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HIP HOP HISTORY - A SECOND LIFE EVENT
What sold me on Hip Hop?
The intro to RUN-DMC's Sucker MC's was so powerful to me I'd turn my speakers up just to take in those first eight beats. That song and the B-side "It's Like That" was just all I needed. NYC was the hotbed for Hip Hop and being practically next door, Hip Hop became a part of life. When a rap song was released I was inhaling it. If I wasn't recording from the radio on a cheap cassette, I would take the subway downtown and hang out in a record store looking at the charts, and buying what I could with the few dollars I had.
When RUN-DMC came to Boston I had to be there. The breakin all around the city, the movies Beat Street, and all the parties going on I was hooked. After Malcolm Mclaren's Buffalo Girls and Grand Master Flash on the wheels of steel came out, I knew I wanted to DJ.
DJ REBELLIOUS1- East Coast
DJ VENDETTA - East Coast
What sold me on Hip Hop?
Growing up in new york I breathed hiphop.
Slick rick and the beastie boys were played daily by my brother on my way to elementary school.
The song I personally love is 2pacs set it off.. even tho im a true east coast fan.. and I love
the bad boy family and biggie is my bruh... set it off had fire and passion in each sentence.
You could feel each emotion he had as he spit some of the best bars in the hiphop game.
Movie was ofc boyz n the hood. Even tho its not a movie about music, I feel the music in the
movie was just as powerful as the movie itself.
The culture is simple.. walk down the streets of queens new york late night in the summer and you
will hear a timeline of hiphop.. its the blood we pump through our veins. Without it we die.
DJ SOOPA UGLEE - MidWest
What sold me on Hip Hop?
The first time I heard The Message.
I kept paying attention when it played on the radio (I was too young to afford to buy a tape or record and my Mom wasn't trying to buy "that mess").
So after the 6th or 7th time I knew it by heart and used to rap it all day every day. Then Crush Groove sealed the deal.
DJ INDIA - Dirty South
What sold me on Hip Hop?
Well, growing up listening to old school Hip Hop, from street battles, to watching Yo MTV Raps, and the classics like House Party makes you want to be part of the culture. Listening to Jazzy Jeff and watching my cousin practice brought me to DJin and where I am today.
For me growing up in NJ, the hip hop scene was bananas. The culture as a whole was just amazing to me. Everything from graffiti, breaking and popin, to the music, I loved it all. I knew about artists like, Sugar Hill Gang and Grand Master Flash, but RUN-DMC was my favorite hands down. The song that did it for me was Rock Box and it was pretty much a wrap after that. I was sold. As far as movies, I loved Wild Style, Beat Street, and Crush Groove.
What sold me on Hip Hop?
Eric B. and Rakim.
Paid In Full, and Don't Sweat The Technique.
What sold me on Hip Hop?
The song that made me fall Hip Hop was the Rappers Delight by SugarHill Gang, it was like no other sound that was out there where people actually talked in a song in a rhythmic fashion. My brothers and I would memorize every line pretending we were Wonder Mike, Master G., and Big Bank Hank throwing lines back and forth so that is the one.
We wore mama all out. All I remember her saying is shut up.
What sold me on Hip Hop?
I'm from the Bronx - the origin of Hip Hop. I was raised in Harlem down from one of the illest battles in Hip Hop history (Rocksteady), I grew up during all of it. I was in the block parties I was in the clubs. I was there from Run-DMC rocking the garden, to Public Enemy's Fight the Power in Brooklyn, to Shyne shooting off in Club NY in Manhattan. I was at the music labels, I was at the studios.
I live, breath, eat, sleep Hip Hop.
I'm baggie jeans, hoodies, and yankee fitteds. I am NYC.
I am Hip Hop.
DJ SCRATCHG SHOTTA
South/Midwest
DJ CINFULL - West Coast
DJ STYLES FINESSE - MidWest
DJ GHOST DEE - East Coast
DJ MATTMATRIX - East Coast
DJ MC BOOGIE JAMES - Dirty South
What sold me on Hip Hop?
Sugar Hill Gangs Rappers Delight was the first hip hop song that I heard, and I immediately fell in love. I still remember the record cover of the album. Hip hop culture in general has always fascinated me and is the love of my life. Movies like Breaking and Beat Street and House Party showed us how awesome and fun hip hop was and the culture phenomenom took off. Being from Virginia, I typically spin the entire East coast since we are in the middle between New York hip hop and Dirty South. But I especially represent the Dirty South. I love a lot of base in my music.
What Hip Hop means to DJ CInfull
Remember when the newest KRS-1 tape hit the stores and you rushed to to get it?
Remember when you first heard the beat to "They want efx" and went crazy pretending to rap to it?
Or even the time Rakim said "drop the mic, you shouldnt be holdin it"
I remember street rap battles...
Trying to see who could make the mic rattle…
...with the dopest lyrics that could blow your mind
Before you knew it the street lights came on and you had lost track of time.
Hip Hop fills my soul with happiness, it makes me feel like i can be me
From music to fashion to the way that i live, it sets me free
Its a free form of self expression, put beautifully in poetry, in art and in beats
You see and hear it everyday being expressed out in these streets..
For hip hop is a culture, a way of life, an inspiration
I’m reppin straight outta South Central and give big ups to the hip hop nation.
The Hip Hop History DeeJays - What was it that sold you on Hip Hop?
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