JayQuan you deserve all the credit for the way you laid the foundation for these documentaries, precise and factual, your vocal delivery keeps they listener engaged.

Definitely love this one too, Busy Bee, one of my favorite old school rappers

that battle was dope! the very next day everybody was talking about it..i was 13 years old and finally got a copy of the tape in the middle of January 1982 for 5 bucks & dubbed it & made a whole lot of 5 bucks..lol ...bought my first pair of suede pumas.. actually I sold copies of the tape in brooklyn until africa islam played it on the radio..then everybody had it..lol...those were the dayz!!!!!

@TheFoundationhiphop

5 жыл бұрын

Wow

@betunzare2250

5 жыл бұрын

yeah..I was a young kid back then but was already loving what they call hip hop culture today for about 6 years prior ...

Favorite channel by far. So comprehensive.

@TheFoundationhiphop

5 жыл бұрын

Respect. Thank You....

this is the best channel on KZread

I'm proud to say that I bought both of his albums and they both were banging

In my top 50 of all time.

Jayquan dope as usual and always on point>> somebody get this man a deal Him and Troy L Smith would be Unstoppable with all our History out there that needs to be told...

Your channel needs to be a Netflix series!

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

Thank You! Im going in that direction very soon!

I stopped messing with hiphop in the mid 90s. Then I saw Busy Bee in Wild Style and that first Beef documentary. He brung me back to hip-hop. Always happy and smiling and rockin the crowd!! He made hip-hop fun for me again.

Thank you for this mini hip hop history lesson! Busy Bee was 1 of my favorite MC's back then & he certainly could rock the house live & in person like KRS-1 too.. Wild Style is 1 of my favorite hip hop movies that I own.

great video man we as hip hop heads really should start to respect the pioneers and the forefathers of hip hop more often now than before especially in this current generation.

THIS IS A GREAT CHANNEL

Don't sell these videos. Rather, partner with a network to showcase these great videos to a larger audience. Keep your ownership and make sure to look out financially for these legends.

@RCLaROCK1

Жыл бұрын

for REEL these a classic A HIP HOP CLASS ROOM ..YOUR THE BEST J

I want to add ,, i use to go to the blackdoor which was PAL on wedster and saw funky four and they did there routines live before even thinking about records so it was even better seeing it without studio

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

I would have loved to witness that era

@Angel-AbC9

6 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop wow u missed out big time and that style will never comeback it will continue getting worst as years go by...lol

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

@@Angel-AbC9 yeah, I've heard tapes, but I would love to hVe witnessed it first hand

VALLEY PARK! Yo!

great work. I was a big fan of busy bee when he was young. You failed to mentioned that he was a pure rapper before he started doing crowd pleasing style to get the party active. when with the L brothers ,for example the tape that's on you tube l brothers battle herculean, when he raps on apache. But also why he left leg brothers for good and that's because he wanted to be the head liner or make the decisions according to the master rob words.

Busy Bee Suicide was one of my favorite songs from way way back.

Jay you've got one of the BEST channels running on the Tube (period) /PEACE

@TheFoundationhiphop

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for looking, and for those kind words. More coming soon!

@tskone8326

7 жыл бұрын

The Foundation // No question, the honor, duty & pleasure is all mine... I'm quite sure that you may have an idea, but none at all to the impact you are causing with the content you've compiled here... You ARE CHANGING THE EARTHS ROTATION. 😆 Scientifically, Spiritually and Metaphorically/ this content and perspective means a lot indeed/ Rock On & Peace

@TheFoundationhiphop

7 жыл бұрын

Peace & respect and thanks for looking.

Seeing the difference in clothing styles when they were younger, it wasn't just baseball caps, far beyond that.

He was a true Master of Ceremony

AWESOME CHANNEL

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for looking!

One thing about the name "Starski" that IMHO should be mentioned is that it could have been popular because of the famous cop series Starsky & Hutch in the late 70s/early 80s. It was the ultimate urban cops & robbers show (shown in syndication on NYC Channel 5). It had a funky disco theme and soundtrack, violence, Starski (who everyone wanted to be) was the undercover cop who were tracksuits and sneakers while Hutch was more buttoned up conservative. It was the ultimate pseudo blacksploitation crime show and we loved it! In the schoolyard we kids always role played an episode of the show, and everyone wanted to be Starski (not Hutch). So I think the name Starski came from it?

LOVE BUSY BEE.

