Kool Herc "Merry-Go-Round" technique

hiphop

[@christophergargaro959]

A musical genius who was far ahead of his time. This man should be far more famous than he is - not just inside the hip hop community but in music period. He literally invented one of the most popular genres of music in existence.

[@salvatorepillitteri6552]

I agree, but it's highly contested that this was the absolute root ( also in this documentary) though mostly accepted

[@sourcream1971]

This man is being taught in our Senior High School PE Class as the Pioneer of Hip Hop and Breakdancing

[@AJ-pc5ln]

He didn't invent Hip-hop

[@chenchen_02_]

@@AJ-pc5ln then who did?

[@AJ-pc5ln]

@@chenchen_02_ Many people played a hand in the creation of Hip-hop. Disco King Mario, Grandmaster Flowers, Pete DJ Jones, etc etc not just one man stop it.

[@r.a.2013]

This is golden for those that truely love hip hop💗

[@gabrielchumelcamarena5593]

What a time to live in. The golden era .

[@gabrielchumelcamarena5593]

:,)

[@EMANCP8]

Word

[@RCLaROCK1]

no it was RAP MUSIC B4 HIP HOP

[@rttvplug6688]

@@RCLaROCK1 watch a channel called truthunedited and shattered paradise

[@dweezybarter3642]

Is Kool herc in the rock & roll hall of Fame ? If not wtf this is the godfather of hip hop .. ASAP get him in there .

[@champagne_bath_8964]

parliament is the God father of hip hop invented rap music and many genres using the power of the one the cult music and is the God of music

[@dweezybarter3642]

@@champagne_bath_8964 yeah but if you wanna go there then you might as well stay James brown started this hip hop shit the dancing the break beats if you wanna go there ...

[@champagne_bath_8964]

@@dweezybarter3642 James brown is huge a part of that movement indeed but not the sole creator but played a huge contribution his group members were also apart of a very diverse parliament and parliament has changed many groups and diverse artists who help create rap since 1940s and 50s not getting as popular until the 1960s brown was a lead singer working along side many of the group members almost like a wu-tang clan

[@replecon1408]

​@@champagne_bath_8964 you are taking over their attention spans sir 😂😂😂😂

[@tmrmccloud1996]

He's the father

[@troynickson8309]

Kool here started hip hop block parties in 1973. In the Bronx.

[@khaalidgrant623]

Troy Nickson 1969

[@cooliegee]

NO! He added on to what was already going on in the Bronx from dj's like DJ Disco King Mario

[@joegarcia7824]

in 1973 KOOL HERC was still begging his father for father for $2 to buy records....he was a broke ass kid from the projects....john jelly benitez from burnside was spinning in clubs....that is why he went on to produce MADONNA records in the '80s while kool herc was throwing $2 dances at the projects.....in 1973 we were dancing in st mary's park where rubber band (THE BEST BREAK DANCER IN THE BRONX) got killed in 1974 or 1975....I hear KOOL HERC also says he is an EX VANDAL, too...the membership of the EX VANDALS is well documented; KOOL HERC doesn't appear anywhere.

[@MiaDontBe]

Joe Garcia look up who made Hip hop fucker

[@hellchill2453]

@Blue Eyes but who created rap, i heard coke la rock was the first rapper or mc, but who created the form of rapping

[@bxdale83]

Herc should put that 8mm footage out. He's crazy for holding on to that and not digitizing it. That film is the earliest footage of a hip hop party. Looks like 1974-1976

[@stefanb.9293]

just imagine being at a party in the mid/late 70s and this guy mixing just the now called breakbeats of the records back and forth. Must have been incredible!! I don't think there will be much more human creativity (simple? yes, but how game changing!!) in music or lets say "groundbreaking moments/techniques" like this in the future which will leave such an impact in music culture and industry worldwide.

[@jmfs3497]

It would be so wild to have never heard anything like this before, and then realizing that there was a DJ doing this in real time of only the most bad ass parts of records. Like wizardry.

[@mr.e695]

In 79 when I was 9 years old my "cool" cousin who knew I loved all "different" kinds of music brought me a mix tape she got for me in NYC and said, "I bought this out of some hip dudes trunk, you won't get this in stores lil buddy" I it up like the 4th of July and a lifetime love of hip hop was born. For a skinny white kid in the country back then, it was a whole new world for me and the images they painted with their words in my mind, and I dunno “¯\_(ツ)_/¯“ but I think and feel, were a big part of making me the artist I am today at 50. It was Dope 👈(my logo) then and now!!! Much love!!! ✌

[@waltwhitman7545]

merry go round - literally invented beatkmaking. every single producer nowadays owes it to this guy

[@ONEWAY971]

That's not true

[@focuseddrew8737]

Exactly..that’s what started it all

[@afrikaanking6486]

Respect to this Jamaican brother for his sense of creativity/creation!!👊🏿😎👊🏿😎💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@americasmaker]

@Tay 22 An African American didn't make what?

