On This Date In Hip Hop https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Topic Party Rocking Lesson 7: MCs Before Records Criminalization Tags vs Pieces Subway Art TAKI 183 Lesson 6: Graffiti as the 4th Element Style Wars Dance Battles Crews B-Boys Lesson 5: The Birth of Breaking FROM THE BRONX TO THE BILLIONS Grand Wizzard Theodore DJ Innovations Afrika Bambaataa Grandmaster Flash Grandmaster Flash Lesson 4: The Founding DJs Breakbeats The Launch August 11, 1973 January 5: Bizzy Bone Robbed By The Crips. (2009) DJ Kool Herc Lesson 3: 1520 Sedgwick Ave Economic Collapse in NYC White Flight Gil Scott-Heron Toasting Jamaican Sound System Culture The Last Poets Disco Funk & Soul James Brown Lesson 2: Musical DNA Caribbean Influences Youth Culture & Gangs The Bronx Is Burning April 1: XXL’s 10 Freshmen for ’10. (2010) The Cross Bronx Expressway A Borough In Crisis Lesson 1: The Bronx Before Hip-Hop June 1: Ja Rule Releases Venni Vetti Vecci. (1999) BREAKING: Jim Jones Saves A Life Using B.P.R. Elementor #15655 Membership February 1: 50 Cent And Cam’ron Argue On Air. (2007) January 04: 2pac, Quik, Deathrow Take Over Cleveland (1996) The News