Hip-Hop's First MC Tells His Crazy Life Stories, When Kool Herc Was Stabbed & Why He Deserves More
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2021
- Coke La Rock is Hip-Hop’s original MC. This is not in dispute.
Coke La Rock was partners with DJ Kool Herc commonly known as the father of Hip-Hop. But right next to him, on the mic, was Coke La Rock. The 60-something-year-old Hip-Hop Pioneer was right there in the West Bronx with Herc and his sister/First Lady of Hip-Hop Cindy Campbell when they threw that now-infamous back to school party that doubled as a fundraiser for Cindy's school clothing. Coke La Rock served as a companion piece to DJ Kool Herc work on the wheels of steel by grabbing the mic, doing shout outs and short rhymes in front of partygoers. Those rhymes would soon be the foundation for numerous rap heads, hit records like the Sugar Hill Gangs "Rapper's Delight" and an eventual billion dollar business full of millions and millions of rappers. Such is his impact, he is now being called a "co-founder" of the culture of Hip-Hop.
We talked to Coke La Rock at WonWorld Studios in NYC for this exclusive and enchanting interview with a pioneer in a genre that doesn’t always pay proper homage to its forefathers and mothers. But this interview is a no holds barred look at an intriguing figure whose most interesting parts do not necessarily have anything to do with rap music. However, as it relates to Hip-Hop, Coke has a lot to say about his life and times. He discusses going all out for Kool Herc, ready to take a life, when the legend was nearly killed in a stabbing. He talks his early days of hustling and getting to places no other 17-year old could get into. He also discuses The Bronx, how crazy those jams were and even his penchant for holding three guns on him just in case.
AND THEN THERE IS HIP-HOP...
Coke La Rock keeps it real from his relationship to Herc to how he feels undervalued. He was here for the first Hip-Hop party with Herc and Cindy to being involved in the first rap battle to the first one to grab the mic to kick a rhyme. He even gives his Top 5...and the answer is a shocker. In a historical context, Coke La Rock is a national treasure and does not get nearly the respect that he deserves and it is time for that to change.
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Big ups to Coke La Rock!! I have been preaching on the Foundation of Hip Hop for years!!! Let's get back to the foundation and roots of hip hop!! Love you Coke!!
"1st" MC is his Claim to Fame And We Need To Preserve this OG's Legacy...Books...Films...Whatever it Takes To Cement His Piece / Contributions to the Culture
Salute to the legend Coke La Rock who recently celebrated his birthday.
Shout out to Kay Slay for featuring this legend on Rolling 100 Deep.
Thank you my brother COKE LA ROCK for the mention...I appreciate bro 💪👍❤️💯 - Geechie Dan
Once upon a time this man was the only M.C. in the whole world. Give this man his 💐 while he still here.
I’m a 26 year old rap artist/producer. Much love and respect to u. I appreciate u for paving the way for hip hop artist like me to have a voice and do the same thing and carry on the torch
Yes young man. Carry it proudly! Much love ❤
@@armyofdiamondsmedia most definitely
"Producer"? Yeah right LOL!!!
Real FBA legend!!!!! Kool Herc was grafted into this culture and taught in our ways BEFORE he could shine. Shout out to another FBA legend Disco King Mario as well!!!
still trying to erase herc smh
@@sioul8485 no one trying to erase Herc. It's the real pioneers that have been erased. Herc has said before he used to get clowned on and teased until he was taught how to dress, how to carry himself. Herc used to go to Mario parties before he even had dj equipment. The truth is the truth.
@@kas3583 herc never went to any of marios parties. when herc partied he primarily went to parties out in the west bronx along Jerome Ave (he states this in a interview he did w red bull music academy. google it) Mario was based out in the southeast side of town and he threw all his parties in Bronxdale projects and JHS 123, a school located near those projects. And Coke La Rock said in his Vlad TV interview people didnt goto parties far outside their neighborhood. Mario was a disco DJ and although Disco DJs used powerful speakers they were small (even the speakers they built themselves). Herc based his system on the sound selectors in Jamaica which were much larger. To top it off Herc specialized in obscure funk music, which very few clubs and DJs played at that time whereas Mario did disco, which was no different from what grandmaster flowers Dj Pete jones and a shitton of other DJs throughout Brooklyn and Queens were doing back then.
@@sioul8485 😂😂😂 U deluded.