[@AJ-pc5ln]

@TalayhaDestiney Jamaicans did not create Hip-hop. Hip-hop is Black American Culture. Hip-hop did not come from Jamaica.

[@F_a_m_e_____]

@@AJ-pc5ln it actually did come from Jamaica

[@uptownbladebrown]

Jamaicans got their music culture from black americans kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4vTn3yjj9qknpY we didnt get anything from yall...matter of fact hip hop also influenced dance hall

[@F_a_m_e_____]

@@NativeisElla first off what’s you people? Did you look at yourself in the mirror this morning when you woke up. And I’m still sticking to what I said. Can’t and will never take that from me. Lol 😂

[@modernmusicmayhem769]

The Godfather of the genre that changed our lives...Thank you DJ Kool Herc!!!!

[@psychonautics_420]

This should have BILLIONS OF VIEWS! The younger generation like me sadly don’t do there homework 🤦‍♂️

[@NYCDreams212]

You are completely right.

[@jopiblabla]

You truly never did homework if you still use there instead of their

[@owenfouts2494]

I am

[@qsiconsulting7680]

This man deserves all the accolades on social media. I'm so sick of these so called computer djs....This man is the TRUE pioneer!

[@tracexl]

I can appreciate today's innovation, but no doubt this is the foundation and deserves all the respect it can be afforded. Today's vibes wouldn't be there without this that came before.

[@rickjason1786]

@Widdy Having seen both Herc and Flowers back in the day, I would say that Flowers was a much better DJ but Herc was one of the first to totally isolate breaks along with John Luongo and Walter Gibbons. Flowers was more of a disco DJ

[@headhunter68305]

Herc, Flash and Bambaata... Real Heros of HipHop

[@facksvillain2296]

Serato was created to kill what he started, now with that being said, take a look at your favorite Dj that pushes serato and dj controllers off on the masses.

[@bryantrowan6799]

Anyone that is a Dj should show mad respect to him and any hip hop artist cause without him you got nothing. He should be getting some kinda royalty rights for starting all of it and be in the Hall of Fame

[@Teramis]

Wow. I used to spin tunes at discos in the 70s, but have never in all my years known why break dancing was called break dancing. Now I get it. Thx for sharing this!

[@DarkGloComics]

I remember I was in the studio [97, 98?] with Grandmaster Caz [Cassanova Fly], and Raheim from 'Furious Five', and they recorded this record called "When I touch Down". It was amazing to see them work, and the amount of experience to soak in---I was the "fly on the wall" that we always say we wish we were in those moments.

[@joedent3323]

You were the fly-on-the-bullshit.

[@FreshtexBlackman]

Would someone please give this man his flowers while he's still alive?

[@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP]

props, not flowers, precisely because he's alive

[@darrylnelson05]

There are "DJs" today that can't do what Kool Herc was doing back in the 70's. Herc mixed records to create his own sound.

[@sirdopaminesjournal3292]

LOL... I always say real DJ's don't use laptops.

[@mucktown]

@@sirdopaminesjournal3292 That's a little bit far.....the best turntablist use laptops.....I would more say that real DJ's should at least know how to mix, pitch and drop into the next song unlike these cue button kiddies

[@Chalado-Schamane]

​@@mucktownreal dj don't use laptop. All analog

[@benji.B-side]

As an old school B-Boy (Break Boy), I truly have DJ Kool Herc to thank, for evolving music for us dancers who wanted to evolve dance into something 'different' away from the mainstream. B-Boys, will always be boys!! Peace and love!

[@mikelugo8983]

Facts TBB in the house

[@shnast-tv2]

Songs Kool Herc Mentions @2:08 : 1) James Brown- Give It Up Or Turn It a Loose (Stomp Feet/Clap Hands) 2) Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock (1973) @2:22 3) Babe Ruth - The Mexican @2:45 (Herc says Baby Huey by accident, but Huey did an amazing song called Hard Times in 1971)

[@BoricuaNyc]

Thanks for the information 💐

[@TheTredoc]

Three-The-Hard-Way!!!

[@TheTredoc]

3 for the price of 1!!! One Luv ❤️!

[@paisleyprincess7996]

The rest is history!

