"UP IN THE BRONX".. THE FIRST TEENAGERS BRINGING 2 TURNTABLES AND A MICROPHONE OUTSIDE

East Bronx - West Bronx.. Salute to all Hip Hop pioneers for their contributions.. Including Coke La Rock, Kool Herc... Kool DJ Dee, Tyrone the Mixologist, Mario, WC, Deejay Phase, Ronnie Ron R.I.P

[@djpioneer937]

Brother, you are single handedly challenging and changing the course of hip hop history. Your work will go down in history

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

djpioneer937... thank you

[@sicariodu9546]

Challenging nothin!!!!LOL!!!IT was already like that in Jamaica in the 50 s with massive low ends speaker boxers with mcs and people doin the beat box

[@hiphophistorian5476]

@@sicariodu9546 they didn't have two turntables and a mixer in 50's Jamaica lol

[@ikegrizzly3293]

@@hiphophistorian5476 say word

[@Davo32310]

@@sicariodu9546 stfu 😂😂 if a country like jamaica had speakers americans had them first 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️😂

[@harrypool71]

Thanks for your dedication and works for FBA. The dots are getting connected. Salute!!!!.

[@ogwilliams8068]

The crazy thing this I worked this all out many years ago, but I never made it blow like this guy.

[@carolblack8834]

Thanks for sharing. It's very informative. I've dj for years in radio - a college station, WRTC-FM. Thanks again!!!one turntable, I couldn't imagine, but you all were the pioneers, and I salute you!

[@EARART]

This channel is underrated, just stumbled on it today 2022

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

EAR ART... Peace .. Thank you for the comment

[@mack2629]

This of us who call OURSELVES TRUE HIP HOP LOVERS , ONLY ASK FOR THE TRUTH ! Thank you brotha for getting it out to us . Keep it going until all the truth is CRYSTAL CLEAR . ✊🏾💪🏾🔴⚫🟢💯

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

Joe Goodson.. word..will do ...thank you for your comment

[@tonysskitmarkz4257]

They need to get that equipment and put it in the Hip Hop museum

[@shaneb8187]

Thank you for this. We need to make this go viral and put those lies to rest

[@fastpaced4861]

It was Kool Dee and Tyrone first, then Mario, then Herc, then Bam, then Flash

[@brianhardy2502]

It's so many contributed to the various phases of hip hop and then improved upon it that I don't think you will EVER definitively prove that ONE person or group that started it! Regardless...at some point people combined the various aspects and made it into what we know as hip hop today! Grew up on Southern and Fox right in the heart of the South Bronx and I'm 56 yrs old so I know what I'm talking about! One thing for certain..the combined version of hip hop as we know it started in the BX! PERIOD!! NOBODY can dispute THAT!!🎉🎉🎉

[@deejay5102]

*_Keep the information coming!!!... This channel is well needed and overdue!!!..._*

[@gringoonthabeat]

We need a dj timeline.......and a event timeline

[@kas3583]

Brotha you are doing great work!!!

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

thank you brother ... i appreciate your comment

[@jaywyte7218]

Keep killing these lies. They've told them long enough now They've made them truths. Latino's and Jamaicans need to apologize to the culture for the blatant disrespect.

[@100jenaboo]

We should apologize to African Americans for shit we created lol What a joke

[@americasmaker]

Another video for my proto rap/Hip Hop playlist. Gotta hit the notifications button.

[@chuckanthanio]

I often remind my friends we were the 2nd generation of DJs. These guys did it before us. To be clear, Herc contributed to Hip Hop through the Merry-Go-Round technique. Kool DJ Dee, and Mario had the best system. Although I am from the Bronx back in the day, I am learning more about the Culture now than I ever did being there because it's makes sense.

[@billiondollarambition]

Another well put together piece of historic art💪🏾💯Salute, can’t wait for full video. I’m definitely tuned me.

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

Billion Dollar Ambition.. Thank you... Salute

[@originalm.ckingalcapone5092]

Salute Coke LA Rock

[@djpioneer937]

It’s to Herc, Bam, and Flash advantage to keep quiet on this Caribbean hi jack of hip hop. Herc get glory and unearned credit when these rumors persist. Soon though, they gotta answer for this. Keep pressing on em’

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

djpioneer937 ... word

[@harrypool71]

It was those 2 early KRS One songs that cemented Herc, Bam and Flash as the Fathers of Hip Hop. It was an agreed upon lie that lasted for three decades. Three Caribbean’s that benefited from a half Caribbean KRS One

[@propane718]

@@harrypool71 krs is half carribean? From where?

