1981 20/20 SPECIAL ON RAP MUSIC

"Rappin To The Beat" - A 1981 television special on the new rap music phenomenon.

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

Someone accused me of "taking someone else's video". I did not. This footage has been online for almost a decade, and I could have "taken" it long ago. I traded footage with someone, and this is what was given to me. There are at least 2 other versions of this online.

[@OGGOAT23]

Fake accusations

[@Airsteven23]

Once it’s online it’s online forever so ??? Nothing they can do

[@joannabmarketing]

Somebody's always hatin'!

[@ayeone1822]

Fuck em.....I saw "Your" post and clicked on it...not their shit! Do you! #💯

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

@CULTURE VULTURE I wasn't speaking of you.

[@EastCoastMike]

Back when boom boxes needed 10 D sized batteries. The good ol days

[@donovans6472]

lol

[@antoniotula262]

Lol, it got Expensive & the cheap batteries didn't last!!

[@Star-by1tn]

😅😆😀😅 I used to put my batteries in the freezer wrapped in aluminium foil thinking it would recharge the batteries 😀😃😄

[@Star-by1tn]

The bigger the boom box you had the more clout you had‼😅

[@dittofeelings4797]

Bollll yesss!!!!!

[@PopO51968]

I remember these same interviewers were saying that Rap was going to last no more than 10 years, just like Disco. They were wrong!!!!!

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

They gave it less than a year originally

[@jeffcard1A]

disco was fueled by cocaine. Hip-Hop was fueled by passion.

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

@@jeffcard1A and cocaine

[@jeffcard1A]

@@TheFoundationhiphop 'The Passion of the Cocaine' coming soon to a theater near you

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

@@jeffcard1A lol 😆

[@RFJersey]

What a beautiful time in American history.

[@d.j.el-magnifico3511]

These kids now a days will never really understand.....

[@frontlineservicesdetroit4555]

No they REALLY don't

[@DrummerJacob]

@@frontlineservicesdetroit4555 Your parents and their generation said the same about you.

[@thatstheguy07]

Saddest thing is they don’t even wanna.

[@rashkhan2436]

For sure!

[@FloridaGeorgia]

I love it! Every time you see real footage of the first rap stars, you'll see that MC Sha Rock was right there!

[@deefunkstrong7818]

Sha rock!!!!! 💪🏾❤️💯

[@BKaneNp8]

40 years later.... Hip Hop Don’t Stop!

[@marpar3971]

Actually it did with this mumble rap bull shit

[@IKARIking67]

@@marpar3971 Not according to this year's grammy nominations for Best Hip-Hop album. All lyricist.

[@clarencesimmons8580]

I'm almost loved hip-hop Music.

[@TheDtruth29]

and is dominating every genre of music

[@erickthefantabulous1]

Damn man way to make me feel old Shut out to the people who live through this era and are still here PS Yeah I was on the city bus with a big boom Box

[@korancebland]

"You never thought that Hip-Hop could take it this far." Biggie Smalls Thanks Jayquan for the upload.

[@DribsandDrabs]

YOU MEAN THANKS FOR THE STEAL. "The Foundation", IS A PIECE OF CRAP TO STEAL SOMEONE ELSE'S VIDEO, CUT THEIR WATERMARK OUT, THEN REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER. THAT'S WHY THE NAMES AT THE BOTTOM ARE CUT OUT. WHAT A SLEEAZEBALL.

[@rrogers5077]

First thing I thought of. Its bitter sweet though. Watching cities being Gentrified and a rebranding of our culture via kylie and the Kardashians. Remember when she was criticized for promoting a biggie tee withe family permission?

[@mikegee3991]

During the 70s and 80s I lived on Convent Ave, right next to the City College of New York in the same building as Kurtis Blow, so I knew him before rap music existed. These documentaries don't mention that before groups like sugar hill gang made records. In the NYC there were outside jams in the parks and community centers where DJs were playing cutting break beats and MCs were rapping. This was going on for almost 10 years before a rap record was made. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of footage because nobody thought it would be worth anything and also, the lack of a device to record. So the pre-rap record era of hip hop is basically undocumented.

[@djbhe]

I remember watching this when it aired. I was 10 growing up on the southside of Chicago. Memories!!!!!!

[@ntrock22]

Yes. Memories! South Side!!!

[@Nimisiskrash]

I literally remember watching this with my grandmother 🤙🏾

[@yeahisaidit5633]

Mannnnnnn no security no guns no naked women just good ol fashion hip hop!

