Wasting time with Jet

On August 11th, 1973 at his sister's birthday party in 1520 Sedgwick Avenue of the Bronx, DJ COOL HERC gave brith to hip hop. Herc would purchase two copies of the same record and play them on separate turntables next to each other. He would play the break beat on one record then throw it over to the other turntable and play the same part. He knew which records would keep the crowd moving, but he was more interested in the break section of the song. At this point in a song, the vocals would stop and the beat would just ride for short period. His desire to capture this moment for a longer period of time would be a very important one for hip hop.

It's so unbelieveable that ONE man can affect the world in such a way, look have far it has come, LA, the South, even Texas, St. Louis and the rest of the Midwest have made stars for this music. AND it's not even just the US, up north in CANADA, across to AFRICA, even as far as JAPAN there are rappers and Hip Hop fanboys that have taken their languages and made Hip Hop WORLDWIDE.

Last night, I attended a concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom that was sponsored by the relaunch of the website allhiphop.com.

Featured artists that performed included: Paul Wall, Remy Ma (aka Remy Martin), The Clipise, Papoose, Joe Budden, Juelez Santana, and Lloyd Banks. There were suprise guest apparences by Chamilionaire, Tony Yayo, and show-stopper BUSTA RHYMES!

On paper the line up sounds tight, but there sound problems, issues with entorages staying on the stage or taking forever to get off...the concert was trying to be informative and giving tribute to the pioneers (Cool HERC made an apperance an accepted an award, as well as The Sugar Hill Gang who made Hip Hop's first Hit Track "Rapper's Delight") and the photgraphers trying to record the moment in history too forever to get off the stage also. The concert started late, ended late. I thanked my lucky stars my friend from Westchester brought upper-tier general seating, because if I had to stand and be crushed in the floor crowd, I was gonna freak!

The friend had sprung this on me as a thank you for the Hip Hop Karaoke cruise thing, I was VERY exhausted but stayed a trooper and enjoyed the show.

So, Hip Hop at 33...not bad...we gotta find a way to bring it back to where it started though...gotta squash this G-Unit/Diplomats beef, and all this other hater crap going on...like busta said, "Make it all about the FUN!"