hiphop's foundation is black american
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oral and verbal traditions lead to rap from the dozens, toasts to jive to jazzoetry etc...
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- musically in soul/funk
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dancing wise from jazz/blues dance and tap and later funk styles of the west coast
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visually from mid 1960's philly-->spread into NYC
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djing wise. 2 turntables and a mixer, disco culture
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now, what happened is from this foundation and cultural aesthetic, ethnic afroamerican pioneers like Disco King Mario, Kool D etc...would naturally pull from
and aframericanized west indians like Herc, baam and Flash would also pull from. From herc's own mouth, he had to fit into afram ways, even his jamaican friends didn't see anything jamaican about him after he tried shed his jamaicaness
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Baam was more about Disco culture than anything that had to do with jamaica/west indies
listen to Baam tell you where it started and who put him on