Tariq & Akademiks Arguing Over Origins of Hip Hop

[CashmereThoughts]

Also why is a person not from the east coast giving his opinion. Don’t understand how someone from the other side of this country is giving akademiks a man from NJ a hip hop history lesson on a region that he’s from.

Imagine a FBA New Yorker going to Califnornia and giving some cali nikka G funk lessons and saying he can do that cause the Cali nikka is Belizean…

Doesn’t matter what coast your from. It’s possible for anyone to have done the knowledge to speak accurately on the culture.

What did Tariq say that was inaccurate? Because “Jamaicans invented hip hop” is not accurate and ya man immediately followed that by “I’m just telling you the story I heard”

 

[The Fade]

Them Carribbean old heads associate it with us anyway because apparently only we are the gangsters, drug dealers and baby mama havers

Also “rapping” has been in the vernacular and lexicon before hip hop


There’s countless videos of Jamaican OG’s admitting they got toasting from us. They admit it.

 

[Big Boda]

i’ll alwayz give Herc his rightfully status of the godfather of the culture

Stomach turning lying.

 

[Low End Derrick]

1936

cacs love bringing this shyt into the "birth of hip hop" conversation. This aint no damn rap song. It's a poem set to weird music.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Tariq gave him 2 hour sonning

 

[Ol’Otis]

James Brown is The Godfather of hip hop

 

[Dre God]

It's ridiculous that this has to keep being debunked.

FBA history is under attack soon slavery will be described as involuntary unpaid internships at up and coming start up companies

 

[kingofnyc]

Also why is a person not from the east coast giving his opinion. Don’t understand how someone from the other side of this country is giving akademiks a man from NJ a hip hop history lesson on a region that he’s from.

Imagine a FBA New Yorker going to Califnornia and giving some cali nikka G funk lessons and saying he can do that cause the Cali nikka is Belizean…

With all due respect that’s really not a good analogy

I’d rather take a dude who is a Gen X late 40s early 50s word on the origins of the culture then a millennial someone who is in his late 20s regardless of what coast either of them are from

 

[kingofnyc]

Stomach turning lying.

and what’s that supposed to mean

 

[JamesJabdi]

There were African Americans in the Bronx that predate Kool Herc. Kool Herc is A founding father. Not THEE founding father. How is it that every other genre has a list of architects and many people share their credit of contributions, yet hip hop is the one genre where one man gets shoehorned into being the singular founding father? All these other black derived genres, there’s always a list of ppl who get credit for their contributions in the timeline. Yet they’re trying hard as hell to tie hip hop to one Jamaican man in the Bronx, even when that man himself said he was influenced by XYZ other godfathers and that his influences were wholly American. The revisionism feels like an agenda.

No shyt that there were FBA before Herc....FBA were first in new york in all boroughs....and FBA also had the biggest share in creating hip hop, but what i dont like is that they try to downplay kool herc cause he jamaican....this anti-kool herc rhetoric started when the ADOS team popped off.....suddenly marcus garvey was a c00n and kool herc was just a random jamaican. Thats some bogus shyt.

 

[Detroit Wave]

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

Also why is a person not from the east coast giving his opinion. Don’t understand how someone from the other side of this country is giving akademiks a man from NJ a hip hop history lesson on a region that he’s from.

Imagine a FBA New Yorker going to Califnornia and giving some cali nikka G funk lessons and saying he can do that cause the Cali nikka is Belizean…

How can someone whose lineage is from another country tell an American about what’s going on in America? See what I did there?

Shut up nikka you ain’t slick.

 

[Uncouth Savage]

Batman and Robin
my only fear with this whole thing is eventually it will be wite people.....and specifically confederate soldier klan members who will be said to have made hip hop

"hip hop was made by my great great slave master grand daddy"

 

[Houston911]

Also why is a person not from the east coast giving his opinion. Don’t understand how someone from the other side of this country is giving akademiks a man from NJ a hip hop history lesson on a region that he’s from.

Imagine a FBA New Yorker going to Califnornia and giving some cali nikka G funk lessons and saying he can do that cause the Cali nikka is Belizean…

Akademiks is not from New Jersey

He’s from Jamaica

 

[Neuromancer]

You can’t call something rap before the term hip hop/rap was invented.

Miss me with that BS.

That's like saying you can't call something writing before the term literature was invented. That's false. Rap as term existed before hip-hop did. Hip-hop is the alchemy of the 5 pillars. Dj's were dj'ing before hip-hop. People were doing graffiti before hip-hop.