The hip hop years part 1

[@TheCodedtestament]

Never forget about the 70's. It's the 70's that brought us Hip Hop. If it wasn't for the 70's, there wouldn't be no Hip Hop culture. Respect the roots!

[@fredsmith2378]

"Here Comes The Judge" was released by Pigmeat Markham in 1968 but it didn't spark a sucessive movemnt or trend at that time.

[@Tredough3004]

@@fredsmith2378 wow

[@joshuagibson2032]

If i took hip hop classes, GZA would be the science teacher, KRS for history, Rakim for English classes, Mos Def for mathematics, Dilla for music theory, Nas for Language Arts and Chuck D for P.E

[@jbaby007]

Fuck yes.

[@GAURAV25855ify]

and master p and russell Simmons for business economics and snoop doog for chemistry or sex education 101. 2-pac for social and political science for cultural studies. That would be almost like school or the university of hard knocks run by the hip hop creaters.

[@14nG01]

where's cube? where's dre? ice t? kool moo dee? havard vs princeton shizzled perhaps

[@dimviesel]

WORD

[@nickorega4731]

nah, immortal technique, paris or menteroja would be the history teacher

[@BlackPride1000]

Thank You NewYork...And A Big Shot Out To The Jamaican Sound Systems, Big Herc Is Jamaican and Jamaicans Have Been Rocking The Mic For Years.

[@davesargent7304]

@Starlin Peña from a guy with Jamaican roots. Ask Mos and Talib, they will tell you that hip hop has reggae roots.

[@mikelugo8983]

facts Bronx Love 183

[@elijahthesage8510]

One love

[@absolute7250]

That’s been debunked. Herc started in the wreck room with house speakers. It was the park djs that had the big sound systems. And I’ve heard herc bought his speakers off of them.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

​@@davesargent7304I'm reading talib's book vibrate higher right now he mentioned it.

[@SDSOverfiend]

Its still is underground... The real hip hop that is..

[@Tonia682]

The creativity of using different beats is what made rap music so interesting in the beginning!

[@catherineharman1033]

Absolutely fantatic. A real eye-opener that intensifies one's respect for Hip-Hop and Rap. From a small-time Australian white girl. (maybe a poet, definitely a visual artist, but definitely not a musician!

[@senjux7514]

From Jamaica he came to bring us Music!!!!!

[@gotchaman80]

Jazzy Jay said something that is still relevant today “None of the good music is played on the Radio”.

[@jayinri6658]

woow, this is thee best hiphop doc i ever seen, it literally step by step showed the evolution of the culture in the beginning

[@Autumnblueskies1]

Wow, I remember watching all this and loving it back in ? 1999 on channel 4 uk. Hard to believe 25 years have passed …

[@GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW]

this documentry inspires me to make music history

[@svantana]

This documentary was made in 1999, so it is now older than Rapper's Delight was when they filmed this. 🤯

[@thewanggao]

Thank you for uploading!!! The music takes on a whole new life when you learn about the culture behind it, what drives it forward as an art form. Youth will never stop fighting the power, keeping the discussion alive, and that is what's UP!

[@robertbates6401]

hip hop is the best music ever

[@Poopdeck1015]

Very rarely do other genres touch on various topical subject matter. Every other genre is generally just ‘love, love, love, she/he left me’

[@The_ATARI_King]

Thank you NYC Thank you Kool Herc, thank you for Hip Hop. I was born 1972, England, a white kid... as far from the Bronx as you could imagine but loved the stuff in the 80s, Electro, onto Yo MTV Raps, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions. Rap with meaning and heart. Makes me sad what it is now, just bling, booty and blagging !

