Trapped in a Culture, Afrika Bambaataa, the Zulu Nation, Pt 15 of 44, Kool DJ Dee, Tyrone Mixologist 

R.I.P To Tyrone the Mixologist

Wow! Hip Hop is bigger than Bambaataa and his clan. What I don’t understand is why the real men didn’t check them to protect children.

Much Respect to Kool DJ Dee and his Brother ...

RIP Tyrone the Mixologist

Those Brothers should write a book about the Foundational Black American history of hip-hop

Salute to Kool DJ Dee for mentioning the "DISCO KING" Mario!

Miss Leila... You've done it again 🙂 You should be Very Proud of the product you have produced. I know I am absolutely Proud of You 💖

Alot of these kind of interviews are needed. The OG's of Hip Hop were also doing making themselves marketable and taking liberties regarding the start and evolution of Hip Hop.

Content much appreciated, glad we can still build with elders and get the information. It would be cool if these brothers could have an platform for on going dialogue along with other elder gang/influential guys from the old neighborhoods to speak on this as well . Starting with the Bronx and then to outer boroughs.

Not sure how I came across this video, but as someone who participated in the New York DJ experience during the early to mid 70s I'm happy to see authentic and credible attempts being made to describe this period and place in our history. It's disheartening, though not unexpected, to see so many players out here caught up in the power dynamics of greed. They ultimately dilute and erase many of the sacrifices our ancestors made enabling their descendants with more than a flip of a coin opportunities to achieve better lives.

Love this video! The only way the true history of hip hop will come out is by interviewing the people who were actually there and played their part. For a long time I believed the narrative about hip hop starting in 1973 and the trinity of hip hop but the more interviews with the first generation you hear or read you find out the history is more complex and diverse. These interviews not only expose Bambaataa as a crafty predator who created this persona and a cut & paste ideology to trick people but also show that there’s a lot of lie-oneers out there and a lot of unsung heroes whos stories need to be told!

Official black spades ♠️❤️ “The Black Spades are the Foundations of HIP HOP ♠️✊🏽

Another Dope Interview Leila..Glad u Took the time to get What was "The Real Deal" in Hip-Hop back when it Started..Keep Em Comming Queen.. And Stay Safe..!! (anyone else pick up the Tension between the 2 Black Spades)

I'm watching the whole video now 🥰❤️ Even the ads 😁

Thanks to social media the real stories can get told!

I'm here 😁❤️ A little late cuz my Mama wouldn't get off the line and I wasn't gonna tell her to 🥰💖

31:15 - "especially if it's written, if it's concrete". That's a huge part of the problem with current history, it's written and it's repeated, but it's Herc's story as told by him, or Flash story as told by him. Once you stop relying on their retelling, and digging through the versions told by the likes of Kool Dee, Tyrone, Pete Jones etc. you start to see a more complex and more interesting story emerge.

Yes Sir keep it coming Leila🔥🔥

She should interview DJ Jazzy jay, Red Alert, The Supreme Team radio djs, Coke La Rock, Busy Bee, Melle Mel, Kool Mo Dee and Grandmaster Caz.

KRS One was always rapping about false history, lies in books in libraries etc. Then he started doing the same, falsifying history and spreading lies. It’s funny how people like KRS seemed wise to us hip hop kids when we were young, now that I’m older I see that most of the stuff KRS talks about is total nonsense.

KRS always lyin! 😂😂😂😂😂

LOVE UR WORKK LEILA !!!

The standard history of both Rap and Hip-hop contains at lot of errors and misinformation and needs to be revised.

DJ smokey and the smoke-a-trons is another dj you should interview regarding the history of hip hop. He was out at the same time as Herc, and on the same side if town

Another solid one!

Fire interview.

Great content. Continue the great work sis

R.I.P. Tyrone the Mixologist

Job Well Done, TY...

