I was a teenager in the 80s, and when we first started hearing this new rap thing, no one was sure if it was real, if it would last, if we should take it seriously. I think it must have been like rock 'n' roll in the 50s. No one knew if rock 'n' roll would last. No one knew if rap would last. Both did, and I'm thankful for that.

Elements of Hip Hop/Rap Culture are Emcee, Deejaying, Dancing/Breakdancing, Graffiti Art, and Fashion/Style...all of which primarily derives from Black American culture. Another primary element and arguably 6th pillar of Hip Hop/Rap Culture is political activism/knowledge which is rooted in Black urban resistance to racism, disenfranchisement, and marginalization. Caribbean and Latinos contributed to Hip Hop culture, but the elements and base of Hip Hop/Rap Culture links to the 1960s to 1970s Black Arts Movement (BAM). The music traces to 1920s Harlem Rennaissance and BAM eras (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, disco, and some rock n' roll).

Man some people don't know how pivotal Hip-Hop and Rap are to Black culture and history I'm glad they covered this

Both my mother and father, both born and raised in Queens in 1966 were the generation that birthed hip hop. My mothers brother, my uncle Hurby, was known as Hurby Luv Bug and he founded and produced Salt n Pepa, Kid N Play and other groups from back in the day

@OGStoneVegas

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I've delivered boxes to pepa and her daughter's house in vegas

@nickjeep6666

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That’s honestly wild you have rich history and cultural relevance in your family🫡🙏🏼

I gained a whole new respect for this channel! There’s a strong movement in social media spaces trying to erase Black Americans as the originators of this genre

There are many docuseries on KZread that shows the origin of RAP. I advise people to search and research. This is the Black Culture and we need to preserve and protect the information that show's Black history in America.

I have two big issues with this origin story. First, Hip-Hop's origins are really well documented because it happened within living memory. Give specifics. Don't mention "The Bronx," mention specifically "1520 Sedgwick Avenue." Hip-Hop an exact birthplace. You can visit it. Hip-Hop has a father, DJ Kool Herc. The importance of "The Break" needs to be explained. These are specifics that need to be preserved and passed on. Second, You got the four pillars wrong. Graffiti and Hip-Hop are both urban art forms, but Graffiti is not a part of Hip-Hop. It's much older. It's origin and develop is separate. If you ask the people that were there in the 70's about the origins of Hip-Hop, none of them will mention Graffiti artists. "If Graffiti isn't Hip-Hop then what are the four pillars?" Deejaying, rapping, breakdancing, and beatboxing. Beatboxing is the fourth pillar that everyone today disrespects and leaves off the list.

@pelotonpro048

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The early stuff! Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, MC Shan from Queens. That was the earliest stuff that I can remember. There was a record store on Jerome Ave, ( if I recall correctly) where the owner sold vinyl to all the rappers. It was very organic, and decidedly non-corporate. You only see that in the early days of any music scene.Then it all goes corporate.

@chackysbills5129

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You are correct. Also, I know original b-boys were of mixed races. I don't mean to doubt anyone but I've yet to see how breakdancing was starting by any one race. I have heard the claims since the 80's but have never seen any, well...proof.

@renelarock5331

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Coke La Rock is also a “Father” as well as several other founding deejays

@user-vg8ls2jn4i

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Couldn't have been said better! I can't believe they didn't even mention Kool Herc on this! 😮‍💨😭

@Stephshouse23

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Thank you for sharing, I’m going to look more into this!

Your "Black American History" crash courses is the best KZread educational serie I've seen in a long time. One of the best easy access content available in my opinion ! Thank you, and keep up the great work

I will miss this fantastic series. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.

This is without a doubt the best crash course series... actually the best educational series on KZread. I have learnt so much from this series, and the small parts I already knew feel connected and have greater meaning now Thank you

This video is put together so well. I’m a white English teacher in Vietnam and I’m trying to teach my older students about the cultures that exist in the United States. I have a very high respect for black culture (my mother raised me right) and the fonts and animations in your video, I think will help my students understand more about culture. Great video!

