IN THE MIDDLE OF THE "PROJECTS" MARIO TOOK "THE DISCO KING" TITLE

Kool DJ Dee and Tyrone the Mixologist teach the difference between "in the hood" disco vs mainstream disco..."in the hood" shout outs vs downtown club shout outs

[@10472bxgirl]

Mario and his brother came from down south and turned Bronxdale 1st Section out. RIP Mario. Mario would hook-up his turntable to the light post in the BIG PARK on Watson on the weekends and it went on from there.

[@grios5530]

Dope

[@45blacksocrates]

@Peter Bravestrong your statement seems to be absolutely pointless. He was only giving information which is relevant considering people are trying to claim to start something that this man is undisputably the person who sparked the culture and brought the music outside to the youth. So stating that he came from the south to continue the lineage of the music the putting Rhymes Over beats the dancing and the style. No offense but you sound real foolish and it sounds like you just trying to be negative.

[@christinagraham2915]

Eden nc

[@Power-9Hunnid]

RIP Disco King Mario!!!

[@gabbymommie2]

Brotha can still move! I love these stories. Way to preserve the history. #Respect

[@seanwright8786]

Yo mike wayne, it's ill that NOBODY who got somewhere in hip hop mentions Disc King Mario! It's like the tried to write him outta history bruh. Disgusting. Respect to u for unearthing the source.

[@beatbyknobodye1581]

According 2 Hip--Hop brought me here. Glad to hear people talking about him NOW. Shame on Bambaata and KRS ONE

[@joealmeida4603]

Always liked what I've heard about the legendary Mario [my lil' bros name] ....may he RIP🙏🏾...I never knew he Bogarted someone's name🤦🏽‍♂️!!! #LEGEND

[@jcinewilliams8819]

I remember whenever he came to the 3rd and turn it out and plug into my mom's crib on the 7th floor at 1825

[@LookingGlassGraphics]

Awesome channel. I'm new to the channel but just subscribed. The research is incredible.

[@TheCulture..Starts1971]

thank you appreciate your support

[@masterlockminibullterriers7482]

This a good thing you bring this out..Make a historic statement..We only have one life tell it how it is brother..

[@gene5856]

💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🤜🏾🤛🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@papasha9]

Disco King Mario CHUCK CHUCK CITY

[@randyanderson3077]

To me this is the person that started hip hop !

[@katesapp6256]

Speak Clyde!! MARIO was #1!! It’s not honored bcuz he passed away. Truly there is no other place in this city with so many housing developments than 10472/3. This is making me think the DISCO era late 70s into 80s, was named after Mario! Disco King Mario! There wudnt hav been DISCO had it not been for Mario & hiphop. He was the first using turntables! There were no discotheques n4 hiphop. Mayb the word Disco came from him playing discs, vinyl. He started MCing and working on the 1s & 2s, scratching & mixing with good music’s break beats! Good soul music! Badass beats for the breakdance to evolve! HIPHOP CAME B4 DISCO & clubs. Here brought it to the clubs, but it started in the street, in the parks, by disco king Mario!!

[@Smitty753]

Your this also proves that early MCs or inspired by American radio DJ host like Jamaicans were influenced by American DJ host be packing some hidden in that car they developed the art toasting

[@boridebrooklyn8300]

This dudes hat is sick !!!!! Anybody know what kind of hat that is ????

[@mbp333]

Chuck chuck City!!!!!!!!!

[@katesapp6256]

