Someone accused me of "taking someone else's video". I did not. This footage has been online for almost a decade, and I could have "taken" it long ago. I traded footage with someone, and this is what was given to me. There are at least 2 other versions of this online.

@OGGOAT23

3 жыл бұрын

Fake accusations

@Airsteven23

3 жыл бұрын

Once it’s online it’s online forever so ??? Nothing they can do

@joannabmarketing

3 жыл бұрын

Somebody's always hatin'!

@ayeone1822

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck em.....I saw "Your" post and clicked on it...not their shit! Do you! #💯

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

@CULTURE VULTURE I wasn't speaking of you.

I remember these same interviewers were saying that Rap was going to last no more than 10 years, just like Disco. They were wrong!!!!!

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

They gave it less than a year originally

@jeffcard1A

3 жыл бұрын

disco was fueled by cocaine. Hip-Hop was fueled by passion.

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffcard1A and cocaine

@jeffcard1A

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop 'The Passion of the Cocaine' coming soon to a theater near you

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffcard1A lol 😆

Back when boom boxes needed 10 D sized batteries. The good ol days

@donovans6472

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@antoniotula262

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, it got Expensive & the cheap batteries didn't last!!

@Star-by1tn

3 жыл бұрын

😅😆😀😅 I used to put my batteries in the freezer wrapped in aluminium foil thinking it would recharge the batteries 😀😃😄

@Star-by1tn

3 жыл бұрын

The bigger the boom box you had the more clout you had‼😅

@dittofeelings4797

3 жыл бұрын

Bollll yesss!!!!!

These kids now a days will never really understand.....

@frontlineservicesdetroit4555

3 жыл бұрын

No they REALLY don't

@DrummerJacob

3 жыл бұрын

@@frontlineservicesdetroit4555 Your parents and their generation said the same about you.

@thatstheguy07

3 жыл бұрын

Saddest thing is they don’t even wanna.

@rashkhan2436

3 жыл бұрын

For sure!

What a beautiful time in American history.

"You never thought that Hip-Hop could take it this far." Biggie Smalls Thanks Jayquan for the upload.

@DribsandDrabs

3 жыл бұрын

YOU MEAN THANKS FOR THE STEAL. "The Foundation", IS A PIECE OF CRAP TO STEAL SOMEONE ELSE'S VIDEO, CUT THEIR WATERMARK OUT, THEN REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER. THAT'S WHY THE NAMES AT THE BOTTOM ARE CUT OUT. WHAT A SLEEAZEBALL.

@rrogers5077

3 жыл бұрын

First thing I thought of. Its bitter sweet though. Watching cities being Gentrified and a rebranding of our culture via kylie and the Kardashians. Remember when she was criticized for promoting a biggie tee withe family permission?

I love it! Every time you see real footage of the first rap stars, you'll see that MC Sha Rock was right there!

@deefunkstrong7818

3 жыл бұрын

Sha rock!!!!! 💪🏾❤️💯

40 years later.... Hip Hop Don’t Stop!

@marpar3971

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it did with this mumble rap bull shit

@IKARIking67

3 жыл бұрын

@@marpar3971 Not according to this year's grammy nominations for Best Hip-Hop album. All lyricist.

@clarencesimmons8580

3 жыл бұрын

I'm almost loved hip-hop Music.

@TheDtruth29

3 жыл бұрын

and is dominating every genre of music

@erickthefantabulous1

3 жыл бұрын

Damn man way to make me feel old Shut out to the people who live through this era and are still here PS Yeah I was on the city bus with a big boom Box

During the 70s and 80s I lived on Convent Ave, right next to the City College of New York in the same building as Kurtis Blow, so I knew him before rap music existed. These documentaries don't mention that before groups like sugar hill gang made records. In the NYC there were outside jams in the parks and community centers where DJs were playing cutting break beats and MCs were rapping. This was going on for almost 10 years before a rap record was made. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of footage because nobody thought it would be worth anything and also, the lack of a device to record. So the pre-rap record era of hip hop is basically undocumented.

I literally remember watching this with my grandmother 🤙🏾

I remember watching this when it aired. I was 10 growing up on the southside of Chicago. Memories!!!!!!

@ntrock22

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Memories! South Side!!!

Feel like artist of today need to sit down and absorb some media like this.

