master flowers

@bigolbabyhuey 2 года назад

@@alwest4506 There were Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan dj's cutting breakbeats before Herc. The first dj's to extend breakbeats were dj's at those Manhattan discotheques. The difference with Herc (from what I'm told) is he played nothing but the breaks, while other dj's only cut the breaks to some records

@alwest4506 2 года назад

@@bigolbabyhuey herc was looping them .

@awesomeasever8370 2 года назад

Hip-Hop is a subculture not a genre of music, there was NEVER any music created in the Bronx. Many books, articles and documentaries contain false and misleading information. The people who've spread the most misinformation and caused confusion in the process are from West Indian backgrounds; first in the early 1980s it was Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, then KRS-One and most recently Busta Rhymes. In the early 80s white corporations marketed Rap and Hip-Hop together creating the false impression that they're one and the same and have the same history.

@do7hemath937 2 года назад

Sound systems & DJ crews going against each other started in Kingston Jamaica in the 1950s. Chuck know his shit. Some of yall need to research the history of music from the Caribbean and pay attention to the dates that everything started.

@TheresaofTheWorld 2 года назад

If you were in Hempstead, you were far from the action

@awesomeasever8370 2 года назад

Rap is music, Hip-Hop is a subculture. Rap started in the South, Hip-Hop started in New York. Rap is sometimes called Hip-Hop because it's the music of Hip-Hop. Both are EXCLUSIVELY Foundational Black American creations. 🇺🇸✊🏾🇺🇸✊🏽🇺🇸✊🏿

@BlazeOfGlory742 2 года назад

Yuuup

@jerrodlumpkin7132 2 года назад

3/4 of the family is musically inclined is Not a good thing.

@fastpaced4861 2 года назад

Why don't you put this all together and put it on netflix like High On The Hog?

@4us2grow 2 года назад

This was great. No need for the bam series title though.

@dixgun 2 года назад

To watch this clip is to attend a class.

@Johnblaze187 2 года назад

NOT CHUCK D!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im Surprised this is not a NETFLIX Series... WTF 😳 EVERYBODY TELLING...

@TruutSeeka 2 года назад

Kiiiiiiiiind of a waste. We not here for a history lesson on the burrows. Seem like he was avoiding bam by keep dragging on bout nothing.

@JUSLOFI 2 года назад

He wasn't avoiding Bam. He was answering her questions.

@georgel4093 2 года назад

I'm at ten minutes, that's a lot of filler Chuck

@blacklifeapparel1125 2 года назад

So what does this have to do with Bambaataa? Is he leading up to Bam? I dout if Chuck speaks on the pedophilia part...why add him to the documentary?

@LeilaWills 2 года назад

Please see pinned comment above and also video description.

@blacklifeapparel1125 2 года назад

Chuck's history is sort of off though...its from his prospective. Wrong historian.. you wanna stick to Bronx culture Chuck is from Long Island, a world of difference, but we'll watch to see how u tie this together

@tkctkc5805 2 года назад

I disagree with Chuck D in certain areas. History shows that the elements of Hip Hop did not originate in New York. There are a lot of people from North Carolina who introduced rapping and DJing to New Yorkers after the migration. Black Southerners have been doing that since the 1930s and 1940s.

@tkctkc5805 2 года назад

With all due respect, Chuck D's account of history is a bit off. The Carribeans did not influence hip hop. Black Americans already had those elements. He need to research the influence that Black Southerners had on rapping and DJing.

@do7hemath937 2 года назад

DJ Cool Herc is from the Caribbean and the sound system started there & he brought it to America.

@do7hemath937 2 года назад

What southern rappers do you know from the 70s???

@streetprinceopal2290 2 года назад

Chuck say long story short 🤣and still never got TO THE POINT...mannn lol

@robertfoster237 2 года назад

Recently at an outdoor event which took place in different boroughs celebrating the birth of Hip Hop Mayor Coumo would say Herc & his sister used his help 2 continue the parties against the efforts of The NYPD structure!!!!