TRUTH BE TOLD, AS A MATTER OF FACT!! HIPHOP did not start in West Bronx on Sedgwick, in a basement. It was originated by DISCO KING MARIO’s CHUCK-CHUCK CITY CREW & ZULU NATION’S AFRIKKA BAMBAATAA, in the South, far east Bronx in Bronxdale, Bronx River, Soundview, Castle Hill, 100, & crosstown’s 23 PARKS!! HIPHOP started in the street! But bcuz Mario has passed away, and Bam has gone away, Herc has claimed the fame, but I know when he got that star on the Walk/Hall of Fame, some of those tears were bcuz he knew he didn’t deserve the title. He can get credit for taking hiphop from basement into the clubs like Fever, but it started raw, literal grass-roots; tru spontaneous talent & skills, rhyming, rapping’ mixin’, scratching’, beat-boxing’, hiphop hustlin’, break-dancin’, & graffiti. It was so good all the other boroughs wanted to do it too. Hence, Queens & Brklyn rappers; but there’s a reason we’re called The Boogie-Down Bronx!! WE EARNED IT!! Now 52yrs later, it has become a culture every1 wants to be a part of. The Art now includes clothing, speaking, & socialization. So when that museum has its opening day, Herc needs to give Mario & Bam their props by naming them as truly the originators of HIPHOP. Hiphop of today isn’t as good as it was back then. It was clean fun, lyrics, no disrespect & nobody got killed. However I am proud that it has lasted as something Blacks can call their own. Kwanzaa, & now Juneteenth are the only things we as a people can claim in this country. True that music & sports are dominated and by Blacks, managers have taken them for their own gain. Even tho’ we built this country & invented most things, others have taken the credit for it. There are some black folk who have gained ownership, but HIPHOP, they can’t take from us!!

[@BxCortez2050]

at the "3" in da place to be

[@kidsincontrol8895]

“You niggas better start mentioning his name won’t get a chance do go down memmmmory lane when we banggggg” Kiddo

[@messiahblack4816]

Disco definitely evolved into just having a "party" connotation not literally DISCO music. For example how the Fatboys took The Disco Four(Brooklyn) name and called themselves The Disco Three. I'm just saying...

[@vincentromez525]

Yo make a long story short ask flash he'll tell you

[@propane718]

Flash is elusive in NY..no shows etc..he be overseas alot i think

[@zoomanx9661]

92 wktu

[@toddmaek5436]

Sound like a set up

[@David4to5]

Can we get a breakdown of a dope create of black disco from an OG

[@propane718]

I guess fly robin fly..hes the greatest dancer..touch and go...i know alot of joints but not the titles...its a clear difference between black and white disco...black disco has that soul

[@RJNumber45]

1. "Dance And Shake Your Tambourine" - Universal Robot Band 2. "Hit & Run" - Loleatta Holloway 3. "Searching To Find The One" - Unlimited Touch 4. "It Only Takes A Minute" - Tavares 5. "You Know How To Love Me" - Phyllis Hyman 6. "Turn The Beat Around" - Vickie Sue Robinson 7. "Im Caught Up In A One Night Love Affair" - Inner Life 8. "Cherchez LaFemme" - Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band 9. "Native New Yorker" - Odyssey 10. "The Hustle" - Van McCoy ...thats just a start.😎

[@aferrer74]

Birth place is sedgwick ave

[@aferrer74]

