The World's 1st Rapper Grandmaster Caz on Latinos' Role in Hip-Hop (Flashback)

In this flashback, Grandmaster Caz weighed in on who he thinks are guests in the house of hip-hop, and he explained that anyone came in after the birth of hip-hop, regardless of color, are guests. Grandmaster Caz then stated that Latinos weren't original pioneers in hip-hop, and he added that they came in after the inception.

[@Mr-Keyes]

Blacks invented hip hop and the puerto ricans came in later once the party's started to hit the streets. Puerto Ricans contributed and added on especially in Bboyin/Rockin (Breakdancing). It's funny how they claim they claim to be there from the beginning when most of them didn't associate with Black people at all.

[@user-gx6sg2dt3v]

I was just saying this. How you claim to be apart in creating something when the two communities were essentially segregated.

[@raybori6808]

Lies I'm from the BX/And Harlem ...on my block in the 70s all my boys were black and I'm Puerto Rican... Ya'll Must Have Forgot block etiquette if you live on the same block then we family regardless of color even in the projects Patterson, Millbrook Bronxdale, Prospect, Soundview...we had each other back ..... unless you all from the Bronx or Harlem you don't know what the fuck you're talkin about especially about this music right here if you were not here from the beginning (i was) you an observer don't forget it homie

[@dominiquewyatt6704]

Exactly alot of them didn't even like black people and would call them the N word.

[@bktaino201]

Exactly Puerto Ricans ain’t trying to take the credit we just saying we contributed , that’s it

[@afrolore7462]

​@@raybori6808🧢

[@lethal5flow679]

Even legendary Puerto Rican Dj Charlie Chase from the Cold Crush Brothers said other Latinos use to dis him for being down with hip hop (they'd call it a derogatory word)......and this interview is on video. Charlie Chase was from back in the 70's, so he'd know. So it's a complete exaggeration that Latinos were a part of hip hop from the beginning.

[@boredricanveteran9433]

Their was black people dissing hip hop too though… hip hop started in the bronx the culture was formed by both blacks and Puerto Ricans and this is a indisputable fact

[@lethal5flow679]

@Bored Rican Veteran I think they “contributed “ to hip hop would be a better way of putting it.

[@boredricanveteran9433]

@@lethal5flow679 that’s a fine way to put it also… however I do think Puerto ricans were a part since the beginning. Bronx is heavily intertwined with black and Puerto Rican’s I’m from the east coast we are one it’s not like the Mexicans and black people on the west coast we were there tagging and break dancing enjoying to go along with the battles and the dj’s some great Puerto Rican MC’s too I don’t understand why we would try to paint either side as a culture vulture where I’m from we are one culture

[@rickos1234]

@@boredricanveteran9433 LISTEN…. Stop it, ya’ll NEVER created this ok, just accept the fact and move on !

[@isidrosalas5088]

Latinos and Hispanics aren't the same thing.

[@MannyMonchy]

As a Latino from New York I gotta admit that yes other cultures have added their own flavor to the hip hop culture it’s that New York is a melting pot … but we can’t claim to have invented this culture this is definitely a black art form now salsa and merengue is a different story . We invented those rhythms and culture but not hip hop let’s keep it real

[@C--Ray]

Salsa Merengre Reggae was also created by Foundational Black Americans

[@MannyMonchy]

@@C--Ray lol 😂 listen maybe you are right but to my knowledge salsa is named that way because of a mix of influences combined to make a genre of music … so you might be right or you might be wrong cause there is a lot of contributing factors to make the culture and music . Merengue is from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 without a doubt so can’t agree with you there .

[@MannyMonchy]

@@C--Ray keep in mind African people were brought to Latin America wayyyyy before they arrived in the USA 🇺🇸 😉

[@goudagalindo1790]

@@C--Ray black people created everything lol. They invented everything why not.

[@Llegando_Tarde]

Salsa, merengue, and bomba also was passed down from west african ancestry. All the skin drums came from africa.

[@bryandouglass9997]

James Brown is hip hop....

[@briandowling6663]

Washyoarse

[@briandowling6663]

I like crush red pepper inside my tomato sauce

[@jamesstephens9702]

This statement is true " Puerto Rican in the bronx at the time would say we got our own latin thing "!

[@raykane2063]

Exactly I remember they was always playing handball in the parks. Some where kool too.

[@jamesstephens9702]

That was the era of the Fania all stars and Salsoul in Nueva York

[@randee4550]

​@jamesstephens9702 Which predates Hip-Hop

[@bigolbabyhuey]

*I don't believe in that "Guest in the house of hip hop stuff". But in the 60s and the early 70s, Puerto Ricans and African Americans weren't down with each other like that. People are now trying to romanticize NYC history and make it seem like it was one big melting pot*

[@boogidwnej179]

Puerto Ricans hated blaccs. NYC is super segregated.

[@Chrisbx17]

@@boogidwnej179 all my racism came from black ppl, ya the most racist ppl so I think ya like to project a lot

[@boogidwnej179]

@@Chrisbx17 who are you? Blacc ppl have no reason to hate on any other race 🤣🤣 every race wanna be like us. Why tf would we hate on any other race? Get for real.