[@clubhead433]

The media always gives Disco music a negative image. Growing up as a Black teenager in the 70's, I hung around my people. We rarely, rarely mixed socially with whites. The Disco music that the White media always touts was not the Disco tracks we were playing and dancing to. The so-called "Disco Music" we, in our Black community (those of us who were into more uptempo 4/4 things and Disco) was really uptempo R&B, Soul & Funk along side the more soulful, funky side of Disco. We played a lot of those same James Brown records that the hip hop kats were playing at our so-called "Disco" underground (Black/Latin) clubs/parties we were going to. Our core sound was that 4/4 Philly Sound, Motown dance cuts, and whatever was coming out of NYC on those independent labels that the UK calls "boogie" and that was nothing but R&B/Funk with a 4/4 kick. We also were playing Jazz-Funk records, Latin Funk & Soul next to Cerrone, Giorgio Moroder's "Evolution", Martin Circus, Change, Gino Soccio, Machine and other Funky Disco tracks. This Black/Latin underground club scene grew along side the hip hop scene but stayed underground and very separate b/c certain elements of the scene had a "gay" element. The straight Black/Latin kids were going to the Paradise Garage, Zanzibar, The Loft (the three big underground "pioneering" clubs) and created a culture of music, fashion, language and dance that with the creation of Chicago's House music is now what we call "Soulful House". We also played those early Hip Hop records, not all but the ones that had that groove like a 4/4 uptempo R&B tune. Please, DJ Red Alert does so-called "Disco" a/k/a uptempo R&B dance sets on WBLS-FM in NY and be killin' it.

[@ricosbar9643]

word whats up with that ,,,as if they totally ignore the record Good times by chic was not used to create the first hip hop record - rappers delight - as for me i break dance to disco,,in 78''' media bullshit hype it was - this cause the beef when traditional Caucasian rock burned discos albums @ shee stadium.

[@abovebelow7992]

Y'all skins should not matter when it comes to music. It's universal. Stop with the bullshit

[@ЮрійФедорович-у8д]

one of the best hip hop documentaries!

[@Tristan_again]

Thanks for uploading this; I haven't watched it since Channel 4 first broadcast it. Great to see all that old footage cut with new interviews. It's a shame there isn't an official high definition release..

[@sugashack74]

This is one of the most comprehensive history lesssons of hip hip. Next to the Chuck D documentary this is one of the BEST

[@Tredough3004]

Which one?

[@MikeyNix-p1m]

I'm a Old School Hip Hop Rap and R&B from 80s and 90s fan. 😃👍🎤🎼🎵🎶

[@MikeyNix-p1m]