Although it is widely acknowledged that hip-hop began in the early 1970s in the South Bronx, New York, the mainstream media view it as an African American cultural expression. African American tend to view it as exclusively their own, and even Puerto Ricans and other Latinos tend to view it as "black" music. However, its birth and development were a joint creative effort of African American and Latino Afro Caribbean youngsters, particularly, Puerto Ricans. Some researches have suggested that Puerto Ricans' significant role has often been overlooked due to the lack of knowledge concerning Puerto Ricans in general, their small population in comparison to African American throughout the Unites States, and their relatively recent arrival, as opposed to the long history of African Americans in the US.Hip-Hop began as an expression of poverty- stricken inner city minority youths who grew up during the 1960s and 1970s. It is a musical form that incorporates a shared, lived urban experience that revolved around music-rhyming and dancing; often makes a social statement against the harsh realities they must deal with on a daily basis; and graffiti. While African Americans concentrated on serving as disc jockeys and master of ceremonies, Puerto Ricans and other Latino Caribbeans contributed heavily to the hip hop aspects of break dancing and graffiti (6)Puerto Ricans have played a fundamental role in the development of hip-hop since its inception in the early 1970’s. In those days they were primarily celebrated for their contributions to breakdancing and graffiti, but although their presence wasn’t as profound on the mic or in the DJ booth since day one there were definitely Ricans putting it down across all elements. “I wanna remind everybody that may not know - how the origin of hip-hop was started. The origin of hip-hop was started by the power of Black and Puerto Rican people. In case you needed to be reminded,” Busta said to cheers from the Coliseo de Puerto Rico crowd. “A lot of motherf**kers wanna try to gentrify our culture. A lot of motherf**kers wanna try to act like they conveniently forget who fathered this s**t. Black people and Puerto Rican people together. We created the greatest culture in the f**king world and its called hip hop. Facts!”Pumpkin was a legendary music producer, of Afro-Costa Rican/Afro-Panamanian descent, and known as the King of the Beat. Born Errol Eduardo Bedward, Pumpkin was right there at the beginning of hip-hop, working with OG artists such as Treacherous Three, Grandmaster Caz, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Spoonie Gee, from 1979 to 1984.Puerto Rican and Cuban DJ Disco Wiz, born Luis Cedeño, is credited as being the very first Latino DJ in Hip-hop. The Bronx native was one half of the Mighty Force crew, with Grandmaster Caz (then Casanova Fly), who presented the first Latino rapper, Prince Whipper Whip. Wiz is also credited with creating the mixed plate in 1977, the first mixed dub recording in Hip-hop.Hip-Hop is one of the most vibrant products of the late 20th century youth culture. Now York Puerto Ricans have been key participants, as producers and consumers of the culture and hip-hop art forms since hip-hop's very beginning during the early 1970's in the South Bronx. Next on our list of Latinxs who were pioneers in the musical genere of hip-hop is the artist Tracy 168. Also known as Michael Tracy, the New York native is one of the pioneers of graffiti. He is credited with inventing the Wildstyle graffiti style (you’ve seen it before - it features overlapping and interlocked letters, arrows, and curves; all the detail often makes the words hard to read). Wild Style was also the name of the graffiti crew he founded, which also includes fellow Puerto Rican artist and graffiti pioneer Cope2. In addition to being one of the OG’s of graffiti, Tracy 168 also mentored some other major artists, such as SAMO, and Keith Haring.We continue showcasing Latinx OGs who were pioneers of the hip-hop element of graffiti with Lee Quiñones. The legendary Nuyorican artist was part of a group of artists who created art on New York subway trains, and is considered to be “the single most influential artist to emerge from the New York City subway art movement.” Lee’s first subway piece was created in 1974 and in late 1975, he was asked to join the graffiti crew The Fabulous Five. The crew painted the only running 10-car subway train that was painted on from top to bottom, and from end to end. Quiñones’ work appeared in the iconic 1983 graffiti documentary, Style Wars, and since then, he was collaborated with several brands, including Adidas and Nike.Errol Eduardo Bedward, known as Pumpkin was a musician, percussionist and band leader. He was renowned for being the one behind many break beats and hip hop tracks from 79' to 84' such as Spoonie Gee, Treacherous 3, Grandmaster Caz, Fearless Four, Funky 4, Dr Jeckyll & Mr HydeIf you look up the history of Hip-hop music, there is always credit given to the African-American youth of the Boogie Down Bronx, who created the most popular genre in the world, out of nothing. They used their stories, life experiences, and their natural talent to create music which has since resonated with people all around the world. But it wouldn’t really be hip-hop without also giving credit to the other two POC groups who helped create the genre and seasoned it with their influence - Caribbeans and Latinos.Latinos have virtually been erased, or at least consistently left out, of stories regarding the origins of hip-hop. But we were there! Hip-hop is made up of four elements: MCs/rappers, B-boys/B-girls, graffiti, and DJing. Did you know that a lot of the b-boys, or breakers (calling these talented dancers “breakdancers” or referring to the style as “breakdancing” is considered to be both inaccurate and passe), were Latinx (more often than not Puerto Rican)? Pioneering breaking crews such as the Rock Steady Crew and the New York City Breakers had Latinx members and founders.South Bronx is the birthplace of Hip-Hop, it comes to no surprise that the intermingling of Puerto Rican and West Indies along with Black styles are the main contributors to the basic Hip-Hop essence.Often, when people here Hip-Hop they associate it with only African-Americans. However, Hip-Hop is actually the combination of West Indian, Puerto Rican, Blacks of New York. Hip-Hop has always been open to a diverse audience, and thus is not limited to one specific group. DJing started in Jamaica, where the artist would mix and scratch music with repetitive phrases mixed it. In Jamaica, and in many area of the West Indies, music is used as important as politics. Music was used to express the voice of the citizens. Political parties themselves used the musics of DJs to represent their positions. As people from the West Indies moved into New York and specifically the Bronx, they began to incorporate their values of music as a form as expression. When the West Indians began to live with the Puerto Ricans and African Americans of the South Bronx, their art of music mixed in with the rapping and rhyming of the people living there. Hip-Hop began to include in general, Rapping, DJing, Graffiti and Break Dancing. DJ Kool Herc and other DJ from the West Indies, gaining popularity from their style of music, began to encourage the youth to get involved in the art of Hip-Hop. Soon some gangs began to focus their concentration on Hip-Hop rather than using violence to express their anger with the environment they were in. Afrika Bambaataa would find the Universal Zulu Movement, which was a gang that focused on Hip-Hop. What all the people involved in Hip-Hop do have in common is how the merge the struggles of every day life, and their environment into their various forms of art in a way that people facing similar difficulties can also relate. Hip-Hop then turns into a voice of all those New Yorkers, and even beyond, who are constantly trying to improve their lives in a difficult environment. is the birthplace of Hip-Hop, it comes to no surprise that the intermingling of Puerto Rican and West Indies along with Black styles are the main contributors to the basic Hip-Hop essence.

