The 44th Anniversary of Hip Hop

[AndyRM]

Very specific date-wise, but Kool Herc pretty much came up with the sound as we know it today.

Thanks to Google's latest Doodle (and easily their greatest so far) you can have a crack at mixing and scratching your way through some of the most iconic records of all time.

Get involved... www.google.co.uk

 

[Doseone]

If you ask me it started with Afika Bambaataa and World Destruction in 1984, so I'm way off by the sounds of it.

 

[jefmcg]

If you ask me it started with Afika Bambaataa and World Destruction in 1984, so I'm way off by the sounds of it.

Well, it had been appropriated by white people years before that, so yup.

 

[AndyRM]

If you ask me it started with Afika Bambaataa and World Destruction in 1984, so I'm way off by the sounds of it.

In a bit of bother is Mr. Bambaataa... Accused of sexual abuse and booted out the Zulu Nation.

 

[Doseone]

Well, it had been appropriated by white people years before that, so yup.

Of course - I'd forgotten about Buffalo Girls - interesting the Sex Pistols connection with McLaren on Buffalo Girls and Lydon/Rotten on World Destruction

 

[MontyVeda]

Surely the birth of hip hop was when Morris Minor and the Majors released The Stutter Rap in '72... it took a few years to chart mind.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I had a hip op' last November.

 

[AndyRM]

I had a hip op' last November.

Passes Accy's coat.