Thank you soooo much for creating this!... They are trying to re write our history once again... its sooo bad that I wrote a whole dog on dissertation on the comedy centrals channel comment section with that crap hip hop history comedy they are selling to our people as truth!! it's disgusting so thank you truly for bringing some of the true creators of our hip hop culture to tell the truth!... Guys read this damn book i wrote on comedy central page... I went in lol.. I just couldnt take no more... here it is.. "I know everyones gonna take my head off for this.. But guys THIS IS NOT!!!!! THE TRUTH!!!! It's actually disgusting! they are creating a false narrative of how our culture was created... It seems all fun and funny but this will be what stands as truth throughout history!!! and it's NOT THE TRUTH! anyone under 55 yrs old that wasn't there please listen ... they are selling you a lie mixed with a sprinkle of truth!!! as they have always done to our culture... I must say it is a very entertaining comedy.. but it is just that guys entertainment! You want some receipts look up ..Black spades, Kool Dj DEE, Dj Mario, the L brothers, Geenie, DJ AJ, Bronxdale etc..Some of These are djs that herc watched and listened to before he started djing and theres alot more... Herc had the Herculoids and dj Smokey had the Smokeatrons all in the Bronx at the same exact time!..HERC DID NOT!!! COME HERE FROM JAMAICA AND START HIP HOP!!!!.. Park jams and block parties were already going on full steam before herc.. now he did join in and add to the culture ...but HE DID NOT CREATE IT! I'm sorry we are not going to let yall try to steal our culture... since they bought our ancestors over here... the ones that werent here already... they have stolen everything that we have created!!! I watched Hip Hop get created as a child and participated!! and caribbean music and reggae was alive and well in the streets of NY at the same exact time... we all rocked out to reggae .. yellow man and all the rest of them.. google Yellow man yall... and it was 2 totally seperate creations and cultures existing at the same exact time.... and it still does to this day!... EVERYTHING WE CREATED EVERYONE WANTS TO STEAL AND CLAIM IT AS THEIR OWN SINCE THEY BOUGHT US HERE! We created almost everything that exists that everyone uses world wide.. all the way down to your refrigerator! But leave it to yall we didn't create anything RIGHT! Yall should be ashamed of yourselves!!!! I'll be damned if I let yall take our culture that we created out of the struggle and oppression from ALL OF YOUR CULTURES!! None of YALL accepted us!!! Reggae and Caribbean culture was huge!!! and they disrespected Hip Hop along with everyone else when our people were creating it!!! I know I was there!!! now let's be clear! THERE WERE SOME THAT WERE DOWN WITH US!!! But they didn't claim to create Hip Hop they got down with us!!!... at the beginning of Hip Hop we always would find a caribbean brother to Chat on a hook with us... But He had his own music and culture that His people created! and He or she would jump on a song with one of us to take part in Our Music and Culture that WE CREATED! It wasn't this Crap that some are trying to claim now!!!! MY MELANATED PEOPLE BORN IN AMERICA.. WE CREATED THIS CULTURE!!! and when we created it EVERYONE HATED IT!!! AND SAID IT WASN'T MUSIC AND IT WOULDN'T LAST!!!! BUT WE DIDN'T CARE WE JUST KEPT CREATING AND CREATING AND IT KEPT GROWING AND GROWING... The same cultures who disrespected our music and culture.. now they want to claim that they created it!!!! BOY SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!! Shut the Hell UP!!! as Ten Toes Down would say lol... Man yall I then wrote a damn dissertation! YOU KNOW I DON'T LIKETHIS MESS! LOL... To wrap it up yall.. I love caribbean music and culture and we are all melanated people But Please enjoy your culture and creations... AND PLEASE LEAVE OURS ALONE we have enough people trying to take everything from us already! Blessings to YOU ALL!! from Uncle Yahshuah... Now go head and let the shots fly lol" That was alot right lol... I had to let them have it guys.... this is truly disgusting! they want to take everything from us!! can I have my kidneys at least! Damn!!! lol.. Now as far as Bambaata and that molesting crap!! Yo I am soooo glad that we did not have a predator like that amongst us children in my projects... But to be honest the older dudes in my projects would not have let that stuff fly!!!! EVERYBODY SAYING WE ALL KNEW HE WAS DOING IT! BUT NOBODY STOPPED IT!!! WTF!! and I dont curse guys but really? and look at Hassan Campbell he's a product of that.. the brother inside truly wants to help but He's going insane!!! He's battling sooo many demons because of what these grown men did to him that he's self destructing right in front of our eyes... and don't forget guys he said he was molested even before bambatta before his teens.. as a child... and its really sad... Great Job Leila! I don't really like the title but the story needs to be told.. so Thank You!!! and I have a documentary coming out in a few days that's going to expose alot of this Hip Hop nonsense! Blessings to you all... Uncle Yahshuah... now go head and let the shots fly lol... I know how our people are...

