Big Daddy Kane On The Origin Of Hip Hop

[@johnpaulsen6301]

Mad love all hail the Kane...spread ❤ is the Brooklyn way!!

[@MichelleCarithersAuthor]

love these conversations!!

[@losfornia]

Disco King Mario and Kool Dj Dee are the fathers

[@nilhav]

Much respect to Kane. The only thing I want to say to be more clear is that even though Hiphop was using music from other genres the Hiphop sound was not simply those genres. The Hiphop sound of the merry-go-round that Herc started doing was the funkiest, parts of those songs repeated. So it wasn’t just a Funk, Jazz, or Rock song. It was that sound that was a bit harder, it was that Soul sound like the James Brown music, but not fully a James Brown song. It was the part that made everyone want to dance. You have to remember you are having a party for young Black teens in the 70s. They’re not just going to be jamming to anything. So when Kane did those songs he needed to convert them into Hiphop form. That’s why MC Hammer’s second album was pop, where his first was Hiphop. That’s why we dissed Hammer. Watered down Hiphop didn’t get respected.

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

Hip-Hop isn't a genre of music...it's a 1970s Bronx subculture that died out in the early 80s. Rapping/Rap was a part of Black American society DECADES before the Hip-Hop movement existed.

[@faa9261]

So, Rap and Hip Hop are two different things?

[@jayd2856]

@@faa9261 Rap is an element incorporated into Hip Hop

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

Rap and Hip-Hop are both Black AmericanDOS creations, however they're two different things with different histories. Ninety-nine percent of the time when people say Hip-Hop what they really mean is Rap, the "Hip-Hop" term needs to be phased out when discussing music. Technically, Hip-Hop is a youth movement that was birthed in the Bronx and died there. The Hip-Hop term has been misused and thrown around loosely and inappropriately for decades, it's caused confusion and that's one of the reasons Rap doesn't have a proper standard history as a music genre. You don't associate the creation of Blues or Jazz with any type of separate youth or cultural movement so why would you do it with Rap?

[@activistbook3809]

You FBA DOS niggas are weird. You didn’t listen to the video

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

​@activistbook3809 I did and the distinction still needs to be made.

[@mobfadelicdjundadirt4164]

Kane is right because I was doing break beats way before Hip Hop and I was rapping before I heard of rap , I always was D.I.T.C and I still DJ and write lyrics , and I was born in 66 🔥. U tube/undadirt, Bring Back Tupac ✌️

[@dancehall885]

Give dancehall them credit

[@miltonscott1322]

Revolt tv is the best

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

The standard history of Rap was falsified by Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, the genre wasn't created by any one individual and it has no official birthdate its origin is more of a development. Rapping/Rap was developed by Blacks descended from American slavery during the post emancipation era(the latter half of the 1800s). The genre has nothing to do with turntablist DJs, sound systems, graffitti or breakdancing, those things belong to the Hip-Hop movement.

[@miltonscott1322]

Diddy is the best mogul out here

[@sandpaper4483]

No love for the fat boys? Corny stuff like wipe out is probably why hip hop went main stream.

[@joey_dangerously]

No origin....except for James Brown and Parliament, huh