In a "commercial" sense, hip hop probably got it's start in the street,
basements & parks of NYC in the mid to late 1970's. However you could
also go back to 1970 or and give a listen to the Last Poets or
"Lightning Rod" (Hustlers Convention & Doriella DuFontaine /w Jimi
Hendrix) for the roots of modern day hip hop.
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> Date: Thursday, 20-Jun-96 12:10 PM
>
> From: John G. Dennett II \ Internet:
> (dennettj@stripe.colorado.edu)
> To: Earth Juice \ PRODIGY: (VPKZ84A)
>
> Subject: Re: the "hip-hop" thing
>
> Hi Jordan!
>
> "Hip-hop" is about 15 years old (give or take a year). You'd have to
take
> it back to Afrika Bambaataa and even older to get the origins, but
I'm
> sure that someone else on the list will be able to trace it with more
> accuracy than I.
>
> Cheers!
> John
>
>
> At 06:23 PM 6/19/96 -0400, Jordan Feinman wrote:
> >The first time I even heard the term "hip-hop" was from
> >Naughty-by-Nature's "Hip-hop Hurray". Am I correct in assuming the
term
> >is quite new, relatively speaking?
> >
> >Jordan
> >
>
>
>
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