I’m 39…101% black, had a business in the Bronx for 7 years but been around the Bronx almost all of my life. Hip hop, on paper, was born a little over a decade before me so I don’t think there was that drastic of a difference then in the communities. Blacks and PR came up together, same building, same floor, same schools, same playgrounds, same teams, etc… there was little to no segregation in NYC then and double that for the Bronx…outside of the prison system.
Did PR create Rap? No, black folk did. Were PR there at the park jams, even that park jam in 1973, at the start? Of course, it’s not even deniable.
. I’m just speaking objectively, I’m not trying to ostracize them simply because they’re PR and I’m black, I’d like to think I’m a little too evolved for that type shhit.
And, Melle Mel was there at the start, lol