MONK AT 1520 SEDGWICK AVE.. "WE PROBABLY DID'NT EVEN KNOW THIS EXISTED"

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  • Опубликовано: 18 янв 2025

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  • @elliotsober7042
    @elliotsober7042 2 года назад +20

    Mario gave us nothing but good times and paved the way for so many black people to use an artform, he wanted everyone to have fun and enjoy themselves, who do you know that would put all those ass kicker speakers and equipment in their apartment to give music to people for free! Never say anything about that man that you don't know of in front of someone who does because his spirit lives in each and everyone of us who was lucky enough to be blessed by his presence alone!!

    • @RandomFlavor
      @RandomFlavor Год назад

      I agree. Mario always had a smile on his face, and was very personable & approachable. Many people of Soundview got to enjoy his park jams for free!

  • @akbardavis2042
    @akbardavis2042 Год назад +3

    Kool Herc played basketball with Coke la Rock at places like the PAL club and the 9 169st Claremont ave

  • @kiddwee
    @kiddwee 2 года назад +16

    Thank you for the clarification on the history. Salute to the pioneers

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +2

      😂🤣Disco king Mario was a Disco DJ not hip hop. BIG DIFFERENCE

    • @FBA_AllTHEWAY
      @FBA_AllTHEWAY 2 года назад +7

      @@BoricuaNyc you obviously know nothing about Disco and the “DiscoTech” did u not pay attention to the documentary or you just trolling?

    • @djhardcorproductions6132
      @djhardcorproductions6132 2 года назад +3

      @@BoricuaNyc Mario was just a music lover period. He liked disco but best believe he also played the breaks. Mario was probably the first DJ to let the young kids touch the records. Cuz if you know then you know.... DJs back then didn't touch the vinyl they needle dropped. Mario was definitely a hip hop and disco DJ

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +1

      @@FBA_AllTHEWAY I payed attention to my 70-year-old brother that was there🗽🇵🇷🗽

    • @KEEMOO77
      @KEEMOO77 2 года назад

      @@FBA_AllTHEWAY She's a troll bro..... "@user-vu6wj1fh9d ". She has no job, Just trolls all day.😂😂😂 Get a life.

  • @hiphophistorian5476
    @hiphophistorian5476 2 года назад +19

    Dope. I wish there were some more of those older guys that partied at the Plaza Disco who call talk about Dj John Brown. That's who Herc said he got his playlist from and where he first saw bboys at in 1970/1971.

    • @intelligencehaswon5714
      @intelligencehaswon5714 2 года назад +6

      That's a missing piece of the puzzle, Herc's interview with Davey D when he admitted there was no Jamaican influence on hiphop, Dj Smokey and the Smokeatrons, Dj Mario, Coke LA Rock stating there was no Jamaican influence when he started, and other details that are not well known.

    • @hiphophistorian5476
      @hiphophistorian5476 2 года назад

      @@intelligencehaswon5714 yup

    • @themightyfp
      @themightyfp 2 года назад +3

      But they still try and say Herc is the founder smh

    • @intelligencehaswon5714
      @intelligencehaswon5714 2 года назад

      @@themightyfp
      History shouldn't revised to promote someone's agenda.

    • @themightyfp
      @themightyfp 2 года назад +3

      @@intelligencehaswon5714 agreed but you know the winners tell the story and media propped Bam Herc and Flash as the pillars. And the artist suppprt that story. Which sucks for everyone else.

  • @jaywyte7218
    @jaywyte7218 2 года назад +7

    I'm loving all these interviews

  • @sirpoppinchuck
    @sirpoppinchuck 2 года назад +6

    SoulTrain came on 0ctober of 1971 Don said he got that line from the dances he used to go to in 50’s n 60’s “The stroll”

  • @thenewgoldenera
    @thenewgoldenera 2 года назад +8

    Thank you for your original content!!!

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +2

      You do know Black spades ♠️ had Puerto Ricans🇵🇷🗽since day one. I guess fat Joe been speaking facts
      🗽✊🏾♠️🇵🇷🗽✊🏾♠️🇵🇷🗽

  • @fastpaced4861
    @fastpaced4861 2 года назад +5

    @Michael Waynetv i thought Sunshine said the term bboy came from Bronxdale? then we learn herc would come to bronxdale. looks like herc took the name from there, and brought it back to the westside.

