True First - Disco King Mario

[@blackplaque617]

Beautiful documentary...I'm 30 years old and did not have a clue about the King. Smh, we, ADOS/FBA/Native Black Americans, do a horrible job of preserving our history. Then we wonder why everyone is able to steal from our culture and makes billions off it. Black America needs to do better. I just sign the petition. Thank you OG Mike for this doc, salute.

[@cavaleer]

We do a horrible job because our Identity is still based on what someone else thinks or does or says to, of or about Us. As long as we use superficial words to define us we are stuck in the exact psychological, existential cage created by those Brits in the late 1600s. As long as we DON'T claim the word AMERICAN, first middle and last, as what we are and what we created, we will never escape that cage. Our identity, as well as "whiteness", is irrational and it should be no surprise that our behavior follows suit. If all we are is VICTIMS of something called "white" or "racism" or any related delusion or paranoia, WHY would we bother to preserve out history? Jamaica has been a shythole for its entire existence. That's why so many of them escape. But you'll notice they don't call themselves anytbing but Jamaican......Yet we've created the greatest country and culture the world has ever known but we still call ourselves anything BUT American. This is called Irrational. And while it has many layers and angles to fully comprehend, it all boils down to this simple fact.

[@prestonledger3807]

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[@luccachandler5836]

@Preston Ledger instablaster :)

[@urbannuance5151]

Who the hell are you? Just because your not tapped into black American history doesn't mean it's not being preserved. You about 10 years behind. Be disappointed in yourself for not being tapped into the culture.

[@blackplaque617]

@@urbannuance5151 First and foremost, instead of worrying about who the hell I am, learn how to properly write a sentence. Secondly, you're too old to be trolling on social media, brother. I am not going to argue with some old head because he disagrees with a year-old KZbin comment. Beta Black males like yourself who become emotional over the most trivial things really need to grow up. Use that aggressive energy into helping our youth. Peace be with you.

[@josefpulistar5144]

I immigrated to Long Island from Colombia in1970 i was 7 yrs old. Thanks to my dad.He brought my mom and my 2 brothers. I love all kinds of muzik from that era Disco of course around 1975 also Soul, funk Motown. Then i heard this sound where they would be rapping and I loved it. The first jam i heard was Funky four + Sha Rock. I consider myself listening to my culture from then on till 1997 when it started changing. I didn't live in the Bronx but heard my culture through WHBI 105.9(RIP) before mainstream.98.7 KISS FM (RIP) and Mr.Magic WBLS 107.5. I wasnt in the Bronx but i Believe Disco King Mario (RIP) is the first in our culture we call HIP HOP SALUTE! RESPECT🙏🥁🥁🎹🎹🎼🎶🎵❤️✌️

[@Leggobeest7107]

Mario never played extended break beats, sir, so he couldn't have been the founder of hip hop he was more like a disco snake king who adopted New York sound system culture, the culture the got from elsewhere. RIP king Mario " the snake"

[@kooldjphase]

I'm so glad I am in that classic picture with Disco King Mario and this documentary!

[@puravida4552]

All Hip Hop Heads need this DOC🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@vincentthomas8479]

Lets not forget about the djs in Brooklyn. Grand Master Flowers was a disco king in Brooklyn as well. The same time Mario was out.

[@ahmedbelton8139]

But it aint mario though

[@R.G.Willmore]

THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL!!! DISCO KING MARIO YOUR LEGACY WILL NEVER DIE!!

[@LargeDude2023]

I remember hearing about people like Disco King Mario and also others like the Disco Twins when I was a kid. I was living in Manhattan at the time so I never got to see Mario or go to those parties. The first cassette I had with scratching was a DJ named Bill Blass. The first big party I went to was at Horn & Hardard on 34th street with DJ Hollywood, DJ Smalls, Luv Bug Starski and Eddie Cheeba. Best cassette I even had was one with Flash and the Furious 4 MCs and Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick. Those were the days. I’m glad there are still people alive to tell the true history because people can only really speak on what they experienced.

[@kenkenichi7461]

Well you need to get Bill Blass on one of these documentary and tell about the liars.

