Here, a Brian Laird Show music history special on this August 11th considered the 50th anniversary

of the day hip hop was born in the Bronx as we do some music conversation and some of

your oral history calls and we'll finish up this special with two things.

One will be a Brian Laird Show deep track from 14 years ago that includes DJ Kool Herk

talking about his invention of hip hop as it has come to be known as his invention.

DJ Kool Herk himself and we'll take your calls and texts and tweets with your favorite

rap or hip hop lyric and you can start calling now.

Now if you're holding on with a little oral history think about a lyric.

The genre has given the English language so much, right?

So what turn of phrase or what couple of lines or earworms or tongueworms for you that

you find yourself singing in your head or saying out loud as quotable quotes that you've

woven into your day-to-day vocabulary to apply to anything in life, personal things, political

things, whatever.

It's an open-ended invitation to call in with a hip hop lyric that you love or identify

with and if you're hanging on to do any other kind of the oral history that we've been

taking, think of a few hip hop words or lines from a song that you want to throw in, two,

one, two, four, three, three, WNYC.

And while your calls are coming in and you're thinking about those lines and phrases,

here's that deep track from the show in 2009.

We were discussing at event being staged by the group City Law at that time about the

West Indian roots of hip hop.

DJ Kuhlherk was on because he emigrated from Jamaica to New York when he was 10, that was

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