[@boogidwnej179]

@@Chrisbx17 blacc ppl Are literally the least racist group. We do t teach hate. We don’t make up diregatory words for other groups.

[@Chrisbx17]

@@boogidwnej179 excuse I meant AA not black ppl but that’s a mf LIE. Ya are super racist to Asians & Hispanics in nyc. And factually Hispanics are the least racist ppl in the world

[@hemispace641]

I brought my 12 inch "Rappers Delight", "Cold Crushin Lover", and "Love Rap" to my 6th grade class. Teacher allowed us to push the desks against the wall, blast the music (well, on school phonograph) and DANCE. We kept playing Rappers Delight because everyone would sing along as they knew the words. However, when I put on Spoonie G's "Love Rap" the kids got quiet and stopped dancing. Spoonie G was too advanced at the time for most 6th graders... I brought a record by "Lady B" as well, which wasn't that great. After a while, the Principal of the school told my teacher to shut down the party, put the desks back in place, and get back to 6th grade work... I'm an American Puerto Rican. Born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan... But my EARLIEST memory of hip-hop is when...

[@jaren2159]

Black Americans invented Hip Hop it's to many recipes to say other wise

[@rustyjames5000]

Herc is Jamaican. Ghetto Bros. we're PR. Best breakdancers are PR. What receipts do you have?

[@Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh]

Tony basil pioneer of pop lock-in, blonde was there spittin fab five Freddy's name, zephyr, seen, Cap first to bomb graffiti, rock steady crew, Taki 183, iz the wiz min, mare all these people deserve the title inventors of hip hop. They were right there.

[@keyshahoodprincess9]

@@rustyjames5000 they didn't create hip hop they were apart of it.

[@keyshahoodprincess9]

@@Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh first graffiti artist was from Philadelphia pop and break was done in Black culture before hip hop started. They don't deserve no credit for creating what already existed in or culture and it evolved in hip hop

[@rustyjames5000]

@@keyshahoodprincess9 I'm going to take it easy on you. Rap was not created in the Bronx. Hip-Hop culture was, and everybody I mentioned set a huge foundation for it to boil in the pot.

[@Llegando_Tarde]

So let me ask yall a question, when "them" puerto ricans were messing with the bongos timbales congas across the street, where did that music come from? What music was salsa inspired from? From white people? Skin covered drums were passed from west african ancenstry used in salsa and in and especially bomba music, this music was always a way to resist anti african sentiment from the spaniards and to this day the african spirit of africa is always present in puerto rican culture with its music, food, and even in the language with words only someone local would understand. My grandma was born and raised in puerto rico in the early 30's, she never even knew that in the USA whites and blacks went to segregated schools because all that crap never existed in PR. Light skinned down to the darkest person in PR all live in the same neighborhoods and we are all mixed in the same family and all one people, color makes no damm diffirence. Has there ever been racism? Absolutely and it goes both ways and it stems from stupid ass conversations like this one that are only meant to seperate and not celebrate the reality from people who were not even there! Hip hop was born in 70's in the bronx, and if you think puerto ricans weren't there and didnt feel that rythym down to their bones, than yall straight ignorant and hating like a mf. You cant erase history just because all the white people wanna live and buy up the damn block now in 21st century. At the same time how is a 15 year old black kid from Los angeles, alabama or anywhere down south supposed to know latinos were there in the 70's hip hoppin?? Puerto Ricans dont have deep roots in the south and west like in NY, so alot of black americans people cant identify with puerto ricans but what can we expect especially from this newest generation. To all beautiful black American people who are extremely proud that from all the difficulties and misfortunes of the hood, was born the best type of music (HIP HOP), thank you for it all but latinos were always there and still here 150%. And to anyone looking from the outside in, get over it.

[@freemind1456]

People wont listen bruh, everyone wants to be the proud owner of something. Those whithout a chip on the shoulder love and appreciate ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[@SOJARAPMUSIC]

Broken down perfectly.

[@Paidwellington]

I don't agree with you but this is very well said.

[@hemispace641]

Amen to that...

[@allaboutthatbass741]

Exactly!!!! Many people do not know it but Puerto Rican culture as a whole is African based. The dancing, the instruments, the music and the food ALL take their roots mainly from Africa. We didn't addopt or steal it, it was handed down from our African ancestors. Our island also endured slavery long before the states. The first plantations in American history started in the Caribbean with sugar cane and rum. I myself have little African blood in me but my grandmother on my father's side was 40% African, 40% taino, 20% European. She came from Luiza Puerto Rico, one of the biggest ports that also gave birth to Bomba, a very African dance and music that is 💯 Puerto Rican. And music and dance of revolution. Looking at early B boy culture very much reminds me of bomba in the sense that it was used to conversation with dance. The dance area was a circle in the middle. It was called the Batey. It was an open space for dancers to communicate with each other and the drummers. To me it very much in that sense is relatable to b boy break dancing. Yes, the moves are different but the emotions and messages are all interlinked.