[@chris2773976]

GTFOOH, you MF always trying to steal FBA swag. Listen to the music Latinos and the Caribbeans was making then and back in the day, straight BS MUSIC.

[@christinagraham2915]

Bc it is aa expression

[@kaykayjohnson9427]

What did Latinos create in Hiphop? ADOS ,FREEMAN, BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE WAS ALREADY EXITING BEFORE THEY WANTED TO BE A PARTICIPANT.

[@mansamusa2012]

Puerto Ricans had nothing to do with it!!!!! When hip hop first began the majority of blacks and ricans didn’t get along!!!! Ricans use to call break dancing the Moreno dance

[@aferrer74]

@mansamusa2012 Historically, hip hop arose out of the ruins of a post-industrial and ravaged South Bronx, as a form of expression of urban Black and Latino youth, whom the public and political discourse had written off as marginalized communities.[23]Hip hop is simultaneously a new and old phenomenon; the importance of sampling tracks, beats, and basslines from old records to the art form means that much of the culture has revolved around the idea of updating classic recordings, attitudes, and experiences for modern audiences. Sampling older culture and reusing it in a new context or a new format is called "flipping" in hip hop culture.[12] Hip hop music follows in the footsteps of earlier African-American-rooted and Latino musical genres such as blues, jazz, rag-time, funk, salsa, and disco to become one of the most practiced genres worldwide.Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans in the Bronx, New York City.[a] Hip hop culture is characterized by four key elements: rapping[b], DJing and turntablism, breakdancing, and graffiti.[2][3][4] Other elements include historical knowledge of the movement, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion.[5][6][7] Some of these are argued to be the “fifth element”.[8]Despite the fact that Puerto Ricans had a huge impact on the rise of hip-hop during the late 1970s, they struggled to receive credit as hip-hop was portrayed through the media as a genre that was predominantly black. Instead of switching genres, they had to find other ways to mask their cultural identities. For example, DJ Charlie Chase was one of the first Puerto Rican artists to burst onto the scene with his group, the Cold Crush Brothers, but was the only person in the original group who wasn't black. He said that he knew he had to change his name because if he went out to perform as Carlos Mendes, he might not have gotten the credit or attention that he deserved. However, rappers such as DJ Charlie Chase set the scene for more mainstream success in the future. Because of the development of Puerto Ricans in hip-hop, artists like Big Pun, Daddy Yankee, Fat Joe, Swizz Beats, Young MA, Calle 13 (band) have become more successful. Lin-Manuel Miranda achieved universal acclaim with his opera-musical Hamilton (musical), which blends rap and classical influences.After being inspired at a Kool Herc jam by the emerging hip hop movement taking place in The Bronx, DJ Disco Wiz collaborated with his best friend, Casanova Fly (Grandmaster Caz), to form a group called the Mighty Force crew. Mighty Force is noted as being one of the first Hip-Hop DJ crews in the mid-to-late 1970s. Noted for their DJ battles in the streets of the South Bronx, the Mighty Force crew was also responsible for presenting the first Latino rapper to the world, Prince Whipper Whip, who is also of Puerto Rican descent. DJ Disco Wiz is also credited for being the first DJ to create a "mixed plate" in 1977 (Hip-Hop's first mixed dub recording) when he and Grandmaster Caz, combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats.[1]As social conditions and urban decay took its toll in the projects New York City during the 1970s, blacks and Puerto Ricans were equally affected. As a way of coping with the disarray that was taking place in New York, both Puerto Ricans and blacks worked together to collaborate on rap music that would help express their creative art. As Deborah Pacini Hernandez wrote in her article, "Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music," many of the ways that blacks and Puerto Ricans coped with their struggles was through, "graffiti, DJing, emceeing, break dancing, and fashion-the cultural elements comprising hip-hop." (56) As hip-hop music rose to prominence, it was clear that Puerto Ricans had an influence on the hip-hop industry, from the break dancing to the sound of the music. "To speak of Puerto Ricans in rap means to defy the sense of instant amnesia that engulfs popular cultural expression once it is caught up in the logic of commercial representation. It involves sketching in historical contexts and sequences, tracing traditions and antecedents, and recognizing hip-hop to be more and different than the simulated images, poses, and formulas the public discourse of media entertainment tends to reduce it to. The decade and more of hindsight provided by the Puerto Rican involvement shows that, rather than a new musical genre and its accompanying stylistic trappings, rap constitutes a space for the articulation of social experience. From this perspective, what has emerged as “Latin rap” first took shape as an expression of the cultural turf shared, and contended for, by African Americans and Puerto Ricans over their decades as neighbors, coworkers, and “homies” in the inner-city communities." - Juan Flores, Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots and Amnesia[26]

