This thread is a perfect example of the willie lynch syndrome.
This is why we as black people never get anywhere. Ego and Pride.
Why can't we give credit where it's due? Whats wrong with sharing the credit? Every major hip hop publication and credible media outlet agrees with the facts I posted, so in essence the same 3-4 posters opinion doesn't count in the grand scheme of things.
Whats wrong with admitting that Caribbs helped influence hip hop music? Why do you have a problem accepting this? Some nikkas are really in here stating that your birthplace, parents birthblace/history, and culture has NO influence on you as a person.
This all stems from the 1970's when when Jamaicans started coming to NY in by the thousands. African Americans use to look down on Jamaicans and (other Caribbs) because they were poor and had nothing. By the mid 1980s Jamaicans started to move up in society by hustling, getting jobs, buying houses, and moving up outta ghetto's like south bronx and moving to the nicer areas in Northern BX, Queens, etc. So in return, Many Jamaicans began to look down on AA"s because they were still in the same ghetto's.
Hip Hop was birthed in NY and created by AA/ West Indian/ and Puerto Rican influence. Thats facts, thats how it went down in history, and how it will forever remain in history.