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Sum Hip Hop History~
*So for Xmas i got one of the best books i've ever read! And it is on Post-Soul Black Culture, well anyways a lot of that has to deal with Hip Hop and i thought i'd post some of the timeline from the author (Nelson George). Pretty interesting stuff (and he got a lot of his infor from living in the time, from actually djs, mcs, promoters, hip hop historians, fliers, periodicals etc.).
1971
*Sly & The Family Stone's dark, murky, bitter "There's A Riot Goin' On" presages minimalist hardcore rap both lyrically & sonically*
1972
*Bubble-lettered GRAFFITI pieces by PHASE 2 (Lonny Wood) are displayed at United Graffiti Artists' Rozor Gallery Show.
1973
*THE INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND releases the pioneering hip hop record "Apache" which will be popularized along with the same band's "Bongo Rock" by a Bronx mobile DJ named Kool Herc
*New York Youth Gang activity reaches a high of 315 gangs and over 19,000 members: The Black Spades of the South Bronx are the biggest. One prominent member goes by the street name AFRIKA BAMBAATAA.
sidenote: I don't know if any of u have seen the movie WARRIORS, but this movie is in direct correlation to these times.
1974
*Richard Pryor's "That Nigger's Crazy" LP, a seminal piece which brings the "N-werd" above ground.
1975
*DJ Kool Herc hosts shows at Hevalo, a club located at 180th and Jerome where he specializes in the short "break" sections of records. The dancers who follow him will come to be called "B-boys" or "break boys" He also plays with a sound system he labels "The Herculords"
*Grandmaster Flash builds a rep as a DJ by playing at a park at 169th St. & Boston Road. Grand Wizard Theodore travels from the Bronx to buy records for Flash including jams deemed "white boy records" such as Aerosmith's "Walk This Way"
1976
*Afrika Bambaataa DJ's his first party @ the Bronx River Community Center supported by the Zulu's, a new-style gang more into music and dance then crime.
*Nicky Barnes aka "Mr. Untouchable" leader of Harlem's largest heroin ring hands out turkeys on the corner of 126th & St. Nicholas for Xmas. THis scene will later appear 15 years later in NEW JACK CITY
1977
*KRAFTWERK's trance dance, "Trans-Europe Express" is a left-field black hit that influences many young DJs
*Queens party promoter, Russell Simmons, see's his first rapper, Eddie Cheeba, rhyme over Parliment's "Flashlight" at the Charles Gallery on 125th St.
1978
*DISCO FEVER the first home of hip hop opens in South Bronx
1979
*A Howard Smith Scenes column on the Fabulous Five, a graffiti group led by Frederick Brathwaite aka Freddy Love aka Fab Five Freddy) leds to a show of the groups werk in Rome.
*The Fatback Band's "King Tim III (The Personalty Jock)" is the first rap record. But Tim is not part of the Bronx hip hop crowd.
*Sylvia Robinson (owner of the troubled Platinum Records) organizes the Sugar Hill Gang on her brand new label SUGARHILL.
*BILLBOARD MAG. does a story on "Disco Rappers" - "a spinner who talks in a lyrical rapid fire, streetwise dialouge over the pulsating rhythm track . . .". In the UK the story is picked up by the NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS (publication) and it notes that, "deejay who raps does not appear to be a million miles removed from the ancient Jamacian art of toasting"
1980
*In Jan. members of the HIGH TIMES CREW are arrested for "fighting"- that is breakin' (as we know it today). They are photographed by NY Post photographer Martha Cooper. The 1st known photos of breakin'.
*MR MAGIC'S RAP ATTACK airs on WBHI from 2-5am Sat. nights.
*Kurtis Blow releases "THE BREAKS". Futura 2000 bombs (aka paints) a subway car in tribute!
*The cover story in VOICE, is on Grafitti and itz role in Rap. It also exposes 2 then unknown Graf artists, Keith Haring and Samo aka Jean-Michel Basquiat
1981
*ABC's "20/20" does one of the first national tv programs on the new rap phemonenmon. The ROCK STEADY CREW dancers perform at the home of the downtown avant-garde, the KITCHEN.
1982
*Herbie Hancock's "ROCKIT" feats. scratching of ol' skool DJ Grandmaster DST. One of the 1st collaborations between an established musician and a hip hop spinner.
*"The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five is 1st successful poliical rap single
1983
*Jean Michel Basquiat moves beyond his roots in graffiti to national prominence with a show at LA's Larry Gagosian Gallery
*Spike Lee directs the movie video for "White Lines" starring Larry Fishburne, but it is denied by Sugarhill Records..
*Charlie Ahearn's "WILD STYLE" is released.
*"Style Wars" a documentary on breaking and graf airs on PBS
1984
*Across the nation, though break dancing has decresed gang violence, it is outlawed in many public sectors.
*Chaka Kahn's "I Feel For You" features breakers Shabba-Doo & Boogaloo Shrimp.
*The FRESH FEST TOUR feat. Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, Whodini, The Fat Boys & Newcleus as well as breakin' crews Magnificent Force, Uptown Express & Dynamic Breakers brings in more then $3.5 million on 27 tour dates. The show is sponsored by Swatch Watches.
*LA's KDAY converts to the country's only all rap format
*Beat Street dancer ROBERT TAYLOR makes the cover of Newsweek Magazine.
*One Hundred Breakers perform at the Olympic Games closing ceremonies
*The Wall Street Journal hails Russell Simmons the mogul of rap.
1985
*Jean Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol collaborate on a gallery show.
*BDP, the brainchild of ex-homeless teen Kris Parker (KRS-ONE) and homeless shelter counselor SCOTT LAROCK release CRIMINAL MINDED!
*KRUSH GROOVE is released!
1986
*RUN DMN and Aerosmith collaborate on "Walk This Way"
*Deemed still by many the best rap tour ever goes off starring RUN DMC, LL COOL J, WHODINI & THE BEASTIE BOYS!
*A Run DMC rap concert in Long Beach is halted by violence as black and latino gangs bumrush the stage. This incident incites the "Rap Causes Violence" rhetoric from the media.
*Scott Larock is shot dead.
*DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince are boo'd at the Apollo when they perform their crossover hit "Parents Just Don't Understand" beginning the rift between rap's hard-soft split.
1987
*For one of the first times the increasing quality of non-NY hip hop is seen as 3 out of the 4 finalists in the New Music Seminar's DJ COMPETITION are from outside of NY. Philly- DJ Cash Money, LA's- DJ Joe Cooley and Miami's- DJ Mr. Mix (from 2-Live Crew)
*Ice T's debut "Rhyme Pays" gives the first glimpse (on a national scale) to LA gangsta rap scene. Influneced by such sensationalistic books like ICEBERG SLIM (which btw is very good) and DONALD GOINES.
1988
*Dennis Hopper's COLORS is released and spreads LA Gang cluture cinematically across the country (along with ICE-T's title track)
*"YO! MTV RAPS" airs (hosted by Fab Five Freddy)
*At a DOPE JAM concert a young man is stabbed to death. In wake of this Jive VP Ann Carli and journalist Nelson George werk on an anti-black on black violence record. The group calls itself STOP THE VIOLENCE MOVEMENT after a song written by KRS-ONE.
1989
*STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is released by NWA putting this obscure city into the nation's newest symbol of urban decay.
*The FBI sends letters out to Priority Records and sponsors in response to NWA's "Fuck Tha Police" song. |