[@infanist3340]

Lol at disco being "white culture", that shit is not "white culture", it's American culture.... Literally all kinds of people were into disco, Caribbean/Boricuas/Latinos, LGBT, White*, and African Americans.... That Rock, Soul, and disco spawned Hip-Hop. Sounds like a bunch of different guys were doing it and it was very much an intermingled community all in on the culture, everyone was battling each other on who had the bigger parties, literally sounds like any other music scene in NY in that time and eeriely similar to disco, cause disco started with djs and house parties and it exploded ...I guess the only difference was the competitive nature of the culture

[@djpioneer937]

Mexicans in the bronx?

[@christopherquiles3600]

puerto rican ..ant no mexicans at that time

[@djpioneer937]

im talking about the people in the video playing soccer

[@bxdale83]

Mexican's been in the Bronx but there has been a large influx of them in that neighborhood. Walk through Soundview and you'll see

[@christopherquiles3600]

bxdale83 there are mexicans everywhere but not many

[@rickjason1786]

It's interesting that D and Tyrone came from Pete DJ and Grandmaster Flowers.

[@timothyhall8103]

This is authentic.. JJ "The Disco King" is official. No Frankie Crocker No Hip Hop! I did not learn this on KZbin I witnessed it! Kool DJ Dee and Mario "The Disco King" rocked in the Valley Park in the early 70's.

[@badapplenyc]

Haffen Park?

[@freddyb6105]

The first rap battle JJ vs Mario..lol

[@urbanculturetv3000]

are there any tapes of disco king mario floatig around?? please send link

[@TheCulture..Starts1971]

we looking for the same thing

[@urbanculturetv3000]

Michael Waynetv word up i just wanna hear his voice at least .hopefully theres someone w a link to him on tape

[@adangbe]

I saw video footage of Mario here on KZbin. He had a country-sounding accent. Was he originally from The South??

[@urbanculturetv3000]

adangme any idea of what to type into youtube to see that footage?

[@adangbe]

Follow the link I posted. Are you having trouble accessing it?

[@leiutley4083]

True clyde I remember mario was tha founding fathers I remember

[@leiutley4083]

Going in bronxdale section 1

[@gaticusx2933]

Coke la rock said nobody was doing what herc was doing. Not even mario. Mario was playing everything. He played a lot of disco and funk etc. He didn't play breaks like herc.

