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Jamaican born DJ Kool Herc moved to New York in the late 1960's and brought with him the Jamaican tradition of "toasting", which involved reciting improvised rhymes over instrumental sections of reggae records. He used twin turntables and cut back and forth between two seperate records to create a new sound. He would chant things like "Throw your hands in the air/And wave'em like ya just don't care!".
This type of crowd pleaser was known as "rapping" to the crowd. At that time rap was not yet known as 'rap' but called 'MCing'.
He later turned his attention to DJing and let two friends Coke La Rock and (the orginial) Clark Kent handle the mic. This was rap music's first MC team. They became known as Kool Herc and the Herculoids.
Grand Wizard Theodore was the first DJ to scratch which he discovered accidently. Playing his music too loud during a practice session, while his mother was yelling, he held back the record and it began to move back and forth in the earphones. He went on to experiment with different records trying to create a sound where people could understand it. He has since been awarded by the International Turntable Foundation for creating the scratch.
"Rappers Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang was one of the first rap recordings. It became a huge international hit and went on to become the best selling 12inch record ever, selling over 2 million copies world wide. This is where the term "hip hop" was coined. They used beats and base lines from the disco track "Good Times".
Utilizing beats from a wide variety of sources such as old gospel, jazz, James Brown/Motown soul, funk, disco, drum machines, and remixing them became known as sampling - the musical core of hip hop.
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1982
Grand Master Flash, the founding father of scratching and quick mixing offered a demo to a group called the Furious Five which consisted of five mc's - Melle Mel, Cowboy, Rahiem, Mr Ness and Kid Creole.
At the time the furious five weren't convinced the demo was worth recording but they did and in just over a month "The Message" sold over a million copies. The Message was the first rap record to break away from typical rap lyrics boasting about being the "biggest" and the "baddest" describing the hopelessness of the American Black ghetto's.
1983
The hard hitting anti-cocaine single "White Lines (don't do it)" recorded by Grand Master Flash and Melle Mel became a classic rap anthem and an international hit. In only a few years hip hop came from the underground and hit the mainstream.
Afrika Bambaata's style was strongly influenced by a German band called Kraftwerk. Inspired by the single "Trans-Europe Express" Afrika Bambaata Assim took their electronic sound and added rap. He joined forces with Soul Sonic and gave birth to synthesized electro rap sound. "Planet Rock" was a huge hit selling 620,000 copies in the US alone. Not only was dance music shifted into another gear but a whole new dance culture was born. Along came hip hop crews, graffiti artists and break dancing and hip hop began to spread into other forms of music.
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