[@randee4550]

Trust me, they had all that, back then. Especially the drugs, guns, and naked women.

[@SmartBrandon72]

@@randee4550 Yeah They Had "Em, It Just Wasn't Exposed & Exploited During Performances Like Today..

[@yeahisaidit5633]

@@randee4550 I know ! But it wasn’t apart of the culture ! As it is today! You can’t hear one song on the radio with a mention of that bs !

[@randee4550]

@@yeahisaidit5633 I don't know, bro. I'm from this era. MC's literally revolved around those topics. Smoking "cheba", copping "black", having a ".44 caliber, in my hand", "puff a little cheba, sniff a little blow". This was regular shit, back then..

[@billyjacc]

@@randee4550 For sure.. I had family in Jamaica Queens as well as North Bronx and used to visit up there and seen a few jams in the playgrounds and blocks. I'm from West Philly and heard many Emcees throw out sound wild @$$ lyrics. Schooly D was one of em, and when dudes like him, Steady B, and few lesser knowns went to the recording studios, their label said " NO", and dudes like Schooly with his own label took their sounds to the radio stations..., it was a resounding " HALE NO.!" lol

[@Maurice572]

I love the old footage back in those days of Hip Hop. I missed those days, I am not from the Bronx, but still I boogie down! Thanks bro JayQ for your Foundation Lessons 🙏 P. S. Grandmaster Melle Mel from Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and Sha Rock from the Funky 4 + 1 More With DJ Breakout & DJ Baron are my favorite MC's greatest of all time 😍👍

[@ProjectCarTV]

Back When You Had To Chain Your Boom Box Up Outside The Grocery Store

[@xoacatl]

Woooow! This is 40 y.o. footage! The infancy of hip hop!

[@MrDeaconEarl]

At first I was gonna say, "no it's not" and then I realize, "oh, yeah. It is. I forgot. I'm getting old."

[@GoDaddy562]

Feel like artist of today need to sit down and absorb some media like this.

[@maccagrabme]

Nah, they wouldnt be interested and wouldnt understand it. The spirit, the struggles, the poverty and hunger for creativity has long gone for this generation.

[@caininmilton1267]

I was just talkin bout dat with my older cousin yesterday whos 19 yrs older than me,all dees young rappers dyin and they are just beginners in their career,what happen to fun happy Rap.

[@lrrich8023]

Would they absorb it or laugh at it you think? I don’t think a lot of them would care, which is why a lot of their product is whack.

[@15twoe]

I remember this episode of 20/20! This was huge back then! Brings back so many memories! This truly reminds me that hip hop is dead!

[@Susie4Jesus]

Best music generation ever! Im 53 and white and I couldn’t get enough of this music- never liked rock or country music. I’m lucky to have lived in that generation! Rap, RnB hip hop forever! I miss that music so much I wish they would bring it back for this generation- kids don’t know what they missed! Oh yeah and the only radio station I could get to hear it was WAWA back in Milwaukee on the AM station wow.

[@Militantreturns]

And about 40 years later rap is the most dominant music on earth

[@superdude7459]

WOW!

[@rahsillyyoo]

right lol

[@thebestchannel5456]

Rap is Horrible now!🤣

[@CP-kb1du]

@@thebestchannel5456 Spot on , Mumble trash horrid videos

[@phillipcotton833]

Even as a black man I never saw THAT coming.

[@carlosramirez7018]

Let's not forget to thank 20/20 for always delivering great documentaries.

[@vale-y1i]

It's impressive how prophetic this special is. Not because Hip Hop music has been the dominant music over the past 30 years, but because the producers realised that it was here to stay and didn't suggest it was a passing fad. (PS I recall a friend telling me in 1984 that Hip Hop was "played out"...LMFAO ;-)

[@KtotheG]

Once LL and The Beastie Boys blew up, it was over...Thank you, Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin...

[@wildboy700]

I love hip hop and I'm glad to be apart of this generation. It's an honor.❤❤❤

[@titanjake8640]

Shout out to crazy legs!! I miss the 80s like this as everybody got along!!! We were happy. Music was uplifting and we built each other up. View now.... competition division and tearing down each others character. It is so sad

[@wandawells5596]

I’m singing with them playing double Dutch, good ole times

[@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396]

😘

[@NeverForget1776]

Rakim was the linguistic master of the 80s rap

[@darrylclaxton7473]

Wow I still have that boombox. JVC 550JW. Love the 80s

[@dazallison411]

It's (Hip-Hop & Rap) come along way.. been exploited, ridiculed, capitalised on & gone through many iterations... sometimes for the better & sometimes for the not so good, but it's still here.. I'm glad I know its origins & experienced its growth & development in the UK.