[@bktaino201]

To all Black peoples out there the term Morenos used by Puerto Riccans and Dominicans is NOT a negative term., look up the translation for yourself

[@robertalexander2478]

Yeah I bet

[@daviddrummond9386]

We know it means Moor we been hip, but there is a lot of antiblackness in Latin cultures

[@JayReaction530]

its the context its used in if i say " why you hanging with Morenos" clearly its negative

[@ethanmeans]

Indeed because we are Moors/Moreno

[@eastside2473]

That Mexican rapper who says he would never sigh to a black executive or black own label while he is a culture vulture imitating everything we do we should have these guesses pay monthly rent to hip hop to the culture…..

[@user-ce8se4zs3j]

Shut up if it wants for US latinos hiphip wouldnt get nationally known

[@CrowdPleeza]

Blacks and Latinos didn't start Hip Hop together but they did develop it together. All of the elements that make up Hip Hop culture were started by Black-Americans and some Caribbean Blacks. Puerto Ricans and other Latinos did play a role in the development and popularity of Hip Hop. The first Breakers from NYC and the first Lockers, Poppers and Strutters from California were Black-Americans. The first known graffiti artist was a guy named Cornbread from Philadelphia. A Black-American. The first rappers were Black-Americans. The first Hip Hop Dj was Kool Herc a Jamaican.

[@tricebx718]

I love how he said that - lord jamar is a descendant by birthright . For those Africans that don’t see black Americans as African- we are descendants ! It is our natural birthright whether we been there or not . Period

[@carpitclean5762]

First and foremost anyone outside of being black trying talk bs to me goes in one ear and out the buttocks 💯💯💯

[@tharealisrael1447]

No we are not

[@user-gx6sg2dt3v]

Exactly folks need to start speaking for themselves.

[@alstone5005]

No you are African and should never again speak for a Black soul but you

[@krownking2310]

WE, FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS created Hip Hop. We have numerous receipts! TETHERS STOP THE BULLSHIT

[@MysticSoundsMusic]

Did you?

[@tswaggcodes5]

Facts!

[@kanarcydalive1579]

Check out The Star Report latest community post on hip hop

[@xSalamz]

@@kanarcydalive1579 Respect to the hater.

[@ForgottenCityOnline]

@@kanarcydalive1579 Crazy Legs was BABBLING his ass off!

[@daflinboy57]

Vlad tried To stop him with that question he articulate it exactly why and how jamar is a Descendent of hip-hop

[@D.Nice..]

Why was the question even asked? Is Jamar PR?

[@blers87]

Who is the person that made up the word "hiphop" and the 5 elements? Just curious

[@blers87]

its started as MC . "Master of ceremony" And where did the word rap come from?

[@Rdkcmo]

So eloquently put good brother

[@larrylovesyougdn6433]

BreakDancing & Grafitti is Part of Hip-Hop

[@lwrncjms]

Graffiti was around long before Hip-Hop

[@larrylovesyougdn6433]

@@lwrncjms It Went made it Popular!?!?

[@derekthompson7661]

@@larrylovesyougdn6433 By a dude named cornbread From Philly

[@tamirk8299]

Not any more

[@marley1995]

@@tamirk8299 it’s not hip hop anymore. If it doesn’t involve djing and graff it’s not hip hop.

[@brendawilliams7208]

I love how he ended the interview.

[@eastbee103]

Protect our culture at all costs!! The vultures are circling!!

[@cyprian199]

That’s it and that’s all!

[@thirdeyeinsomnia9776]

Thats not all. He changed his tune.

[@cameronwilliams8473]

Kept it 💯

[@kanarcydalive1579]

Check out The Star Report community post dealing wit this subject

[@killemall923]

Yeah the last caller sum it up pretty good. Jenn didn't even know what the hell she was talking about even after crazy legs gave his opinion.

[@CrowdPleeza]

From an interview with JOJO an early member of the Rock Steady Crew. This deals with Breaking. SIR NORIN RAD:"That's very interesting! You were featured in that documentary "The Freshest Kids" and you stated there something to the effect that you were actually already B-Boying when there were hardly any Puerto Ricans around doing that dance...." JOJO:"That's exactly what I'm meaning. What I'm telling you now that's what I meant when I said that. We were the only Puerto Ricans that got busy. Now DJ Kool Tee and DJ Mr. Lee (early DJs from the West Bronx) used to give us our respect and say, "Check out the Puerto Rican B-Boys in the house! B-Boy Spiderman and B-Boy Spiderweb!" And we got busy and that was way back. Back then there were a lot of Zulu B-Boys around. They sorta ran it back then. As for the Puerto Rican B-Boys we were just up and coming. You know, we were people who wanted to learn it and got good at it 'cause, you know, they say Puerto Ricans actually put B-Boys on their back. We're the ones that started the backspinning and all these kind of moves. As far as the footwork and the flip turns that they did....that came from the Black B-Boys." Interview with B-Boy Jojo (The Rock Steady Crew)

[@CrowdPleeza]

I'd also add that dance styles like Locking, Popping and Strutting were also started by Black-Americans in California. These styles were adopted by NYC Hip Hop people.