[@philmorley-ko8zu]

I love the fact Herc doesn't give the proper names of the tunes. True pioneer

[@itsthesummerofandy]

That legitimately put a smile on my face. What a don

[@nixonkutz3018]

Brought to this video by a link in the Washington Post, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the party that started it all. So much more history to uncover, so much context to find for the way we experienced the music then, and today

[@TheEyeMustTravel]

Never FORGET Where it Began❤❤❤HIpHop🙌🏽 ❤🙌🏽❤

[@lucasm3879]

This is from a 1999 3 part documentary about the history of hip hop shown on Channel 4 in the UK. Still probably my favourite documentary I've watched on hip hop. It covers the birth of the culture in the 70's, through the 80's, 90's, gangsta rap, the Tupac and Big murders, then ends at the turn of the millenium when hip hop had started to become big business.

[@blanchardgreenez]

what's the name of the documentary?

[@lucasm3879]

@@blanchardgreenez The Hip Hop Years, you can find it on here with all episodes joined into one 3 hour vid.

[@Katwoman4318]

Thank you DJ Kool Herc for have a gift & sharing it with us in da Bronx,NYC. 😎

[@shnast-tv2]

Were you around in the 80's out there? I can only imagine how dope it was to feel the music back then.

[@raysterE176Tremont]

Who would ever think a Jamaican would come to The Bronx and start something called hip hop. Thanks Kool Herc for that gift when it was most needed.❤️🇵🇷💯 E. 176 TREMONT AND ARTHUR AVE.

[@ONEWAY971]

Most importantly a Black man✊🏾

[@ivorysteele]

He got the idea from reggae dancehall music

[@queenofnyc5584]

@@ONEWAY971a Jamaican man

[@queenofnyc5584]

@@ivorysteeleduh dancehall is literally just rhyming/talking over the beat

[@koolhub5891]

NYC, cool brother. I do not care what others say, New York is the birthplace of hip hop hands down.

[@BoricuaNyc]

And that’s a fact 🗽

[@queenofnyc5584]

New Yorkkkk

[@jmfs3497]

Herc is underrated for sure. I can only imagine how over the top it must have felt to hear live sampling of all the break beats back to back like that for the first time. It would be like wizardry.

[@Puschit1]

On private parties nonetheless.

[@erichfischer8064]

If you didn't get chills when he was doing that break mix, then you are not a true hip hop head. Kool Herc is a legend..... Period

[@josed579]

Thanks for the music

[@xboxxguy_9360]

Happy 50th bday hip hop

[@donaldmccall3968]

Herc, will go down in modern history since the brith of Rock n Roll

[@KraneAudra]

Happy 40th Hip-Hop Anniversary DJ KOOL HERC 8-11-73

[@michaelsladnick5482]

45

[@2nicemgaming]

Michael S 46

[@bigpapilocsta5520]

47

[@maxwellbrisk5622]

He didnt create HipHop

[@maxwellbrisk5622]

@craig rankine apparently google is slow on its updates with historically accurate information.

[@WinstonNewYork]

Kool Herc, a pioneer from the old neighborhood!

[@Aerochalklate]

if this guy didn't exist hip hop probably wouldn't be a thing for centuries and when it becomes a thing it would sound so different

[@marcusalvarez370]

The Originators The Pioneers The Innovativers Thank You SOUTH SOUTH BRONX RESPECT REPRESENT!!!!

[@thirsty57]

Rap was created in east Bronx. Sound view area

[@therealbrooksie]

Happy 50th Birthday Hip Hop

[@ytpremium7649]

Thank God for those community rooms in the projects It was where hip hop and breakdancing was born In those community rooms

[@mclare71]

Herc is the ultimate alchemist and he changed EVERYTHING. Beautiful genius.

[@philipwhatley6742]

Happy birthday hip hop!!!

[@Mykelreyes8173]

I wish the Hip Hop community well pay a little more homage to its pioneers.

[@XG-OFFICIAL-59]

A lot of hip-hop heads here, but as an EDM lover, I just want to thank this man for being the influence of the creation of EDM

[@Jay_Kayy]

Edm was created in Germany in the '60s before the creation of hip Hop my guy

[@zamzamadam200]

@@Jay_Kayy right they claim they made every genre😂

[@shogun......]

All good homie . More hip-hop to the fullest. 🦾🇬🇳🍀💯🐝

[@rockybarzini8786]

The godfather of hip hop ladys and gentelmen from The bronx New york Dj Kool Herc

[@jaydenlee6573]

Yessir

[@sameshajones5766]

No he’s Jamaican

[@yveslovinsky1045]

Happy 50th Birthday Hip Hop! We love you

[@robw4623]

Happy 50th birthday, hip-hop

[@greenworkprollclawncarelan6801]

Thank you Herc

[@annissalujan7911]

I was born in 73 yayyy lol🥳I love music

[@spikerzombie]