@mathieu8641

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I used to be english teacher until 10 years ago, and Hip Hop lyrics were an integral part of my text studies and translation (in French): kids were ultra motivated by the idea of accessing speech and understanding of their favorite artists, and even some of the most challenged kids made huge scholastic and confidence improvements thanks to Nas and others !

Tribe Called Quest - FAV Rappers of all time!!!! Keep it going Clint Smith!!!

This is super helpful. I am discussing Breaking at a national conference in a few weeks. This is an extremely helpful segue from Hip Hop into the Breaking subculture. Thank you!

This was so good!! Thank you for this story. Love from Kenya 🇰🇪

This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.🙏🙏

Every music genre that has survived, has had a fashion movement with it.

I'm about to support this forum because we can't let this history die!! ❤️❤️

I hope all the folk who watch this video also get to watch the earlier videos. I've really enjoyed watching these. My mom worked at a black memorabilia convention and I got to see all kinds of items from the early 1800s to the 1950s such as books pottery statues magazines cookie jars. Even used slave shackles(I only touched them once. I wasn't made uncomfortable by them but it's heavy to think about.). Our schools really don't offer us anywhere near the amount we should be taught on Black American history.

Animated Clint made me really happy. Another great episode, thank you!

what a great video. i love learning about the history of rap/hip-hop (and this isnt my first time informing myself) but i really appreciate the way you did it and the points you made. we always need to show respect to the ones who came before us and who created a way and a path for others to expand upon. love yall, stay up, stay safe, stay informed, stay grateful!

The little girl dancing by the table with the DJ and the rapper...I swear it's like deja vu! My older cousin was a rapper and she was quite talented. She did shows all over the US in the late 80s. My other cousin is a DJ. He's still doing gigs anywhere he's asked. And I was always front and center watching, learning and of course enjoying the show! I was darker as a child because unlike most Southern grandparents who moved north, mine loved the outdoors and we were always outside in the summers. And I always wore braids with beads in the summers so it was easy for me to go swimming every day and still be cute that evening going to visit family. I swear I see myself, Tiffany and Sean in that scene. Thanks for that.♥️♥️♥️

Very interesting topic. Great video. Thanks CC.

Great video Crash Course. You've done it again. Way to talk about the origins, complexities, and nuances of the genre and its impacts, well.

This is an amazing video thank you!!

Disco King Mario and the BlackSpades should have been mentioned. The BlackSpades played a major role in the foundation of Hip Hop Culture. Also James Brown and his influence on the creation of Hip Hop should be mentioned aswell.

@uptownbladebrown

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Big facts

Very informative video. Love it.

Rap and Hip Hop is one of my favourite genre of music

Most enjoyable and thorough explanation, thank you for posting.

For this to be so short, this is very concise, accurate, and respectful.

@ergophonic

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Spot on. It must have been a tough job deciding what to leave out.

And the series just keeps getting better!!!! Thank you Clint and the amazing to bring all of this information to us. It's crazy that at a time in America people loyally tune in to learn about Black American History and I am so grateful to have access to this information. We gon our history and no one can stop us!!!!

Love this, so glad to get this history!

And I just finished teaching my hip hop unit!! Oh well, great material for class next year. Will you be doing videos on any other musical movements like the blues or jazz?

Great video, loved it! keep up the good work :)

Listen rap did not start in the 70’s in New York. This thing goes back a lot far then you think.

@lisacox3750

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That's true yet I wonder if it was just easier to use this date to have somewhere to start from. Hip-hop has a very confusing backstory and there are so many people who claim to have started it. You have to "start" the story somewhere that makes sense.