[@CrowdPleeza]

Just to add. Puerto Ricans and other Latinos played a big role with developing and popularizing the elements of Hip Hop. When Breaking died out with Black-Americans around 1977 it would have stayed that way had Puerto Ricans not picked it up. Most people got exposed to Breaking through Puerto Ricans after the late 70s.

[@ALo-yv2pj]

I wonder what Fat Joe thinks about all this now

[@thesupervisor3270]

F**k him! Every since he started his podcast he’s becoming a blown 🤡 just like he said him and BIG was gonna do a album dissing Tupac then Lil Cease said in his Vlad interview Joe was lying

[@FlyTyBlizzy]

Fat joe paid him to change his mind

[@thirdeyeinsomnia9776]

This guy already changed his tune. Theres nothing more to say. He was just showing out in front of the white man.

[@timtim3316]

Everytime they lies get debunked they just moved the goalpost 🤣

[@rustyjames5000]

Who's they?

[@lelandpratt9061]

In the thumbnail, for a sec, i thought Vlad interviewed Beetle Juice from Howard Stern.

[@pureafrican3585]

At the end of the day African-American started rap & hip hop. I'm sick of other people trying to get on the bandwagon. (They not like us) K. Dot

[@jamesstephens9702]

I have to agree because I am a baby boomer who was a teenager in west bronx nyc back 1970s.

[@cizzle456]

Grand master Caz is not the first rapper 🧐

[@backspace286]

He just said his first DJ was Puerto Rican and Cuban

[@boobsvids]

Guest, in our culture we go all out for our Guests, make sure they’re comfortable, fed, feel like they’re at home

[@Chrisbx17]

The guy who invented that term lord jamar said that didn’t apply to puerto Rican’s tho

[@user-gx6sg2dt3v]

They got comfortable and now think they are the originals.

[@jayjones251]

@Gotham City it does though

[@TeenaDavis101]

Yes and it got us into trouble too. Bcuz now the guest wanna take over the house and claim they laid the foundation. 😂

[@AnimalAlmighty]

@@user-gx6sg2dt3v🎯

[@prodtfm]

caz the first rapper??? since when?

[@ryankingland3892]

Good take until he refused to back it up and say that LJ falls into the category 😂

[@blackice51374]

🤔 that's what you got from what he just said?

[@ryankingland3892]

@@blackice51374 I got a lot from what he just said I just thought it was funny that he said basically everyone except for the original forefathers were “guests” but then bended it a tad so that he didn’t have to offend the homie lol he a legend though all respect due I just thought it was funny

[@blackice51374]

@@ryankingland3892 oh ok

[@thesupervisor3270]

He shouldn’t have said idc what color u are he should of left it at outside of black that’s what messed him up

[@forporter1]

That title is misleading. Caz wouldn't even say that.

[@carpitclean5762]

It's our ish so eff anyone who disagree 💯

[@California-king]

Man they been rhyming words since little Richard did tooty fruity… just different beats and cadence

[@malcolmkeith816]

lil richard aint hip hop lol

[@kynshii]

Right, they even had money suits lol

[@PonderthePath100]

@@malcolmkeith816 our culture has evolved, he’s simply saying we’ve been rhyming since little Richard came out. Before him really. It’s black culture🤷🏾‍♂️

[@raybori6808]

Puerto Ricans are NOT guests were residents, we may not have created it but we PAID RENT!!😅😂❤...PEACE n SALUTE CAZ D

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

Naw y'all are our first guest. FBA stand up! Let's keep fighting and preserve our creations

[@yepyep9499]

This comment is so stupid. How are you gonna declare yourself anything when even you say “we pay rent”. That means you don’t own it even if you do. The people who created it or own it decide what you are. Not you.

[@robertmcknight6458]

He said Latinos weren't directly involved in hip-hop that much.... what does that mean? I wish they would've asked when his best friend, his Latino DJ became a DJ since he's the first rapper? Was he a DJ before he started rapping? 🤔

[@marlostewart1107]

💯💯💯💯💯

[@yourself2275]

Somebody need to tell swifty blue

[@keysersoze5094]

When people want to say things like Lord Jamal said thats when you take a wrong turn.. "A guest" in hip hop whats that supposed to mean?

[@rustyjames5000]

It means wipe your feet. Make your music, but the culture doesn't belong to you. You can go anywhere you want to go with it, but the streets will always take it back.

[@nonono9194]

​​@@rustyjames5000same with every white invention then, use that phone and internet, toilet, car and language, but always remember you're borrowing it

[@jg8785]

Let’s ask what KRS- ONE says about PR and hip hop

[@Paidwellington]

This video is actually incredible. W for Vlad here. Caz articulated the entire Fba position before the movement even existed. He has since backtracked but his candidness in this interview is very telling. Hip Hop is in the genes...

[@intelligencehaswon5714]

I noticed he backtracked but why?

