![]() ![]() But their music wasn’t always saying s–t either.” When I started rapping, she thought it was going backwards. ![]() “It makes me proud,” Gunz said, reflecting on the history. Peter Gunz attends the NBA 2K7 Launch Party at Home Septemin New York City. Still, the record, and the genre, took off. In 1979, hip hop group The Sugar Hill Gang broke through with rap’s first official record, “Rapper’s Delight,” backed by a sample from Chic’s disco hit “Good Times.”Īccording to hip hop lore, one of the three rappers had lifted his rhymes from Caz, but Caz never got credit - or paid. Both a DJ and a rapper, Caz has admitted that he stole new music equipment during the New York City blackout of 1977.Ĭaz also played a controversial role in a seminal hip hop turning point. Gunz calls himself a disciple of an early rapper, Curtis Brown, better known as Grandmaster Caz, who met Kool Herc at a block party in 1974. It was block parties and basements, and milk crates filled with 12-inch records in the trunk of someone’s car. Gunz remembers the baby steps of the movement, when hip hop was in its infancy, before the record deals and radio play. Gunz became a star himself on the success of the Bronx anthem “Déja Vu (Uptown Baby)” with rap partner Lord Tariq, and later for appearances on the VH1 reality series “Love & Hip-Hop: New York.” They were regular people,” said Bronx native Peter Pankey, who scored rap hits as Peter Gunz. He looped the percussion portions back into each other to keep the beat alive. Herc had two turntables, but they both had the same record. DJ Kool Herc (aka Clive Campbell) performs on Januin New York City.īut this was something different, revolutionary, even.
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