Featuring artists including such as: Master P, Too Short, Public Enemy, Lost Island, 50 Cent (feat. Madd Rapper), Michael Jackson, DJ Quik, J-Love, Bruce Saunders, EPMD, Cypress Hill, Choclair, Ice Cube, Fiend, E-40, Kool Moe Dee, Ed OG and The Bulldogs, Chaka Khan, Will Smith, Loose Ends, After 7, Cool C, Jodeci, Jody Watley, Busta Rhymes, Zapp and Roger, A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, Roxanne Shante, Run-DMC, Erykah Badu, Emage, Erick Sermon, Large Professor, The Fugees, LSG, Classical Two, Noreaga, Big Daddy Kane, Fat Joe, Old School Party Mix, Common, Stetsasonic, Jon B., TLC, Underground Posse, KMD, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Ja Rule, The Lox, Johnny Kemp, Yo-Yo, Casual, MC Hammer, Boyz II Men, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Mack 10, DMX, Leader of The New School, Steady B., Att Will, Doctor Ice, Silkk The Shocker, Chocolate, Chris Biscuit, Method Man (feat. Redman, LL Cool J, and Ja Rule), Craig Mack, Ollie & Jerry, U.T.F.O., Biz Markie, Gang Starr, Jasmine Guy, Tevin Campbell, WC, Eazy-E, The Dramatics, Xscape, Outkast, Dr. Dre, House of Pain, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Naughty By Nature, Xzibit, Jay-Z, Valerie Claire, Freddie Jackson, The Fat Boys, Queen Latifah, Brand Nubian, Canibus, AZ, Changing Faces, Lo-Key, Call O'Da Wild, Sho, Mia X, Junkyard Band, Digable Planets, Mesanjarz of Funk, Destiny's Child, Keith Murray, 2pac, The D.O.C., Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force, CeCe Peniston, Oran "Juice" Jones, Warren G, Ice-T, Kris Kross, Brownstone, Faith Evans, Candyman, Big Mike, Shaggy, Charli Baltimore, Lba Flip, Tymatale, Coolio, Wu-Tang Clan, Dionne Warwick, Richie Rich, 40 Thevz, Good 2 Go, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Jagged Edge, SWV, Rufus Blaq, Snoop Dogg, Heltah Skeltah, Saafir, U.G.K., Eminem, B.H.P. (Black Hole Posse), Kaos, Slick Rick, Mary J. Blige, Brandy, Das-EFX, Beastie Boys, Ultimate 3 MC's, Ras Kass, New Edition, Digital Underground, Luniz, Salt-N-Pepa, Guy, Vanilla Ice, Montell Jordan, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Aaliyah, Snap, UMC's, Usher, Bahamadia, Blahzay Blahzay, Whodini, Lost Boyz, L.B.C. Crew, Blackstreet, Next, Jeru The Damaja, Monica, The Sugarhill Gang, Big L, Kurupt, Juvenile, Hurricane G, Dr. Dre (feat. Ice Cube), MC Lyte, Maxwell, Smif-N-Wessun, Poison Clan, Larrice, Nas, Christopher Williams, Twin Hype, Mariah Carey, Mic Geronimo, Crucial Conflict, Big Pun, Tela, Foxy Brown, Young MC, A+, Klymaxx, Newcleus, L.A. Star, Chuckii Booker, Kut Klose, Trouble Funk, Heavy D. & The Boyz, Luke, Aly-Us, Debbie Gibson, 3rd Bass, Al B. Sure, Celly Cel, Kurtis Blow, Method Man, Rappin 4-Tay, C-Murder, Eightball and MJG, and more.

[@GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW]

right now we are living in exciting times , its trendy corporate music vs quality music and there is going to be something that is going to pop in the air waves that is going to blow the trendy shit out the ears of ppl who have been program to think that low quality music is hot , i cant wait to see that period of time

[@PeKlim]

I am two years from future, and it is still trendy corporate vs quality.

[@DeeptheBigCut]

3 years ahead now and the best we got from recent is eminem and j.cole

[@markymarcm]

Coming to you from 5 years in the future where times are not exciting and the quality of commercial garbage has degraded further but is now more popular than ever.

[@muximax3177]

The sad thing is that Hip-Hop started because DISCO was so far from the reality of Black Ghetto life. Now Hip-Hop today is so far from Black ghetto life. "Oh The irony"

[@flow383]

New movement needs to come through.

[@poisoncontrol4488]

People singing about $200,000 cars and flying first class, not many can relate to that.

[@LeafInTheWind88]

Muxi Max Damn.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Hip hop has always been braggadocios so rappers are just doing what they always have. There’s still a lot of rappers that rap about what life is like for average African Americans and what life is like in the hood, popular artists like Kendrick Lamar, JCole, Pusha T, Killer Mike, etc. There’s artists like Childish Gambino, Kanye, Chance, & Earl Sweatshirt who have sampled and taken influence from music from their roots: soul, gospel, Afrobeat, RnB, & blues.

[@maheer3314]

Actually hip hop will allways stay true to where it came from and the streets I think u mean rap has has gone so far, hip hop will never change

[@MrSlamCAC]

...You Just Had to Be In New York City In The '70s and '80's !!! Where Hip-Hop Started !!! ...Nuff Said !!!

