Beats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50
The Documentary Podcast
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The First Hip-Hop Record Ever Made Over a Breakbeat
The zeitgeist for my generation isn't hip-hop, it's the crack era. Grandmaster Flash was speaking directly to the political abandonment of working-class communities. In its earliest form, in terms of a recorded testament, hip-hop is over disco groups. The first single ever released over a breakbeat by Rick Rubin changed everything.
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