    • @nourdinh.1450
      @nourdinh.1450 2 года назад

      Why not Bronx Boys ??? 😉😉 or Break Boys ???

    • @fastpaced4861
      @fastpaced4861 2 года назад +2

      @@nourdinh.1450 because black spades were the first bboys. black spades come from bronxdale. makes sense bboy = bronxdale boyeeeeee!

    • @nourdinh.1450
      @nourdinh.1450 2 года назад

      @@fastpaced4861 There are not BBoys you see BBoys With Boots?? Spade Dance was Fight Moves and Stompin on the floor when this was the first BBoy Mooves i dont know😉🙄

    • @kennyblackbird5674
      @kennyblackbird5674 Год назад

      ​@@nourdinh.1450I think this whole argument is that basically bboying evolved from the Spades culture. I remember in Bronxdale some people used to be blaring some strange funky music that they wasn't playing on the radio, and this was back in 71, 72. I think the song Scorpio was continental hit record but in the Soundview area the song played 24/7, figuratively and literally speaking!!! I don't know for sure if Herc was part of a gang but the Spades seemed to have sh** on lock! So I'm sure if Herc might have had any beef on his side usually they would ally with the Spades to quell any beef and in order for that to happen Herc would have had to come to Soundview for a sit down or pow wow.

  • @kkthedrummer8999
    @kkthedrummer8999 Год назад +2

    See my brother was dj kojak you see his name on Kool herc flyers he was with the black Spades with the original Bam in grant PJ not afrika bambatta but no one said break dance starts in 1520 because I saw b boys in cedar Park we was living in River Park Towers

  • @BENWORKIN89
    @BENWORKIN89 Год назад +4

    Hip Hop comes before Disco (the genre) is the information that I’ve come across. I believe it. Hip Hop is a culture not a style of music that is what people fail to realize!

  • @junkandthangs
    @junkandthangs 2 года назад +6

    Yeah we gotta keep building off this information… keep hip hop alive

  • @FBA_AllTHEWAY
    @FBA_AllTHEWAY 2 года назад +20

    That whole Sedgwick story always seemed suspect to me. I knew it had to be more to that story. Thanks for sharing👍🏾

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +5

      You do know the Black spades ♠️ had Puerto Ricans🇵🇷🗽in the black spades ♠️ so I guess Fat Joe was speaking facts about half and half since Puerto Ricans🇵🇷were in the black spades ♠️
      🤔😂🤣
      🗽✊🏽♠️🇵🇷🗽✊🏾♠️🇵🇷🗽

    • @bxdale83
      @bxdale83 2 года назад +14

      @@BoricuaNyc Wtf does that have to do with the video? Can you name the Puerto Ricans that were in the Spades besides Tex?

    • @melanatedwarrior3530
      @melanatedwarrior3530 2 года назад +13

      @@BoricuaNyc Ricans weren't original members of the spades, Ya'll stay lying. The thirst is getting worse by the day 🤣

    • @djhardcorproductions6132
      @djhardcorproductions6132 2 года назад +5

      @@BoricuaNyc You love trolling ... guess that's how you got your name 🤣

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +1

      @@melanatedwarrior3530Cholly Rock said Ricans🇵🇷were part of the black spades ♠️ and 2-white men.
      Tex DJ Hollywood🇵🇷was the President of the black spades ♠️ as well. I know the truth hurts you. Face it
      🗽✊🏾♠️🇵🇷🗽🇵🇷♠️✊🏾🗽

  • @TamBehindThaMic
    @TamBehindThaMic Год назад +3

    😅😅😅😅 I Agree let's give all the Pioneers credit.

  • @mbp333
    @mbp333 2 года назад +10

    My aunt Diane lived in River park tower's in the 70's,it was pretty calm on that side & RPT was pretty ritzy for that era.... Hip hop started in Soundview! Point blank period. #blackspades #bronxdaleprojects

  • @kennyblackbird5674
    @kennyblackbird5674 Год назад +2

    All I know is as far back as 71, 72 I remember the proto b boys that loved break beat music like the song Scorpio and James Brown joints that they didn't play on the radio, that was the Soundview area, I don't know if that was the thing anywhere else.