[@10472bxgirl]

I grew up around Mario and WC. He was older than me. I grew up with his cousins in the first section of Bronxdale. Those were awesome days. We'd get excited when rumored that Mario was bringing his equipment to the Big Park, hook it up to the light pole and blast his speakers. So many of would be out there you barely had room to dance. Thank you Mario for bringing us your music in The Big Park🫶🏾

[@DMVHipHopStop]

The same way paradise was star struck by Mario, I just found out through brother Lesane which would be Tupac’s cousin that he took Mario to park jams as well and that PAC was star struck by Mario. It takes a blind man not to realize that this man gave the feeling to numerous people in the beginning and later on. Mario was the first complete package for hip hops crowd and put the battery in everybody’s back, you can call it what ever after but he’s the beginning.

[@LonnellRich]

What's crazy is Pac mom is from Lumberton nc

[@Leggobeest7107]

And also Moses was there with Abraham🤣

[@tamikafleming5802]

Thank you for this documentary. I'm 45 years old. I never knew about DJ Mario. It's unfortunate that for whatever reasons certain pioneers are not remembered. But when you do learn about forgotten pioneers, it's up to is to make it known. To put them in the light as well. All of history is important and ALL contributors to it are just as important. R.I.P. DJ Mario💖🙏💖🙏

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

I wasn't even born but the only reason I heard about him was my love of watching classic documentaries and reading hip hop books .

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Very true Tamika.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

great footage I'm glad I found this I put hip hop history in the search box.

[@lyndawilliams4570]

My heart still breaks for Mario. If only he had better teachers in a better school system to ensure that he learned to read, that might have encouraged him to stay away from crack. He should have been greater than Russell Simmons because he was a talented businessman in addition to being a great artist - he knew how to get a party started, get the people hype….he needs a street named for him and a statue. RIP Mario ❤

[@StylistecS]

Mario had that Southern cadence in his speech. Reminds me of the dude that was from Chicago but had ties to Mississippi doing that interview in Vietnam.

[@lisasimpson8003]

Exactly! I'm from Chicago and I thought the same thing

[@christinagraham2915]

He was from eden nc

[@marsha7748]

He was a southern brotha, from the south, they had a country accent but was some of the most solid black men, back then.. Mario had that southern charisma, and they was some fighters but had a lot of discilpline. R I P DJ Disco King Mario the God Father Of Hip Hop

[@timothytaylor9835]

The true black inventor's never get the opportunity to get rich off of what they invented.

[@a.sam.2976]

Good thing Tariq Nasheed did Microphone Check.

[@HardCold-Alquan]

I always recommend this channel when Jamaicans try to claim they started our hip-hop - with OUR music and culture!

[@SOLDIERSOFCHRISTCWO]

First of all if you look up the history of all the rappers that first started out they are either from Jamaican descent or from the islands to begin with. Secondly we know that we already was playing the DJ and stuff and way back in the fifties. Well nobody heard of DJing back in the fifties here in America. Y'all started that stuff in the seventies yeah 20 years too late. And everybody you talk to from Charlie Rock to Melly Mel say DJ Cool Hercules was the main guy. Every Circle basically named him. There's a Grand Master Flash interview here on KZbin where he name Hercules himself and Bam as the real pioneers. Nobody over here naming King Mario except maybe Charlie Rock but Charlie Rock just says he did a lot that he's not getting credit for and that about it. Watch the Charlie Rock interview

[@HardCold-Alquan]

@@SOLDIERSOFCHRISTCWO Stop lying. In the UK, you people try to boss Africans around and are always claiming to have started something - including the Haitian revolution. In Canada, there are no other blaks for you to really compete with and no innovation from Canada (except for hockey), but you cannot steal that. We have nothing to do with you peoples. You lack our pizazz.