@maccagrabme

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, they wouldnt be interested and wouldnt understand it. The spirit, the struggles, the poverty and hunger for creativity has long gone for this generation.

@caininmilton1267

3 жыл бұрын

I was just talkin bout dat with my older cousin yesterday whos 19 yrs older than me,all dees young rappers dyin and they are just beginners in their career,what happen to fun happy Rap.

@lrrich8023

3 жыл бұрын

Would they absorb it or laugh at it you think? I don’t think a lot of them would care, which is why a lot of their product is whack.

And about 40 years later rap is the most dominant music on earth

@superdude7459

3 жыл бұрын

WOW!

@rahsillyyoo

3 жыл бұрын

right lol

@thebestchannel5456

3 жыл бұрын

Rap is Horrible now!🤣

@CP-kb1du

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebestchannel5456 Spot on , Mumble trash horrid videos

@phillipcotton833

3 жыл бұрын

Even as a black man I never saw THAT coming.

Mannnnnnn no security no guns no naked women just good ol fashion hip hop!

@randee4550

3 жыл бұрын

Trust me, they had all that, back then. Especially the drugs, guns, and naked women.

@SmartBrandon72

3 жыл бұрын

@@randee4550 Yeah They Had "Em, It Just Wasn't Exposed & Exploited During Performances Like Today..

@yeahisaidit5633

3 жыл бұрын

@@randee4550 I know ! But it wasn’t apart of the culture ! As it is today! You can’t hear one song on the radio with a mention of that bs !

@randee4550

3 жыл бұрын

@@yeahisaidit5633 I don't know, bro. I'm from this era. MC's literally revolved around those topics. Smoking "cheba", copping "black", having a ".44 caliber, in my hand", "puff a little cheba, sniff a little blow". This was regular shit, back then..

@billyjacc

3 жыл бұрын

@@randee4550 For sure.. I had family in Jamaica Queens as well as North Bronx and used to visit up there and seen a few jams in the playgrounds and blocks. I'm from West Philly and heard many Emcees throw out sound wild @$$ lyrics. Schooly D was one of em, and when dudes like him, Steady B, and few lesser knowns went to the recording studios, their label said " NO", and dudes like Schooly with his own label took their sounds to the radio stations..., it was a resounding " HALE NO.!" lol

Woooow! This is 40 y.o. footage! The infancy of hip hop!

@MrDeaconEarl

3 жыл бұрын

At first I was gonna say, "no it's not" and then I realize, "oh, yeah. It is. I forgot. I'm getting old."

i'm 66 years old and I new the minute Debbie Harry made that corny song, she would be used as a seminal figure in rap. I was 31 then, and here it is, just like everything else

@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989

3 жыл бұрын

Every rap song from then sounds corny today.

@tonytuffers

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt say it was corny at all, Debbie Harry's Raptured exposed Rap to Rock heads, the type of crowd that wouldnt really dig rap music found themselves liking it whetether they wanted to or not, it was a huge win for hip hop, likewise Queen's - Another one bites the dust

@ronaldmurphy9152

3 жыл бұрын

​@@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989 like I said I was 31 years old when it came out, and it was corny to me then. and every rap song from back then does not sound corny today, Most music sounds corny regardless of the era, we just remember the certain ones that we liked to hear.

@ronaldmurphy9152

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonytuffers If your idea of success for black people is doing something that whites will like an accept, then you already off on the wrong foot.

@tezzingtonsir28

Жыл бұрын

The impact that it had was this. A lot of white people had never heard about rapping until they saw one of the biggest stars of that era rapping. Don't take it from me. Take it from rappers from the era themselves. Stop hating and enjoy the music. Old hater!

I love the old footage back in those days of Hip Hop. I missed those days, I am not from the Bronx, but still I boogie down! Thanks bro JayQ for your Foundation Lessons 🙏 P. S. Grandmaster Melle Mel from Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and Sha Rock from the Funky 4 + 1 More With DJ Breakout & DJ Baron are my favorite MC's greatest of all time 😍👍

Best music generation ever! Im 53 and white and I couldn’t get enough of this music- never liked rock or country music. I’m lucky to have lived in that generation! Rap, RnB hip hop forever! I miss that music so much I wish they would bring it back for this generation- kids don’t know what they missed! Oh yeah and the only radio station I could get to hear it was WAWA back in Milwaukee on the AM station wow.