I love how he spun the merry go round live for us after so many years

[@zionmatic415]

but the Pioneers of Hip Hop was. jamaican guy, A jamaican guy who was influenced by African Amerian... HIPHOP WAS BREAK DANCING TO BREAK DOWNS IN THE RECORD!!!!!!!.."...Jamaica gained independence from British colonial rule in 1962. Around that time, music was disseminated in Jamaica largely by way of "sound systems": massive sets of amplifiers and speakers that were moved from town to town to entertain dancers at outdoor parties. Records were played by the sound system's "selector[DJ]," who chose the songs and announced them over his microphone. Sometime around 1956, a few selectors began experimenting with talking over their records, rather than simply between them-incorporating the jive slang of Black Americans with patois, a distinctive West Indian dialect of English. This "chatting" or "toasting" was a hit with audiences and other selectors began to follow suit. The selector/DJ[toaster/MC]/sound system arrangement was an integral component in the development of Jamaican music through the twentieth century, as it evolved from its African roots and native Calypso folk sounds such as mento, to rocksteady and ska in the 1950s and 60s, and on to reggae, a genre that was exported to the world with great success beginning in the 1970s. IT IS ALSO THE PRIMARY ANCESTOR OF THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL GENRE OF BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC ALTERNATELY KNOWN AS RAP OR HIP HOP. The sound system concept was brought to the United States by Clive Campbell, better known as Kool Herc, a Jamaican-born selector whose thunderous Herculoids sound system rocked South Bronx clubs and parties in the early- to mid-70s." 👉🏿DIGITAL SAMPLING: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE👈🏿 by Henry Self

[@donaldlyons180]

Cool Herc didn’t bring any Jamaican influence, he assimilated into African American Culture. The Jamaican sounds system was copied from African Americans

[@dareal05]

They dumb mad lol.

[@AJ-pc5ln]

This is Lies lol Kool Herc came to America at 12 years old and copied Black American Culture 🤣

[@dareal05]

@@AJ-pc5ln Stay mad Herc is the proclaimed godfather of hip hop and not no washed up disco duck lol

[@queenofnyc5584]

Yall cry’s going unheard cause no matter how you feel DJ herc A JAMAICAN. Is the founder of HIP HOP.

[@caswellprocope5645]

I remember back in the day word by mouth jams where someone would hear about a jam in the bronx word would go all over the city mt Vernon new Rochelle Yonkers the five boroughs heard the interviews people say it time again peace 2 kool herc the herculoids

[@maldonboy1]

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life... The book I am reading right now is talking about the early years of Hip Hop and nthese guys have really turned me on to some tunes that sit in my record collection forgotten... Till now, but unfortunatelly the neighbours would complain!

[@julian-xd6iz]

Classic footage great quality.

[@papadre70]

Kool Herc Yard Mon Dem Big up Mi Selecta.

[@boykevalentino2021]

Thank you for rap/hiphop, respect mc2!!!

[@Grogu-485]

Jamaica what a country my homeland is

[@enigma6451]

Can I yell you... we are culture

[@AJ-pc5ln]

Hip-hop is not from Jamaica. Hip-hop is Black American Culture kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5jZdHaNmLdomq8

[@kookiexshookie2215]

Yessssssssss HIP HOP 4 EVER. .OUR CREATION.

[@samball2031]

You people bunch of lies you know dog going to wear this man was not no pione of hip Hop you need to stop

[@George_Shonia]

Greatest part of history of music

[@wojciechgac]

Those early hip-hop sounds are just astounding to me. They're much more melodic than the majority of what came later. Also, it seems more about just having fun and losing yourself in the music than striking a tough guy/outlaw pose.

[@brucesmith1754]

For all those trying to give the Caribbean the credit of starting hip hoop, Have you ever noticed that most hip hop hit records sample from even greater R&B and Funk hits that came before. Those artists and Herc did not re-invent the wheel.

[@wojciechgac]

@Wonton Kasmir Maybe you're right... But don't you think the hip-hop community has long outlived these original circumstances of which you speak?

[@brucesmith1754]

@Wonton Kasmir Mr. Clueless Triggered tether. Black American FBAs created R&B and Funk too. We created ALL of the modern Music forms in the U.S. Hip Hop is just an evolution of what was spawned over 100yrs before. This is a historical fact, Fool. Google is free.

[@BoricuaNyc]

@@wojciechgacI agree. Kool Herc is the FATHER of hip hop culture 🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽

[@gibsonraymonda]

Everyone talks about Afrika Bambataa and Kraftwerk, but don’t sleep on CAN.

