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It's hip hop appreciation week Let's get started Hip hop appreciation week has been a thing since the mid to late 90s And so of course I am very bothered by the fact that I'm just finding out about this because I have always been a hip hop head Always but in case you like me have been out of the loop and did not realize that this was a thing Just to give you a little bit of background. It was spearheaded by the one and only himself last nastier Keras one and along with that He created a hip hop preservation society known as the temple of hip hop now get this the temple has its own Gospel. Yes, the gospel of hip hop It is a book and you can get it you can go on Amazon and get it and there's a hard copy version for right at $40 or you Get the Kindle version for 12, but I am seriously blown away because this is like amazing to me Like oh my gosh, this has been going on all this time And you know all along I've been feeling like hip hop was dying like somebody was trying to kill hip hop and you know There are people that would disagree with me and say no hip hop is alive and thriving and everything But when you see other genres of music moving in and people Attributed to that same category They tried to put various forms of rap and trap into hip hop and it's kind of like no that's not the same thing that no no No, that's like apples and oranges you can't even compare the two so you know that that's why I kind of felt like You know hip hop was dying because I kept seeing people come along and they were new new to the scene But they were not true to the the culture so to speak and speaking of culture We're just talking about hip hop in general the origins of hip hop were basically a way for inner city youth to express themselves Now in no way shape or form was I an inner city youth I was a suburban kid, but it was something about hip hop that spoke to me It I mean being able to hear the stories and maybe that's what it was. I'm big on stories.
I like stories I like a good story when I first got when I first met my husband Every now and then I would ask him like, you know what Winston tell me a story I've been a lover of stories for the longest and so to think that somebody would take a story and put it to music that right there is Genius So let me make myself clear before I move further I know I was talking about hip hop music and the fact that they were putting stories to music But remember it's a culture so it covered everything from MCing DJing breakdancing graffiti fashion All of that rolled up into one is what hip hop is it? That's those are the pieces the elements that make up hip hop I'm just kind of you know going crazy fanning over the music because that was a big part of what I was able to be a part of Back in the day, you know as a kid we didn't have a bunch of graffiti in South Carolina You know there weren't a bunch of guys breakdancing in my neighborhood or in my circles where I traveled You know, but music was the big thing because we had access to the music We didn't have access to a lot of the other stuff now another part though about hip hop that is just absolutely amazing Is the fact that the artists in hip hop they had a message that they were sending you think about Africa Bambata He taught us about peace love unity and safely having fun public enemy and care us one had political statements that they were putting out there You got people like slick Rick that had entertaining stories that they were telling so hip hop is it encompasses a lot And for older people they may not see it because they see a side of hip hop that was not part in my opinion of the true origins of hip hop The way how I look at it is that the music industry saw an opening They saw where they could put their foot in and start pulling some of the money out of it and therefore to commercialize people's lyrics and their sound and everything then that's when the drugs became a part of it and sex and Just all of those negative parts of the music industry that That they look at as selling points like sex sells so let's put some sex in here let's some misogyny let you know, let's degrade women here and Some people bought it and said yeah, let's do this if I can get out of the hood and make some money and you know Step up move up a little in life then I'm willing to do those things and with Keras one in his temple of hip hop culture his plan his goal his hope is that people will live by the true beginnings of hip hop culture the the tenants if you will about peace and love and doing the right thing and respecting each other and helping each other versus all things opposite of that So I posed a question to some friends of mine But before I get into their answers, let me give you mine the question was when did you fall in love with hip hop? And honestly, I can't tell you a year and age Nothing like that as to when it happened all I can say is it was probably early teens whenever my parents got me my first radio And it was one of these one speaker Am FM with the cassette player, you know, everybody had to have a cassette player because I was listening to the mix and the night And I was doing the whole pause play record You know if you back in the day you have those things set and you're waiting for the DJ to stop talking So you can unpause it and start recording the mix and that is when I fell in love with hip hop I can't even say that it was a particular group that caused it. It was just the energy it was the stories I mean and then once we got Fab Five Freddy on the scene and I was able to see the music videos That was like the icing on the cake because then I got a chance to see graffiti and break dancers and stuff like that Because honestly, I don't even think I saw the movie breaking or anything back then because my parents were very particular about what I watched And whatnot.
So although we had HBO, I don't know that I got to see any of those back then when I was younger But I fell in love with hip hop from the very first time I listened to the mix and Then the cool thing was by the time I'm 15 years old, I'm working at a radio station By the time I'm 16, I'm a freaking DJ on a radio station and I'm working midnight to six So guess what? I am there in the studio playing the mix now granted I wasn't mixing and scratching and none of that good stuff I did try my hand at it and I even did it as a talent in When I was running from South Carolina State at my HBCU I didn't win But it was funny because I got a lot of props from guys on campus because they were like first off That was really brave and bold of you to get out there and for your talent You decided you're gonna DJ as a talent But I had some issues with the sound system in the way that the people set up my my whole layout and because yeah It's a long story. I'm not even gonna get into it, but long story short. I've always loved hip hop Okay, DJ sincere.