  • @BENWORKIN89
    @BENWORKIN89 Год назад +3

    Much respect to the fathers of Hip Hop and Hip Hops original family The Black Spades 🫡

  • @WaneEnt
    @WaneEnt Год назад +1

    💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💯💯💯

  • @akbardavis2042
    @akbardavis2042 Год назад +2

    I grew up in 1600 Sedgwick Ave., and lived on the third floor facing the park. I saw the first black Carti by Kool Herc, who played skin tight by the Ohio players as his first record. He played many songs in different genre, like R&B, the hustle, music, skating, music and bus stop music music that we called the slide now. One of my friends, Jeffrey Wyatt called me out the window and said Akbar come down, there’s a block party I said a block party what’s a block party?

  • @jamesparker6569
    @jamesparker6569 Год назад +4

    I can always rely on Monk and Cholly to break shit down and shoot straight! Glad they paying homage to Bronxdale where Bam and Herk would come to see King Mario DJ.

  • @sistercarol7366
    @sistercarol7366 2 года назад +7

    Grandmaster Flowers, in 1969 came to the Bronx, mixing with 2 turntables at the old Yankee Stadium, with James Brown, and it wasn t disco music. They trying to attach disco to Mario and Grandmaster Flowers is to take them out of history. The "Creation" of the first element of Hip Hop, "Mixing". Instead of mixing color as justification, moving the goalpost to 1975, joining in other elements, when they come into it etc is just a distortion, of the Truth. When we learn that invasion, infiltration, and integration, is how we lose our culture, over and over again, we will stop repeating our history and our participating in it. This stealing, taking over, is redundant in all our music, rock n roll, jazz, and even now gospel,. Josh White never got credit for "folk music "that's never attributed to us. No one lets us get into salsa, or any other music, that is culturally based, telling the whole truth, in relation to our People, and over a place, they cannot compete with.

    • @themightyfp
      @themightyfp 2 года назад +4

      Problem is Latinos and other Caribbean people don’t rep black when it comes to social issues. But want to claim the culture you can’t come to America and take the good with our the bad in my opinion.

    • @jeffking220
      @jeffking220 Год назад

      I have heard flowers tapes. He was disco. Never isolated beats.

    • @sistercarol7366
      @sistercarol7366 Год назад

      @@jeffking220 Neither did James Brown, yet they were the foundation.

    • @sls554
      @sls554 Год назад

      Brother you are on point Amen, Amen. SOME Caribbeans and SOME Latinos are saying they started Hip hop which is a lie.

    • @sls554
      @sls554 Год назад

      You need to tell everyone about this lies I am telling everyone about this lies. Tell your family young kids. If you are on the radio, TV, internet. We have to spread the truth that African Americans Invented Hip hop. Spread the word everywhere.

  • @ermins.newyork7434
    @ermins.newyork7434 2 года назад +2

    Gotta give a salute to Smif N' Wessun, too.

  • @HAZESPARKA
    @HAZESPARKA 2 года назад +2

    1720 University ave. Apt. 4
    My Grandmothers house
    Real Home of HipHop

  • @darrellhoward705
    @darrellhoward705 2 года назад +3

    An important piece that is missing in all of this debate is not just about the breaks and mixing da da da but what music? What music was being played at the jams because the music and culture go together especially fifty years ago. Were they spinning Think, Doin it To Death, Express yourself, Future Shock? If you have any vinyl from 1972-73 and you're saying you're FBA, DJ's, or Dancers, then you know these cuts, no need to mention the artist.

  • @WaneEnt
    @WaneEnt Год назад +2

    If that ain’t break dancing I don’t know what is 😂

    • @omardavis1622
      @omardavis1622 6 месяцев назад

      Burning. That was a old term, for battling. Coke, Sasa and few others say how they dance with and against " women " that's the key that's left out. " women " 🤦🏽

  • @dj_on_hugo
    @dj_on_hugo 2 года назад +1

    🔥🔥

  • @larryroyal8463
    @larryroyal8463 2 года назад

    Yeah yeah yeah. I love the Spades

  • @s.g4944
    @s.g4944 6 дней назад

    My father Master was a spade remember Monk and Slim Glas tou still around to tell it

  • @jessicam.4777
    @jessicam.4777 2 года назад

    Dr. Imani Perry, just published a very interesting article entitled, The Country Idiom of Hip Hop. It’s a very good read and in my opinion, she does an excellent job outlining very clearly the origins & roots of Hip Hop culture in a chronologically sensible manner. I think we have to consider her work and research on the topic when we engage in debates as to the origins and evolution of and contributions to Hip Hop culture. While this specific video doesn’t necessarily speak on this, I know there are others that do.