[@RichardQuirkmusic]

from the UK Channel 4 hiphop documentary 20+ years ago

[@robertcunningham1672]

I love how he just drops the needle in the right spot with no hesitation and pulls off a perfect transition. 2:21

[@jazzip2989]

Genius

[@realpoetics]

Prob edited in during post

[@NYUMIR]

Probably the founder of HipHop

[@AJ-pc5ln]

No he's not the founder of Hip-hop one man didn't create Hip-hop there are other DJs that played major roles

[@NYUMIR]

@@AJ-pc5ln ok

[@BoricuaNyc]

@@AJ-pc5lnHe’s the main FATHER of hip hop culture! 🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲

[@AJ-pc5ln]

@@BoricuaNyc Kool Herc was copying and emulating Black American Culture. Hip Hop is Black American Culture 🇺🇸✊🏿🇺🇸✊🏿🇺🇸✊🏿🇺🇸✊🏿🇺🇸✊🏿🇺🇸 Hip Hop has absolutely nothing to do with Jamaican Culture.

[@t.k.thrilla1873]

Ima meet this legend one day

[@FBA_AllTHEWAY]

FBAs created hip hop. Herc was simply a Participant in Black American Culture that already existed.Kool DJ Dee and The Mixologist who were there said that! Check for yourself.

[@BoricuaNyc]

Kool Herc is the FATHER of Hip hop culture for inventing the “Merry Go Round” and he did it with Black and Latin music 🎼 Enjoy 😉 🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽

[@BoricuaNyc]

FBA(FULL BLOWN AIDS) since 1980. RIP🌹to all who died from this deadly virus 🦠

[@queenofnyc5584]

@@BoricuaNyclmaoo they swear they created everything in American culture. They so jealous. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🗽🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@BoricuaNyc]

The FATHER of putting hip hop culture on the map 🗺 🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽🇯🇲🗽

[@AJ-pc5ln]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You the Puerto Rican Troll who said Disco King Mario was Puerto Rican 💀

[@friedrichn7767]

Kool Herc deserves a statute in every contry in whole world. Because he's the son of God among us.

[@gunnasintern]

he deserves a statue and a Hollywood star. what he’s done for the world’s culture is unbelievably huge, a genuine hero

[@daymeongartrell4809]

Happy Bornday, Kool Herc!

[@shogun......]

Big up herC and his sister . Putting it down . This thing we call HIPHOP ..YOooooo

[@missjtrep]

Iv been there Sedgwick Ave... thanks Hush Tours :)

[@tomosharman1284]

Remember this ch4 doc many years ago have it on VHS somewhere 👍 brilliant 👊

[@lottnio8207]

Kool Herc and Africa Prostaata are legends!

[@Shemra]

North American culture, including north American black culture, has always been mass-communicated to the rest of the world. The prosperity of the USA, just helped it take a technological leap forward before many countries in the 20th century. So, those of us who are black but not from the USA, have not necessarily seen our complete story portrayed in mass media. We have often had to learn about "blackness" by consuming north American black culture, whether it be in song, movie, play documentary, etc. I haven't been anywhere on this planet, where people don't like Motown. And, it's why my Jamaican parent's record box was full of black RnB and soul music. It was also full of American country and western music. We knew the Rock Steady covers of north American black soul classics, and we also understood how the slight change in swing towards our own timing could change a soul classic to rocksteady gold. If folks know proper sound system history, then they know not to say Jamaicans created Hip-Hop.

[@NativeisElla]

Thank you

[@queenofnyc5584]

Yall so mad and jealous that a Jamaican is the father of hip hop.

[@neilcasualsanthony895]

Love this definitely fresh and fly WORD 😎

[@robertg305]

Golden footage

[@trevormcdonald385]

True pioneer

[@Beno_nolove]

No

[@johnconnor210]

May God bless u Herc

[@jackriver1999]

What a legend.

[@TakingShapeCreations]

Also DJ Kool Herc is JAMAICAN 🇯🇲

[@TakingShapeCreations]

@RealTalk listen, he is not a African American. He was born and grew up right here in Kingston Jamaica 🇯🇲 our capital, then migrated to the US. He is a Jamaican by blood and birth. We know our history and all the contributions JAMAICA has given to the world... Including CHOCOLATE MILK, HIP HOP, SKA, ROCK STEADY, MENTO, REGGAE, DANCEHALL, WORLD'S FIRST third world superstar, world's fastest man and woman, man who has the most sub 10 runs in 100m race. Contributions in medicine, education, health etc.