[@JUSLOFI]

@@propane718 Jamaica

[@chopitupradio4286]

@@JUSLOFI i thought KRS was Trinidadian?

[@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489]

make it make sense these dudes wasn’t even making it known that they had caribbean roots back in tha day, it was quiet as kept 4 some reason. Almost every one reppin southern blk folkz in hollywood had these roots from Step n fetch it to Cicley Tyson (& her cousin Louis Farrakhan)

[@deejay5102]

isn't that crazy....only now its being told who they really are....

[@BoricuaNyc]

Nobody was focusing on race and ethnicity. It was about the jams and music 🎼

[@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489]

@@BoricuaNyc SO WHY DO IT NOW, back in the day immigrants was so ashamed of where they came from, they would fight u if u mentioned it😂

[@courtlandhankins4693]

Great work!

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

Courtland Hankins .. thank you sir

[@pull-uplife6084]

I love this history

[@unique74muzik]

Salute!!

[@CHILL73able]

What about Dj Hollywood though...apparently he was on from 71...rhyming and deejaying

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

Hip Hop began in the Bronx ... where is hollywood from? how old was dj hollywood? and who was dj hollywood playing music for?

[@hiphophistorian5476]

@@TheCulture..Since1971 Hollywood was from Harlem but he performed in the Bronx too (he was all-city hood famous). He performed for mainly hustlers but teens witnessed him as confirmed by Melle Mel, Caz, Kool Moe D, Funky 4 + 1, Raheim (furious 5) and many others...

[@hiphophistorian5476]

Hollywood also rapped/full blown rhymes syncopated to the beat (verses) while Coke La Roc was more freelanced/not syncopated to the beat (random interjections)

[@CHILL73able]

@@TheCulture..Since1971 Hollywood had full rhymes while deejaying from 71 on up...his being slept on because his from harlem and you had to be 21 and up to get in his clubs...where as with the park jams anybody could go.....Disco King Mario and Hollywood are the foundation from what i can tell...with Hollywood rhyming first

[@hiphophistorian5476]

@@CHILL73able yup...rapping (proper syncopation to the beat with full blown verses) as we now know it was invented in Harlem

[@VerryRichmonTV]

DOPE!!!!

[@rickjason1786]

The whole two turntable started in the 60s. The three turntable thing was Grandmaster Flowers and Walter Gibbons.

[@100jenaboo]

Tw turntables is from England in the 30's fool

[@muckmuckthageneral2691]

Keep bringing out the truth ahch!

[@kina598]

ALL FACTS.. GREAT VIDEO.. Peace Fam.. K.N. 2022

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

This some serious history

[@rigo1124]

Together to jam! Now that what’s happenin

[@SomyDance]

Very very interesting, that's what I try to teach to french people, Mcing wasn't a jamaïcain version toast, Kool Herc (with all due respect) wasn't the first to have two turntables and the first dj in the Bronx ..., I'm so happy about that video you did, people have to know the truth and heard different versions of the story. Maximum respect. Somy from Paris France

[@BoricuaNyc]

Kool Herc was the FIRST to invent the “Merry Go Round” and he did it with Black and Latin beats🥁🪘 that’s what made him unique and one of the fathers of hip hop culture.

[@eliteway17]

@@BoricuaNyc how is the the father of he wasn't the first to do anything? Because you said so?

[@100jenaboo]

​@@eliteway17I thought he said first to do merry go round

[@100jenaboo]

Because I can promise you if your even looking for the first person to have a mobile sound system it will still be a Jamaican 🤣🤣🤣🤣 since the first 1 ever invented was by Tom Wong lls in Jamaica. His sound system is called the great Sebastian. Your welcome

[@lesterhunter4128]

big Jay from down south. wow! thats a whole new story

[@malik910]

yo you need to tell coke la rock to get a Twitter with a cash app so we can bless him

[@100jenaboo]

Coke la rock emcee for Kool herc. If u bless coke la rock. U got to admit Kool herc. Lmao and I know u don't want to do that

[@RealDealy]

Herc said his first set was his father house set, and he used one turntable I guess Coke la rock came once Herc got into his dj groove It looks like we need a timeline of when Kool Herc had his first equipment, and first party, then him getting major equipment and doing his “merry go round” technique Everyone just assumes he had everything at his first party, and did his technique at his first party

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

RealDeal.. right exactly ... which party did the "merry go round" start?

