Founding Fathers The Untold Story of Hip Hop

Awesome documentary! This is a part of my family history as the paternal side of my family is from Queens and Brooklyn. Salute! - Amazing Ace

It’s a New York Bronx culture with gangs violence, graffiti breakdancing, DJ and B Boy the list goes on and on the five elements of hip-hop was created in the Bronx. Nowhere else no elements was created. No one DJ in the south.

Yes, it was creating the Bronx. The south wasn’t doing hip-hop. I was doing disco jazz Bro.

Sure.

Was Larry levan doing his thing at paradise garage when these guys were doing their thing?

Ima be honest as someone whos not biased and puerto rican and loves hip hop culture. I can definitely see some ground work being layed here for hip hop no doubt BUT this is primarily disco focused. The dj aspect is there but i think when people think of who started hip hop and the break beats and the b boy and emcee. It's still clearly the Bronx blacks and boricuas in the hood.

This is exceptional. I thought I had a good grasp of Hip Hop lore. This destroys all the accepted narratives. Also, pretty sad how so many OG`s have been left out of cultural history.

Disco king Mario and DJ Hollywood

The idea that scalpers get everything is way overblown. There are many times more collectors grabbing the good stuff than scalpers. Collectors just need to focus their frustration at someone.

Hiii I'm your friend dipak ❤😂

weak shady KRS has been lying this whole time. This whole time, Bronx keeps on faking it

Lol

This is a documentary about nyc block parties not about hip hop

Thanks for the memories! ❤

You guys mention a lot of Disco classics LIKE MFSB AND SPRING AFFAIR DISCO TRACS LATIN HUSTLE MUSIC MY ERA Damn you mentioned Barney Googles ust to hang out there with the Latin Symbolics .. the Danced showtime at 12 midnite thursday nights

Rappers delight is a Disco beat disco beats started hip hop

What happened to discotwins

@23:29 is he dead?

no one cares ask any of these young black kids they don't know or care all they know is anything pass the 1990s plus these documentaries is told by their story which is incomplete like always division negative that's just crabs in a barrel

Brooklyn was way lite we move to Queens and gave queens a lot of style they learned a lot from us because these days Brooklyn was abandoned lots and building queens was suburban they lived around white people in gated communities, as a kid move out there it was a different way of life it felt like you was moving up it was black people with homes and Brooklyn was full projects and all ghetto back then

All Disco DJs who started playing Hip Hop AFTER Kool Herc, Disco King Mario, GM Flash and Bam. Cut it out BKQNY👎🏾

MC Shan let us know. Many of us dismissed it after KRS responded.

DJ HOLLYWOOD 😢😢🎉🎉

So the BX didn’t discover hiphop then it’s safe to say (BK Qns connection baby)

I'm 62 grew up in Southside I saw and participated in a lot of the things from the Queens perspective. Seen what these cats were doing long before so called hip-hop came to be. Much respect to the pioneers and innovators that pushed this artform forward. Big up to DJ Devine and Infinity Machine.🎶🎶👊🏽🫶🏽🙏🏽

AAMAZING TRUTH…. Real Roots Here!

I am writing a book about hip hop. Does anyone know how I might reach Stevie D?

I rewatch this consistently

Hearing my pops name in this vid makes me watch it again every so often.
I am so proud! HANK SPANN!!!!! I remember these stories and this life vividly.

Richard long now that's a good name!

We respect
Grandmaster Flash who was an immigrant, Afrika Bambaataa was born to two immigrant parents, and DJ Kool Herc who threw a small back-to-school party at 1526 Sedgwick Avenue simply extended the break of a record and called it the “merry-go-round,” a looping technique he learned from Foundational Black American DJs, just like all the other immigrants who learned from them. The Bronx was no utopia the gangs were real, and no Puerto Ricans or other immigrant groups created Hip Hop. Foundational Black Americans were the originators, and immigrants came later, adding onto what had already been created.

I was about to dive right in this video until l read the comments and realised that a lot of you have fallen into that age old trap of division Black American versus Carribbean versus African yet you are all AFRICANS from the motherland do y'all honestly think that when we're listening and rockin to "hotel motel holiday inn" that we're trying to decipher your facial features or your complexion??? Enough of this fuckery d'you think when the police sees y'all he 's cracking his brain to place your ancestry??? All they see is an American who is Black! We in Africa we see an American who is Black and we are blown away at their Gift of Creativity please leave it that way for people like me who love and adore music from you gifted and talented lot enough of the angst!🤨

This deserves more views.

This video is really useful.

I learned something new today.

Nicely put together video.

What people need to realize is if your a good DJ that mixes on beat and not a Trainwrecking dj than regardless. We all Mix in the Circle that Grandmaster Flowers invented staying on beat, beat matching. Like with scratching you still want it to be in rhythm on beat. So being on beat was invented by Grandmaster Flowers not Francis Grasso. Yes Flowers didn't scratch but as far as song selection, beat matching and extending the breaks. He did this all in his mixes. He was the best of the 60's and 70s DJs. The tapes dont lie. And RIP Pete DJ Jones he saw all the djs perform back then and said Flowers was the best this included Herc (not really a on beat mixer), Flash, Bam and others. But again you have to be a DJ that understands how much being on beat is important of having a great set. Again even when scratching in a mix or doing blends or extending breaks. If your doing it on beat it falls in the circle of what Grandmaster Flowers created. Peace ✌️

Appreciate the effort put into this.

Very clear and concise explanation.

This clarified a lot for me.

The presentation was excellent.

One of the clearest explanations I’ve seen.

One of the most helpful videos I’ve seen.

I got a lot of value from this.

A very well done video.

Very good explanation.

Very nicely done.