[@raymonbristol9628]

@RealTalk 😂😂😂😂 he sounds like Jamaican and he is Jamaican 🇯🇲

[@raymonbristol9628]

@@TakingShapeCreations that’s right 👍🏻👍🏻

[@raymonbristol9628]

@RealTalk so then tell me why he created it in the Bronx where mostly Puerto Ricans are from and not African Americans? Exactly nigga

[@raymonbristol9628]

@RealTalk Hip hop isn’t an offshoot of African American music such as soul , disco and funk because it’s a a culture unlike disco funk and soul . Hip hop music is completely different from those musics . Disco isn’t even African American music lol . Hip hop wasn’t created by African Americans because the culture and even just the music was pioneered by people of many different Backgrounds. Funk music and James Brown isn’t the most influential part of Hip hop. Hip hop isn’t African American culture nor is James Brown. James brown never put any “good foot” forward with a new sound that became known as Hip Hop. James Brown isn’t the most sample Artist in Hip hop lol . His calls and response didn’t influence hip hop choruses . One reason being Because hip hop doesn’t have choruses . James Brown didn’t influence that many genres of music. Most bboys and bgirls aren’t influenced by James Brown . Most of hip hop dance has nothing to do with the Footwork of James Brown . James Brown songs were sampled in Hip Hop records along with many other artist , that doesn’t make him influential or even relevant . James brown nor his music was even the Biggest thing at the time in the Bronx as far as music , dance and style . Nor was funk music . Kool Herc never mixed any music . Simply played music and created Break Beats for that music for the people to dance . He didn’t use Funk, Rnb and soul . He used British Rock and Latin Funk records when playing music and breaking break beats . Funk , Jazz, Disco and Rnb aren’t all Contemporary African American music nor culture

[@HZGamingVR]

I always have a great ear for beats and this Kool Herc "Merry-Go-Round" was ripped by Jay-Z and Nas for their "Dead Presidents" Beat off the "Reasonable Doubt" Album. Go check it out and tell me if I am wrong... :)

[@maxfranklinmeans]

Happy 50 years of Hip Hop!

[@alexanderfossbrnd8287]

love!

[@SlowSlowSloth]

What documentary is this from? Does anyone know?

[@tobeblessed89]

Music to my ears!!!

[@duncanpinderhughes]

these were the young folks the old folks didn't have time for....

[@horrorflikmusickofficialyo1014]

Much respect do to the Godfather of Hip Hop.

[@seanlewis1148]

Kool Herc should be a multi-billionaire

[@traylocc6410]

They need to make a movie on OG kool herc

[@wmoore8]

Rock on herc

[@ghostduster1]

DJ Hollywood helped pioneer that style too, but Herc makes sure no one ever mentions him.

[@bigdaz7272]

So so so cool hearing about the Birth of DJing from Herc and Flash :)

[@mathiasbanan]

Baby Huey "The Mexican" - was I the only one who had a mildhearted laugh about the father of hiphop getting his breaks mixed up? :)

[@rickjason1786]

Well Herc can get away with that slip. He's Herc nuff said.

[@jeffreycousar1297]

He calls the record, "baby huey," because how heavy it comes on the dance floor.

[@djRustyB]

I caught that too..

[@myronsmith2114]

If Cool Herc say it’s so damn it’s so

[@urbanwarrior3470]

i thought that, theni figured there was a comma inbetween teh two...

[@leadsolo2751]

That's the Groove, Baybee !!

[@ConquerWealth.network]

