Best Of: The 1A Record Club Celebrates 50 Years Of Hip-Hop
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Since its nebulous "creation" at a party in the Bronx in 1973, hip-hop has become one of the world's most popular genres and cultural expressions.
It's also evolved drastically. It's given way to various subgenres – like gangsta rap and drill – and provided the means for talented emcees to be heard around the world.
But hip-hop doesn't exist without its controversy. The genre has been seen by many since its inception as a tool to further misogyny, violence and capitalist exploitation.
We celebrate Hip-Hop's 50th birthday by discussing the history of the genre and what its future could look like.
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| 0:15.7 | This is the 1A Record Club. |
| 0:19.7 | This is 1A. |
| 0:20.7 | 1A Record Club. This is 1A. |
| 0:25.0 | 1A Record Club. 1A Record Club. Let's go. Welcome to the 1A Record Club. 50 years ago at a back-to-school party in New York's Bronx Borough, |
| 0:37.8 | hip-hop was born. |
| 0:39.8 | D.J. Cool Herk is the man credited with starting at all. His mix |
| 0:43.5 | likely sounded a little something like this. In the five decades since its creation, hip-hop has become one of the world's most popular music genres. |
| 0:58.0 | He said that I'm good enough, |
| 1:00.0 | I'm not that I don't know, think about that I should know. |
| 1:02.0 | So I tell them is one of me, you're making fun of me. And it's evolved a lot since its early years when groups like the Sugar Hill gang were played on the radio. And the boogie to the boogie to the main-name |
| 1:13.2 | the bogey list part. |
| 1:14.2 | You don't stop. |
| 1:16.0 | Not only have women and LGBT-Q artists gained fans |
| 1:19.6 | and recognition in the hip-hop scene, |
| 1:21.6 | its influences have spread to nearly every corner of the world. |
| 1:25.8 | From South Korea with rapper Zico, to Nigeria with Burnaboy. |
| 1:34.0 | For this installment of the One A Record Club, |
| 1:38.0 | for this installment of the One A Record Club, we explore 50 years of hip-hop. We get into what the origin story of |
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