Hip-Hop Evolution

Excellent 4-part documentary about the origins of Hip-Hop all the way from the early-to-mid-1970s to early 2000s.
Pretty much everyone gets to say their piece and opnion on what was going on from Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Run DMC, NWA, Ice Kube, Dr Dre, etc...

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Essential viewing if you like music and music-history.

8/10

 

I've been listening to a lot of rapper interviews on Youtube lately where they tell stories from back in the day. The stuff is very addicting because I'll listen to one guy I like then see another interesting headline on that guy and get sucked in to 2 or 3 more (you know how it goes). Anyway, I found out that for all of the shit people used to talk about MC Hammer, it turns out he was straight G. Apparently whenever someone dissed him, he didn't respond on wax he went up to cats and checked them in person. He also put a hit out on 3rd Base after they made that Hammer diss way back in the day.

 

If you like music and music history you won't listen to hip-hop...ever!
Avoid this one.

 

Looks good. I'll give it a view.

 

Trust me Panchy - it's pretty good.
Especially the years 1974-84.

After that it all gets a bit 'aggressive' and clichéd...

 

I heard about that story too...Crazy if true.

Sometimes I felt a little bad for Hammer, everyone used to always diss him and call him a sellout, including fellow East Oaklander Too $hort, but Hammer was known to be generous to a fault. He genuinely tried to help a lot of people from Oakland out, was said to just hire people for the hell of it, to try to help them stay on the right path and have a legit job.

Cube clowned Hammer on True to the Game, especially the video, calling him a sellout and all that...Cube was a studio gangster (although a great MC back then) and was known for shady practices in the industry.

I always found Cube's acceptance into the mainstream kind of interesting due to his controversies. Cube wasn't some guy who said a controversial remark here and there, he had some blatantly racist songs and praised Khalid Abdul Muhammad at one point, a dirtbag who called for genocide and was kicked out of the NOI for being too extreme.

I definitely didn't think he would end up doing films like Are We There Yet.