[@CHILL73able]

@@TheCulture..Since1971 Pete Dj Jones was already using two turntables to extend beats circa 69 as said by Grandmaster flash

[@propane718]

@@TheCulture..Since1971 isn't the merry go round a flash thing? Im rusty

[@hiphophistorian5476]

@@propane718 What herc called the "Merry Go Round" is like a crude version of mixing between records or breaks that has no real regard for beat matching/timing. Herc's attempt at mixing/blending came out out that way because he no turntable skills. Herc gives an example in this video: "Herc was one of the first inn the Bronx to borrow a technique from Manhattan Disco's: The use of 2 Turntables" kzbin.info/www/bejne/baLanp9je5ytgbM for comparison, a Disco would have skills to do what you see below from Silk Hurley (old school chicago House dj) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGOrm6iwZrinas0 or as Nicky Siano (early 1970 disco dj) explains here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWTIoXikf6asq5Y HipHop turntablism is founded on Disco djing/techniques that Herc never had but Flash acquired from Pete DJ Jones. Flash talking about the downsides of herc's djing skills i.imgur.com/8yq5yqZ.jpg

[@propane718]

@@hiphophistorian5476 I'll definately check these out...thanks for the info

[@Number1DriversSeat]

💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@kevinforeman4485]

McIntosh tube amps!!! HAD to have a fan. U could hear that blocks away.

[@malik910]

you need to get a Twitter also homie

[@tombassman]

Jamaican sound systems, then and now use one turntable

[@JUSLOFI]

I'm of the opinion that Grandmaster Flash is the First Hip Hop DJ. Everybody before him were just Urban DJs. Flash was the first to turn the tables into an instrument. He extended the breaks to be seamless allowing the B-Boys to dance longer and the MCs to rap longer. That's my opinion.

[@SILVARYDAH]

It's not an opinion brother. It's fact. Flash is the FLASHPOINT literally of hip hop. There's no rapping without what flash was able to do. Don't sleep.

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

Hip hop is black music culture

[@kevinforeman4485]

Please don't call today's hip hop black culture. Please. I was there BRONX NY 70's early 80's park jams. What you hear today is NOT hip hop.

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

@@kevinforeman4485 i was there too. It just evolved. I know most of it is trash but it's still black music culture

[@kevinforeman4485]

@@Sterling-pt8bd I think we are confusing evolved with devolved. 💩💩🗑🗑🗑🗑

[@Sterling-pt8bd]

@@kevinforeman4485 can't argue with that

[@moranphillips2064]

I always thought it started off with 2 turntables and a microphone but the guy at 6:48 says it started off with 1 turntable

[@kasheem1747]

Cab Calloway was free styling back in the 20’s so

[@originalm.ckingalcapone5092]

Those were Band speakers Herc had.

[@lionessproud1984]

And everything seem to come full circle b/c the South started to dominate the rap scene. Ain't that something.

[@AKiEM.]

salute! Another nail in coffin for the Flash (all due respect) "invented the cross fader" claim. Wired differently that Sansui probably could have used the balance cross faders as phono 1/2 cross faders.

[@MrAliBey]

That Last Poet piece sounds like Felipe Luciano

[@bxdale83]

It is Felipe. He was down with them

[@BoricuaNyc]

It is Felipe Luciano🇵🇷🗽 For sure

[@skillet6870]

Busta rhymes, kool herc, jamaicans, latinos, puerto ricans, krs 1, spike lee, fat joe, crazy legs, derrick colon, ran dee, adrina et.al.-----go see MICROPHONE CHECK and weep.

[@RaymondBrown-xw4cj]

Coke La Rock heard H. Rap Brown, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Don L. Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Mari Evans, The Last Poets, and many other famous Black Is Beautiful/Black Power/Black Arts Movement Protest Poets of the late 1960's & 1970s, who made rapping the trend that led to Hip Hop rhyming.

[@arronhaggerty8426]

MAGNUM OPUS

[@djpioneer937]

Didn’t the club dj’s and the roller skating rink dj’s have two turntables before all of them

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

djpioneer937 Where? up in the Bronx? what teenage dj are you talking about?

[@RealDealy]

Your talking about grandmaster flowers and Francis Grasso, they were disco djs who are known for being the first to use two turntables But, I’ve heard Grandmaster flowers was using two turntables even in 1965! I do know he opened up for James Brown in 1968/1969 in Yankee stadium so he had to be famous in the whole city Francis Grasso said he started doing it in 1969

[@djpioneer937]

@@TheCulture..Since1971 I’m not talking about teenagers, I mean of any age. You would think radio dj’s had two turntables first. Then club dj’s. Then eventually it trickled down to the mobile and street dj’s .