In translation, as today’s youth would call it: KapRS1. They fact-checked false the f outta dude.

that brother got the serious eye jammie.... great work sis!

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. 🇺🇸 ✊🏽 🇺🇸 ✊🏽

Great work the true fathers of hip hop. Jimmy Mac

Is that lunell’s brother 🤔🤣…. Great interview💪🏾🌹

Damnnnn we going to have to get at KRS real quick. Get some clarity

Excellent interview. I agree, that if you weren’t there in 1971-1973 then you can’t speak on it from first hand knowledge. And, if you do speak on it, you need to cite your source because you weren’t there. Just because someone made rap records in the 1990s, it doesn’t mean that they are an authority on what happened to form rapping and scratching and b-boying in the early 70s. I moved out of the Bronx in 69 and a lot of this makes sense because you got beat up in different neighborhoods around NYC if you weren’t from there and stickup kids was a real thing.

Mind blowing Leila 👏🏾 wow. And Bam gets invites to speak these untruths to Cornell University. Shameful.

From gang banging to Muzik great knowledge ✨✨✨

You told you what happened to all these foreigners from the Caribbean to come over and take credit for American black man that's why I try to tell American black people stop getting so close from you foreigners what they do they come here they suck up what we had and then take all take all the credit for themselves

I worked in P.S. 100 on Lafayette av. In 1967 , there was a Jam , before that there was a Jam in P. S. 107.

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@Leila Wills awesome video I caught it after the premier, now I'm all caught up. Question? Is it possible for you to do a interview with Patrice Griffin survivor of Xclan cult. I know Bambatta is the topic at hand but I think this sister should be given an opportunity to tell her story. Not by men but by someone like you a person with a heart and compassion.

It is a false narrative floating around in hip hop history that Kool herc brought mc'ing and dj'ing over from Jamaica. This totally negates the fact that America had its own dj/mc culture independent of Jamaica. Can you interview kool d and tyrone about this, also can you get some info on disco king mario.

Thanks for giving this light besides michaelwaynetv....i fruck with the truth no matter what...history has to be re-written in my opinion

Kool Dj Dee is originally from Brooklyn and he was a dj in Brooklyn. He brought the mobile disc jockey culture to the Bronx from Brooklyn

KRS 1 Is not even from the Bronx, he heard it on the radio in Brooklyn, then moved to the Bronx to experience it. Now he's an authority on hip-hop????

Very interesting

YASS, give up the clarity! I've been sayin Noo its...Lies and the history is wrong. In Queens it was the 7 Crowns my cousin Jamaica was in it. The Black Spades and Savage Nomads. In the early 70's, before Supreme Team and Southside Seventeen. How, I know one of my cousins from the BX Larry brought started the Spades to Flushing Queens. I'm the 1st female MC. Whose tapes went oversee's first. Performed very young in NC downsouth performed at Billywoods place. Smdh! Ironically, @leilawills a journalist is contacting me tomorrow regarding my story via the CVA. We spoke briefly after the panelists. However, I informed him regarding my Pioneer status in HipHop etc. Thus, just can't reveal everything to him. Thanks for the clarification. Leila accolades.....uncover the truth to continue to discover. 👏👏👏💣💣💥

All facts I came up under these brothers and hang with them in the party and the hood bronx Dale is was different back than I was every we're in the bx in the mid 70. 74 75 I was like 14 15 crazy times lit.