@kevinc3342

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Elements of Hip Hop/Rap Culture are Emcee, Deejaying, Dancing/Breakdancing, Graffiti Art, and Fashion/Style...all of which primarily derives from Black American culture. Another primary element and arguably 6th pillar of Hip Hop/Rap Culture is political activism/knowledge which is rooted in Black urban resistance to racism, disenfranchisement, and marginalization. Caribbean and Latinos contributed to Hip Hop culture, but the elements and base of Hip Hop/Rap Culture links to the 1960s to 1970s Black Arts Movement (BAM). The music traces to 1920s Harlem Rennaissance and BAM eras (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, disco, and some rock n' roll).

i really like this black american history playlist. will there be a black world history playlist next? if not, i think that would be great. To explore black history and events throughout the diaspora!

I liked this episode quite a bit! I would be really interested in a music history series.

Loved this episode. Rap and hip-pop would be the soundtrack to my life. My love for the genre started with ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and the ‘Sugarhill Gang’. You know, “like hot butter on a breakfast toast”

Cool, was a great video and interesting! Kudos and respect!

I’m so glad this series is still going. I love hearing the history of my people

Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane were also big in the late 80’s in NYC.They had excellent story telling skills that we inner city kids could relate to.

@blackmcbain3145

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But that's not the origin.

This is definitely the coolest thought bubble I have ever seen omg

This is awesome! I wish I found this. Platform sooner.

Cool video. Hopefully they do other videos that cover other genres of black music like R&B and soul of the 60s and 70s plus the history of blues music.

Good episode but shocked to see Dj Cool Herc not mentioned. He was a contemporary of Grandmaster Flash and literally called the grandfather of hip hop.

@DJMarkCorneliusThaDon

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Dog, you know they're not gonna hit up everyone. It's a crash course. We're all hoping for people to do a deeper dive.

@kennethreed23

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Rap was already happening pig meat Markham 1968

@dooshmasta

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And Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.

@MarieMaia445

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I think he wanted to focus more on the broader strokes so that he's not make a 20 minute video on it, which would still be short. There's a million hip hop and rap origins documentaries because some would argue Dj Herc invented the tech that would be used but not the sound that got popular and is viewed as hip hop. For an analytical view of history, I get why he's not being mentioned.

Love this show!!

I’d be more worried about animated Clint’s neck, than his knees.

Brings me back to my research for architecture graduation +10y ago. Wish I had this resource back then. It was difficult to convince people hip-hop isn't just gangsta rap and everything associated with that sub genre.

Thanks for this amazing explanation!🙏🏾

Loved the episode c:

this popped up on my Recommended & I thought Hank Green was about to teach me about Black American History / Rap🤣

Oh hell yeah! What a great idea for a show

It's really sad that Da Brat left her rap career. She was so impressive.

I have the opportunity to met Clint Smith in my University and really enjoy these video series. Today help mecto teach at the kids to combine hiphop and puppetry

So good. Taking me back to The Get Down with this.

Rap and Hip-Hop are both Black AmericanDOS creations, however they're two different things with different histories. Ninety nine percent of the time when people say Hip-Hop what they really mean is Rap, the "Hip-Hop" term needs to be fazed out when discussing music. Technically, Hip-Hop is a youth movement that was birthed in the Bronx and died there. The Hip-Hop term has been misused and thrown around loosely and inappropriately for decades, it's caused confusion and that's one of the reasons Rap doesn't have a proper standard history as a music genre. You don't associate the creation of Blues or Jazz with any type of separate youth or cultural movement so why would you do it with Rap?

i first heard rap in 1973, a black dude was rappin at mcdonalds and everyone thought he was nuts, no one had ever heard anything like it and didnt get it. kalamazoo michigan

Excellent educational content

I love this channel

This should've been a 2 part episode. A lot to cover.

The ancestors of rap and hip-hop were, to name a few are: * Gil-Scott Heron * Curtis Mayfield * James Brown To name a few.

Many of us here are famliar with the origins and intricacies of this topic and would like to have seen more details included but that would stop this video being a crash course. I don't think we are its target audience. Hopefully, it was a good introduction to anyone new to and curious about the culture to go and find out more.

@biggboi1025

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As a 22 year old, my main way of already knowing this is from "Straight Outta Compton" and "Wu-Tang: An American Saga". But I feel like this video didn't dive too deep on the actual orgin. This more of the story as a whole.