[@MrIffyPiffy]

Wow this was actually one of the best hip hop docs ive ever seen

[@morovichUKxboxlive]

Awesome documentary,originally on channel 4 in UK if memory serves me correctly. Thanks for uploading :),,,And 22 dislikes?WTF !!

[@carlostavarez5911]

original like back in the days great work to all in the video & the making of it

[@futuregirl8803]

Where are the other episodes?? Can't find them anywhere 😐💖

[@crassinula]

I have to do a project on the history of hip hop. I know next to nothing about this type of music so this was a big help!

[@MCLent21]

man, i have these all on tape, used to stay up late and record from channel 4... damn that was like 14 years ago! thankfully this is online though, iv no vhs player anymore

[@juniperr7663]

i love the beats especially from part 1!

[@keebzis1337]

this is the only video ive seen without ANYdislikes.. good

[@creativechau]

Imagine Twitter back then... "Hank ain't tweet my cassette! He ain't even write his Rapper's Delight verse!" -@fastcashcass

[@thereallilbreezytv]

Taylor Chausky 😂

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I know right.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

imagine what their Twitter beef would be like back then 😂😂😂😂 lol I'm deceased you took me out ??.

[@YaBoiMOE]

damn! that was just going crazy!

[@clh2192]

Before Herc there was Pete Jones, Grand Master Flowers (where Flash got his name from)...

[@fatbackfunk]

Outstanding..!! Brings back many great memories.. Thanks for sharing.. I've never seen this documentary.. So I take it you'll be posting the rest at some point in time..? I sure hope so.. Glad to see Doug Wimbish get a some credit.. Him and the rest of the Sugar Hill house band(Keith & Skip) contributed a lot to those tracks..

[@ILVBIGBUTS]

Awesome upload= thanks for the post - trying to school my peoples - Hip Hop - especially old school infuses everything! Only wish Hip Hop still felt its roots...these days

[@mickeylynchful]

need to find the song played at 7.12 the mexican by baby huey. its not on youtube or spotify or even google!

[@DBoy0113]

Powerful documentary .. Hip hop I love you

[@padlockbeats151]

this is a pretty dope doco. cheers!~

[@ILVBIGBUTS]

@manifest918 -I wanna up vote this video over and over - 1 time doesn't seem enough!

[@Olllieh]

Amazing soundtrack to this documentary

[@RAEMONDORMIN]

THANKS 4 UPLOADING THIS

[@cjjorge6636]

50 years of hip hop /rap !!!!!! love it my shit !!!

[@gabrielbonin7892]

It's the same song at 13:35, Isaac Hayes - The Look Of Love. Was also in the Dead Presidents Soundtrack.

[@blackdaylight]

this documentary is surprisingly revealing about early hip hop. its crazy that so many of the early hip hop "legends" have such a phony luster surrounding their status or lack there of. although these old school heads didn't have orchestrated beefs to sell records the way many of the low to no talent pop rappers do today they were apparently still mad petty & seem bitter & resentful to this day. at the very least its dope to see how so many of them helped each other get on.

[@djamz1]

The glasses Bang Booty wearing, my mother had them in the 80's.

[@BongieThaYungN]

Nice video!

[@PrimusProductions]

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, a great breakthrough in music.

[@saicetyson1219]

Thanks for getting this video

[@howardchim5625]

true history of Hip Hop, beautiful, astonishing, WE ARE HIP HOP!!!

[@fongy200]

Now you would have thought Neucleus would have got a mention Jam on it and Wiki wiki masive hip hop joints in the day.

[@olemyson]

Doug Whimbish! Don't sleep on the bass, on the melodies of the music.

[@Webbula]

AWESOME documentary, nice upload ;)

[@Youalreadyhaveitall]

ohhhh bratha. i love it.

[@BeatsByWillietTv]

knowledge glad i saw this

[@marceloalejandrodecon9538]

Hip hop, Punk, Disco, Street Rock... you name it, the moral of the story is that NYC has been the beacon of worldwide culture since the 70s.