The Gramercy Riffs from 'The Warriors' were based on the Black Spades

Recommended by Star. Great content.

So many lies have been told over the years about this history. I’m glad I heard it from these Legends and not so called teachers and people who were not there Thanks for this true history.

He's right. KRS-One needs to be dismissed from Hip Hop for his comments on Bam.

She should've ask about the "Spades dance." How is that connected to the "Apache line" up rock dance. Uprock was before Bboyin. Talk to "King Uprock" "Nigga twins" and "Charlie Rock" , Charlie Rock was one of the first Bboys- "Zulu Kings" DJ Ajaaaaay! Kurtis Blow's Dj!!! I learned alot of info n history through "Wayne T.V." RU-vid page about History of Black spades, Dj Mario, Charlie Rock, Green eyed Genie, etc...

KRS1 tell fantasies

Keep exposing this atrocity committed against the children.

Say it mixologist u guys are american born n raised n so was ur great great grandparents those drums n beats n dancing is in the blood n soul. True aboriginal so called indian or whatever label u put the original people of the land

These brothers need there flowers for sure!

So the southern boyz brought hip hop to new York? Gotcha

How are you Sister Leila? I'm a new content creator who is doing a lot of research on accurate hip hop history. I have uploaded several videos dealing with the subject. I just found this video. I was hoping you would be ok if I used about 14 minutes of your interview. I am scheduled to upload a video tomorrow. I respectfully hope you won't mind if I do so. Thank you for your consideration.

Just imagine if Black Americans took Latin Music such as Salsa and or Caribbean Music such as Reggae and utilized these musical forms to lay the foundation and build Rap Music and Hip Hop culture upon. Forget about Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, Funk, and Soul Music. Forget about James Brown, Parliament, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, Ohio Players, Chic, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, The Isley Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isaac Hayes and so so much more. Let's forget about and do away with all of the aforementioned music and the artist that created that music and let's focus on Latin and Caribbean Music and Artist. Imagine Black American Rappers rapping primarily over Latin and Caribbean Music. Imagine Black American producers and DJ's sampling primarily Latin and Caribbean Music. Imagine Black American Dancers Break Dancing to primarily Latin and Caribbean Music. Just imagine this. But let's take it a step further, just imagine if Black Americans migrated to and took up residence in Puerto Rico, Jamaica and or some other Caribbean nation and then try to claim that creation or a significant part of said creation as their own. To add further insult to injury, no elements, trace, nor precursor, or any future development of this music, art form, and culture exist from whence they came. Music is a primary foundation cornerstone of all cultures internationally. Would any Latin and or Caribbean person accept or tolerate this immense gross lack of respect and outright appropriation and false origin creation claims of their music and culture? I think it is quite obvious what the answer would be, but this is the outright twisted disingenuous mentality and way of thinking that immigrants to the shores of America such as Puerto Ricans and other Caribbeans want Black Americans to co-sign. GTFOH!!!

I'm surprised she didn't ask about Djs from the outer boroughs, such as, Grandmaster Flowers from Brooklyn.

I agree with person who comented by saying why didn't any real men protect the children please tell me why?????

