and he just starts rhyming over the

beat just for like hours and

hours. And she goes, it's great.

I could record it and

make it a hit.

Part of people in the place to be.

My name is Quest Love and I'm

here to tell you about the birth

of hip hop culture.

Now, it's 1973, so Clive

Campbell, a.k.a.

Kool Herc, born in Jamaica,

has come to New York to find a

better opportunity.

And he's like, Yo, I'm going to be a

big deejay.

So he's playing soul music.

And there is always a part

in that song where they

would literally give the drummer

stuff. And that's called The

Breakdown Breakdown.

So soon as James Brown

warns you and we've got to give the

Jumma some, suddenly the place

will go out their mind, like you

got to get to

get into that.

And then core goods via the

turntable, like, yo, I got

it. I'm going to play only the best

part of the song. Only the break

and the move on.

And then move on and then move on.

And then his sister, Simone

Campbell, is like, Hey, heard.

No.

She was saying, hey, Clive, I want

you to deejay my back

to school jam and Kool Herc is

like, yo.

So August 11th, 1973,

at this particular party, Kool

Herc invented the merry go round

theory. First of all, he was using

two turntables, which was unheard

of. Beck is a watch.

And he played those eleven seconds,

the break.

And then when that part was over,

he'd fade it and then go to the next

song using this other turntable.

And the part of spinning

on their heads, spinning on their

knees, spinning on their backs,

spinning on their noses.

And Kool Herc is like,

sorry, let's go like them.

Michael Jackson's smooth criminal in

everything.

Anyway, so here's his claim to

fame was inventing hip hop.

Pretty good invention.

And then in 1976,

Joseph Saddler, a.k.a.

Grandmaster Flash, would take a

crack and mark the point

where the great starts.

And then one day he was just tired

of doing it.

How can I take the merry go round

theory and make it better?

And so he goes to radio set

and says, I want

a queuing system that will allow

me to hear a record before the

audience hears it.

How can I do it?

They said, Are you out of your mind?

There's no way that you can do it.

So he's basically taking a

razor and slicing

the cords and inserting

the cords into the back of the

mixer. And, you know, everyone's

like, no, you're going to destroy

the system. You're going to destroy

the system.

Is I. No, I got this.

And with his science scientific

trickery, he invented the queuing

system.

Now, Flash is like

I'm able to take

a four part drum break.

Good, good, good, good, good.

One, two, three.

And extend. It

is two copies of the same

song.

Goo Goo, Goo, goo goo.

Dan, I'm so busy

right now, you just don't know.

Yeah.

Anyway, so Flash had

an apprentice. They mean Gene and

mean Gene and a little brother named

Theodore Livingston.

So I mean Gene Theodore

and Mama Livingston all live in this

apartment complex.

Now, there was one rule for young

Theodore Livingston, and that rule

was, don't touch our equipment

when we're born.

All right.

Five, four

to wash us.

Three.

Now he's like, I'm 12 years old.

But if it kills me, I'm going to be

bigger than her.

And Grandmaster Flash.

But Mama Livingston, Jesus

told him, yo, just keep it down.

And he's like, all right.

But he started making

a mix tape and he was loud.

Good. Get it. Got M.C.

Bustan again.

Turn it down.

He puts his hand on the turntable

and he's like, Oh, man,

I'm going to get it now.

But here's the thing.

His mix tape that he was recording

was still recorded, but she's

startled him so much

that he started shaking.

And then he decides to stop

the tape.

And he wanted to hear the progress.

He did. So the point where she's

yelling at him.

He had an epiphany.

He said, wait a minute.

You mean to tell me when I put my

three fingers on this record

and I do this?

It makes this weird noise.

He's like, maybe it's a fluke.

So he gets another record.

Yo, Sanscrit, sorry,

I can't go. Tick, tick, tick, tick,

tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

Oh, snap.

I think I just am Vinit scratching.

So he had a bad man.

Wait. Get a load of me moving.

So he waits this perfect

block party because he knew

that he had lightning in

a bottle and

flash hurt every

D.J.

is there. I mean, he's he has to

stand on a crate in order to reach

the turntable.

That's how much of a kid he is.

And he is just a moment full

of tension. He just looks

looks at the stylus and he

goes.

Xie xie xie xie

xie.

Kissy, kissy, kissy, kissy, kissy.

In the audience goes

apeshit.

He doesn't just extend it like flash

does like an extended loop.

He is a good

kid. Tick, tick, tick, tick,

tick, tick, tick.

And people stop dancing and they

just watch him.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,

tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,

tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,

tick, tick.

And they never.

That's the first time they ever

heard scratching.

And Grandmaster Flash is looking

like, what the hell

was Kool Herc

is like?

What the hell was that?

And Graham was Theodore

and felt elated and

justified.

So he takes cool Herc's

merry go round theory and he

takes flashes peekaboo

system of here records ahead of time

and puts the perfect cherry

on top precise cutting

and scratching.

And that completes the final

word of hip hop.

Deejay

v.

Art of Turntablism

is a beautiful

invention.

I mean, the best babysitter

I ever had in my life was my

dad's turntable.

Want to keep

going

strong?

Let's send in the beat.

One, two, three, four.

Well, that was your quas lesson.

I love that. This is math and

science.

It also reminds me of this.

I may see a one on one

school year, but school

me you

know, my time to teach us

rest.

Just move my English.

Hello, my name's Colton, and

tonight I'm I'll tell you about

Rapper's Delight.

Drink up.

All right. So we're talking about

late 70s.

Disco was everywhere.

But Sylvia Robinson,

who was A RDBMS, B,

R and B singer, she

went to a party one night

with her son in New York.

And at the party, a rapper gets

up and he just starts rhyming over

the beat just for like hours

and hours. And she goes, it's great.

I could record it and

make it a hit. So she went up to the

M C's at the party.

She went up to Herk and she

goes, I want to make a rap

album. I think hip hop could be

cool. You want to do it.

But Herc is like,

no.

I don't want to do it.

Hip hop's you can't put it

on an album.

And so she goes to the other

rappers. They all say no to her.

But she's tenacious

about it. And she goes, you know

what? This is going to happen.

I'm going to make a hip hop album.

No matter what.

Where's my son?

She gets her son, she goes.

Take me to anybody

who can rap in rhyme

over music.

Take me to them.

And he's like,

well, I know. Rapping Pizza

guy.

And her son takes her to the crispy

crust pizza shop where

they have the rapping pizza guy.

Hey, this is big

bank, Hank, the rap and

pizza guy.

She goes, hey, I hear

you can rap.

Oh, yeah. I hear rap

duo Big Bucks.

Go on.

It's like F like

the letter F.

They go down making a beat.

Sometimes I'll wear a vest.

And I'll never stop riding because

I'll never stop.

Time of day.

I keep reminding all

my friends of

that, look,

I'm going to make a rap album.

You should be on it.

Who else do you want to bring in?