[@EveryDayLifeChannel9777]

Rock was also a black invention that has been appropriated!

[@franklynmcgradycalderon977]

was that DJ red alert at 17:00

[@poisoncontrol4488]

not really, country music and folk music was appropriated by blacks to make blues. Rock evolved from all those sources.

[@NubiansNapata]

Poison Control The west Africans brought to America had traditional folk music before they left the continent.West African people still to this day play traditional music.The word folk is European word to described their traditional music .. Basically all cultures around the planet have their traditional music.If u listen to Malian music u can hear remnants of blues.

[@davesargent7304]

True. Chuck Berry is the Godfather of Rock N Roll.

[@maxlove8894]

@@poisoncontrol4488 well Rock N Roll was just a bunch of white guys ripping off people like Chuck Berry.

[@tyroneepps4854]

this 🎥 is on 🔥!

[@thegroove2000]

Yessss ha ha you gotta keep them beats to ya self. Rinse em quick before other cats recognize the sources of them breaks. Still the same today. Good doc and thanks for the upload.

[@CortoArmitage]

Hip hop began as a reaction to Disco, then became as pop as Disco. How sad. Wish I could go back to The Bronx in the summer of 1982.

[@geraldencarnacion3273]

remember this comment ?

[@NkemN]

Brilliance!!!!!

[@CristinaF210]

Wow that made me feel GOOD im a rock heavy metal hardcore head glad to know we re a "minority", it makes it more exciting now every time I go to a show a concert even a bar with the local rock band playing

[@skinshapemusic]

I'm annoyed that none of these documentaries 'hip hop years' mention reggae and the profound influence of jamaican culture. Kool Herc was Jamaican and was initially influenced by reggae/dancehall and the sound system culture, there should be mention of it here. otherwise banging docu

[@LeSensuel]

Skinshape No mention of the godfather of Rap, Rudy Ray Moore aka Dolemite.

[@SANDIEGOROOTS619TM]

facts!

[@mikelugo8983]

Facts if u don't know u just don't know Respect 183 Bronx Ny

[@donaldlampone4195]

I Remember The Jams Down The Block Where I Lived. They Were In A School Yard ..I Was 10 To 11 Years Old..

[@Fusion3.14]

anybody know the name of the record playing at 20:45 and what song nas got on that sampled that part??

[@bboypremier]

Look at hip hop today, wtf happened Respect to everyone who tries to keep all of the elements alive and true B-Boy for life

[@bigmoney3020]

Bro IDK wtf happen 💔💔💔💔

[@mikelugo8983]

Facts TBB. b boys and Rock steady crew and many others. star chil la rock And CC crew.And new york city breakers for keeping it alive....Can't hate for that .Bronx Love 183.Belive in your self...

[@francesca3731]

This is very accurate and informative, thank you very much for sharing. I am also intrigued to apprehend that there are some women (like Robinson, Blondie, Ruza B.) at the roots of early hip hop success. Women who foresaw the potential of it and contributed to its success.This is the first documentary I've seen that mentions them.

[@DobroBad]

WoWonderful B-Boy and B-Girl Unite!!

[@999across]

Cassanova Fly deserves a writing credit on Rapper Delight.

[@buddhafyre]

A credit?... He wrote the entire lyric... Nile Rodgers of Chic wrote the music...

[@mikelugo8983]

Facts Facts Facts. .One of my best underground rappers. Long live thevCOLD CRUSH BROTHERS....CANT FORGET THE FANTASTIC 5.

[@DjSabzi]

Real Hip Hop.

[@geraldencarnacion3273]

remember this comment ?

[@DjSabzi]

@@geraldencarnacion3273 yep why

[@drobinson2787]

it hurts me 2 c what hip hop has come 2 i was a hip hop head. i dont listen 2 this so call hip hop now i listen 2 reggae now of days...