I remember this episode of 20/20! This was huge back then! Brings back so many memories! This truly reminds me that hip hop is dead!

It's (Hip-Hop & Rap) come along way.. been exploited, ridiculed, capitalised on & gone through many iterations... sometimes for the better & sometimes for the not so good, but it's still here.. I'm glad I know its origins & experienced its growth & development in the UK.

@titanjake8640

3 жыл бұрын

Yesss......swagger jacking is the #1 killer to the culture if you ask me...there are no Gatekeepers that say no. They just want $$$$

@mdkvisions

3 жыл бұрын

DAZ you from covent garden mr?

@dazallison411

3 жыл бұрын

@@mdkvisions No.. from the North of England

It's impressive how prophetic this special is. Not because Hip Hop music has been the dominant music over the past 30 years, but because the producers realised that it was here to stay and didn't suggest it was a passing fad. (PS I recall a friend telling me in 1984 that Hip Hop was "played out"...LMFAO ;-)

@KtotheG

3 жыл бұрын

Once LL and The Beastie Boys blew up, it was over...Thank you, Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin...

Shout out to crazy legs!! I miss the 80s like this as everybody got along!!! We were happy. Music was uplifting and we built each other up. View now.... competition division and tearing down each others character. It is so sad

Let's not forget to thank 20/20 for always delivering great documentaries.

I love hip hop and I'm glad to be apart of this generation. It's an honor.❤❤❤

Just to settle any further debate, Hip-Hop is an expression of Black American culture, the Black Americans who were enslaved in the United States. Hip-hop music is one form of the cultural-traditional music that has come from the Black Americans along with Gospel, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Rock, and Funk.

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

Without question. Its for everyone, but not from everyone.

@adamneme4613

3 жыл бұрын

Tell em! 📣📣📣

@jairusjackson7799

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop That's the best way of putting it.

@rudy1252

3 жыл бұрын

We created Rap Black Men did it,never forget that people.

@C-Lyfe85

3 жыл бұрын

It goes beyond just New York. Black People have been rapping all over the country oh, years before Hip Hop.

Classic footage. Authenticity at its best

In Philly, they only played rap on Saturdays on a.m. radio. Then certain radio stations tried to monetize their policy of playing "No Rap"! However, I was all in from day 1. I love it!!

That white dude rapping was the 1st drake😂😂😂

@Rmepapi69

3 жыл бұрын

Or Vanilla Ice. 🤣

@grindewest5940

3 жыл бұрын

@@GEN_X_ you got me fd up I was making a joke stupid I'm black and 40 years old I know all about 80's rap

@leemd5049

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Rakim was the linguistic master of the 80s rap

This new "Rap" music surely has fascinated the youth culture! I hope it grows into something big

I’m singing with them playing double Dutch, good ole times

@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396

3 жыл бұрын

😘

Great stuff Jay. Some nice clips I have missed. Wish I could go back to those days, when hip hop was done from the heart. Best days of my life. Thanks for all you do Jay. Old school 4 life

So many people like myself have dedicated their entire lives to this culture and it is beautiful to see the growth and evolution of it all.

@russelladams7134

3 жыл бұрын

Today's rap music isn't about anything anymore. What the radio stations play is garbage. Cardi B ,Megan The Stallion, DJ Chose, Black Youngsta, Money Bag Yo are all just average.

@Jophlo78

3 жыл бұрын

@@russelladams7134 Your viewpoint is very misinformed and displays ignorance.