I appreciate this review of this often misunderstood art form

Damn, I'm PROUD to be part of this culture . As a Mexican/American I will keep the culture going and remind people from where it came. Thank you for this video.

Interesting timing. Lord Jamar and alot of the O.G.'s that are still here from that era have been debating this very topic on the scene/streams lately

Cool Herc should of got a mention

Tupac and B.I.G beef was more than media,it was based on issues of trust

Amazing video “I’m love story hip hop

You have to start in Philly. I can't wait until this changes. But this is cool for now.

Thanks so much!

My cousin was a rapper before he was unfortunately died and one of my favorites was actually 50 cent

🎶 Sugar Hill & Def Jam 😎

I was waiting for the Jamaican contribution. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Very thorough and concise... Love it

I feel old.. Hip Hop is pushing 50. 🤟

I like Erik B and Rakim, and Tribe Called Quest.

Beautiful beautiful beautiful

Fight the power !

It’s about time😮‍💨

Sister Nancy was an awesome early 80s Jamaican dancehall emcee that everyone should know. The southern U.S. in the 90s became really influential on where hip hop is today, from Memphis horrorcore to Houston chopped n screwed to Outkast.

Russell Simmons pretty much pioneered hip hop. He doesn't get enough credit

A tribe called quest was in the same time with de la soul,infact,de la soul and tribe called quest as well as Queen latifahs group created a super group called native tongue

As an hip hop from day one and a historian by degree, I found this series to miss many things. I found no mention of Afrika Bambata and his influence to hip hop. No Sugar Hill gang, no mention of Roxane Shante and MC Lyte's and Queen Latifah's influence well before the 90s. Also the East Coast -West Coast beef started well before Biggie and Pac, they just are the most famous faces of it. While I'm glad this is out there I was highly frustrated with the countless holes and misses along the timeline and sometimes questionable research into it.

I loved this episode. I learned a lot.

Respect ✊🏻

I would watch an entire Crash Crash: Hip Hop, if it existed.

Rap and hip hop was around before the 70s.

Thank you for this informative series. Growing up seeing rappers who look like me - I felt proud to hear about their mastery in this video. Thanks, Crash Course for a superb series! ~Elizabeth

For everyone claiming Sedgwick and Cedar was the birthplace, they didn’t even have a name for it when it was happening in the summer of ‘73. Hip-Hop was coined by the Zulu Nation (called the Organization at the time) in 1974 with the elements all together so that’s arguably the birthplace of Hip-Hop, and Flash and Theodore developed the Quick mix theory and Scratchin’. It happened across the south Bronx. Inception in the west on Sedgwick and Cedar, Birth in the Bronx River Houses, further development to the east, with Crazy Legs going to each neighborhood and recruiting for Rocksteady.

@Bigk3695

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It was the Bebop jazz musicians that coined it hip hop because the youth were hopping on their Hip style but didn't like their music. They preferred the funk soul music of James Brown

I’m really not a fan of either of these music styles but it’s always good to learn some history

@nacirema2710

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Rap is one of the most diverse music genres around.

"Cat found guilty of purrjury" - nice.

Animated Clint is adorable! Wish that most mainstream American rap/hip hop music nowadays was more political, self aware, & analytical rather than mostly shallow, materialistic, & adolescent. The beats have evolved but the genre hasn't really as a whole.

Just a comment for the algorithm 👌

keep it up. gj

Thanks Black America.

What about the Sugar Hill Gang, who actually was the first with their own record label🤔

The presenter did a great job 👏🏿 👍🏿

Rap these days are represented in a dark manner, The total opposite of what it was meant To represent, a way out and a story to tell.

The 80s and 90s had some of the right mindset and cultural expressions in their lyrics but since has been replaced by commercial trash.

I’m very excited to hear about how the history of rap and hip hop has played a role in American History!!!

@maryannappiagyei4277

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Too me

You should do one on soul music

How you gonna do Salt n Pepa like that? Not to mention Spinderella