Kool Dj Dee looking like he has some Xtra shyt say but not saying

Please consider this history when you say that Bambaata's introduction of knowledge was new to the Bronx River area: Black Spades had a commander who was a young brother named David. He was either an active young member of Muhammad Mosque No. 7 or a strong sympathizer. He was already bringing the knowledge of self to the area. Additional to that, you had a growing number of 5%'ers in the Bronx, especially due to the Bronx's proximity to Harlem where the Headquarter mosque was on 116th street and Lenox Ave(Malcolm X Blvd). Lastly, the Bronx had Muhammad Mosque No. 7-D. Harlem was No.7 Queens was No.7-B Brooklyn was No.7-C The community regularly saw the brothers spreading knowledge, selling Whiting fish or Muhammad Speaks Newspapers. I personally have seen Bam Bam in the late 90's approach Minister Farrakhan at a speaking engagement in Harlem as if it was a reunion. As if he knew the Minister from way back. The Minister put his hand on Bam Bam's cheek as they were talking almost like an uncle talking to his nephew. As a whole, the Black Spades had knowledge in their circles. It was the current of the the early 70's. It had more to do with what was going on in the city rather than Bambaata's personality. However, he must be given credit for being a key agent of bringing back and re-making it popular to talk consciousness and unity; especially in street culture(hip hop)I'll never take that from him.

Yeah in the biggest propagator of the lies is KRS one. I have heard him on multiple occasions explicitly say that Africa Bambaataa invented hip-hop

29:00 Yes, the founding fathers of Hip Hop were not West Indians. They were African-Americans from North Carolina!

Dude on the left looks like Luenell.

They don’t agree on the founding fathers I get that. The birthplace Is definitely Bronx 🙌🏿

25:00 I'm glad the truth is out. Afrika Bambataa, DJ Kool Herc are not the founding fathers of Hip Hop. There were a plethora of African-American DJs that came before them.

Bam Bam and Bambata are 2 different people how them dudes didn’t mention that. He said the first chapter started in 71 , how when you had the meeting in 71 and spades running around in 68

Can anyone tell me if Afrika Bambaataa have any siblings?

He said ghetto brothers lol

? What are the names of the rival gangs of the black ♠️ ‘s

Did kool dj dee have a black eye during this interview?

What did they call him, before he named himself Bambaataa?

Lmao Dee had that face of it's a lie that he went to Africa

It seems as though she's got some personal vendetta towards KRS ONE and trying to cause chaos amongst him and the pioneers.

Bambatta 🌈

Hit up dj squeekey

Miss Layla i would like to ask a question to you and star being that yall decided to label this documentary the way yall did...ARE YALL PART OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY???? I mean no offense..just trying to get clarity...im saying this because just like jamaicans some members of the gay community might try and make claims about them starting hip hop..

Heavy D jamaican Biggie jamaican Chubb Rock Jamaican Busta Rhymes Jamaican Nickie Minage Trinidad just a few. West Indians have been in América in large numbers for over 100 years. First large numbers game in NY was Casper Holstein West Indian. Bumpy Johnson worked for Queenie St Clair a west Indian. We need to not divide but unify.

@Leila Wills Bambaataa looking like a whole fraud and KRS1 has spread a lot of false information. This is usually the case with most "Cults of Personality".

Hoe Avenue👀

What these cats don't know is that the BIGGEST YouTuba came out of Bwonx Riva.

Fairy tales sell 😢

Did yall here the new remix. KRS One , featuring Africa Bambata of "13 and good" ?

Caribbean didn’t have any significant impact on Hip Hops creation.

KRS One his song "13 and Good" ....i rest my case

🤔Now that the World knows he's uh GUMP everybody wona Disdent they Self from hem when they ALL new smh. On Bloods.

AFRICA BUMURBOTTOM

These 2 seem like they hate each other lol especially dude in the right

KRS 1 is FOS.

-If I was in ZN I would want to sue whoever labeled this, "ZN hip hops 1st gay family", that shits wrong. It was only freak AF going for some young kids in the group, NOT the whole group. Most straights don't want to be lumped in with gays. & This title just makes those who don't know think that everybody was with it, Fuck no.

First of all the title of this podcast is BS not everybody in Zulu Nation was not gay. Bams deeds was him. Interview Bam for your answers.

I can accept that rap music has a homosexual heritage. It explains much about gay Black males dominating the rap music genre today. Bet money-everybody favorite rapper coming out the closet real soon to capitalize on the Lil Nas X factor.

These guys both look zesty