Of all the clichés about hip-hop we’ve endured over 50 years, the idea that hip-hop is the product of “the streets”— with all the attendant implications about what and who is and isn’t authentic — remains the most tiresome.
In reality, hip-hop is largely the product of kids who stayed inside.
composed in real time — annotating, cross-referencing, and building on a living library of specific beats and sounds that would become the foundation of hip-hop.
The records preserve the ethos of the world of the first hip-hop generation.
They grew up in 1970s and ’80s New York, largely within African American families or those from the Caribbean.
Organizations:
Caribbean . Records
Locations:
York