![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, Hip Hop rapidly grew from a local thing into a global phenomenon. In the early ’80s, Hip Hop artists released mainly singles and only from the mid-80s on – when the record labels started to get behind it – the world saw regular Hip Hop album releases. It took six years before the first Hip Hop album was recorded and released – Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang (even though still heavily influenced by disco sounds). After the DJs came the emcees, who started rapping to the beats. Later, people like Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa organized ‘block parties’, where DJs created music using breakbeats and scratching. This way the ‘breakbeat’ was born, on which people would dance (hence: breakdancing – dancing on a breakbeat). Kool Herc is one of the pioneers when it comes to live-mixing together two different songs. Of course, the foundations of Hip Hop were laid even earlier and in different places by different people, but Aughas become sort of a symbolic date signifying ‘the birth of Hip Hop’. On August 11, 1973, a DJ named Kool Herc threw a party in the basement of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in The Bronx, New York. Old School Hip Hop is the period from the emergence of Hip Hop in 1973 to approximately 1986. Today, many people see 1987 and even later as ‘Old School’, but that is wrong. An excerpt from “ Going Way Back” – the classic Just Ice song from 1987. ![]()
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