[@Nikkyeshiva83]

Surprised they still acknowledge Jamar. Maybe this is a peace offering to get him back on. And if hip hop is a birthright then Ben Carson can put out another rap song for his next campaign.

[@sinematic06]

It’s a old flashback

[@ethanmeans]

💯

[@shitizreelshitizreel3848]

I've seen blacks praise AL Hartford claiming him with pride and than switch faces after finding out " oh wait...he's latino". So now NBA player AL Harford is not black anymore?? Is it skin color that dictates and or culture? The average African American is confused about what Black really is.

[@piyesankara890]

Nah the average Latino is confused

[@MannyMonchy]

I think our history is too complex for Americans to understand lol 😂 there’s a lot of black people in the Latino culture . USA doesn’t teach history the right way just like everything else they do here . Only country in the world who reads temperature in Fahrenheit and weight in pounds 🤷🏻‍♂️ they tell the story they wanna tell but that’s not the peoples fault .. If we really knew our history we would not be making all these sorry comments . As far as Hip Hop goes in my opinion it’s an art form invented by under privileged youth in urban America . Bronx NY it would be hard to tell who created it but without a doubt black Americans living in the ghettos at that time have the most influence in the art form . I’m sure others like Latinos or Puerto Rican’s added their flavor as well but black American culture was and is the dominating culture in hip hop . Merengue and Salsa on the hand I’d like to say was created and promoted by Latinos who are of mix race .. peace and love ✌🏼

[@D.Nice..]

Race & nationality/ethnicity are not the same. Horford is both....Black and Latino descent.

[@D.Nice..]

@@MannyMonchy I think many Latinos are more confused about history...or maybe they choose to IGNORE what they want.

[@shitizreelshitizreel3848]

@D.Nice.. Nah many blacks are confused and are bitter about being more distant from their African roots than Caribbean latino for example. The dudes you call Latinos from down there are more in touch with African culture than you probably are. Who in the hood the Congas??? Lol!! Ya'll out of touch and can't see the deeper picture thinking black started in the south...yeah...that's the slave master.culture that came after that Congo was thrown off the boat. We were ripped of our culture but peep who keeps it realer and where the music comes from.

[@rickos1234]

Someone tag Fat Joe !!!!

[@beesting6135]

There where more than 2 the Puerto Rican poets influenced rap

[@brownrecluse3526]

A LOTTA guest out rappin artists in they OWN home Except for Grand Master Caz, Melly Mel, Krs1 & Rakim

[@blackghanistant.v.456]

Yes u are a guess in our house 🏡 period see few blacks are gonna keep it 💯 but hey it is what it is💯

[@meanscorpio7999]

What I told you they was guest to the culture just like house music back in the early 80s those other races was guest

[@brotherzion4706]

(DOS/Black Americans/Israelites) created hip-hop/rap music 🎶 plain and simple...

[@NAGASTFOOTWEAR]

talk that ish Caz .....lol

[@rahsaanthomas7030]

Caz was talking about the backlash he's gotten on Rock The Bells radio this morning..

[@yourself2275]

TRUTH HURT DONT IT 😂😂😂

[@Mo4Lo]

Wait. Is Lord Jamar NOT black???

[@yourself2275]

😂

[@yahsaves6725]

No, he's Puerto Rican.

[@AK-qb3xp]

@@yahsaves6725 Puerto Rican is not a race. Afro-Puerto Ricans represent 20 percent of the population 😉.

[@D.Nice..]

@@yahsaves6725 He is Black. P.R. is not a race. SMH

[@blacxice]

Anyone outside of the Bronx and NYC ya guest to the wave don’t get it twisted

[@NoLoveLost.]

Yea right the origins started in the south

[@dizzyb2309]

Lol the first rappers are from the Carolinas

[@ChamP10nk1ng]

Actually, Caz replied on "radical Latino" channel correcting what he said here on this interview which discredited all the coloborative efforts.

[@raykane2063]

This is the truth DJVlad interview. Any black person in the Bronx knows this. He changed it so Revolt TV and the agenda they pushing won't look bad. They have power and deep pockets.

[@HistoryandConspiracies29]

Hip-hop belongs to blacks period! The rest of us must respect & acknowledge this..

[@rellfree6400]

Black Americans to be exact

[@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395]

Classical Music belongs to whites PERIOD. The rest of yall sampling our music must respect and acknowledge this! 👊you’re all just a guest at the house of the greatest most impressive genre in music history period.

[@alexb5812]

@@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395 no one cares. Most of hip hop samples blues, R&B and other black genres

[@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395]

@@alexb5812 which all take from classical, classic cultural appropriation. Imagine no pianos or violins in HipHop yo welcome.

[@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395]

Hiphop can’t exist without sampling which is just stealing from other art forms.

[@rajackson50]

DJ Kool Herc, is Jamaican! And that whole building at 1520 Sedgwick Ave in 70’s to 90’s and probably now (I joined the Army on Fordham rd) was and is Multi Ethnic! Hip hop was Predominant “Black” but always elements of other cultures!