[@titanjake8640]

Yesss......swagger jacking is the #1 killer to the culture if you ask me...there are no Gatekeepers that say no. They just want $$$$

[@mdkvisions]

DAZ you from covent garden mr?

[@dazallison411]

@@mdkvisions No.. from the North of England

[@jsolethedj]

Classic footage. Authenticity at its best

[@steadylee8899]

Great stuff Jay. Some nice clips I have missed. Wish I could go back to those days, when hip hop was done from the heart. Best days of my life. Thanks for all you do Jay. Old school 4 life

[@gittemal]

I remember when this originally aired!

[@nolahahnshouse3389]

40 years later rap/hip hop is the number one music in the world!

[@ronaldmurphy9152]

i'm 66 years old and I new the minute Debbie Harry made that corny song, she would be used as a seminal figure in rap. I was 31 then, and here it is, just like everything else

[@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989]

Every rap song from then sounds corny today.

[@tonytuffers]

I wouldnt say it was corny at all, Debbie Harry's Raptured exposed Rap to Rock heads, the type of crowd that wouldnt really dig rap music found themselves liking it whetether they wanted to or not, it was a huge win for hip hop, likewise Queen's - Another one bites the dust

[@ronaldmurphy9152]

​@@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989 like I said I was 31 years old when it came out, and it was corny to me then. and every rap song from back then does not sound corny today, Most music sounds corny regardless of the era, we just remember the certain ones that we liked to hear.

[@ronaldmurphy9152]

@@tonytuffers If your idea of success for black people is doing something that whites will like an accept, then you already off on the wrong foot.

[@tezzingtonsir28]

The impact that it had was this. A lot of white people had never heard about rapping until they saw one of the biggest stars of that era rapping. Don't take it from me. Take it from rappers from the era themselves. Stop hating and enjoy the music. Old hater!

[@theFRACTALREIGN]

This new "Rap" music surely has fascinated the youth culture! I hope it grows into something big

[@deidragreer4958]

I love this one and juss to think that this was 40 years ago WOW!!!😊

[@jeffreyfoss7369]

Wait..did you hear G'ma say, "All he wanna do is slip in my bed"?

[@billyjacc]

My little sister gasped and said " Ooh! You hear what that old lady said?" 😁... Even though it was '81, we were still ( In some ways) a bit more conservative than the kids today.

[@frafilipo9829]

Awesome material!!!! THANKS😊

[@gaffle-411]

I’ve NEVER seen this one. Hidden gem!

[@stephieakaheavenwasherethe2160]

I love this & rap 🎶. This is Hugh Downes too in the intro. I had the great honor to sit behind the set of 20/20 in NY & personally meet him. He passed away in 2020. After filming, I will never forget how special he made me feel by approaching me with a warm smile, shaking my hand & talked with me. I will never forget him for his kindness. The class & integrity of broadcasting has since left with him & seems no more today. Hugh, God's speed to you kind gentleman & thank you for making a young girl so very happy with your introduction. ♥️🙏🗽

[@grindewest5940]

That white dude rapping was the 1st drake😂😂😂

[@Rmepapi69]

Or Vanilla Ice. 🤣

[@grindewest5940]

@@GEN_X_ you got me fd up I was making a joke stupid I'm black and 40 years old I know all about 80's rap

[@leemd5049]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnnymorera3199]

Man I love these videos those were the best days of my life growing up before crack cocaine hit the neighborhoods and all the lyrics change drastically I'm 50 years old

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

Me too

[@eljusticiero322]

The recording session of Showdown taped, Amazing!

[@tg3grant704]

I was 10 in 1981 and remember every bit of this .boombox with the double cassette

[@andrecurry6294]

Forty years !! 😎🙏👏 can you believe y'all! . My people truly bless this world 🌎

[@tsimmons1974ts]

Soooo Glad I was blessed to have grown up during that era 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@tochiRTA]

WOW! what a goldmine! I can't believe this was made in '81! A) They're so accurate in their assessment of the music, it's insane and B) It makes it seem like hip hop was already mainstream

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

It was to a degree. For what mainstream was at the time. It had already hit American Bandstand

[@berserko2008]

Rap originally had soul...... so beautiful and such feeling....... the way for the Black man to fight back through poetry and song....... it's just so catchy......👍👍💯💯

[@JDiggiti]

and this is why we have RAP Culture today . the media focused on Rap instead of Hip Hop Culture . Great Video . Thank You for posting it

[@Mr.Taylor56]

The revolution will not be televised. Can't film what you think and how you feel on the inside.

