Bro, if Herc was just biggin' himself up all day about his influence, that would be another story. I don’t care about documentaries and articles written by outside third parties, and voicing their opinion. I want to hear from the people that were actually there. The founders and pioneers who witnessed sh*t in real-time. Not cacs and random nobodies doing "research" and throwing their own opinion out on sh*t they weren't there for. When I was at Def Jam, I spent a lot of time building with Caz. His stories always went back to Herc being the one. Every other legend I've known who was around back then, same story.
So for 50+ years, Caz, Flash, Bam, Coke, Red Alert, and all the other OG's who saw it happen as it was happening, credit Herc. Point blank. This isn't about who "invented" breakdancing. That was being done during slavery. It's not about discovery. What it is about, is who took elements pre-Hip-Hop and brought them together to create an entire culture. We all know that's Herc.
I get the hoteps want to rewrite sh*t. That's what hoteps do. But that's not gonna change the history or any of the stories of the people who saw the culture actually shift to what it is today. So we can go back and forth all day about this, but I'm only going with what the actual legends who were there in person say. Y'all can keep the opinions and articles written by coffee shop cacs and weirdos to yourself, lol. That's never gonna fly. It never has.