[@SOLDIERSOFCHRISTCWO]

@@HardCold-Alquan but like I said we don't got to lie about nothing because even Charlie Rock who was a b boy at the time gives credit to Baby Spades because they started the b-boy trend but he also says that DJ Cool Hercules is the main one that started Hip Hop. Talk talk is cheap but history is history. The Jamaican culture is a very strong influential culture and that's why our presence is strong in the UK and Canada so all we have left is people who hate us because we're so strong. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYerladsmZKcrsk

[@SOLDIERSOFCHRISTCWO]

@@HardCold-Alquan as a matter of fact according to even Haitian history and I seen it for myself and I couldn't believe it that the people who started voodoo was a Jamaican man who taught the Haitian people with Voodoo was and now today just about everybody in Haiti does voodoo because of that Jamaican influence.

[@HardCold-Alquan]

@@SOLDIERSOFCHRISTCWO Where is the voodoo in Jamaica? Where was the hip-hop in Jamaica before the US? How come hip-hop did not start in London since Jamaicans go there more? You cannot have broken links, claiming that some group started everything with nothing to show before they came into contact with others who actually started them. I even made a video about Jamaican supposed roots of hip-hop and I could not find any.

[@Soldierboy39]

Great to see a documentary on Disco King Mario. I first learned about him years ago from watching your early interviews with original Black Spades members. Ever since then I've brought his name up and told other people my age about him and his role in the beginnings of hip hop. This was long overdue. Salute to you for bringing him and his legacy on hip hop out of obscurity

[@chillwill174st3]

Great documentary I was born in 1973 hip hop was just getting started my introduction to hip hop was 1983 run d.m.c. so I didn't know about the founding Father's of hip hop a few songs mentioned some guys b.d.p. south Bronx and just ice going way back but a Lotta guys they not mention so thank you for the history

[@oakdawg04]

Well done family😏, shout out to the AMES family, JONES family, Queen Anita , Grand Wizard Theodore, Busy Bee,D.J. Jazzy Jay, Sinbad, & all my Bronxdale family. And my fellow Chuck city/Big Mack Crew. RIP MARIO, gone but not forgotten. CHUCK CHUCK CITAAY!!!🎶🎤

[@Lowndes66]

Disco King Mario, RIP!!

[@mrcanntell]

That was Excellent and Acurate Doc...And I meet Mario in his last days and he speak his Doc. to me in real time...He was a beautiful person...👍🏾🙏🏾

[@BombsBeats]

Wow Thanks For Post this, I knew nothen about King Mario The Culture only Mention Herc. This Is Official more Hip Hopers need to know this.

[@JamesEarlBonez]

Herc got his sh$t from him

[@VerryRichmonTV]

CLASSIC

[@cynthiamclaughlin1669]

You should make copy’s of the old flyers ,it’s another way to keep the story going, god bless you Mario.I pay ten bucks a copy every one would

[@mrbonaparte1]

We #FoundationalBlackAmericans have to do a better job of preserving our history and culture

[@Militantreturns]

The Wrong is getting out there

[@skimmerrankin]

First viewer.. Thanks for the history.. Da Bronx is the home of Hip Hop uptown baby

[@Msbarbiedoll62]

123 Disco King Mario Love U Are Missed ❤S.I .P 👑😪

[@FBA_AllTHEWAY]

This is deep on so many levels. Your work is appreciated! Thanks for sharing this real true history👍🏾👍🏾

[@zhao-skitheprodigy6884]

Thank you for documenting this important history and the people who contributed to our culture. Rest well Disco King Mario

[@timothytaylor9835]

So the Jamaican DJ's stole all the credit from Disco King Mario.

[@mansamusa2012]

You got ricans claiming hip hop now

[@timothytaylor9835]

@@mansamusa2012 Yeah they saying Dj Charlie Chase invented hip hop and crazy legs invented break dancing. Not 1 Puerto Rican or Jamaican restaurant in the United States or on the islands play rap music or hip hop because they know they didn't invent it and still despise it. All Black American music invented in the United States was invented on the cotton fields and slave plantations B.B. King said in a interview in Japan.