  • @akbardavis2042
    @akbardavis2042 Год назад +2

    Jeffy Wyatt introduced me to breakdancing and that was it from there. I broke dance with Mark DEAN, who is the sibling of the Ruff Ryders CEO’s. that
    lived directly above
    Kool
    Herc in 1520 Sedwick Ave.

  • @edeck889
    @edeck889 Год назад +4

    Everytime Busta and his elk lies, I will refer him and people like him, and others who just don't know the truth about the origins of #Hiphop to this channel💯

  • @kingdon4451
    @kingdon4451 2 года назад +4

    If da spades was so savage and breaking things and people up who was coming to these party's of da spades and how was it spreading around if nobody could come to these party's ???

    • @elliotsober7042
      @elliotsober7042 2 года назад

      Not true everything he's saying is 💯 but it wasn't as vicious as he's stating

    • @RCLaROCK1
      @RCLaROCK1 Год назад +2

      ITs what started the energy and element that surrounded the parties .GANGS ARE AN ELEMENT .excluded in the making of what is today Hip Hop HERC took it too another level for guys like me to have access to the music ...you stilll got robbed at Herc party too ..that was part of the scene n life .

  • @s.g4944
    @s.g4944 6 дней назад +1

    Peace the spades bx west side best side

  • @elliotsober7042
    @elliotsober7042 2 года назад +3

    Omg some of the people talking here don't know anything about the disco king Mario or the chuck city crew and if you weren't from bronxdale please don't say anything goodness gracious!!

  • @traum640
    @traum640 2 года назад

    Who invented the light bulb?

  • @elliotsober7042
    @elliotsober7042 2 года назад +1

    This is actually sad and Mario must be turning over in his grave with some of the comments coming from this video

  • @RCLaROCK1
    @RCLaROCK1 Год назад +2

    check this out #longestflowonwax RC LaROCK THE MICSTRO 1980
    your the best Mike ..all the right connections ..CONTENT is PRICELESS ..get a netflix deal you deserve it ...handle your BI .right where your standing 1520. in 1975 I was standing on top of that 181st Bridge looking down at a KOOL HERC PARTY side of Building street was crowded music blasting across the Harlem river . my crew original cold crushers use to play in Cedar Park

  • @CrispyBreaks
    @CrispyBreaks 2 года назад

    ruclips.net/video/hjw_-q8YfmI/видео.html
    I like watching clips like these to imagine what the youth gangs and kids involved with NYC street culture and early Hip-Hop were kinda like.
    Maybe there's archival footage somewhere of Hip-Hop in the early to mid '70s. We got audio tapes from the '70s, but all the early video footage of Hip-Hop culture seems to only be from the '80s.
    Would love to see more flashbacks to this era.

  • @harolddixon7456
    @harolddixon7456 2 года назад

    Brother monk is not lying but the Sedgwick Ave concourse side start later 75 76 when we came up under them the spade's was every we're and Bronx Dale was the place to be early 70 71 72 73 I was like 11-12. then we came up. Webster Ave Tremont The Grand wizard. Fantastic four, us our generation I'm like 15 16 now got it facts

  • @jermainepeters5702
    @jermainepeters5702 2 года назад +4

    you can tell herc got his style from mario....who is a foundational black american

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +1

      Kool Herc got his style from NYC🗽

    • @jermainepeters5702
      @jermainepeters5702 2 года назад

      @@BoricuaNyc which is black american stlye ask pueto ricans

    • @sls554
      @sls554 Год назад +2

      ​@@davidjoyce8858no herc is an Jamaican American.

    • @sls554
      @sls554 Год назад +1

      ​@@davidjoyce8858Nope herc is an Jamaican American.

    • @sls554
      @sls554 Год назад +1

      @@BoricuaNyc African American DJs from New York not Latinos and not Caribbeans. You all copy African Americans Music and African Americans Culture.

  • @henrycruz4966
    @henrycruz4966 Год назад +2

    So everybody wanna take credit for creating hip hop. The Jamaicans the Puerto Ricans the italians the black spades the savage nomads come on wtf gimme a break 😂

  • @samball2031
    @samball2031 Год назад

    Brooklyn and queen or founder of hip hop, you want to come in the Bronx back in the day the Bronx back in the day look like a tomic bomb hit it

    • @rc3nyc
      @rc3nyc Год назад

      Naw 🖕Brooklyn hiphop started in the Bronx everybody knows that hate all you want and queens is soft krs-1 single handedly shut down queens in the 80s 😄

  • @stone5578
    @stone5578 2 года назад +7

    They be hating on the west side lol

  • @soulknob9991
    @soulknob9991 2 года назад +1

    Sooo...Break dancing was started by the Black Spades which consisted of them stomping people out with their boots? LOL!