Here is a TRUE history lesson of the origin of hip hop. "Kool Herc went on Maury Polvich show to take a lie detector test' and the test results came back "YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER" it is very clear hip hop and rap music is African Americans culture and music created and originated by African Americans not carribeans or kool herc. he moved to america at age 12 in 1967. around the time hip hop was bubbling up. you telling me he brought hip hop culture or music with him. Herc didn't create or originate nothing in hip hop including extending / juggling, looping break beats or the merry go round the made up name he created for it. he leaarned all of that from african american DJ's. he just wants to be in the history books. he used to tell the truth early on. He said he used to attend disco parties and the djs were playing break beats while the people there were breakin and yes that was the term used in 1970 for break dancing. being done before herc. he wasnt the first to do anything in hip hop including his merry go round technique. Disco DJ's at disco clubs and parties would extend the breakdown of records for as long as 20 minutes at times to get the kids to get funky or break dance. That is what break dance means to dance on the breakdowns, DJ's would loop the break from turntable to turntable while the kids got funky on the dance floor break dancing. soul train was started in the late 60s in chicago as traveling record hops by Don Cornelius, where he traveled around to different venues putting on his dance record hops. the show went live on tv in 1970 were young kids dance to the latest funk soul rnb music. the soul train line literally was the DJ playing extended beats of records while the soul train dancers would do the latest dance crazes like poppin pop lockin robot breakin and hundreds more dance crazes. that was watched by millions. this was the early foundation of hip hop which included james brown who used to dance to extended breakdowns of the beat for as long as 30 minutes in his shows. Some may say pigmeat markums here comes the judge, you included, is not a hip hop record but it has every element and the black spades and others around those neighborhoods who are the real founders of pretty much every element of hip hop culture said that is who they were copying when they would battle snap (rap) to music at block parties and just on the street corners in the neighborhood. block parties, toasting, sound systems, rapping, breakin, graffiti, and every other element of hip hop was created and influenced here in America by African American's. Not the Caribbeans. U-roy and other Jamaican Artists and toasters said they got their music culture from our music and DJ's so how could they have originated it. in fact, ska, rocksteady, and reggae music was directly inspired by African American music and culture. Many of the early pioneers of ska and rock steady which became reggae music said they were copying and inspired by African American music, and culture. FBA (Foundational Black Americans) originated and created hip hop period. not kool herc or carribeans. . you should know this. with your extensive research. Herc did not create the extended breakbeat. So that is out. he didnt create the merry go round technique, he just put a name to what he was copying. African Americans created most of the worlds most popular music genras and subcultures. that is a fact. so stop with the ambiguity and if you are trying to truly get to the truth, then tell the truth and stop leaving it open for interpretation. African Americans created hip hop and rap period. Rap literally goes all the way back to slavery in the usa. kool herc and other carribeans here contributed and participated like the rest of the early pioneers. but they didnt start nothing accept maybe grandmaster flash with some of his techinlogical inventions and theories around turntabalism, but that is not the creation of turntabalism, deejaying or hip hop, but an elevation. a contribution of one element of the art form. if Jamaicans were listening to African Americans DJ's (Deejays) and were inspired to copy it, they couldn't have done it first, thus they didn't create it. dancehall which started in the late 70s was a speed up more rhythmic reggae inspired music form which was inspired by ska, which was literally inspired by African American music and DJs. see how the ball goes around. you people at this point ( And I'm talking to some of the people in your comments and just in general about these debates and responding to some of the statements you made in your videos), are down right disrespecting African Americans and their long and arduous creation of the culture. let me again explain it to yah, in my fake Jamaican accent. i love my Jamaica seestas and brudas but this gotta stop. The rhythmic rhyming of vocals of African American toasting (Jive Talking) influenced the development of toasting in Jamaica and development of the dancehall style In the late 1950s deejay toasting (In Jamaica) was developed by Count Matchuki. He conceived the idea from listening to disc jockeys on American radio stations. He would do African American jive over the music while selecting and playing R&B music. Deejays like Count Machuki working for producers would play the latest hits on traveling sound systems (African American inspired mobile Dj systems) at parties and add their toasts or vocals to the music. These toasts consisted of comedy, boastful commentaries, half-sung rhymes, rhythmic chants, squeals, screams and rhymed storytelling, which was inspired by African American minstral shows and stage shows (Of course they added their own flare making it their own style) but that's my point. Creativity comes from inspiration. They were inspired by African American Deejaying and Music Culture but they then made it their own. That's like how everything else is created Later in the 1960s toasting deejays included U-Roy and Dennis Alcapone, the latter known for mixing gangster talk with humor in his toasting. In the early 1970s, toasting deejays included I-Roy (his nickname is in homage to U-Roy) and Dillinger, the latter known for his humorous toasting style. In the early 1970s Big Youth became popular. In the late 1970s, Trinity followed and they all said they were inspired by and emulating African American music and culture with their own flair. This all comes back around full circle to African American Culture and music. Not saying we created everything but out of shear necessity we created our own cultures and music, as well as many other American traditions. sometimes we get credit for it but in the broader scheme of things it is hidden from American society and thus hidden from the world as a form of deliberate oppression and deliberate cultural appropriation. This goes on a lot. We don't get the credit for a lot of our contributions to the world. and really it's by design. These historians know the truth about it but African Americans are discredited in place of other people. This has to stop. Go read a book on the inventions and innovations that African Americans have contributed to the world and you will literally be shocked beyond belief. how can you be the root of hip hop music when hip hop music is literally African American music. disco, r&b ,funk ,jazz, and anything else you wanna mix in there that we created. Herc already said it was alread bubbling up and he was inspired by other DJ's and what he was hearing and seeing. if he wasnt the first to juggle break beats, didnt create or the music that was inspiring it, he wasnt the first throwing parties in the park. wasnt the first throwing house partys, how could he have invented it. This is a stupid argument. he came over here and seen African Americans are lit. and got inspired like everyone else in the world. hes not the creator. one of the early pioneers yes. creator no. Herc literally does not even know how to dj. Look at what he is doing in his video explaining the merry go round technique which is just beat juggling and looping or extending the beat. It literally does not match up to how cross fading works. He is a huge fraud and liar. That is why you see no video of him dj'ing and your telling me this guy created extended break beat juggling and looping and hip hop. This is blasphemy in its highest form and literally the text book definition of cultural appropriation, and it is being deliberately and blindly spread around the world, stealing the real credit from the real African American pioneers and creators. Rappers Delight literally copied that song by the Jubilaires' in this video Go Listen To Rappers Delight' it Sounds Just Like the jubilairs rapping in the 40s. They just changed the words' it is the same exact cadence' That cadence is the exact cadence and rapping flow of all hip hop in the 70s and 80s the foundation of hip hop' the black spades the true founders of hip hop culture said they were mimicking them and Pigmeat Markum during their snap battles which is basically battle rapping or cracking on each other over a beat and sometimes without a beat' So No! Kool Herc or Caribbeans did not create or inspire hip hop. Was he and other Caribbeans early contributor and pioneers, yes.

