DJ Kool Herc
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Oct 29, 2026
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
And I was in my area of the Bronx saying, this is his way.
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
And Kool Herc was in his area saying that's his way.
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
And Bam Bada was in his area saying it was that way.
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
So for me, it was critically important that when the heads was moving and as I went from one song to another, it was critically important that this don't happen.
Peter RosenbergGUEST
In the mid-2010 or whatever he did at Yankee Stadium back in the day, he literally would bring out
Brian MitchellHOST
Kool Herc.
Peter RosenbergGUEST
you know, ultimately the forefather of the entire hip-hop culture who really has never gotten rich or gotten the true accolades.
Peter RosenbergGUEST
He brought him out on stage and had the whole crowd recognize him at Yankee Stadium.
LL Cool JSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's crazy.
LL Cool JSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
DJ Kool Herc.
LL Cool JSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, you know, there's the Fearless Four.
LL Cool JSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, there's Run DMC.
B-RealHOST
That's for all the DJs like Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore.
B-RealHOST
Cool Herc, obviously, and all those guys.
Psycho LesPANELIST
He's the one that invented the one windmill into a backspin.
Psycho LesPANELIST
Before that, people was just doing backspins.
C-MinusHOST
They
B-RealHOST
were passionate about it, and they were just having fun out there doing something new, and they created this for us.
B-RealHOST
Cool Herc.
B-RealHOST
And then that ripple effect that happened from Cool Herc throwing that first fucking deal.
AceBoy PunHOST
Who was started by? Man, we don't know one Jamaican rap CD that's popping.
AceBoy PunHOST
DJ Kool Herc, that one.
AceBoy PunHOST
Oh, man, that
Glasses MaloneGUEST
tripping.
Rolo GuitarHOST
Let's start with the producers doing the song in a very old-school way, sounding so much like tracks that came out in the late 60s and early 70s.
Rolo GuitarHOST
That period is acutely important contextually, because this is when funk and soul were at their height and hip-hop emerged in the wake of inventor DJ Kool Herc and innovator Grandmaster Flash beginning to take out drum breaks from records, extending them and creating the loops that became the basis for hip-hop.
Rolo GuitarHOST
All of that is contained in Would I Lie To You, but it's done in a way to make the most of Charles Pettigrew's jazz-trained, R&B-inflected voice.
Rolo GuitarHOST
It's all very smooth.
Justin BuaGUEST
But who's who's the influence of hip hop? Bob Marley, you know?
Jeff HeinHOST
Who
Justin BuaGUEST
is another influencer of hip-hop? Bruce Lee, you know? And it goes into all of the people that planted the seeds so that the forefathers, the Kool Hercs, the Grandmaster Kaz, Grandmaster Flashes of the world, Melly Mel, could take what they brought to music, James Brown, what James Brown bought, what Gil Scott Heron brought with The Last Poets, and then make it into a movement.
Justin BuaGUEST
And then it gets into all of the people that we grew up with, the Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, you know, all of these people, Cypress Hill, all the way to Kendrick Lamar, and some of the later icons who are still carrying the torch.
Justin BuaGUEST
And I don't just include, you know... just anybody i mean this is this is little wayne like you know i like that
Justin BuaGUEST
It was exhausting.
Justin BuaGUEST
And so when there was that energy, the spark of, you know, when Kool Herc, on Cedric Avenue was playing block parties, that energy spread and the positivity spread.
Justin BuaGUEST
And so people weren't into the violence anymore.
Justin BuaGUEST
And so I think that if it wasn't for all of those gangs, I think we wouldn't have had the landscape to be able to be creative and have fun.
Tim MayHOST
Amidst the block parties and parties of the early '70s, where funk and soul was being played.
Tim MayHOST
On the 18th of August, 1973, DJ Kool Herc took to the turntables, and extending the instrumental breaks so dancers could keep going, MCs began hyping the crowd up, developing rhythmic ways of speaking over the beats.
Tim MayHOST
Hip-hop became a way for a community to tell its own story.
Tim MayHOST
Someone described hip-hop as the CNN of the Black community, like the BBC of the Black community, giving voice to a people whose experiences were often overlooked by mainstream media.
Steven SchmidtGUEST
So Allen Ginsberg, Parowak, these guys, Walt Whitman, they were writing this beat Nick poetry about the inner city.
Steven SchmidtGUEST
OK, and even like way before anything, you then have to kind of fast forward to like, you know, Kool Herc, for example, where we just got done celebrating 50 years of hip hop.
Steven SchmidtGUEST
I think it was 73 or whatever, where he's got, you know, and I think the Bronx or whatever.
Steven SchmidtGUEST
And that's, you know, hip hop.
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