[@ceeceetracey9839]

I keep all my late 80's early 90's shit on CD and listen to that. I don't play none of this new garbage

[@thepistolguy859]

I listen to old-school. Lil Wayne birthed these mumble rappers and shit is trash.

[@nicholasfultz3122]

Check out locksmith and apollo brown, will refresh your paradigm for hip hop

[@justanoob8206]

You sound like a mong

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

expand your taste. there’s just as many great rappers now as there were before. forget about the mainstream

[@jazzyp13]

Anyone know where I can find part 2 n 3 ?

[@somabandini3326]

great documentary

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

the incredible bongo band is sooo sampled there is a whole documentary about it.

[@DJXTEK]

@ 24:04 "the ultimate point", Hiphop is where it is all encompassed, All that music B-Boys used is housed under Hiphop, including Funk, Electro, Jazz etc; Kool Herc states this at around 24:25 minutes. Yet again, making my point even stronger. The hippity Hiphop!!!

[@Daniel_TransformationCoach]

Whats the track around 1:15 ? Thanks!

[@Noedig]

31:16! What's the song/artist?

[@souldisciple]

@denissanchez10456 Issac Hayes Ike's Mood I/You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin off of the To be continued album

[@jlove8441]

To make it simple for you guys, African-Americans, invented hip-hop, and it started from slavery, old folk songs in gospel music that turned into blues, rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, R&B soul music all the rest of the other good genres that Black African-Americans created and turned into hip-hop is just a transformation of genres … hence why a lot of hip-hop samples from old soul, music and old classic African-American songs from lyrics to beats

[@EllaJay]

I'm not sure you made the "African-American" part clear enough lol. But I read your other post too, this is just an old docu.. There's no need to get worked up over some inaccuracies. ✌️

[@jjoyce46]

oh and spoonie gee was one of the starting masters too. look him up.

[@averyhenry7344]

the name of music in 17:20 please

[@futuregirl8803]

Song is called apache by the shadows 😃💖

[@mookeychase0907]

Vaugh Mason & Crew on that Brunswick label took me back...

[@jakethesharpie]

anyone know what year was the documentary made?

[@OriginalOgraphy]

Much Love

[@TheFunkjuice]

No way, Dr. Syntax doing the commentary?! Yes!! Big up UK Hip-Hop!!

[@MoCityBeau]

TheFunkjuice yeah but hip hop is pushing 40 not 20

[@TheFunkjuice]

what's your point?

[@MoCityBeau]

TheFunkjuice You cant be that slow!

[@rspustelnik]

this Doc was released in 1999

[@ahmedgunner15]

what year did this come out?

[@nyckillaheat]

hiphop spread all throughout long island too. for example rakim

[@Dutchblower]

So nice to see people stoned in a interview :-)

[@vendett4903]

I'm outt crying out here wondering where did we go wrong 😔 all peace to hiphopa

[@Goldskool]

ill like to see more 7o's footage featuring boys of the mid 70's i have enough 80's ...i like U.s the 8 track generation to get that shine..

[@TrickyKid11]

Please tell me who is after "MC Hammer"?

[@hotazeva5]

Ashley's Roachclip, it's also part of the song playing in the beginning with the horns

[@SirPierreSe]

really really good..

[@Smek23Th]

00.22 what it the song?? peace!!

[@ceeceetracey9839]

mutha fuckin Crazy Legs. I remember being excited to see Beat Street because we were finally going to get to see Crazy Legs and not just HEAR about him.

[@youngken95]

LOVE HIP HOP

[@Vlad3000]

@Brooganboo I could be wrong but sounds like Deodato

[@darnellplayer743]

Long-live Hip Hop, in all It's glory~

[@faustowerk]

coisas asim nunca mais volta epoca boa que maravilha boms tempos

[@originaltamil]

The Great Father of Hip Hop..Kool Herc! respect to the big homie for givin us the greatest gift in music...fuck the haters hip hop has a PULSE thats the difference