  • @bigolbabyhuey
    @bigolbabyhuey 2 года назад +19

    If you follow Cholly Rock's logic, then you'd know he don't consider Disco King Mario a hip hop dj

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 года назад +3

      Best comment 🗽

    • @hiphophistorian5476
      @hiphophistorian5476 2 года назад +10

      Na, he considered Mario a HipHOp DJ

    • @bigolbabyhuey
      @bigolbabyhuey 2 года назад +3

      @@hiphophistorian5476 I believe Maro is hip hop but I did see him and the host go back and forth on whether he's hip hop

    • @bigolbabyhuey
      @bigolbabyhuey 2 года назад

      @@hiphophistorian5476 But what do I know? In my opinion the Disco Twins are hip hop too

    • @bxdale83
      @bxdale83 2 года назад +9

      Cholly Rock never insinuated that Mario was a Disco DJ. Look at his earlier interviews. He always gave Mario credit as being a hip hop pioneer. Mario played disco music but he played breaks too

  • @markflanagan9187
    @markflanagan9187 Год назад

    So those old coots ain't Breakin, they just stomping shyt for real.

  • @jsanders9975
    @jsanders9975 6 месяцев назад

    Herc and Flash shady...

  • @soloist9495
    @soloist9495 Год назад

    they mad cause there not a part of the beginning of hip hop
    gangs and security hell no
    no its the djs like flash and zulu nation people and the rappers

  • @mychaljames8025
    @mychaljames8025 Год назад

    During the early stages of hiphop, Puerto Ricans considered it “jungle music” and something that the blacks did. Most Jamaicans came abroad dressed like a white western film with John Wayne. Hiphop is the child of the soul music of the 60’s, in particular james brown…. Who was a African AMERICAN with bloodline ties to these plantations on these lands. The Jamaican influence on hiphop came in the early 70’s and then the Ricans joined in.. these are facts, don’t get butt hurt

  • @PeaceGod81
    @PeaceGod81 Год назад

    Hip hop really started in Brooklyn 🤫

  • @curtis2299
    @curtis2299 Год назад +1

    Sedgwick Ave is a myth.
    South Bronx didn’t know it existed.
    Of course nobody came to spade parties.
    Pearl parties, skull, parties, nomad parties either.
    There was only one or 2 places that All Gangs could party together.
    The Shaft (so dope) was one of them.
    Ok, Hip hop (which it was later called) starts with the culture NOT THE MUSIC!
    What came outta the culture gave birth to hip hop.
    Graffiti, gangs, dancing, fighting, all that.
    In the Bronx “the culture” spread rapidly.
    If you wanna know where hip hop started all you gotta ask is where did early 70s black gang culture start.
    Damn sure wasn’t soundview. Bronx river, none of that.
    No offense but East bronx ngas was cornballs in the very beginning.
    They got they’re swag from us. South Bronx ngas.
    But I all happened so spontaneously that history is kinda cloudy.
    Anybody talking bout 74’, 77’ don’t need to be in this conversation.
    I remember when the spades first started.
    I remember Bam getting off the 35 bus at prospect Ave with about 5/6 spades.
    Them ngs walked softly until they saw me and other south Bronx ngas they knew. Then it was all love.
    Who started hip hop?
    Depends on what you mean by hip hop.
    Rappin? Break dancing?
    Hip hop started a lil before that.
    But the origin was South Bronx!
    East Bronx is where you went to visit your grandmother.

  • @cookingnana8204
    @cookingnana8204 2 года назад +1

    @MICHEALWAYNETV @KOOLDJPHASE Just saw Flash on a interview where he revealed he was apart of the foster system. Always thought his family came over from Barbados, in his Bio it shows he had a famous Uncle who was a boxer named Joseph Joey Saddler or Joseph Sandy Saddler born in 1926 in Boston, Ma. Hes listed as American not from Barbados? Flash as both NYC and Barbados as the Place he was born.

  • @Itainttrickingifugotit
    @Itainttrickingifugotit Год назад +1

    “Tim’s all seasons for ass kicking 🦵 reasons” 🫡