Roots of Hip Hop - "Hip Hop is close to thirty years old..." plus tracklisting

[nickelnine]

Hip Hop is close to thirty years old. We say 'close' because it's nigh on impossible to pin-point the exact moment where the genre sprang into life. Listen to Rufus Thomas' Itch and Scratch from 1970, and you'll swear yu can hear the sounds of nascent scratching. In fact, the Fatback Band's 'King Tim (Personality Jock)' - released in mid-'79 as the b-side to 'You're My Candy Sweet' - is widely acknowleged as the first commercially available fully formed rap track. Gandmaster Flash and The Furious Five's 'Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel' followed a few months later. The posse's third single, it was thefirst rap recordd to feature multiple samples (Blondie, Queen and Chic breaks among others) and to showcase Flash's unique scratching skills. Flash and The Furious Five's legacy is considerable, inspirting contemporaries like the Funky Four Plus One to new heights as well as impacting on everyone from The Clash through to almost every rap artist who has followed in the wake of that track. The records which inspired hip hop pioneers like Flash, Afrika Bambaata, Jazzy Jay and Kool Herc are a stew of R&B (check out Lee Dorsey's superlative New Orleans groove), funk (Parliament through to The JBs and on to James Brown) and rock (Blood, Sweat And Tears, anyone?).

Roots of Hip Hop
1. Grandmaster Flash - "Adventures of Flash On The Wheels Of Steel"
2. Lee Dorsey - "Get Out Of My Life Woman"
3. Lowell Fulson - "Tramp"
4. Rufus Thomas - "Itch and Scratch (Part 1)"
5. The Bar Kays - "In The Whole"
6. The Mad Lads - "No Strings Attached"
7. James Brown - "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"
8. Blood, Sweat and Tears - "Lucretia Mac Evil"
9. The JB's - "The Grunt (Parts 1 & 2)"
10. The Dramatics - "Get Up & Get Down"
11. Al Green - "Here I Am (Come & Take Me)"
12. Flaming Ember - "Gotta Get Away"
13. The Jimmy Castor Bunch - "It's Just Begun"
14. Kool & The Gang - "NT"
15. Cymande - "Bra"
16. Parliament - "Flash Light"
17. The Fatback Band - "King Tim III"
18. Funky 4 + 1 - "That's The Joint"

from MOJO magazine

[nickelnine]

*thread dies*

[VanDel]

But thats just stuff out on record, am pretty sure Zulu recognizes an exact date of the birth of Hiphop, its sometime in 1973 when Herc first started throwing parties. Cause 79 is way too late cats were bboying and tagging for atleast 5 years by that time.

O yea down with Sugar Hill!!!
Give it up to Cold Crush Bros.