@russelladams7134

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jophlo78 Man I've been listening to Hip Hop since the beginning. Today's music ain't classified as Hip Hop. It's just Rap music. Let's get that understood. Rappers today that are on mainstream radio don't have have clever metaphors and storytelling rhymes like back in the day. There are a handful of dope rappers like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Big KRIT, and Dee-1 but their music don't get played too much on mainstream radio. The rappers today don't compare to the rappers like Big Pun, Tupac, DMX, Heavy D, Public Enemy, LL Cool J,and others. Rappers today all sound the same with very shallow and limited concepts. Female rappers like Cardi-B and Megan Thee Stallion all talk about getting money from guys using their sex appeal. All they talk about is money and sex. A lot of the young male rappers are on major drugs like Lean, Molly,and Percocets. The rappers in the 1980's and 1990's didn't do so much drugs. Nas said it on his album back in the early 2000's Hip Hop is dead. It's just Rap music now. Hip Hop music stopped being innovative around 2005 or so. You have dedicated your entire life to this culture so I assume you are in your 40's or 50's?? I may be wrong. The music of today lacks creativity and soul. That goes for R&B music as well. The music of today hasn't been innovative and game-changing. Only a select few like Drake or a Meek Mill or The Game when he first came out have been Game Changers. Back in the day rappers did their rhymes for the love while rappers today just do it for the fame,clout and money. Everybody is a rapper today and the market is oversaturated. Back in the early 1980's and the 1990's the market wasn't so saturated and commercial. I compare the rap music of today as an apple. The apple was ripe back in the 1990's up until 2004. Now it isn't so ripe. It is almost rotten. I really don't have anything else to say. I still listen to the radio for the morning shows because I like the radio personalities but I can care less about the music. Only 3 out of ten songs played on the radio I really like. The rest is just average. I listen to other music like Neo Soul, Jazz or Old school R&B and some underground Hip Hop. Again you said you have dedicated your whole life to the culture so I assume you are in your 40's or 50's. Another question I have to ask is Why many women have fake booties, fake eye lashes, fake hair, fake nails?Back in the 1980's and early 1990's women had more of a natural beauty and their body was authentic and well proportioned. My viewpoint displays the truth and not ignorance and you should sir should know this if you have dedicated your entire life to the culture.

@shahnawazsooba7904

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful to see the growth and evolution of it? Are you serious? Look what rap has become today.

@Jophlo78

3 жыл бұрын

@@shahnawazsooba7904 I'm not referring to "Rap", I'm speaking on Hip Hop. Not "Trap" either, nor do I turn to radio or what's currently trending. Hip Hop is alive and well.

Man I love these videos those were the best days of my life growing up before crack cocaine hit the neighborhoods and all the lyrics change drastically I'm 50 years old

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

Awesome material!!!! THANKS😊

Thank you for the upload. It's important.

WOW! what a goldmine! I can't believe this was made in '81! A) They're so accurate in their assessment of the music, it's insane and B) It makes it seem like hip hop was already mainstream

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

It was to a degree. For what mainstream was at the time. It had already hit American Bandstand

Peace, Jayquan dug deeper than an archaeologist for this ☝️! Master of Archives....Peace7

I was born in 72 and I am amazed at how hip hop has grown .. But to see it come from this to gangs , molly , lean , guns and murders .. How Sway 😥

@wesleypugh6860

3 жыл бұрын

To see it in its pure form is a thing of beauty ..

@adamneme4613

3 жыл бұрын

That's not hip hop. That's Satan's music industry political agenda.

@umarscamartistjohnson1784

3 жыл бұрын

Nigga and it wasn’t in the late 70s/80s ?? How sway

@umarscamartistjohnson1784

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamneme4613 obviously you don’t know hip hop/ from rap 🤔

@wesleypugh6860

3 жыл бұрын

@@umarscamartistjohnson1784 Fuck are you talking bout ?

and this is why we have RAP Culture today . the media focused on Rap instead of Hip Hop Culture . Great Video . Thank You for posting it

@Mr.Taylor56

3 жыл бұрын

The revolution will not be televised. Can't film what you think and how you feel on the inside.

@adamneme4613

3 жыл бұрын

Rap was the most enduring and adaptable part of hip hop. Facts. Breakin and graffiti had sever limitations in their flexibility to endure an ever changing pop audience. Rap is the last great gift blacks gave to world civilization. Rap is not a genre now, it is a former of music. Do you sing or rap. God bless rap.

@JDiggiti

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamneme4613 RAP is the easiest to duplicate & water down for the POPULAR audience . Todays skill level is at its lowest with only a few New people Mastering the art but 10,000 rappers

@stephenheath8465

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't mention the DJ Big journalistic FAIL lol

40 years later rap/hip hop is the number one music in the world!

I’ve NEVER seen this one. Hidden gem!

Thank You, Hip Hop - my favorite American art form that's inspired so much of my lifestyle.

Love it! They included B-Boy’ing..because rap was not separated from Hip-Hop yet. 1981, Beginning of the Reagan era, Cold War, right before Crack, AIDS, etc. Those MCs were fighting against crime and gangs...now “rappers” are fighting to be considered more ignorant that the next.