[@boneheadwingfield6508]

He has never claimed to start hip hop. Stop it.godfather? Yes, he was not the creator.

[@glitbow7630]

Herc never started hip hop

[@Taurond926]

Stop it! Blacks created HIP-HOP point blank period!

[@rajackson50]

@@Taurond926 How old are you? Where you there? I was! You where not there!!!! How can you witness something and not be there? You lying! I was there it was African American but other people Ethnicities contributed! 🤷🏾‍♂️😂🤣😂✌🏿

[@rajackson50]

@@boneheadwingfield6508 I agree! Just stating how The “Black American” was not just American born peoples! Just stating Facts! I was there!

[@vana.mitchell6788]

Rappers had a problem being understood, remember,writing was this What I thought of what I seen at the time, The beginning of Anything is spoke about for decades because it took that amount of time to be understood,.FastFaster,faster,.the comments about this topic Greek, would only be give to a true Champion,and sometimes it was better to 16 candles veiw,no other reason for working class individual in your home environment to explain it to you,with it or not,many believe the Space shuttle was hocks ,a hustle, can't remember why it mattered,who was in the dark,or back stage, it is all a Race,automaticly divides and that's that beginnings ,good one❤

[@jasperstjock2325]

Rap started in Gospel in the 1930s Cab Callaway introduced it to circular crowds. Records replaced bands & DJs needed the MC to become the original hype man. The DJ was replaced by the hype man MC now MCs are replaced by actors..... f music!

[@n1ggazsoldout359]

Now he saying something different. SELLOUT

[@hviii7452]

Coke La Rock is the 1st MC/Rapper…Ask Kool Herc

[@bigolbabyhuey]

Coke La Rock started in 73. There were mc's in 70, 71 and 72. People like KC The Prince Of Soul and others

[@hiphopculturetv7744]

Cool Herc did not start hip hop so he wouldn't know

[@user-ce8se4zs3j]

​@@hiphopculturetv7744the sound system was started by him SO yeah i think he did

[@BobbitoChicon-kd4vk]

1 or 2 well take it....latinos helped create Hip Hop 💯

[@KingstonTV334]

He got a lot of his original teeth

[@raybori6808]

Back in the day ....after Rappers Delight and Supa Rhymes came out me and my Brother were the only ones from our cousins that fucked with hip hop....the rest Freestyle, Salsa, Merengue...and theyd clown us so Caz is speaking truthfully....im 57 yrs old btw and have been loyal since....1976

[@face111corona]

He talkin bout immigrants...native Newyoricans were always in those circles. Cas just said his DJ partner was down with him from day one...

[@down-b8197]

With him from day one... he wasn't there day one.

[@face111corona]

@@down-b8197 carribean peoples been enslaved since day one...then master brang you here and mixed u with the indian...so u right. But study ur history. Hip hop is the voice of the oppressed...

[@down-b8197]

@@face111corona What does slavery have to do with the beginning of hip hop? Hip hop like the blues is a voice of Black Americans.

[@face111corona]

@@down-b8197 Voice of the oppressed...many latinos are Black...what don't you understand? Our art doesn't come from a color, it comes from the need for us to socialize and come together. It's the women who motivated us. Who u think gets all the latin women in the rap videos? Ice tea broke into the game with a Mexican model on his album cover...birth of West coast gangster rap. Art is a community that celebrates skill and technique...the blending of colors. What you are kicking is politics. These are oppressor tactics, Lord Jamar said it best... Divide and conquer.

[@face111corona]

@@down-b8197 To break it down, without latinos there is no hip hop. It would still be the blues for you bruh.

[@DiogoCalado_MuayThai]

Are africans guests in soccer?

[@robertalexander2478]

Did they invent it?

[@DiogoCalado_MuayThai]

@@robertalexander2478 no! England did.

[@MessianicCharlatan]

Lord Jamar descends from free blacks, not slaves. pretty sure i heard him say that.

[@crownether579]

Lineage!!😭 lmfao WORD!!!!

[@TheDonMostro]

Pongas and Timbales 🤣🤣🤣🤣 why Vlad start laughing like that lol

[@yourself2275]

Cuz its true; they forefathers was NOT rockin like us. Now days lame people like swiftly blue try to rap and disrespect black people at the same time.

[@Llegando_Tarde]

Bongas, congas and all the skin drums came from west African ancestry, so this whole argument is bs.

[@jcbirdman74]

@@Llegando_Tarde Bongos**

[@jcbirdman74]

Congas**

[@MyNewYorkCity.]

Bunch of Caribbean dudes helped with inception of hip hop. He just said it but then says no WTH 🤣

[@jaren2159]

Black Americans created Hip Hop

[@boogidwnej179]

Carrabean is still blacc. Most puerto rivals identify as Spanish (Spain is in Europe, aka whyte)… also in Puerto Rico or Cuba, on the census, there’s only 3 options, whyte, black or mixed race. So even Puerto Ricans an cubas differentiate between being a black or wyte Puerto Rican.

[@boogidwnej179]

You sir are white

[@hiphopculturetv7744]

No you didnt.