[@Leggobeest7107]

DJ king Mario, Kool Herc , African Bambaata and Grandmaster flash were all ar the same time difference was Mario played Disco. Hip Hop was highlighted by break beating and break dancing which was mainly played over funk. African Bambaata was also Zulu Nation and Black Spades but never learned break beat from Mario because Mario never played break beat mario played disco. Bambaata learned about break beats through Kool Herc and Grand Master Flash and learned the difference

[@Leggobeest7107]

"Before anybody had a real sound system" gotcha......Jamaicans been doing Sound Systems since the 50s this is why they say hip hop came from Sound System culture which is Jamaican culture

[@timothytaylor9835]

@@Leggobeest7107 The break beat came from James Brown drummer. Nobody was sampling no Caribbean music until the late 80s and early 90s. Hip hip like all forms of American music roots come from the blues. I was around Jamaicans in the 80s. Reggae was the only music on in Jamaican restaurants and homes and it's still that way today. If hip hop was Caribbean all the original instrumentals would of been samples from Caribbean music.

[@litebeingimmortal7375]

That's why I love my Black Americans/native/FBA/ados/Gods and Goddess.We influence the world like no one ever have.Rest In Power King Disco Mario

[@palmares77]

BEAUTIFUL shit here........Well done sir.

[@edwardluke6699]

I grew up in that hood 63 to 76 I remember those days well !!

[@cyborgtr808]

Nice tribute. Thx for posting it. Peace! ✌

[@TheCulture..Starts1971]

Thanks for listening

[@isolamii]

Great piece!!! King Mario... Busy Bee, and Jazzy Jay let it be known. Nothing else to say. "Pay that man his money" Rounders....

[@sundiataoba-zq1bm]

A beautiful human being I am ill al. I go back with the Disco King r.i.p.

[@Lowndes66]

Time for an L- Brothers documentary. The Grand Wizard, L- bros, don’t get enough credit for their contributions to early stages of hip-hop. Went to the Audubon Ballroom, 1977, winter. No heat in the joint. Grand Wizard still rocked it. Had a black goose down on. NUTS!! James Monroe High school, Bx, spring 77, Theodore vs Flash, possibly the biggest battle in early hip- hop history, gym was PACKED. Mean Gene, Cordio, Master Rob, Kevie Kev and occasionally, the Busy Bee. The L - brothers were DOPE!!! “ Theodore, CUTS GALORE”, baby!!

[@dj4080]

Grand Master Flash is notorious for saying I & Me.. He makes everything about himself.

[@Leggobeest7107]

Lies he spoke about Bam and Herc

[@richdome1]

BURN OR GET BURN BK 1967 FLOWER POWER rocking beats in parks Brooklyn!Before disco!

[@simpdown1404]

Thank you for sharing this history.

[@chrisw.6043]

The fight seen is hilarious!!! 😂😂😂 Thank you for the history!!

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Love it.

[@micro1603]

When people came out to play music In Brooklyn we called it a Jam.

[@cesarbaca5297]

Nobody is touching Jazzy Jay on the wheels of steel. He is smooth and technical like no other

[@EarlWilson-n4k]

No,Doubt...4,Real..I lived in BX,dale 68 to 1984...2nd section...1750 Watson Ave..it was the bomb....much love,to all my family from the dale...1s.. section 2nd section..3rd section....peace..rip,Mario..

[@charleschristian5628]

I always wondered where the slang vicious came from. Me and my boys used to say that.

[@cymba729]

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARY. THANK YOU ALL MY PPL!

[@GhosTownMusic3]

This is dope! #Salute

[@wwrecords1]

20:36 🙋🏾‍♂️The Man said Mario was using 2-TurnTables in 1971. So how can Herc claim he started that in 1973?

[@lionspirit131]

Mario just played music, Kool Herc started loopin breaks.

[@Judahscattered4corners-d4g]

​@lionspirit131 Herc didnt create breaks. He learned breaks from NY DJ's. The truth is out. No time for misinformation and ignorance

[@williamdavis8855]

​@@lionspirit131Jazzy Jay and Phase said Mario had a mixer not just 2 Turn Tables...

[@williamdavis8855]

​@@lionspirit131 so did Hercules go back to Jamaica playing the chit he was playing in the Bronx... A big Hell Naw... They would kick him out!! Jamaicans and Puerto Rocks ain't play this chit nowhere in the 1970s...