@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube

3 жыл бұрын

U make me MAD cause you are so RIGHT

Wow Jay you really dug up a Gem, I've seen quit a few documentaries based on news reporters doing stories on 80s rap music, But I never seen this 1 👍👍👍 Dam 1981 I was 6 years old and the only rap song I heard at that age was that song called '' Ya Momma'' lol😂🤣😂 when I 1st heard Planet Rock in 1982" is when I started listening to real Rap music 😎

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

Ya Mama by Wuf Ticket

@ants8527

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop yep i think that was the group name lol😂

@C-Lyfe85

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest with you by the time they did this report. The mainstream media was already 8 years late. By 1981 hip hop Had almost been around a Whole Decade.

Back when rap was clean and pure. Before it was corrupted by the gangster lifestyle

@Mr._Moderate

3 жыл бұрын

The "gangster lifestyle" is the result not the cause 👍

@bryanwalton6200

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr._Moderate thats bullshit. tell that to those greedy ceos who had that meeting to destroy positive rap

@jamesday6182

3 жыл бұрын

Its all about having street cred" the major labels dont care about nothing but a dollar

@mr.johnson6897

3 жыл бұрын

To make it so ill, many of those old school rappers were hoods! They just didn't promote it on wax like the future generations.

@ChrisWilliams-ht5ml

3 жыл бұрын

No, it's the gangsta lifestyle of rap being put in your face by the mainstream, plenty hip-hop music with the art base still! You like gangsta and trap Muzik and UENO IT!

Classic old school rap roots interview!

I love this & rap 🎶. This is Hugh Downes too in the intro. I had the great honor to sit behind the set of 20/20 in NY & personally meet him. He passed away in 2020. After filming, I will never forget how special he made me feel by approaching me with a warm smile, shaking my hand & talked with me. I will never forget him for his kindness. The class & integrity of broadcasting has since left with him & seems no more today. Hugh, God's speed to you kind gentleman & thank you for making a young girl so very happy with your introduction. ♥️🙏🗽

That was a dope find. It is always great to see film footage of some of the first Rap pioneers. It is a shame the reporter did not mention anything about the DJ. He did bring up the dancing but to leave the DJ out. That is the back bone to all this.

@TheFoundationhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

The Dj took a backseat when rap records became a reality. By 81 the Rapper was the star. The reporters reported what they saw.

@mikehwilliams17

3 жыл бұрын

Yes that is so true and I understand why that had to be. Not being able to clear samples back then and the use of the house bands was easier to get the records out. So the DJ gets the push to the back.

Rap originally had soul...... so beautiful and such feeling....... the way for the Black man to fight back through poetry and song....... it's just so catchy......👍👍💯💯

This special was ahead of its time both stylistically and in terms of substance.

Wow I still have that boombox. JVC 550JW. Love the 80s

The ONLY disagreement I have with this the last statement "Anyone can rap"

@misterb1336

3 жыл бұрын

Nah today's rap music proves anyone can do it

@DribsandDrabs

3 жыл бұрын

Tekashit Snitchnine is millionaire off rapping so yea anyone can rap. 😔

@ryublueblanka

3 жыл бұрын

"Anyone can rap. My granmama can rap" - Andre3000

"music with no melody"... literally plays a song with a melody

@armme3510

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@PlatinumHustle

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

@sbrooks904

3 жыл бұрын

Are you gonna act like you don’t know what he meant?

@EdgeO419

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbrooks904 What he meant is what alot of white people said about rap in the 80's and 90's that rap is just repetitive drum beats with no musical merit. This 'no melody' nonsense was Music snobbery at its finest and it's not true. The song he plays after he says that literally has a bass melody you can clearly hear and a little rhodes riff. Almost every popular rap song has the same melodic and rythmic structures as most pop songs do.

@DrummerJacob

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbrooks904 thats what most kids do these days.

I love this one and juss to think that this was 40 years ago WOW!!!😊

This is great footage. Respect to the foundation for uploading this. 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👊🇬🇧

Those were really good times

@robbholmes9215

3 жыл бұрын

Not for everybody

Our music . All over the world .now othere claiming it.

@Lilbroda

3 жыл бұрын

9:33

@nycsongman9758

3 жыл бұрын

What about our reading/ math scores, though ?

