Interesting that T-La Rock worked with both the premiere drum machine producers, Rick Rubin and Mantronik.

Fat joe take notes!!!!!!😂😂😂 we started this!!!! Fba

I wanted to give some feedback as far as the length of the videos. I like to save videos to my Watch Later list and come back to them when the mood hits. A video could be 40 hours long. It doesn’t matter to me because I would never force myself to watch anything in one go. I think the video should be as long as it needs to be. Even shortish-medium videos like this one I may likely not watch all at once. There’s something nice about breaking it up and returning to it and resuming where I left off when I feel like it. So I would hope content would never be left out in an attempt to make it a ‘manageable’ length. Peace! Thanks JayQuan 🎵

This documentary is so on point. Love how you do your thing. You rock bro, please keep up on more east coast hip hop documentaries. PEACE.

3:10 Wow Kool Moe Dee did Super scooper party pooper verse in 1978!

The 11 minute mark photo image with the blue back drop of Bee on stage at the melkwig in Amsterdam on stage beside Bee is Coke La Rcok and I was his tour Dj. We were at the cannabis cup

I heard someone say years ago. LL could fart in a bean can and make it sound good.

I've just rediscovered you bro. First came across you about 5-6 years ago. It's a pleasure to hear your thoughts and knowledge on the culture. Hope everything is good for you at the moment. Happy new year 2025🎉

Why am I just seeing this!?!?! Soul Train truly was the ish!! Love how they easily embraced East Coast cats!! Hip Hop was from.and about the streets. No matter where you came from . And this proved it!! Love seeing this in 2024!! East coast/West coast beef would prolly not have happened if Soul Train was still on the air frfr!! They welcomed everybody as long as u had the jam!!

That bambatta line didn’t age well😂

How many People Reconize 50% Of Hiphop Belong to The World Coming from Inner City Rappers,...😮😮😮

One of my favorite group back in the day. Still have the cassette

A sad but BEAUTIFUL piece

Dope!!!!

He is true laggard of Hip Hop

Kane took the symphony, hands down.

I wonder if they ever got any flack for this song sounded similar to Africa Bambata - Planet Rock

Wow!!! I haven’t seen Dimples D in ages!!! And I had no idea there were 3 Dj Swanns!!! That’s crazy!!!

Wow

The Best Ever, Period.

Great posting

The coolest ever

I been saying this for years Enjoy... records had the better new York sound With pumpkin 2....they bought the best out...real MC's out... sugar Hill records.was wt we call now commercial.. salute Bobby Robertson...we got u.pumkin 👑👊🏾🗽

6:30 I remember when white people use to call rap jungle music lmao

I've been a rapper(unprofessional) since I was 13 years old and was on the old skool simple rhymes. When I looked to raise the bar (or as they say, step up my game) I looked to study Kool Moe Dee and Rakim. I will never be a Kool Moe Dee because I would never use words like epigy (hope I spelled that right!) As far as understanding internal rhyme patterns, Moe Dee and Rakim is where I found a deeper element of style beyond the nursery rhymes . I also studied a book called how to rap that taught me on punchlines and a rhyme dictionary. I owe much respect to Moe and Rakim!

Thanks for setting the record straight.....👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊

POISON CLAN SAMPLED ACTION TOO

Great interview, alway learning something new every day.

Jayquan, I am just now coming across your videos and I must say that I am addicted! During the Pandemic, I got the idea of going through a Rap/Hip Hop Timeline from the start to the present, being a rap fanatic , especially of my favorite era - the 80s rap. What I would do is I found this rap timeline website identifying famous rappers of the time frame (I knew they would leave out a LOT of them) but it was better than nothing and I have been following it. When I came up to the early 80s and hit RUN-DMC, your video popped in and I was amazed to see a video where you gave a full rendition of the history and little tidbits of interesting items about the groups in such an educational and entertaining way (thanks for playing those songs too that I haven't heard in a long ass time! :) ) So, I will try to follow "The Foundation" series that you have here and I just thank you immensely for producing these videos of my rap artists and those involve in the rap industry with your great commentary!

Yeah, they were heavily influenced on rap artist before hip hop got it name. Not just rhythming but rapping over a beat.

But the REAL ONE is the "Drink", lol

Hell yeah. I use to dub tapes like that at home. Had to make sure the house was super quiet😂. Oh yeah I thought KOOL G RAP was GUCCI RAP😂 Great times back then. I only heard juice crew all stars that one day😂

I need to know what was funny @11:27

Job well done 👑✌🏾❤️✊🏽

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Your knowledge is more of the majority of opinions. You are right. Kane, rakim are 1. 2 is Kris. 3 is Kool G. 4 is LL. 5 I guess Nasir. I like Chubb Rock before Biggie

Sir, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge on the foundation of the music I’ve loved since I first saw the video for Rock Box by Run-D.M.C. & Jam Master Jay. The first Foundation video I saw was when I was looking up information on Larry Smith. Man, this is a rabbit hole of samples that I never knew the origins of. Truly appreciated and you’ve found a fan. 💪🏼🙏🏼

Fun fact about biz... 1995 Virginia state university homecoming... biz was performing... i was smoking. He asked for my lighter and never gave it back... the very next weekend i saw him in the mall in Hampton Virginia where I'm from. I asked for my lighter back and he knew who i was and gave me a lighter... he was cool about it and laughed 😂😂

Salute the fresh 3...a have all they albums..& cameo did stay up in Rochester ..on Remington & Clifford at Hollywood lounge.

This shit gave me The CHILLZ R.I.P to the SWANS

I once had a tape which i think might have been an L.L. demo its wasn't the best quality but there was a song called "You cant juice me" with some beatboxing in it with a hard guitar riff. I held on to it for years but eventually lost it in the shuffle of life. No one that i know has ever heard it and it never has resurfaced on line but that was gold to our little squad back in middle school. i wish that i knew the origin of those few songs that were on the tape, it was definitely before Bigger and Deffer was released because on one song he used the line about being worshipped like an old battleship... LL...the GOAT

Is james brown the most sample artist if not then who ? ✌🏾

Rick used those I need a beat bars in the bank scene in krush groove 😆

Damn thank you for sharing this hip hop history! I had no idea there were three TJ Swans and the name of a Liquor.

Was the TJ Swan drink just an East Coast or New York thing? I don't remember it at all. It was big enough to have commercials. I wonder when it stopped being made?

I seen TJ Swann perform in Phlly and always thought that Biz used a OG on his record to get a little more star power on Make the Music coming out the box, as a DJ I did notice the difference spelling on the single and just passed it off as a typo or having to spell it that way for copyright or legal purposes. What I wasn’t aware of that there was a drink with the name too!

Rip tj swan he picked up the bottle when we was walking and said that’s my name Central Islip ny we hung in bayshore mall and Arby’ square mall rip my brother

The one with Biz…. 👍🏾👌🏾

Had Tougher Than Leather been released a year sooner ...wouldve rocked hard.

Tj swan had biz markie vapor video popping 🍾😂😂😂 pour the champagne out on the yacht so friend could mop it up frand caught the vapor