[@adamneme4613]

Rap was the most enduring and adaptable part of hip hop. Facts. Breakin and graffiti had sever limitations in their flexibility to endure an ever changing pop audience. Rap is the last great gift blacks gave to world civilization. Rap is not a genre now, it is a former of music. Do you sing or rap. God bless rap.

[@JDiggiti]

@@adamneme4613 RAP is the easiest to duplicate & water down for the POPULAR audience . Todays skill level is at its lowest with only a few New people Mastering the art but 10,000 rappers

[@stephenheath8465]

Didn't mention the DJ Big journalistic FAIL lol

[@djjerome]

Build me a Time Machine, I want to go back to the Era of real music, real innovation, and real fun!!

[@jeremiahwoods1845]

Those were the days right there

[@adolfminolo4757]

In Philly, they only played rap on Saturdays on a.m. radio. Then certain radio stations tried to monetize their policy of playing "No Rap"! However, I was all in from day 1. I love it!!

[@wesleypugh6860]

I was born in 72 and I am amazed at how hip hop has grown .. But to see it come from this to gangs , molly , lean , guns and murders .. How Sway 😥

[@wesleypugh6860]

To see it in its pure form is a thing of beauty ..

[@adamneme4613]

That's not hip hop. That's Satan's music industry political agenda.

[@umarscamartistjohnson1784]

Nigga and it wasn’t in the late 70s/80s ?? How sway

[@umarscamartistjohnson1784]

@@adamneme4613 obviously you don’t know hip hop/ from rap 🤔

[@wesleypugh6860]

@@umarscamartistjohnson1784 Fuck are you talking bout ?

[@commercialrealestatecoach]

Thank You, Hip Hop - my favorite American art form that's inspired so much of my lifestyle.

[@hassanburton669]

GOOD LOOKS JAY EXTRA STRENGTH SHOUT OUT TO KURTIS BLOW AND ALL THE EARLY PIONEERS....RESPECT.

[@wotabottle]

Thank you for the upload. It's important.

[@99alfailiwaqain51]

Peace, Jayquan dug deeper than an archaeologist for this ☝️! Master of Archives....Peace7

[@christianjuarez4689]

This special was ahead of its time both stylistically and in terms of substance.

[@mikehwilliams17]

That was a dope find. It is always great to see film footage of some of the first Rap pioneers. It is a shame the reporter did not mention anything about the DJ. He did bring up the dancing but to leave the DJ out. That is the back bone to all this.

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

The Dj took a backseat when rap records became a reality. By 81 the Rapper was the star. The reporters reported what they saw.

[@mikehwilliams17]

Yes that is so true and I understand why that had to be. Not being able to clear samples back then and the use of the house bands was easier to get the records out. So the DJ gets the push to the back.

[@TheDocTats]

Great find! Miss people walking around with huge boom boxes!

[@tennaj1367]

I can see someone using his old school opening monolog for the beginning of new school song ! I was waiting for a dope beat to DROP !!! LOL : )

[@stet8826]

This is great footage. Respect to the foundation for uploading this. 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👊🇬🇧

[@tonyjones3710]

The genre was just a few years old when this came out!!!!

[@kieshtinthaplacetobe]

Thank you for posting thisl This reminds me of the house parties my parents used to have years ago,

[@FUNNYMANERICWHITE]

Yes lol . I remember in the early 80s my parents still had disco lights and parties down the basement

[@watchtv5754]

i was like 5 year old when this came out. I'm sure I remember watching this on the news. Hehe

[@Kwaku211]

Like how he called them 'Big Boxes'....we called them 'Boom Boxes'...

[@DBankx]

Those were really good times

[@robbholmes9215]

Not for everybody

[@kollusion1]

Keep them gems coming, some great footage here.

[@Jophlo78]

So many people like myself have dedicated their entire lives to this culture and it is beautiful to see the growth and evolution of it all.

[@russelladams7134]

Today's rap music isn't about anything anymore. What the radio stations play is garbage. Cardi B ,Megan The Stallion, DJ Chose, Black Youngsta, Money Bag Yo are all just average.

