Video: Origins of Hip Hop with Busy Bee Starski

Origins of Hip Hop with Busy Bee Starski I’ve heard and read a few, yet similar variations of this story a couple of times before. It still, till this day never ceases to amaze me. Mostly how something a few kids in the Seventies were doing in parking lots and basketball courts in a small section of New York. How their block parties ran parallel with the military, weed, Cheech and Chong’s comedy, impromptu, poetry on the mic over music, to the break-beats of funk, soul, disco and reggae. I still till this day, find it [...]

INCREDIBLE piece of historical, cultural info plus he lays waste to the idea that being fly like Diddy n them wasn't a core part of hip hop from the GET, but apparently that wasn't really the reason he was being interviewed! *Smh....* [via grandgood ]