Latino contributions to the birth of New York hip-hop

Latinos played a critical role in helping to define hip-hop culture in New York. John Leguizamo talks with DJ Tony Touch about Latino trailblazers in hip-hop culture, like photographer Joe Conzo and hip hop group, the Rock Steady Crew.
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Latino contributions to the birth of New York hip-hop
#JohnLeguizamo #HipHop #Latino

[@jayjones251]

What did latinos bring to hip-hop independent from black americans? Hip-hop comes from black american culture, not latin culture.

[@michaeldeleon5093]

Hip hop is from the bronx. The bronx is spanish AF.

[@jayjones251]

@michaeldeleon5093 black americans created hip-hop in the bronx, and they used their black american cultural elements to create that. What have yall ever created in hip-hop? Participating isn't creation.

[@dgar1206]

@@michaeldeleon5093 SPANISH people are white and european. i think you mean Latin American bruh. big difference between a Spanish person and a Dominican, Puerto Rican, MExican, etc.

[@skillet6870]

Proximity does not equate creation and innovation.

[@Realrawww]

Latinos didn't create Hip Hip ..they were the first students of Black Americans. Hip Hop was birthed in North Carolina and South Carolina.

[@kinkiesse7736]

and travelled to NYC through the great migration. All early hip hop dancers and DJs in NYC were from the Carolinas..

[@Regularspic]

No it didn’t 😂😂😂😂😂😂 stop it all these conspiracy

[@claudiakramer4516]

​@@Regularspic The great migration is not a conspiracy theory

[@bam4878]

Guests! Yep

[@bangswift]

Hiphop is BX culture

[@oncode2599]

Trying to crowbar yourself into someone else's culture is so disrespectful

[@DreamGod06]

Educate yourself so you understand tf you saying.

[@SCOOBYTYESH]

The idea of John Leguizamo telling the history of hip hop is unbelievably insane smh

[@lourdesmalave6195]

He WASN'T telling the history of hip hop, Period!

[@adarllkelly3536]

He successfully highjacked the Black Plight! Lol WOW Next he'll claim "all the slaves were Latino" 😏

[@jayjones251]

Pathetic

[@DreamGod06]

Get angry cuz I am finding pleasure in y'all's suffering of the truth. 😌🚬💨

[@michaeldeleon5093]

​@adarllkelly3536 do you not think Latinos were slaves?

[@d-eraniayourturohostmusici3276]

LIES!!!!

[@Muttinchopsforever]

?.

[@AJ-pc5ln]

​@@Muttinchopsforever Latinos did not create Hip-hop these are lies

[@ConquerWealth.network]

this is embarrassing for latinos'

[@crafting11111]

Why

[@frankbandera6591]

The black Latinos, right? "Latino is a contrived ethnic category that artificial lumps white Cubans with black Puerto Ricans and indigenous Guatemalans" ~Nikole Hannah-Jones

[@NoNo-ng9sl]

There were plenty mestizo Puerto Ricans in the early days of the 70s. Why is it important on that distinction? At the end of the day Those people were right there in the mix of the history.

[@theblackhouse2698]

​@@NoNo-ng9sl negative, in the 60s and 70s you people didn't want to be around Black people. Culture vultures

[@randted]

@@NoNo-ng9sl Not! There were mainly Afro-Latinos there and a tiny few Mestizo. And even the Afro-Latinos were few. The culture is Black American Culture, regardless of any visitors. And the early days of the 70's is incorrect. Maybe 1975 at the earlies and 1977-78 onwards into 80's. We need a "Microphone Check" on this nonsense.

[@idiotu668]

Every Element of Hip Hop comes from Black American Culture. Grafitti is the only thing that was "Mixed"... No one can find anything that Latinos were doing Before 1973 that contributed to Hip Hop... They came in large part in the early 80's after seeing how cool Black Americans were. They called our music derogatory names and wore "swastikas" on their jackets. That doesn't sound like they Pioneered anything, they just Copied. Fat Joe said that Latinos and Blacks created Hip Hop 50/50. That makes absolutely no sense. No form of Hip Hop is Latin. But we know that Latin music comes from JAZZ music which was Created by Black Americans.

[@oncode2599]

Graffiti was created by a black American name Cornbread out of Philly go check it out.

[@idiotu668]

@@oncode2599 yeah I know about him,

[@DavidMiller-th7nv]

No doubt very true

[@TheBOOSTEDO]

@@idiotu668 and "TopCat 126" bought it from Philly to NYC...

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

Even before Cornbread it derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics which meant writings on the wall...where's Egypt???? Africa!!! FBA all day

[@bam4878]

Right"We didn't create Hip Hop but we were there" Thank You Sir

[@randted]

Lol. You were there?!!! If I go to a party and dance am I the host or just a participant in the fun?

[@pinkwinequeen7022]

This show needs to pulled off air asap.

[@ancestralproductions1230]

"So like I said, we didn't create hip-hop, but we were there." An important distinction.

[@lloydinfamous5032]

Right Latinos didn't create hip-hop,but they were there trying to colonize it.

[@javionriley8739]

They understand the conversation! They ain’t stupid

[@lgilles7]

You moved intonour neighborhoods & we were nice to you. You always walk into our footsteps. So called "Blacks" created this country & you mfs want to steal our history. Notice how yall are descendants of White Spaniards. So called "Blacks" were the original original Latinos as we were the indigenous coppered colored people different shades of Brown , before Whites like John & most Latinos came & stole our country. It's war, you mfs want to steal from us then bring it.

[@adarllkelly3536]

He successfully highjacked the Black Plight! Lol WOW Next he'll claim "all the slaves were Latino" 😏

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

But what does being there have anything to do with creating???