When did you fall in love with hip hop? Wow, that is a tough question for DJ. However, I Wouldn't like to say adventures of Grandmaster flash by Grandmaster flash that was around 81 for me Now Sharice, you know, you were my hip hop hookup because you grew up in Brooklyn So when did you fall in love with hip hop? So when did you fall in love with hip hop?
So when did you fall in love with hip hop? I had to say I was coming out of high school So it was in the late 80s and there was a new group that bust out on the scene called the Tribe Call Quest and For one of their videos which I watched faithfully on the free video channel that we had back then called video music box Was shot somewhere near my school my high school my high school and I was so excited And then I found out later that I think one one of them went to my high school q-tip And then after them came another video shot at my high school by a tribe call by uh, I'm sorry by the jungle brothers So yeah, my my first my first love affair started back in the late 80s when I was coming out of high school between 87 8889 and I think I loved it so much because although my mom thought it was crazy music I could repeat all the words to her and besides just saying oh that's silly as stupid doesn't make much sense Nothing that would that I said could be offensive to her Which I kind of thought was ironic because she loves loops back in her day when she was my day He's talking like do you love me now that I can dance to me that didn't make any sense? But either way that's when it started. Um, I feel bad for the way it's it's kind of degenerated as As the years went by but I still have a love for some old school classic hip hop which to me today cannot be duplicated at all Hey, win.
When did you fall in love with hip hop? I fell in love with hip hop around 85 86 I went to a concert that had run DMC LL Cool J and Houdini that concert was fire and then shortly right after that I think it was cemented with a trip to our girls high school basketball Uh champ state championship and a friend of mine had an erred bean rocket tape We listened to that tape the entire way up and the entire way back So needless to say that was cemented in my head is cemented to my love with hip hop everything else after that I just kind of had some sort of affection towards and I really can listen to just about anything that was good So really y'all goes back to 85 86 Hey, Derek. What made you fall in love with hip hop? What's up?
I have to give honor to the kings from queen's run DMC And of course to the teacher the blast master carers one But you know what made me fall in love with hip hop was the rap god rock him and paid in full That just changed my life and I think the lyrics and everything that he dropped and that could even stand up to the day So after I heard that I mean rock him to me That's like our that's like our rap Shakespeare and that's what made me fall in love with hip hop All right, that was today's episode of tweet trends thanks and shout outs to DJs and seer for taking us in the wayback machine back to grandmaster flash And speaking of grandmaster flash I heard that he was one of the first DJs to mix and cut with three turntables I don't know how true that is but that was what I heard along with the fact that cool hirk was the first to mix But I don't know I might have to go find a copy of a gospel of hip hop and check that out and see if they have that anywhere in one of the verses Um, let's see shout out to my cousin charise Where she fell in love with hip hop because she was close to ground zero growing up in New York You know that was one of those things that I wish that I had I was just like oh man How cool would that have been but I know good and dog on well had I grew up in New York My parents was not going to be here in that I wasn't going to be out at the park I'm going to be at east bridge. None of that stuff south Bronx. I was going to be right in the house That was probably that's that I did grow up in south carolina. Um, let's see my husband He's always good for telling a story.
Um, I love the fact that he brought his full circle as far as where he was and how they listened to the Entire way and then my boy Derek. Um, he's funny because when we were in school him and another friend of mine They would bring their boombox on the bus and they would play things like that's a sonic. I will never forget the whole Um, sally song. Um, and they would play that song as the girls were getting off the bus and like input each girl's name and it was hilarious But it's still one of those memories that I have of hip hop that I absolutely love So thank you Derek as well for participating and thank you for listening to today's episode I know you're probably like this girl has gone on and on about hip hop, but that's just how much I love it And if you haven't checked out any hip hop, then I recommend that you just listen to something if you're older You might want something a little easier on the ears, you know, go back to a grandmaster flash where he was mixing a bunch of things together Um, if you're feeling a little belligerent or whatnot, then a little bit of PE never heard anybody because as a matter of fact, you know The first time I I learned a lot from public enemy.
Um, I remember hearing about ferricon for the first time From public enemy and it made me want to go read books What what where does that happen music makes you want to go read a book? But it did and so, you know, that's what how come I love hip hop so much and how I could go on and on and on about it But I'm gonna let you go because this Thursday and you got a weekend ahead of you So enjoy your weekend and I will see you again here on Tuesday