It's May 21, 2024, 07:15:28 AM
HipHop actually started a few hundred years ago in Africa.. when messagers brought their messages from point A to point B and to remember the messages easier they made it so it rhymes and they made beats with drums and then they rapped their messages for the receiver so he would pay attention to it.
Graf was around before the DJ'ing aspect of Hip Hop. It wasn't a Hip Hop culture per say, but it was definitely a New York culture. In Herc's time there wasn't the intricate "piecing" going on... The majority of it was kids writing on the inside and outside of subways and buses.