[@TheReputed]

yes mike.

[@Thelivingwordthesword]

Big ups to Mario Bronx legend hip hop pioneer and inspiration

[@CHILL73able]

This was Dope. DISCO KING MARIO deserves his props. Would love to see a episode like this about DJ HOLLYWOOD. UmTang all day...AND GRAMDMASTER FLOWERS deserves his props to. Just the fact he opened for James Brown at the Yankee Stadium in 1969 says it all. Its like thats the night a Spiritual torch was passed From The Godfather of Soul to Flowers that was then picked up on by Hollywood Mario and Herc...what i know im just a cat from London..

[@Lerf8]

This dude only makes videos about disco king Mario and his hood

[@SOLDIERSOFCHRISTCWO]

Yeah I'm at the flowers I heard it's trying to take credit for starting hip hop but Charlie Rock straight up said that grandma has the flowers hated Hip Hop. Watch the Charlie Rock interview he got like couple of them

[@jerz20126]

@@Lerf8 yea you right is like trying convince a girl on a date type thing this is outrageous haha 😂

[@vnorm2907]

What about Eddie Cheeba

[@marsha7748]

He most Difinitely deserves his flowers, because he was the innovator...R.I.P Disco King Mario the true God Father Of Our Black American Culture... A true and Original Pioneer.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Very interesting 👌.

[@flowolf9428]

✊🎶Great documentary🎶✊

[@larryjackson1532]

Wow, great documentary 👏🏾 👍🏾 RIP Mario ❤️ 🙏🏽

[@Mr.Taylor56]

Ha! I see Freight Train at 15:33. R.I.P. to the warriors, founders and elders we have lost throughout the years.

[@NYCRIVER103]

That's what I like to hear that no one person create hip hop. i lived in Bed Stuy , Brooklyn . and heard of Disco King Mario but never witness him playing.

[@sundiataoba6519]

RIP to disco king Mario a good dude I liked hanging with Mario 👏👍😎

[@slim420-e8v]

Respect to DISCO KING MARIO.

[@timothytaylor9835]

So hip hop started in the south. Pimp c would of loved to have known that.

[@sirpoppinchuck]

So I guess North Carolina by the way of Bronx put tha music originally on tha map ohhhhh! We really got to give it to brothas from the South they moved to BX, Chicago, L.A. etc n changed things!!! I heard Bam mention couple times like Busy said about Mario. Seen one pic of him he never did get his just do good lil doc!!! 71 dang i was 4 then.

[@MrAngelroc]

Yeah. That's so true. Throughout the years I have noticed that a lot of influential people who really made massive moves and really shook things up were from down south. From West Coast, Midwest and East Coast they really repped. In the music business and even the drug game like Frank Lucas who made it big in Harlem.

[@themightyfp]

This was 🔥

[@jamaljameelphotography960]

Amazing documentary! Many thanks for sharing this very important history. 👊🏾💯

[@sdatkb]

Great work

[@mikesuniverse1789]

Kool Keith really told the truth on Bust the Facts

[@williamdavis8855]

It was Disco King Mario, there was no Hip Hop we had Disco so he was the King - Chief Rocka Busy Bee..

[@fatherfire4343]

thank you for this

[@marsha7748]

The southern black americans was the trendsetters

[@bbqueens1111]

Souther blacks aint no nothing about rap until the internet became mainstream in the late 90s

[@jamesloftin241]

Seen him in Carolina in the 7os

[@bruceswitzer2121]

Paradise, loved what you said about Mario (RIP). LOVE all y'all... Zulu King Amin ♠️

[@ICEBERGKEV313]

We started beat boxing BCUZ we couldn't afford DRUMS 💯💯💪🏾💪🏾 #chyeaaa

[@williamdavis8855]

Nope.. not we or all.. some had some didn't.. so the beatbox was starter for some in the Cypher.. some had equipment

[@mossadon]

The jam was hot n the people was rockin people on the floor there was no stoppin but jus who was the first that gave us this thirst? Was it Flash? (Crowd) NOOOO Was it Bam ? NOOOOO Musta been Herc then? NOOOOOO Then who was it? MARIOOOOOOO !!! Who was the first to do this thing? MARIO, THE DISCO KING!!!!