@dwayneturner9395

3 жыл бұрын

@@nycsongman9758 name an "unintelligent" GREAT MC. Rakim? Nope. Jay, Pac, Kane, Busta,Nas, Andre? Nope. To the Kendrick and Coles? These are no dummies!!! I promise. And best believe half the ones i named know the Mathematics!

@dwayneturner9395

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lilbroda HIP-HOP = South Bronx! Blacks/Puerto Ricans

@nycsongman9758

3 жыл бұрын

@@dwayneturner9395 It's certainly cool for us to disagree, Dwayne. I just happen to believe that, pretty much since its inception, and with few exceptions, rap, and the image that it has portrayed to our super-impressionable youth, for US Blacks, has been a colossal net *loss.*

I remember when this originally aired!

Thank you for posting thisl This reminds me of the house parties my parents used to have years ago,

@FUNNYMANERICWHITE

3 жыл бұрын

Yes lol . I remember in the early 80s my parents still had disco lights and parties down the basement

You mean to tell me Blondie was really among the first to make a crossover hip hop songs?! Holy heck I would have never thought that. How did this go under my radar!??

@RenR70

3 жыл бұрын

The story goes that she was friends with Fab 5 Freddy who took her to the Hip Hop clubs in NY, she later wrote the song for him with no intention of releasing it, Fab told her she should & the rest is history.

@BallparkHunter

3 жыл бұрын

When she hosted SNL in 1981 she invited the Funky 4 + 1 to make an appearance. They became the first rap group on the show--a full 5 1/2 years before RUN DMC and to appear on a national TV show in the US. Deborah Harry was apparently a big rap fan.

@antoniotula262

3 жыл бұрын

Blondie was baaad back in 70s. I remember days @ Empire, roller skating to Good Times & Sugar Hill. Different world then.

@MrJuly1990ish

3 жыл бұрын

How old are you? Lol!! The song "Rapture" was a big hit for Blondie back in the day. The single is from their "Autoamerican" album, which was release in the fall of 1980.

@BallparkHunter

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrJuly1990ish I was 4-years-old in 1981, barely remember that time, but I do enjoy some old-school rap songs.

Dope content ! Putting us on history

Thanks for the upload. Great stuff. Hard to be believe that this was 40 years ago.

Soooo Glad I was blessed to have grown up during that era 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

The recording session of Showdown taped, Amazing!

Those were the days right there

Respect for mentioning Funky 4+1 and even playing That's The Joint in the background! Easily my fav Sugarhill group.

Thank you for this! Much respect and gratitude

Wait..did you hear G'ma say, "All he wanna do is slip in my bed"?

@billyjacc

3 жыл бұрын

My little sister gasped and said " Ooh! You hear what that old lady said?" 😁... Even though it was '81, we were still ( In some ways) a bit more conservative than the kids today.

Billboard magazine recently wrote that hip-hop is the number 1 genre in the world and it's estimated to stay number 1 for centuries.

@dassolosyndikat5113

3 жыл бұрын

There's only 2 real rappers left in the mainstream eminem and jay-z everything else in the mainstream ain't hip hop pop videos get way more views than rap videos

@sbrooks904

3 жыл бұрын

@@dassolosyndikat5113 you definitely don’t listen to rap.

@dassolosyndikat5113

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbrooks904 🙄🙄😒😒

Thanks so much for the upload!!!

"Rock on, don't stop!" - thank you, Debbie

Hey that was the famous artist Basquiet in Blondi video as the DJ. 👍🏾

@rauldiaz7309

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Also Subway artist legend LEE was in there too. Back to the camera with blue -white striped wind breaker. Rocking a LEE piece, accordingly. 👌

GOOD LOOKS JAY EXTRA STRENGTH SHOUT OUT TO KURTIS BLOW AND ALL THE EARLY PIONEERS....RESPECT.

Man I remember my sister Sheila blasting The Real Roxanne on her JVC Boom Box back in the day! It was that and The Whispers - Rock Steady that she was constantly pumping out of that thing! No complaints!

Forty years !! 😎🙏👏 can you believe y'all! . My people truly bless this world 🌎

I remember white people being so scared of the music and the culture back then.... until they realized they could exploit it.

@JustK009

3 жыл бұрын

Facts upon Facts

@truthoverfacts9254

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a racist statement.