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

@@djpioneer937 oh ok... If your talking about any age..then yeah your right.. maybe in that order... but remember we talking about Hip Hop... and Hip Hop came from teenagers on the Bronx NY

[@hiphophistorian5476]

@@RealDealy Yup...you can hear an OG DJ talk about it here---> Press Release: DJ Ronald Fleming speaks on DJing in 1964 and Grandmaster Flowers as his mentor kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4fdlKmtnrZ-nrc

[@donaldmccall3968]

Obviously Herc Bam Flash know that hip hop came outta r&b songs, see Herc said it himself that when he came over hear from Jamaica the biggest act was sound of Motown.

[@thrdwrld3]

Mario died May 21, 1994. The first Summer Jam was on June 21, 1994. Was that a coincidence...or a ritual? We are only beginning to uncover the true freemason foundations of what we call hip hop.

[@badapplenyc]

Mario unfortunately became a fiend. Now the question you should ask is who was selling him the drugs?

[@KtotheG]

So we don't have a definitive answer of who started the 2 turn tables trend. That Black Spades dude was good on the dates in previous videos, but not so much here.

[@ev8318]

We do. 1st DJ was in 1909. Ray Newby 1st DJ to use two turntables in 1947, Jimmy Savile.

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

I thought hip hop came from the radio and disco dj

[@2ndEzra]

Who is Big J

[@hsol4life]

They never mention Disco king mario

[@therealk-tone214]

Pete Rock should be absolutely ashamed of his self

[@originalm.ckingalcapone5092]

Sansui nookers

[@equitypark1865]

Jibaro is Puerto Rican word for country folks in PR, that was Felipe Luciano 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@uptownbladebrown]

Felipe was participating in fba culture. The last poets are a fba group which was part of the black arts movement

[@equitypark1865]

@@uptownbladebrown YEA CAUSE HES A BLACK 🇵🇷 BORN & RAISED IN NYC SO WHATS YA POINT punk???? THEY ACCEPTED HIM AS 1 OF Theirs BUT BROTHERS LIKE YOU DONT CAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU THE PROBLEM TRYNNA DIVIDE YA OWN

[@uptownbladebrown]

@@equitypark1865 ya dad a punk 🌽⚽...duh i kno hes black and?...its not about division its about facts...n that facts are ricans have been participating in fba culture even before hip hop... the black arts movement was a fba movement

[@uptownbladebrown]

@@equitypark1865 fba culture DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU OR YOUR PPL JUST BE HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE

[@facezdj]

We need to find big j from down south. if the founders taking ideas from FLA what that tell u. Who was 1st.

[@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.

[@100jenaboo]

Everyone in this video is arguing about 71. But Jamaican had it in the 60's, 50's and 40's and we built our own sound system. So im lost

[@bxdale83]

Sound systems doesn't = hip hop. And where do you think they got the idea of sound systems from?

[@100jenaboo]

@@bxdale83 headly Jones, 1943 he joined the British Royal Air Force, trained as a radar engineer at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, and served in Europe during World 2 hedley-1940 Hedley trained as an electronics technician during WWII and he went on to open his own electronics shop which also housed a record store called “Bop City” that sold records largely imported from England. He sold amplifiers, repaired equipment, and built sound systems. Then, in 1947 he built the first sound system, his own, which he used to amplify the sounds of the records he sold at his shop and demonstrate his skills as an electrician. After attracting a crowd, his first customer for one of these new sound systems was Tom “the Great Sebastian” Wong who went on to launch the era of sound systems that continues even today, all over the world.

[@100jenaboo]

@@bxdale83 I'm pretty sure it does. It's what u use to create your music. Eedyat. U can't have hip hop without its music and u can't make the music without a sound system

[@melanatedwarrior3530]

@@100jenaboo kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpTZiKubaZeEiq8si=xxvShx7dnKC44Zk_

[@melanatedwarrior3530]

@@100jenaboo kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqG7eYJ4erZogLssi=t1LNZYVr2GUZmBIm

[@PLANETROCKWELL]

Seems the channel pushing two conflicting stories whats the point of introducing new information if you still saying Kool Herk story true too? I wish Coke told Mike that story he'd have snapped lol RIP the ORIGINATORS

[@TheCulture..Since1971]

@FILTHY ROCKWELL.. its no conflicting stories!! coke and Herc was the "Mecca of breakdance" INSIDE NIGHTCLUBS... Mario and the Spades was outside park jams