Your must watch today.
Beat This! Hip Hop History 1984 (via Django’s Ghost)
BBC documentary on early hiphop in NYC. Features Afrika Bambaataa blowing some kid’s minds at a planetarium, also sitting on a sailboat in NY harbor (!), DJ Kool Herc driving some huge speakers around in his convertible in the Bronx, and talking about his stabbing. Malcolm McLaren retelling his trip to the Bronx to listen to Afrika Bambaataa at a block party. NYC anti-graffiti cops, and more and more.
Dec
18
2011