Ok, don't know why folks do this but here we go. Busy Bee was not solo. The first time I saw his name on a flyer he rocked with a dude named Hutch Hutch. Of course they were Starsky and Hutch. They didn't last at all. His record that he rocked most, Scratching. Before scratching was even an art form in the genre. For me when he rocked with the L Brothers is on underground street level when he was at his best. That ambush at Harlem World was just that. I never could fully rock with Kool Moe Dee after that.

Respect to Chief Rocker BusyBee

I love when busy bee went against kool moe d and got roasted.

Saw the L.Brothers Back in Nov '78 @JHS 123 GW Theodore did his thing Master Rob Had The Rhymes Kevie Kev Was Ill And Busy Bee Was that MC We All wanted to sound like

Someone mentioned netflix that u should contact and that is so true. Tgey did a ducumentary on roxanne shanti and it did good so imagine you going deeper earlier years than roxanne and talking and having video on most popular Djs and mcs from 70s and 80s....

Thank You

Well made! Props!

Nice video but you shouldve taking it all the way back to cedar park days and when his rap style was different in the 70s with the L Brothers he was the main rappers for the group and later changed his style of rap

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for looking bro

@Angel-AbC9

6 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop awesome work big fan

this is dope. thanks!

I may have missed it, but I don't remember you mentioning "Get Busy", which came out as a single before "Suicide". "'Cause I'm faster than lightning, I'm louder than thunder/the high-powered, cold crushin' super boy wonder!"

Great work! Wasn't the biggest fan but i did like "The Godfather"

I had that cassette Running Thangs by Busy Bee.

I was trying to find your website but I couldn't find it. I consider myself a hip-hop historian but you're on another level great job💯👍 but I want to ask a question. Did Busy Bee feature on the Bad Boys featuring K-Love single with the Inspector Gadget sound? It sounded just like Busy Bee he said his name was busy bee put on a video that wasn't Chief rocker Starsky Busy Bee.

@TheFoundationhiphop

5 жыл бұрын

thafoundation.com

@TheFoundationhiphop

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, can you believe that a cat in that song actually called himself Busy Bee. Wasn't the Chief Rocker.

@kevinkidd7211

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop Thank You!

@kevinkidd7211

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop I'm On It

@betunzare2250

5 жыл бұрын

there were a lot of every name back then..if your name started with b..you could've called yourself busy b or b-ski etc...bad boys were dope in their 15 min. of fame back then...I would play it cause they represented bk. mostly e.n.y. & the hill in the ville 👍🏿

why is the music soo low? the rest of your vids levels are fine. Busy is my good friend and a mentor of mine. I need you to fix these levels man please.. He is already underrated enough.

Thankyou for this

@TheFoundationhiphop

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for looking. Respect

#cosign🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿

much respect

So would this technically make Busy Bee the 1st clique hopper in hiphop history?

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

Very possible...

j would you speak on mc lyte

at 8:51 you say about Suicide, Grandmaster Melle Mel on the pen.. are you sayin Melle wrote it??

Suicide was my jam.

👍 🎤 🎤 🎤 🎤 🎤 🎼

Cheif rocka

First solo MC? Before Kurtis Blow? 😄

@TheFoundationhiphop

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely. Kurtis is the first solo with a major recording contract

What instrumental is that playing at the 5:00 mark?

@TheFoundationhiphop

Жыл бұрын

Rocket In The Pocket by Cerrone

@nathan.politics

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop Thanks! That is the sample. But what is the actual beat (whose track is that)? I've heard Cold Crush rap over it before. Good stuff!

@TheFoundationhiphop

Жыл бұрын

@@nathan.politics The Song Is Rocket In The Pocket. The artist is Cerrone. That's literally what's playing under my narration at 5 Min.

@nathan.politics

Жыл бұрын

cool. Thanks!

@nathan.politics

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFoundationhiphop Cool. Thanks!

How could you miss live at the fever? That was a big hit

@TheFoundationhiphop

4 жыл бұрын

By Luvbug Starski. This is a Busy Bee piece...thanks for looking though...

Busy bee show had got money off wildstyle n biwould had sued them for getting him played like that against Kool Moe dee smh

Man and you ain't even from NY I don't think. You definitely should take the previous advice and sell these

@TheFoundationhiphop

6 жыл бұрын

Dana Carter No, I'm from VA. In the process of making things bigger. Thanks for looking!

Wonder if Busy Bee was molested by Bambatta too

Ima have to say spoonie gee blessed the track better on spoonies back. Suicide and running things was my chit

As dope of a song as "Suicide" is, it may qualify as the first ever mumble rap song.