@nihilityjoey

3 жыл бұрын

Bit of a silly statement. Loads of white people loved rap from the beginning.

@russelladams7134

3 жыл бұрын

@@truthoverfacts9254 The White record companies exploited the culture. I am 53 years old and I remember the White folks back in the late 1970's and early 1980's were listening to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Chicago, Kiss, Lynnard Synryd, Smashing Pumpkins, Donnie and Marie and other Rock and Pop bands while us Black folks was listening to Cameo, Prince, Parliament, Luther Vandross, BT Express, DeBarge and the early rap groups like Whodini, Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, The Fat Boys and others. Let's keep it real. Blacks and even Puerto Ricans created Hip Hop and Rap music. Music shouldn't have to be segregated but that was my experience growing up. As I got older I was listening to MTV and VH-1 and I was digging Tears For Fears, ZZ Top, Duran Duran, Madonna, Huey Lewis and the News but in my early early childhood I was listening to R&B music and Hip Hop. I grew up in Atlanta.

@thisislaflaretv5250

3 жыл бұрын

@@truthoverfacts9254 it's the truth. Who owns the record companies

I can see someone using his old school opening monolog for the beginning of new school song ! I was waiting for a dope beat to DROP !!! LOL : )

I was 10 in 1981 and remember every bit of this .boombox with the double cassette

Great video. Man i miss the days when rap was fun, and about real life. When the only beef you heard was about Roxanne

Like how he called them 'Big Boxes'....we called them 'Boom Boxes'...

Keep them gems coming, some great footage here.

And just thought they said it wouldn’t last..... 40+ plus years later and it’s still going strong

My parents always said their generation had the best music (the 1960s era). I beg to differ friends! The 1980s and 90s were BY FAR the best and most influential years in music. It’s now 2021 and when you go to a pro audio store it’s mostly electronic music gear selling and if you travel the world, guitar type-singer songwriter music is pretty much totally absent. Replaced by HIP HOP! Undeniable.

This warmed my heart. So proud to be born & raised in the city where hip hop was born 🗽 #NYC

The genre was just a few years old when this came out!!!!

Ahhh... I was in the 8th grade when I saw this on channel 6 in Philadelphia. Kudos to you Brother Jay.

Thank you for sharing 😊

I disagree, not every one can rap.

@scinnyc

3 жыл бұрын

Nowadays they can. Doesn't mean it's quality rap though

@maccagrabme

3 жыл бұрын

@@scinnyc Is it even rapping though?

@scinnyc

3 жыл бұрын

@@maccagrabme Just because it's trash rap doesn't mean that it's not rap. But it damn sure isn't hip hop though

Can't mention the origins of rap without mentioning Rudy Ray Moore and the whole comedy album genre.

@seanlewis1148

3 жыл бұрын

Yup....him AND The Last Poets

@thebeatnumber

3 жыл бұрын

And Pigmeat Markham

@alchemist1111

3 жыл бұрын

The human tornado?

@michaelmccaskell8565

3 жыл бұрын

@@alchemist1111 the devil's son-in-law

@sunondalyons73

3 жыл бұрын

In some intellectual Black American circles, The Last Poets and Gil Scoot Heron are credited as the true grandfathers of rap.

Oh yes, Blondie!! Debbie Harry! I enjoyed this video! Wow, I have Kurtis Blow & many other Legends on my Facebook friend's list. Will tag a few of them.

Great find! Miss people walking around with huge boom boxes!

40 years ago

Cool to see this white news outlet back in the day give a positive segment to rap back then. I'm 40 and was very young when I heard hip hop, and know that in the 80's there was mostly negative response from media outlets and white people in general. It's nice to see at least one white media outlet showcased the positive aspects at that time. And yeah, I'm a white person who grew up and gravitated towards hip hop. My parents weren't ever happy about it despite being "open minded hippies"

I been listening to Hip Hop since 1986 and still current though the Late 80s to early 00s are my favorite years.

Great upload Brother Jayquan! You are the best hip hop historian hands down. Appreciate your channel and all of this great content.#Salute

Curator extraordinaire always bringing it!!

Back When You Had To Chain Your Boom Box Up Outside The Grocery Store

This is a sample heaven for a old school DJ mix

I grew up during this era. I came up with Hip Hop, growing up in Brooklyn. These days were the best. It was beautiful to experience HH from it's infancy.