Who is the Kool Herc of your city or state?

[Newark88]

Twin Hype?

Yea them

 

[Harry Sax]

jam pony

 

[EastsideRio]

In Detroit rap hit the scene in the mid or late 80’s so it was either Prince Vince, Joe Kool, Awesome Dre, The J to the D, Kaos & Mystro, Poncho & B Def, Smiley, then it was Rap Mafia, Esham, etc. in the 90’s

 

[Who Not How]

Seattle, these cats way before my time. But my mom knew Sir Mix A Lot back in the 80s, she was in a hip hop dance group.

Obviously Sir Mix A Lot is the most well known and got Seattle rap nationwide attention. A lot of people don't know Butterfly from Digable Planets is from Seattle too, not NYC.






And this should be Seattle's rap theme song imo.




This a local classic from the 90s lol

 

[get these nets]

Aug 11 bump

 

[boogers]

this is the kind of thread i joined to read!

 

[Art Barr]

Seattle, these cats way before my time. But my mom knew Sir Mix A Lot back in the 80s, she was in a hip hop dance group.

Obviously Sir Mix A Lot is the most well known and got Seattle rap nationwide attention. A lot of people don't know Butterfly from Digable Planets is from Seattle too, not NYC.






And this should be Seattle's rap theme song imo.




This a local classic from the 90s lol

Where does the original mc breeze fit into the Seattle scene.


Art Barr

 

[NormanConnors]

In Detroit rap hit the scene in the mid or late 80’s so it was either Prince Vince, Joe Kool, Awesome Dre, The J to the D, Kaos & Mystro, Poncho & B Def, Smiley, then it was Rap Mafia, Esham, etc. in the 90’s

Have to add Felix and Jarvis to the list too

 

[get these nets]

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.
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[Art Barr]

Twilite tone



Art Barr

 

[Child_Of_God]

Chuck Brown.

 

[The Pledge]

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

Uncle Luke

If we’re going by metro, Smiles and Southstar

 

[get these nets]

Anybody from Baltimore remember, or heard of these guys?

 

[UpAndComing]

DJ Flowers I would say is the Kool Herc of Brooklyn. Maybe the real Kool Herc of Hip Hop