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Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!
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August 11, 2023: Put The Needle On The 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Images | Approx. start time |
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Billy Jam / Sugarhill Gang looped | 50th anniversary show intro | No album | Not on label | image = DJ Kool Herc | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
Kool Herc & Grand Wizzard Theodore | where it all started (from 1990's Billy Jam interviews) | No album | No Label | Kool Herc = creator of hip-hop Grand Wizzard Theodore = creator of the scratch | 0:01:20 (Pop-up) | ||
Grandmaster Flash | Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel | No album | Sugar Hill Records | 1981 | |||
Kool Herc | PTNOTR interview Pt 1 | WFMU - history of hip-hop/PTNOTR | No Label | 2010 | Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited for the creation of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s. Known as the "Founder of Hip-Hop" and "Father of Hip-Hop", Campbell began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown. | ||
Kool Herc | PTNOTR interview Pt 2 | WFMU - history of hip-hop/PTNOTR | No Label | 2010 | |||
Popmaster Fabel | PTNOTR interview | WFMU - history of hip-hop/PTNOTR | No Label | 2010 | JORGE “POPMASTER FABEL” PABON was born and raised in NYC’s Spanish Harlem where at an early age he developed his dance and choreography career at Hip Hop jams and clubs throughout the city. His pioneering individuality has been showcased internationally since 1982. Fabel also gained world renown as a featured dancer in the Hip Hop cult classic movie, “Beat Street.” Senior member of the Rock Steady Crew and member of the Electric Boogaloos, Fabel is also co-founder of GhettOriginal Productions Inc. With GhettOriginal, Fabel co-authored, co- directed, and co-choreographed the first two Hip Hop musicals ever, “So! What Happens Now?” and “Jam on the Groove” (first official Off-Broadway Hip Hop musical). | ||
FUME | interview with legendary graff artist | No album | No Label | 2010 | exceprt of 2010 Billy Jam interview with NYC graf artist FUME who has been doing aerosol street art since the 1970's | ||
KRS-One | 1993 HipHopSlam interview | No album | No Label | 1993 | |||
KRS-One | Return of the Boom Bap | Return of the Boom Bap | Jive Records | 1993 | |||
Grand Wizzard Theodore | on creating the scratch (Billy Jam interview excerpt) | No album | No Label | photo c/o Tools of War | |||
LoveBug Starski | PTNOTR interview excerpt | No Label | 2017 | 2023 edit of PTNOTR interview with the late great hip-hop pioneer - creator of the term "hip-hop" LoveBug Starski who sadly passed away with a year of this WFMU interview | |||
Kurtis Blow | PTNOTR interview | No album | No Label | ||||
Run-D.M.C. | Jam Master Jay (with DMC drop) | Run-D.M.C. | Profile Records | 1984 | |||
Double Dee & Steinski | lesson 3 ( history of hip hop) | No album | Tommy Boy | image of Kool Herc |
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I was obsessed with Super Wolf!
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Not my first Hip Hop memory...but early enough. My two friends and I went ventured through the Holland Tunnel to see Def Jam at MSG in 1987. That was definitely some crazy shit, and left a big fingerprint on me.
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Other rappers are rapping rn
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I can't hear the stream w my fan on haha
Plus Billy Jam.
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One hour BillJam.
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That these are the breaks
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Master DJ Billy Jam
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celeste:
but it's a good date!
take care everybody - be safe!
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Juli:
& then the Beastie Boys:::
Ju Da Venom:
Juli:
I loved Hip Hop::::}
Even tho no one around me did:::}
Ty Billy Jam!!
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chresti:
Grand Master Flash & Afrika Bambaataa..
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:::}
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Heal * help
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ty Billy Jam great show..
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Bye bye.
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