[@dickensanthony]

Do Caribbean people not count as Black? Or is that only when they want all the credit?

[@luislugo3800]

As far as I know every Puerto Rican has slave blood in them, even if they are white with green eyes. We all have African, Taino, and European roots, it is common knowledge here.

[@jayjones251]

What's your point? This is about culture not genealogy.

[@gregoryk6279]

Even bad bunny/ aneul where hop hip influences

[@jerrylopez8619]

You know how when you were a kid and your Mom bought 1 toy for you and your sibling. She said it belongs to both of you, but then one got selfish and said , it's mine only. Well that's how you look trying to hide the fact. Dig deep and do your research. No replies please. Don't @ me. I don't argue with keyboard warriors.

[@user-cq5fj6fr1u]

Hip Hop is Foundational Black American culture! Everybody else respect it or stay out of it!

[@koguma.newyork1]

case closed

[@brownin329]

He needs to look at the Lost Disciples late 60s. Latinos were there with us at the beginning.

[@user-gx6sg2dt3v]

Like what one or two people? The Puerto Ricans didn't fuck with the "blacks" and many today still think like that.

[@AnimalAlmighty]

🧢 they are yt people

[@Felix-M.]

​@@AnimalAlmighty Look at the figure of our Women and tell us we are White .... Puerto Rican and Black Women often have the same body build .... You reaching hardbody right now ! You fighting the wrong fight ... We are yaw cousins not yaw oppressors because we are lighter in skin sometimes... We be in the same Hoods and Projects and same Prisons and Jails as yaw over populating by statistics.... Once again you are fighting the wrong fight . Open your eyes

[@gatito1343]

Yo Vlad worlds first rapper was NOT Caz respect to Caz do that research please! DJ Hollywood! Eddie Cheeba! Caz couldnt f with these dudes.Ask Caz himself! These Rappers need to be acknowledged Please!

[@akaicruise]

Caz is the worlds first rapper??!! Wtf? Lmao

[@knowledgesuncere7786]

Sooner or later they gonna say Blondie started hip-hop

[@thethoughtfultakeovertie9345]

FBA culture...

[@ComeOnSunLetsTalkAboutiT]

2:45 🇵🇷 put the salsa Goya n hiphop. Before it sounded more like techno.we brought back the conga. Check out what bomba & plena is. Learn something

[@RealDealy]

Hip hop is dead, officially cause when you can’t tell the truth without worrying about losing money, or being hated, you’re in a messed up situation Im not contributing to something foul like hip hop is, now Im just calling my future stuff “Blk American music” or just “Funk” since funk is what we sampled to make rap songs, anyway!

[@ThommyMckGoaty]

Get a life and log off my boy, you got too man Vlad comments💀

[@RealDealy]

@@ThommyMckGoaty nah, y’all dumb ass hip hop people need to learn something Y’all have knowledge in nothing but are arrogant like a muh Then wonder why these labels, and criminal justice system, stay robbing y’all

[@YoMomma99]

Hip-Hop has been dead for the longest just listen to the crap kids listen to now a days and not just the kids but a lot of older folks too

[@ChaseVercetti]

how is Grandmaster Caz the worlds first rapper when Coke La Rock is still alive?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Vlad you need to do some history, fam..

[@raykane2063]

COKE LA ROCK 💯 Kool Herc's MC. Vlad did an interview with him and stated he was the First Hip Hop MC. Vlad bugging.

[@7Eightyone]

Nah, lots of people credit Caz, and some Mel for being the first real rappers. Coke did rhyming call and response. Never did verses or songs.

[@backspace286]

he just said his first DJ was Puerto Rican and Cuban. They will eat each other every day. They dress alike and everything but now Puerto Ricans an Cubans are not involved

[@CrowdPleeza]

Ok but he was saying that the Puerto Rican presence in Hip Hop wasn't that heavy at that point(early to mid 70s). The Puerto Rican presence became heavier in the late 70s.

[@prof3ssor178]

Latinos helped with the break dancing

[@lwrncjms]

They didn't invent it tho

[@sweatygonzalez3412]

Black Americans don't need help with dancing

[@user-ce8se4zs3j]

​@@sweatygonzalez3412yeah right You watched BET i mean some of yalls dancing is dookie

[@5entertainment2010]

There you HAVE IT !! JUST for all you FOOLS

[@alectapia1518]

Why are they laughing at congas and timbales?

[@RobReport]

If decendants of slaves is what makes you part of hip hop, there were African Slaves in Puerto Rico and DR WAY before they arrived in the US. Sooooo..............

[@therealazzaripmfreecasfree7540]

It's insane how black people aren't allowed to have anything for themselves, Caribbeans in the Bronx started hip hop - Jamaicans specifically, they were rhyming over beats before anyone. And the "latinos" that played a role early on were black latinos anyway.

[@RealDealy]

Just totally wrong! I’m not typing more just go watch “Culture: debunking Busta rhymes and Pete rocks outrageous comments”

[@Rajiin]

Puerto Ricans we're freestyle'n off the top in forms of Salsa and other music formats way before "rap" was invented.

