the Bronx is the most notable and recognized place where Hip Hop was cultivated, its not where it started, thats like saying Blues started in the Delta. there is some truth to it but one thing we know for sure is Black Americans started all that shyt.....coming out of slavery. who was the very first person to rap? I dont know but it was people before the 70's doing that shyt. who had the first breakthrough commercial hip hop record? Hip Hop just like every other popular genre of music was created by black americans. how do you think Jazz was created? Rock n Roll, Funk, etc....? now look at the hypocrisy....they tryin to discredit and alienate Beyonce for making a Country album yet Fat Joe out here hosting all types of black music/hip hop awards. if yall dont get all the way the fukk up outta here. do you hear Country music of today? its HIP HOP. even using out goddamn slang! got some nerve to say B cant make a record when we invented the shyt. there may have been one or two people here and there in the beginning, who knows, but they aint create shyt and damn sure not 50/50! if they did, it would have been a Puerto Rican Melle Mel, Caz, KRS ONE, Rakim, Sugar Hill, Kurtis Blow. how they create some shyt 50/50 but aint have no damn representatives??? literally wasnt shyt til Big Pun came along, especially Fat Joe.
another couple of points. I never get how people hate on not only Tariq (who doesnt have a criminal background that I know of) Elijah Muhammad, Minister Farrakhan, but worship Malcolm X. coli posters the worst with that shyt.
lastly, I tell people all the time, New York was the mecca, of not just hip hop but of trendsetting and originality. it was this same arrogance that was the undoing of NY Hip Hop, trying to block others from light and dissing everyone who tried to participate in hip hop, starting with the rise of the west coast, the hate was brutal. Midwest was getting blocked. then the clowing of the South and country folk, especially the way they talk, then when they started selling records and nikkas in NY wasnt moving no units they wanna hop on the bandwagon, even try and talk like country nikkas. disgusting.
NYC has to get the credit, but this narrative that just because someone was born and raised in the Bronx dont mean they are accurate in saying anyone beside black americans play as big a role as they did in inception. and Busta is my guy but that nikka said black americans didnt have culture and Jamaicans brought culture to us. is he fukkin for real? Bob Marley told nikkas they were covering R&B songs early on. where did dancehall come from? this damn re-writing of history aint gonna fly. Not on sosme of our watch. foh.