[@BoricuaNyc]

Kool herc👑 is the father of hip hop culture and he will always be in the hip hop museum after we all die

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@@BoricuaNyc Keep believing that

[@dareal05]

Aint nobody reading all that. Stay mad lol

[@kevinc3342]

​@@dareal05 @CONQUER WEALTH NETWORK made lots of great points in his summary explanation. One man does NOT get credit for creating ALL of Hip Hop/Rap Culture, especially when ALL the elements were in place decades prior to Cool Herc's "merry-go-round" technique. Herc literally played funk, R&B, disco, and other forms of Black American music at his parties. Other Black DJs were ALREADY doing what Cool Herc copied at the time, but he's famous for block parties and creating a new way to extend breakbeats. Herc CANNOT claim himself as original creator of ALL of Hip Hop. If Jamaicans created ANY part of Hip Hop, it would show up with their INFLUENCE. This is NOT the case. In the 1970s and earlier, Jamaicans played mento (Jamaican folk music), ska (Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues), rocksteady (a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966, which is a successor of ska and a precursor to reggae), and reggae. Jamaicans are well-known for reggae music!! Reggae originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. Reggae is a JAMAICAN music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues; and evolved out of ska and rocksteady music. Jamaicans were NOT playing funk, R&B, disco, and other forms of Black American music!! Herc was influenced by Black American music, culture, and fashion - that's how he created his sound in the first place!!

[@kevinc3342]

@@BoricuaNyc Kool Herc does NOT get credit for creating ALL of Hip Hop/Rap Culture, especially when ALL the elements were in place decades prior to Kool Herc's "merry-go-round" technique. Herc literally played funk, R&B, disco, and other forms of Black American music at his parties. Other Black DJs were ALREADY doing what Kool Herc copied at the time, but he's famous for block parties and creating a new way to extend breakbeats. Herc CANNOT claim himself as original creator of ALL of Hip Hop. If Jamaicans created ANY part of Hip Hop, it would show up with their INFLUENCE. This is NOT the case. In the 1970s and earlier, Jamaicans played mento (Jamaican folk music), ska (Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues), rocksteady (a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966, which is a successor of ska and a precursor to reggae), and reggae. Jamaicans are well-known for reggae music!! Reggae originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. Reggae is a JAMAICAN music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues; and evolved out of ska and rocksteady music. Jamaicans were NOT playing funk, R&B, disco, and other forms of Black American music!! Herc was influenced by Black American music, culture, and fashion - that's how he created his sound in the first place!!

[@jessesaffold1165]

Amazing

[@sjsiemka]

I still wish the very first hip hop party was recorded, then we would really know when hip hop was really born.

[@hjillumi880]

lol why are you all styled like how we grew up

[@sjsiemka]

@@hjillumi880 what are you even saying bro ?

[@DarkAngel2512]

I dont think there was a definitive time. It evolved slowly. It didnt appear all of a sudden. It would have been gradual. Bboy moves became gradual. Just people adding on to the dance slowly.

[@merlinoner]

Wow ! Excellent is there a longer version of this documentary?

[@edub9930]

Was wondering the same mesself

[@r.k.d.6111]

#Legend

[@cocodestroy]

thx kool for all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@franksound6922]

Goodstuff is a very fitting channel name 👌🏻

[@robertklone8437]

Surprised he didn't have an album, or a hit song or something.

[@KayDejaVu]

So this is the break beat. Cool dude.

[@paisleyprincess7996]

This blows my mind! Imagine being a fly on the wall back then!

[@markraza9762]

1972 hip hop raps birth the merry go round 1972.

[@duronbryant9463]

Mark Raza not true Dj hollywood , hank spine and KC aka prince pf soul started it

[@RobertoGinsburg]

Radio jock Hank Spann only Talk in certain rhyme feel, but the recording "Here came the Judge" by Pigmeat Markham (1968) is a serious serious Rap example before Bronx movement (honorable mention to "The Preacher and The Bear" by The Jubilaires in the 40's).

[@williampscott3539]

duron bryant Are you from NY?