Staight back to back every time I grab the mic make a record bleed like a hemopheliac...

Came across this book put out by the Experience Music Project which I may try to purchase this pay day.....

Book Title: Yes Yes Y'all



The product of interviews conducted for the Experience Music Project’s Hip Hop exhibit, this book delivers what the people who created hip-hop have to say for themselves- a crucial and underrepresented aspect of hip-hop culture. It is entirely made up of first person anecdotes from pioneering DJs, breakers, writers, and emcees. The authors, Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn (Wild Style) act as curators, allowing the artists room to reveal the truth about hip-hop’s explosive beginnings in the South Bronx and the surrounding communities that generated a now global movement. In a drug-infested, near bankrupt NYC, the street gangs who ran the neighborhoods informed hip-hop style and battle culture. Check the 1977 NYC Blackout’s role in the DJ population expanding, as looters liberated decks from ransacked electronic stores. Read Flash marvel at Kool Herc’s selection, as well as Flash’s tales of a pint sized Grand Wizard Theodore, doubling breaks atop a milk crate. In addition, let Kool Herc tell you how he was not a DJ-for-hire, but the promoter, the tastemaker, the sound system constructer, and the DJ. Grandmaster Caz and Disco Wiz drop tales of bare-bones hip hop, rocking in the park, plugged into the light poles. The wealth of show flyers and unearthed pictures displayed throughout this text is reason enough to add to cart. With an introduction by Nelson George and the willing collaboration of so many pioneers, this is authentic source material. An essential read for anyone interested in who and what it took to create the climate and culture of original hip hop. Features a goldmine of original flyer artwork, as well a original photographs. -P Gorgeous

I don't care what Ice Cube says..Hip hop started in the east and that is where the greatest MC's are from.