[@rellfree6400]

Carribeans didn’t create shit black Americans created hip directly and indirectly. We been rhyming on beat since the 30s also kool herc brought the hip hop to the Jamaicans cuz we didn’t like that dancehall music

[@thadon1067]

Jamaicans didn’t create no damn hip hop 🤦🏿‍♂️ and Latinos definitely didn’t.

[@blacxice]

I’m Dominican from the Bronx black & Latinos created the wave this is an inner city creation

[@OneHandMoneyMan]

He said a couple of Latinos, so yes Latinos in fact helped build the house, period. Caz just didn’t want to make Jamar look bad. ☮️

[@zaymula4148]

You just can't accept it can you? 😂 Blacks literally created almost every popular genre of music today from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Funk, Contry, Rock and HIP HOP! Accept it punk, Blacks were rapping back in the 1940s before Hip Hop was even a thing. Pay homage to the Black man.

[@writ3r5683]

@@zaymula4148 facts facts facts. These clowns don't know history

[@shitizreelshitizreel3848]

Licking nutz!! No integrity so he'll stick to what he considers his own kind. The behavioe of a separatists who will turn around and whine about a Why- it man doing the same thing. Like his folks never whispered in the ears of a black person and say don't mess with those Latinos. They want to cry victims yet do the same lol! Doesn't even know what black is smh

[@renegade1491]

@@zaymula4148 homage for what!? The white man took it from yall just like they did everything else💯😬

[@renegade1491]

@@zaymula4148 Spanish rap sells more worldwide. Give us our respect as well. Cant get respect while giving disrespect💯

[@1plugdug102]

Well whats Fat Joe got to say now?

[@raykane2063]

Last I heard Porky Pig is claiming Puerto Ricans invented Drill Music 🐷

[@blackmexico9519]

If u ask me, I say because of blacks we have rap music and because of latinos we have breakdancing & others followed and because of this we have this thing called “hip hop” (gotta love it.) the dudes out in Atlanta driving that train now

[@zarren5511]

Not true you will break dancing 10 years before y'all even came along

[@zantonio4882]

Hip hop is for people that were in the struggle no matter what color we all we from the same place

[@writ3r5683]

Naw pimp it belongs to only us. Y'all music don't compare to ours. Make up ya own shit

[@BIG-NIIJI_WEST]

We not all from the same place though

[@writ3r5683]

@@C1K450 lmao and makes latino men look gay asf. Lmao y'all music last a few years. Nice try tho

[@jamesdillard5472]

No we are not you can't compare Latino struggles to ours definitely not the same

[@zantonio4882]

None of you have been to the ghetto you would never understand

[@javiercales5019]

Some of you guys are being ignorant, Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods have been around in New York since the 50's. Look up "The Young Lords", they became tight with the Black Panthers back in the 60's and would do protest together against racism in the city of New York. To say that Ricans weren't there in the 70's is straight out bullshit. They are a part of Hip Hop.

[@jayjones251]

How come there are no Puerto Ricant cultural elements incorporated in hip-hop. Every aspect of hip-hop screams black american young men and women.

[@javiercales5019]

@@jayjones251 I guess you never heard that most of the cuts on the first two Public Enemy albums were done by Puerto Rican DJ Johnny Juice Rosado. By the time Fear Of A Black Planet came out Terminator X had full control of the turntables. Hey, and lets not forget Prince Markie Dee of The Fat Boys, homeboy was Puerto Rican. Facts!🖤

[@jayjones251]

@javiercales5019 Yeah, that's participating, though. I'm talking about cultural elements from Puerto Rican culture, not individuals who just participated in black american culture.

[@javiercales5019]

@@jayjones251 We all know that Hip Hop was created by African Americans, from the James Brown samples to the MC's rhyming style. But Puerto Ricans or Jamaicans should not be considered guests in the community. We were there from the beginning of it's creation and supported it. I know Fat Joe put his foot in his mouth when he said that it was created by Blacks and Ricans 50/50.

[@solstice191]

So if he’s the first rapper Who was his DJ??A Puerto Rican/Cuban..Go figure……He just admitted that Latinos were there at the inception..

[@smitty7517]

Caz isn’t the first rapper,

[@solstice191]

@@smitty7517 Okay, regardless of you was the first rapper,, you can’t credit hip hop just to the African American community,, Latinos were there at its inception contributing first hand to the movement..This can not be denied…

[@smitty7517]

@@solstice191 Latinos came later and participated-nothing wrong with this. Hiphop is just a continuation of African American culture.

[@user-wq8mo4lq6t]

Latinos contributed to hip hop greatly, including the element of grafitti. To this day black culture downloads from the latino experience and Profit off it!!!

[@dryinkdryink675]

Thats a huge lie. Can you give some example ?

[@js-zf1fu]

Graffiti comes from a black American named cornbread slim from Philly you’re a liar

[@YankeeWoodcraft]

Puerto Ricans have NOTHING to do with hip hop! Don't you put that evil on us Ricky Bobby! 😂