TF are you talking about?
The debate is, whether Hispanics were around, contributing to the creation of Hip-Hop/"the culture" (breakdancing, graffiti, rhyming, etc). The answer would be
"YES".
To remix your statement (like you did mine),
we could also say, Big Pun (a Rican), was nicer than 95% of the black rappers, who have, ever existed. See how that works.
Now y'all finally played the Big Pun card. Go ahead and name 10 more Puerto Ricans who could spit. I'll wait. You probably can't even give me five.
All this Puerto Rican influence and y'all got one rapper who's worth a damn.
Pun ain't even top 25 but y'all act like he was Biggie
The problem with this entire debate is that hip hop isn't some invention that you can see and touch with your hands. You can't trace it back to one person and say he invented hip hop, it took many years and many different contributions before every aspect of what we know today came to fruition. NO ONE "owns" hip hop so there is no ownership.
Hip hop was a CULTURE created in NYC, where blacks and Latinos live side by side. It was a movement and Latinos were very much a part of that movement and always have been from the beginning. No one ever said you couldn't do it without us but to say we weren't always there is disingenuous. You guys are trying to rewrite history while not knowing the fabric of NYC, that's why majority of old NY heads like spike and Caz are telling you radical internet motherfukkers to fall back because ya don't know what you're talking about
Here's Caz addressing it again
Here's the breakfast club Co signing fat joe a well. First few minutes of this video
More slick talk.
I guess Puerto Ricans created chicken and waffles since that was first made in Harlem and Spanish Harlem is a quick walk away.
How do you go from proximity to a 50-50 split on ownership? You lived two blocks away, went to a black person's house, and saying you own it because you mowed the lawn a few times.
That "we live in the same neighborhood" talk is not enough. I'm asking you what you created.
If you had such a hand in the music tell us why you can count the Rican MC's on one hand. What flows did you create? What classic albums do you have that influenced the culture?
KRS, Shan, Kane, Rakim, G Rap, Biz, Slick Rick, Kurtis Blow, NWA, Melle Mel, LL Cool J, Ice T, Public Enemy, Run DMC, EPMD, The Fat Boys, De LA Soul, Tribe, Heavy D....
Need I go on? Where are the Puerto Ricans? The Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin were doing more in rap music before you so I guess we gotta split hip hop three ways now and give white folks their cut.
Fat Joe ain't drop an album until 1993 but it's 50-50.
Y'all talk like us, dress like us, say nikka like us, leech off us, so what exactly do we need you for?
Y'all moving like the cacs who stole rock n roll but unlike them y'all don't even have the numbers to say you make up the vast majority of the genre. Y'all allegedly been here since day one but are barely a factor musically. Make it make sense.