Disco King Mario

But when you get into, like, the hip hop origin stuff, you know, the broader point I think that is being disputed, uh, comes from a place of, uh, when you talk about hip-hop's origin story, it sounds like everything starts in, was it August 11th, 1972, at that Cool Herc party, right? And if you look at what, if you look at each element of hip hop, they'd been around.

You know what I'm saying? Disco King Mario, you know, you've got The Jubileers.

You've got, uh, Pigmeat Markin.

People been rapping forever.

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the tentacles of the each element, each element had been happening.

You know what I mean? Like, you have Disco King Mario.

He's, he, I, if I'm not mistaken, he's from South Carolina ultimately.

Kool...

You had Disco King Mario before Kool Herc.

Oh.

You know who Disco King Mario is?

Yeah.

You know who Grandmaster Flowers is?

Just two months ago I was in the Bronx Dale Houses.

I went down to the old, o- old school, uh, uh, picnic, uh, in, uh, in the Bronx, in, in the Bronx Dale Houses.