[@pinfold1000]

Black eraser done by Latinos

[@baleberguista503]

It’s a black type of music, created by black folks but he is just saying Latinos contributed.

[@Mr.White10-65]

Why do some Latino's in hip hop get a pass to say the "n-word"? And not just hip hop, J-Lo dropped the word a few times........

[@semyonbudyonny1895]

Cut from the same bolt of rotten cloth, no?

[@AlwaysAwesome001]

Why does anyone get a pass?

[@Mr.White10-65]

@@AlwaysAwesome001 While true, I'm sticking to the subject of Latinos in hip-hop since this video is about that.

[@javionriley8739]

I blame black American (descendants of USA chattel slavery) in NYC who allowed that to happen

[@NFLOLDMAN771]

@@AlwaysAwesome001 because some didn’t use it to abuse people deal

[@douglasreagan4979]

Jill Biden is more concerned about what Breakfast Tacos Hispanics have contributed to the culture.

[@SanCristobal63]

That comment won't look any less sad, lonely and racist, no matter how many segments you leave it below. What is it, exactly, about people who aren't Anglo Saxon in ethnicity that keeps you awake every night?

[@yvonneplant9434]

​@@SanCristobal63 Most Europeans aren't AngloSaxon. But I think you know that.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Jill Biden is Italian-American, btw.

[@SanCristobal63]

@@yvonneplant9434 Thank you. My Anglo Saxon reference was for Mr Douglas W.A.S.P. who likes to stir the pot for a different minority he hates, each and every day of the week.

[@eddiss2199]

Good joke

[@pc4mlc451]

I think in the documentary, John Leguizamo should be played by a white guy with no arms.

[@feffygracie]

Bangin out to the cheap seats. Also, Latino and hip hop. Isn't that cultural appropriation?

[@beckettman42]

More race grifting.

[@ronpaizley9349]

Latino's were on the scene ( in the ghetto's/Hood of BX & CITY early period all you out of towners hatin weren't / before yall start I'm BLACK PROUD & from the BRONX !!! Period

[@TenderViddlez]

Who cares... they were on the scene biting Blacks.

[@Paul-lm5gv]

Hip hop's degradation of women shows just how decayed the urban culture is in our society!

[@ThickBlackLineDotNet]

Insulting.

[@mariagomez3773]

Didn’t Jon have an absolute cow about not getting cast in the new Mario brothers movie?

[@aisback1990]

No

[@davidrhinehart7764]

And now we know who to blame.

[@SierenH]

A blackout started hip hop? 0.0

[@sergeant_salty]

"See say pwodway!" - Jill Biden

[@skillet6870]

Spirituals, Ragtime, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Bluegrass, Folk, Rock n Roll, Doo-Wop, Soul, Funk, Disco, Punk, House and of course Rap and Hip Hop---all enjoy well documented African American roots coupled with undeniable Black American influence---whether directly or indirectly.. Latinos -- Puerto Ricans particularly -- please explain how you co-created or co-invented yet another installment in the legacy of Black Musical expression known as Rap and Hip Hop, yet didn't co-create or co-invent any of the elements or ingredients of the 14 or so African American music forms that preceeded it? Or why you were nowhere to be found and absent during the creative and inventive foundation outlining the forms of African American musical expression, brilliance and greatness throughout, or even prior to the previous 14 or so African American music forms that are mentioned above? Yet then, all of a sudden--and out of nowhere, lying latinos and jamaicans slither along and falsely claim latinos and/or puerto ricans and jamaicans co-created and co-invented Rap and Hip Hop 50/50 half n half (which is the evidence-free and utter nonsense being peddled by Dr. Derrick Colon, radical latino, Fat Joe and numerous other un-informed and envious latinos---which are claims that latinos never mentioned, verbalized or asserted during its inception in the early 1970's)---latinos claims of "50/50--half & half co-creation and co-invention just don't add up---it makes no sense and are increasingly coming under heavy scrutiny which is leading to these claims being easily debunked--widespread. Nice try though latinos, puerto ricans and jamaicans. Make it make sense Latinos

[@DimitriMccullum-bg9nz]

Unm no it started in 1973

[@tim7462]

And crime.

[@oppressedspeakeroftruth6558]

I can't make breakfast tacos to this crap! How am I gonna get jiggy with this?

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

This was a fun little look back. Would love to see a longer documentary and more footage

[@dalecuevas3870]

Where is kid frost, I forgot Puerto Ricans always hate on Mexicans

[@LuisAlejandro1991nyc]

y joe bataan nada ? come oooonnn !!!

[@shirleymclean3607]

The Big Guy is "mentiroso" about Ukraine winning the proxy war. FJB

[@Channel--Ai]

Latinx you mean😅😮

[@Muttinchopsforever]

Equality and justice for all latinos.

[@douglasreagan4979]

Lol..its not conservatives that are separating them into groups and giving them ridiculous names like : Latin X. Democrats cant help themselves from being Confederates.

[@DavidMiller-th7nv]

Equality and justice for all black Americans the real Americans

[@DavidMiller-th7nv]

Go back the where your people from and ask them for equality and justice Latinos get everything this our country any and we get nothing and we built this country and if it wasn't for our black ancestors yall wouldn't even be in the United States of America

[@pilargonzalez8442]

Buenissimooooo loved the Latinos in rap history lesson guys, thank you so much!!!! 💗

[@amunatum3197]

That's a Lie

[@anewleaf6847]

Jhon dances real nice for the democrats agenda ...yes sir..a soft shoe no problem

[@LilMissSmartyPants.922]

hip hop🤢🤮

[@bam4878]

Right, now clean the toilets break is over

[@Regularspic]

@@bam4878 😂😂😂😂 jabroni 😂😂😂

[@Paul-lm5gv]

Hip hop's degradation of women shows just how decayed the urban culture is in our society!