Who is the Kool Herc of your city or state?

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The central hip hop scene and history in your metro area stems from which DJ, club promoter, artist, or club?


For NJ it has to be the Awesome 2, Teddy Ted and Special K. After Mr. Magic pioneered hip hop radio, the A2 got on around the time Red Alert started spinning.
Heard their names at the time, but wasn't aware of their show until years later. They were the Jersey connection to the emerging hip hop scene in NYC.

For metro Newark, it's DJ MARK the 45 King. Flavor Unit and that family tree stems from him. Lakim Shabazz was the first rapper from Newark that was really put on, that I was aware of, him, Latifah, Latee were Flavor Unit.

Grimy ass Club Sensations in downtown Newark was the hub of the hip hop scene. That and the record shop that was on Broad St. near Mcrory's. Forget if it was a Sam Goody or a Wiz.

 

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[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Boston - Rusti Pendleton
Oakland - DJ Igor Beatz

 

[Mastamimd]

DJ Screw or Walter D

 

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[Tommy Gibbs]

Thats a great question, but I honestly can't answer that. I don't now. My discovery of hip hop was through television, the movie Breakin in the summer of 1984 at a theater, Style Wars on PBS, and my older cousins. I wish I knew the answer for this. I'm from NC.

 

[TXTrill1]

Nice thread. Definitely gonna be screw.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

The central hip hop scene and history in your metro area stems from which DJ, club promoter, artist, or club?


For NJ it has to be the Awesome 2, Teddy Ted and Special K. After Mr. Magic pioneered hip hop radio, the A2 got on around the time Red Alert started spinning.
Heard their names at the time, but wasn't aware of their show until years later. They were the Jersey connection to the emerging hip hop scene in NYC.

For metro Newark, it's DJ MARK the 45 King. Flavor Unit and that family tree stems from him. Lakim Shabazz was the first rapper from Newark that was really put on, that I was aware of, him, Latifah, Latee were Flavor Unit.

Grimy ass Club Sensations in downtown Newark was the hub of the hip hop scene. That and the record shop that was on Broad St. near Mcrory's. Forget if it was a Sam Goody or a Wiz.

How could the Jersey Kool Herc not be Sugar Hill Gang..

 

[nieman]

Lady B (one of the first ladies in hip-hop, rapper and DJ, one of the first singles in the 70's) Schoolly D (the first gangster rap record) and Lawrence Goodman.

 

[Mr. Negative]

I'm from Mississippi, so that shyt weird.

We really never had or really have our own scene. We had some "local" folks pop off, but nothing really major. Hell, even out BIGGEST artists from here kinda disown the fact.

Prolly cause their parents did the smart thing and got them way the fukk away from here as soon as possible.


ANYWAY, all the shyt popping in MS came from Louisiana, Memphis, Atlanta or Florida. So really, DJ Jubilee, Magic Mike, etc

 

[Money Be Green]

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Ski Beatz used to live down the street from me. Recently I heard he was from NY in the first place, but I knew of him from my tweens as a local rapper on an independent Hip Hop label here (in NC).

His music was pretty decent. Then he moved to NY and popped up with Original Flavor, still rhyming. Then he was producing and people seem to know the rest from there.

That Camp Lo is my shyt. He produced that whole album.

 

[L. Deezy]

Im from DC and think we are probably the only city thats exempt from this. Our culture was Go Go music through the 80s and not rap..

Chuck Brown would be considered our Kool Herc

 

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9th wonder ?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

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