[@Jophlo78]

@@russelladams7134 Your viewpoint is very misinformed and displays ignorance.

[@russelladams7134]

@@Jophlo78 Man I've been listening to Hip Hop since the beginning. Today's music ain't classified as Hip Hop. It's just Rap music. Let's get that understood. Rappers today that are on mainstream radio don't have have clever metaphors and storytelling rhymes like back in the day. There are a handful of dope rappers like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Big KRIT, and Dee-1 but their music don't get played too much on mainstream radio. The rappers today don't compare to the rappers like Big Pun, Tupac, DMX, Heavy D, Public Enemy, LL Cool J,and others. Rappers today all sound the same with very shallow and limited concepts. Female rappers like Cardi-B and Megan Thee Stallion all talk about getting money from guys using their sex appeal. All they talk about is money and sex. A lot of the young male rappers are on major drugs like Lean, Molly,and Percocets. The rappers in the 1980's and 1990's didn't do so much drugs. Nas said it on his album back in the early 2000's Hip Hop is dead. It's just Rap music now. Hip Hop music stopped being innovative around 2005 or so. You have dedicated your entire life to this culture so I assume you are in your 40's or 50's?? I may be wrong. The music of today lacks creativity and soul. That goes for R&B music as well. The music of today hasn't been innovative and game-changing. Only a select few like Drake or a Meek Mill or The Game when he first came out have been Game Changers. Back in the day rappers did their rhymes for the love while rappers today just do it for the fame,clout and money. Everybody is a rapper today and the market is oversaturated. Back in the early 1980's and the 1990's the market wasn't so saturated and commercial. I compare the rap music of today as an apple. The apple was ripe back in the 1990's up until 2004. Now it isn't so ripe. It is almost rotten. I really don't have anything else to say. I still listen to the radio for the morning shows because I like the radio personalities but I can care less about the music. Only 3 out of ten songs played on the radio I really like. The rest is just average. I listen to other music like Neo Soul, Jazz or Old school R&B and some underground Hip Hop. Again you said you have dedicated your whole life to the culture so I assume you are in your 40's or 50's. Another question I have to ask is Why many women have fake booties, fake eye lashes, fake hair, fake nails?Back in the 1980's and early 1990's women had more of a natural beauty and their body was authentic and well proportioned. My viewpoint displays the truth and not ignorance and you should sir should know this if you have dedicated your entire life to the culture.

[@shahnawazsooba7904]

Beautiful to see the growth and evolution of it? Are you serious? Look what rap has become today.

[@Jophlo78]

@@shahnawazsooba7904 I'm not referring to "Rap", I'm speaking on Hip Hop. Not "Trap" either, nor do I turn to radio or what's currently trending. Hip Hop is alive and well.

[@lawearsmith9851]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@EdgeO419]

"music with no melody"... literally plays a song with a melody

[@armme3510]

Exactly

[@PlatinumHustle]

🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

[@sbrooks904]

Are you gonna act like you don’t know what he meant?

[@EdgeO419]

@@sbrooks904 What he meant is what alot of white people said about rap in the 80's and 90's that rap is just repetitive drum beats with no musical merit. This 'no melody' nonsense was Music snobbery at its finest and it's not true. The song he plays after he says that literally has a bass melody you can clearly hear and a little rhodes riff. Almost every popular rap song has the same melodic and rythmic structures as most pop songs do.

[@DrummerJacob]

@@sbrooks904 thats what most kids do these days.

[@jasonparker8277]

Love it! They included B-Boy’ing..because rap was not separated from Hip-Hop yet. 1981, Beginning of the Reagan era, Cold War, right before Crack, AIDS, etc. Those MCs were fighting against crime and gangs...now “rappers” are fighting to be considered more ignorant that the next.

[@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube]

U make me MAD cause you are so RIGHT

[@beemocha]

This warmed my heart. So proud to be born & raised in the city where hip hop was born 🗽 #NYC

[@punkyagogo]

Respect for mentioning Funky 4+1 and even playing That's The Joint in the background! Easily my fav Sugarhill group.

[@ants8527]

Wow Jay you really dug up a Gem, I've seen quit a few documentaries based on news reporters doing stories on 80s rap music, But I never seen this 1 👍👍👍 Dam 1981 I was 6 years old and the only rap song I heard at that age was that song called '' Ya Momma'' lol😂🤣😂 when I 1st heard Planet Rock in 1982" is when I started listening to real Rap music 😎

[@TheFoundationhiphop]

Ya Mama by Wuf Ticket

[@ants8527]

@@TheFoundationhiphop yep i think that was the group name lol😂

[@C-Lyfe85]

To be honest with you by the time they did this report. The mainstream media was already 8 years late. By 1981 hip hop Had almost been around a Whole Decade.

