A warning before we begin. This podcast is explicit in every way.

Okay, so yeah, so this is the Bronx Music Heritage Center. It's giving very much

Bronx after school, painted piano, drumset, community center vibes, posters everywhere.

Good crowd, cute crowds. We're the youngest people in here.

Definitely the youngest people in here.

I'm here with my producer, Monos and the Jason, to see a Bronx hip-hop legend.

There's a small crowd in the community center.

Grandmaster Kaz of the Cold Crush Brothers is cutting it up on the turntables.

As we make the rounds to get a sense of who's here, we see an older white man in the front row.

What's her name? Charles Taylor-Rass. And what do you know about Shah Rock?

I was really into hip-hop, but I got into it later. I didn't know about her.

I thought Shah Day was the first, but Shah Rock was the first.

Kaz based out the music and people start gliding down. The woman of the hour takes the stage.

Her name is MC Shah Rock.

We are so happy to have on the stage the first female MC in the world.

Shah's got on big shades, gold hoop earrings and a black leather jacket.

The way she commands the room, you can definitely tell she was raised in the Bronx.

I was the first female MC to help move hip-hop culture with little or no resources.

I said the blue print and I say that humbly, but you're got to know the truth.

You're got to know the truth, especially when we talking about the Bronx.

Especially when we're talking about the history of the Bronx.

You're got to know the truth. There were other female MCs that came out in 1979.

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