[@TheCulture..Starts1971]

@gaticusx2933 ... ok.. but again ... putting breakbeats together is NOT the end all to hiphop... today I was listenstening to old 90's mixtapes Dj's like Bruce b ... and they was rocking R&B...talking over R&B... hiphop goes beyond just putting breakbeats together..putting breakbeats together was for breakdancers

[@gaticusx2933]

@TheCulture..Since1971 I only said what I said cause FBA cats can't stomach that a Jamaican created an important part in hip hop. Hip hop consist of several elements. DJying, dancing, breaking and popping, graffiti, rapping and the dress style then. No one person started hip hop, but the pioneers put a piece in respectively. And I'm FBA...but I deal with facts...not hate just because herc ain't American as born here. That don't take away his contribution.

[@TheCulture..Starts1971]

@gaticusx2933... you said .."FBA CATS CAN'T STOMACH THAT A JAMAICAN CREATED AN IMPORTANT PART IN HIP HOP."... I don't speak for everyone... but I don't have any problem with kool hercs "merry go round" accomplishment... but, the way you try to word your words can imply that Jamaica had something to do with the "merry go round"... and I think that's the part my brothers don't like... so let it be known..Jamaica had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with kool herc putting breakbeats together aka the "merry go round"... can YOU stomach that??

[@iceboogie827]

Throggs Neck!. Cosmic Force!..

[@grios5530]

"He ain't gonna do that hands shit"

[@leiutley4083]

Kool Clyde

[@aferrer74]

Mario was in 75 Kool Herc is 73

[@lroyjetsonson5060]

That's not True.

[@seanwright8786]

Going back to the earlier interviews on this channel, the older members of the Black Spades like Fat Mike, Sinbad agree that Mario started in a place called the carriage room. DJ Phase also remembers that period and that same location. This is slightly before Rosedale park, when he was a little boy. That era is confirmed to be around 1971. Kool Dee confirms that similar period. The owner of this channel went to the West side of the Bronx and interviewed some of the early b-boys from Herc's side of the Bronx. Sasa and Trixie. Even Coke LaRock has confirmed along with Trixie and Sasa, when directly asked of the impact of our Spanish speaking brothers and sisters in those early 70's days in the creation of hip hop culture........ specifically the DJ aspect, the types of records, the dress style, the slang and the B-boying. None of them confirmed that our brothers and sisters from Puerto Rico had a significant impact on the culture during that period. Through this channel and other documentaries it has been mentioned that our Latino family impacted the culture heavily around the time of the black-out of 1977. Even Crazy Legs alluded to the fact that the older b-boys had begun to wane off of the dancing aspect of hip hop culture and a "new guard" had taken interest. This was the larger influx period of our Latino family making a major impact on hip hop culture and that's really specifically thru the dance aspect. There were Puerto Rican DJ's and graffiti writers by these mid and Kate 70's years but was their impact to on the culture to the extent of being acknowledged as being a co-creator? Even though Zulu Kings and Zulu Nation had begun to grow , the major impact and membership still rested on the shoulders of Black Americans. I personally WOULD NOT have a problem if it were true that our brothers and sisters from Puerto Rico had brought a major input to hip hop culture's genesis.....but truthfully, the evidence from interviews of people who were there does not support that claim. Not enough numbers of the Latino Family were involved in the early era ('71- '75) to claim to have had this impact that everyone keeps talking about. The defense comes up out of a frustration of constantly seeing credit for something that Black Americans founded get attributed to another source. This has happened with many many inventions of commonly used items in America, popular American lexicon, and other music genres (of which hip hop is one of them). That's where the push back is coming from. Please keep in mind that during these early seventies years, a teenager from Puerto Rican parents or Jamaican parents who was hanging around Black American youth was not asserting the culture of their parents' homeland.....they were assimilating into the dominant culture that they were surrounded by in school and their neighborhood. The documentation is present thanks to the hard work of MichaelWaynetv. He has enough footage to understandably debunk the popular narrative that has become a bit embellished. We honor the impact of our Puerto Rican family on the American music scene but hip hop as a genre and a subculture can not accurately be named as one of those cultures.