[@RisingPhoenixHealth]

Thank you for posting this.

[@bornshamir7792]

Excellent!

[@kaykayjohnson9427]

Thank you.

[@abdulrasulalah8414]

This Culture was Founded by FBA/ ADOS/ NBA Innovators of Black American Culture 💯

[@Whatever-u5w]

Sorry to my FBA / ADOS / NBA / NFL / NHL / WNBA brothers and sisters - but the reality is that this brother did nothing but press play. I did the research and this documentary actually proves he couldn't have done anything but what I suggested. You guys shot yourselves in the foot with admitting he was dancing while DJ'ing - Which by contrast proves he didnt do the "merry go round" technique - since it's an extremely labor intensive tequnique that requires you to keep your hands on the turn tables at all times.. FBA's try to push is the tragic "they died too young to say they made hip-hop so we have to do them justice" narrative.. When the reality is that they both (Flowers and Mario) lived up til the 90's -- Meaning that they've lived during the times Herc, Flash and Bambaataa asserted themselves as the pioneers of the genre.. Not once have they countered their claims nor made the claim.

[@abdulrasulalah8414]

@@Whatever-u5w the merry go round was already being done by Grandmaster Flowers and Pete DJ Jones before Herc and when Microphone check documentary come out These lies yall told a be nipped in the bud…It’s over with these Caribbean and Latinos created Hip Hop lies we taking back our culture…ask your Man Busta Rhymes he canceled for being disrespectful who’s next?!

[@IAMHIPHOP974]

R.I.P. to Disco DJ King Mario🇵🇷

[@LOU1982]

He ain’t Puerto Rican. 😂😂

[@montbrink4700]

That man was from North Carolina

[@PiyankeKemetyu]

Hus family came out and said he wasn't PR

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

I feel like I'm a really a hip hop historian watching this 😂.

[@aferrer74]

True first Disco king ( black ) Dj Trex 🇵🇷🎤🎧🎛🎚🎵🎶☝️✌️

[@aquilachefba-ados]

OOOOOOOOH Snap!!!! Anita!!!!!! (@5:02) Yoooo!!!! What up Sis!!!!!! Long Time! 🤗

[@joshuacabonce]

Thank you for this.

[@dnifty1]

Hip Hop is a child of Disco, R&B, Jazz and Funk all of them are older traditions derived from blues, gospel and acapella. Not sure how anybody can claim something came from nowhere when there are over 100 years of history before that. DJ means "Disc Jockey" which in turn comes from playing records first on the radio and then for dances in ballrooms which became discos. And as a result you get the evolution of techniques for playing records to extend songs and mix them together. That is long before hip hop. In fact some of the earliest emcees were the old radio DJs like DJ Jocko Henderson, Frankie Crocker and others who often used rhymes while playing their records. So Hip Hop didn't invent DJs, rhyming, emcees or even mixing, but they did introduce sampling break beats by isolating them on records to extend them and scratching as a track for the rappers to rhyme over. But even with that, all those prior examples of elements that became "hip hop" weren't called that and therefore aren't "hip hop" which was coined later as a specific combination of those elements among with others. A disco DJ is not "hip hop" and discos weren't allowing kids in their parties or having them wear sneakers and certainly not break dancing. it was for adults getting their groove on. That said the bigger significance of Disco King Mario and these other DJs playing Disco and Funk, especially outside on sound systems along with later Hip Hop DJs playing outdoors, is that gave rise to the modern DJ culture such as Deadmaus and DIplo along with the EDM music scene centered on DJs. All of that originated with black Disco, Hip Hop and house DJs along with dancehall DJs back in the 70s and 80s and their sound systems.

[@chilldaddy3663]

Disco

[@chilldaddy3663]

King

[@chilldaddy3663]

R.I.P.

[@RBOONE57]

Great information thank you

[@kingofthecatnap6246]

excellent, thank you!