[@ants8527]

@@C-Lyfe85 yeah I know they were behind by some years. Of course mainstream media only decided to shine a light on Hip Hop at that time only because of Debbie Harry aka Blondie Thanks to Fab 5 Freddy at the time as well And those were the good old days when Hip hop at that time just belonged to young Inner city black kids And teens I remember!😎

[@sleepnoises]

Thank you for this! Much respect and gratitude

[@WestPhillyNative215]

Philly's own, the late Douglas "Joko" Henderson! RIP

[@369Bandido]

WDAS FM!🏁🏁💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@mikegee3991]

I remember " Joko Joko where you been. Around the world and back again"!!!

[@billyjacc]

Ahhh... I was in the 8th grade when I saw this on channel 6 in Philadelphia. Kudos to you Brother Jay.

[@creamone]

"Hip Hop Music is here to stay" Boogie Down Bronx,

[@DannyBoy-wq9ze]

Classic old school rap roots interview!

[@them3rkcr3w65]

Dope content ! Putting us on history

[@christophermcwhorter551]

I remember hearing all this incredible music at the skating rinks when I lived in Orlando Fl. then all the teen clubs around Atlanta Ga in the late 70s and early 80s. The stories the music would tell.....

[@michaelgraves7718]

Hey that was the famous artist Basquiet in Blondi video as the DJ. 👍🏾

[@rauldiaz7309]

Yes. Also Subway artist legend LEE was in there too. Back to the camera with blue -white striped wind breaker. Rocking a LEE piece, accordingly. 👌

[@Slimc74]

Great video. Man i miss the days when rap was fun, and about real life. When the only beef you heard was about Roxanne

[@jamesjones2173]

40 years ago

[@hadbl12]

And just thought they said it wouldn’t last..... 40+ plus years later and it’s still going strong

[@alexanderdavis75]

Peace i love what you're doing still waiting for the HOWIE TEE interview

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

I been listening to Hip Hop since 1986 and still current though the Late 80s to early 00s are my favorite years.

[@duranuptown3040]

Hip hop the movement was dope I hope the new school would change there message and bring it back to the message for the youth

[@jasonwhite7452]

Man I remember my sister Sheila blasting The Real Roxanne on her JVC Boom Box back in the day! It was that and The Whispers - Rock Steady that she was constantly pumping out of that thing! No complaints!

[@charlesstevensiii7762]

The ONLY disagreement I have with this the last statement "Anyone can rap"

[@misterb1336]

Nah today's rap music proves anyone can do it

[@DribsandDrabs]

Tekashit Snitchnine is millionaire off rapping so yea anyone can rap. 😔

[@ryublueblanka]

"Anyone can rap. My granmama can rap" - Andre3000

[@masonjones3780]

Always a crazy legs cameo in any old school rap documentary video

[@Cameo718.]

Curator extraordinaire always bringing it!!

[@Spoog84]

Wow I remember hearing about 20/20 hip hop special

[@dannyp7791]

This may just catch on.

[@Nimisiskrash]

🎵🎶Jocko,jocko where ya Ben, Around the world and back again🎵🎶 Philly radio legend

[@TheTrill334]

Billboard magazine recently wrote that hip-hop is the number 1 genre in the world and it's estimated to stay number 1 for centuries.

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

There's only 2 real rappers left in the mainstream eminem and jay-z everything else in the mainstream ain't hip hop pop videos get way more views than rap videos

[@sbrooks904]

@@dassolosyndikat5113 you definitely don’t listen to rap.

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

@@sbrooks904 🙄🙄😒😒

[@perrynnlynch3811]

Thanks for the upload. Great stuff. Hard to be believe that this was 40 years ago.

[@mrfinnie6999]

I would love to see the full video of Showdown , Sugar Hill and the Furious Five.

[@CoReaderz]

"Rock on, don't stop!" - thank you, Debbie

[@sgtcreasegrease]

This is a dope upload. Had no idea this existed.

[@kingbrod1]

I remember back then when these news specials would come out. I was in elementary school and heard rap music round ‘79 and later saw on the news about breakdancing round ‘81-82 in middle school. Started breakin battles in high school ‘84-87. Those were the fun days when hip hop was HIP HOP!