[@lamontemckinney9724]

Great video much love and respect 🙏 ✊

[@stevebrown6057]

Also Mario's dog Blackie 🐕 was a part of the beginning of the Spades and hip hop.. m.c. Feva Dee.. Soundview Original..

[@cyhememoore8720]

FBA love

[@jaren2159]

✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿great doc very informative

[@Art--Deco]

The recreations are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

FBA Created hip hop all by ourselves

[@Tetherous101]

😂😂😂

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

@@Tetherous101 🤨

[@Whatever-u5w]

Brother, don't you realise that Herc made sampling with the "merry go round" technique - which lead him to making 1st gen hip-hop beats as a result .. He literally invented the musical genre we call hip-hop - he also brought everything together, making it a "cult" or a "culture".. Y'all would still be rapping over funk beats sounding like "hear comes the judge" if it wasn't for his MAJOR musical contribution. Its a BIG misconception that he only used your music when the reality is that he sampled everything (from carribean to funk to rock).. Sorry my friend, but sampling is invented by Jamaicans and hip-hop beats were as well.. that's just the reality and it should not be seen as something unfortunate for you.

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

@@Whatever-u5w Nope... Herc came over here at the age 12. He admitted he tried playing reggae and no one was buying into it. He saw the sound system from DJ Flowers, King Mario and other DJs in Brooklyn and got it from them. He said it himself on the Combat Jack show he adopted to Black Americans culture bro. Check his interview. His words not mine. Plus ask yourself,if Herc created hip hop why wasn't it created in Jamaica? Why did he have to wait til he came to the states around FBA to do it??? Hmmm. If so, show some videos that predates 1970s Bronx of Jamaicans DJing and Rapping over in the Carribeans in the 60s,50s and older.

[@Militantreturns]

16:40 -43. Proof. THAT. DJ KOOL HERC DIDNT START HIP-HOP

[@mogucci21]

Who was the other spade with bam bam?

[@Lerf8]

Thanks for the video

[@skillet6870]

American music forms: Spirituals, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Bluegrass, Folk, Rock n Roll, Doo-Wop, Soul, Funk, Disco, House and of course RAP AND HIP HOP all enjoy well documented African American roots coupled with undeniable African 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 or contribute to any of the elements of the 14 or so African American music forms that existed before 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 mentioned above and then all of a sudden--out of nowhere, you folks came along and co-created and co-invented Rap and Hip Hop 50/50 half n half (which is the utter nonsense being pushed by Dr. Derrick Colon, Fat Joe, The Radical Latino and numerous others)---it just doesn't add up---it makes no sense. Make it make sense Latinos.

[@DJB635]

Soundview Bronx stand up!

[@SEANIEHSHINE]

Bronx life or no life🤷🏿‍♂️

[@williamdavis8855]

27:43 it easy for GM Flash to speak as a pioneer with Bam and Herc now that the first official DJ who had the first official solo MC CR Busy Bee is dead... I doubt they really spoke out before 1994 when King Mario died..lets research people!!!

[@a.garcia7127]

It was interesting when Jay said that the only record that Mario kept was "We're the robots" by Kraftwerk. Those European dudes get no credit in hip hop history.

[@lionspirit131]

Well, mr Bambaataa gives them credit, greatest inspiration for him, I imagine others from electro-funk era are the same. Also, Ryuichi Sakamoto should be given more credit, he developed proto electro-funk drum pattern. Most forgotten is father of Detroit Techno who made electro-funk before Arthur Baker and Bambaataa...

[@rjohnson4126ify]

Michael Jackson and Shalamar copied the snake from Mario.. There in a disco era..

[@kendricjonrs8581]

25:20 #Ignorantquestion "....how a Hip Hop battle can happen without Hip Hop? " Hip Hop is an energy not just words in a rap.

[@beyondabovemedia]

It's a rhetorical question meant to provoke thought into the time and era, not an actual question.

[@reggiedrockreg9257]

@7:00 damn wow black Americans have always been bullied it's crazy.

[@ibex9658]

We don’t get bullied we just always tried to share its in our nature but NOW that we know we have no friends no more sharing SH$T……FBA created Hip Hop💯%

[@brigittenicoletv]

That fight scene lmao