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@@sioul8485 …let us not forget, Herc’s sound system that hosts an echo chamber . I bugged the fuk out, being next to the speakers
The first hip hop MC. I remember rocking with him in Bronx River projects in 1975 and 1976. He inspired me to become a DJ . I've worked in radio ever since and just retired from that business. Peace to the god!
Long over due...Thank you for the interview.
They did him dirty he needs to write a book or make a movie about his life i hope he gets his bag
Megaton history here! Thank you!
It’s documented that Herc bought the same equipment the legendary DJ Kool Dee and Tyrone the Mixologist were using back then.
And look? Hip-Hop doesn't acknowledge this man on the mainstream line of things. Sheesh.
Thanks so much for this interview. The pioneers are often neglected since it always later artists that become popular and ring bells with people. Techno is the same (Belleville Three) and House too (Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson). Always great to see them given a platform!
"Ain't nothing in front of me but disco" -Coke La Rock 👌🏾✨👑
Great interview!
Is it me or is this man still fine as wine?🍷 ...Salute Coke and family! Corona the Owner NYC: ...All Hip Hop head from The School of Hard Knocks stand up!!!
Coco is real he's live He's The real thing pure hip Hop
Man been looking for who is this Coke La Rock dude since Criminal Minded........Mega Respect I LOVE it he a real Man love you bro you the first rapper💪💪💪🙏Pay The Man!!!!!!
Massive respect due to you, Coke LaRock. I’m forever inspired . I remembered seeing you many times doing a ‘mike-check’ b4 a jam. You’re the first DJ that mixed in famous quotes, famous speeches, mixed in with music in the background. Break dancing, the Hustle, the Bus Stop, all done at a Kool Herc Jam. Thanks for the memories, ‘ma mellow. . . Peace !
Actually it wasn't done at Kool Herc jam. Disco Mario did it first.
@@terrell4102 …sure, whatever you say, baby Pah
This is hiphop legacy, roots! Big up, shotout from Portugal 💎🔁
I only subscribed to u cause coke la Rock interview excellent
God bless you god emcee Mr coke la rock!!! The paternal father!!!!
Respect from Bulgaria!
Can we just make Coke La Rock the First Hop Hop Saint!???
Love hip-hop's 1st emcee . This is for him . You & Deejay Kool Herc are hip-hop's founders for life .
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
🐐💯
This man awesome 😎
Big ups Coke La Rock
Kings of New York. #
COKE LA ROCK
People wanted Herc out the way because he wasnt FBA!
Especially its founder the William O Neal grifter Tariq Nasheed who said himself in 2018 that it was Herc that was the pioneer of Hip hop but has now flipped the script as it's not profitable to his FBA grift to give a Jamaican the credit for Hip hops start! ruclips.net/video/hRHLyVXEJSQ/видео.html
"WITH COKE LA ROCK/KOOL HERC AND THEN.."
"BBoys ran to the latest jam....and when it got shot up they went home and said damn"
There's got to be a better way to hear our music every day B-boys getting blown away but coming outside anyway
They tried again outside in Cedar Park
Power from a street light made the place dark But yo they didn't care they turned it out
"BAM"
My Mellow My Man Hotel Motel we won’t tell I won’t tell..Say What Say Weo.. do you remember ? I do .. Aklarock from the Block of Hip Hop
Asa so called hip hop head this a must see also vlad brought me here lol
Love this interview. Jz 5o cent owe this man reparation u too Snoop Dogg
Did you edit that echo?
Make movie birth of hip hop
just as it came to mind: @ 43:48 “what about the ladies in hip hop? Cindy is grossly overlooked.”
I'm Latino he legend .I pay for him over 50 cent jz
Hip hop owes this greats reparations p Diddy no body with out this man
Herc sister first promoter of hip hop
Much respect to Coke La Rock ! Not sure if he pre dates all the MCs though
He does
@@mikenojones6861 No he doesn't!
@@djhardcorproductions6132 whos the first???? I'd love to hear this answer 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@mikenojones6861 There were several cats before him that did what he did. KC the Prince of Soul, JJ the man with the Golden Voice, DJ Hollywood I mean I can say names for days. But I'm not trying to diminish Coke at all. Im only saying the wasn't the first. He was however like the first guy to get popular who was catering to that type of crowd though. So that's to be celebrated !
Only 15 coments wtf
Snoop Dogg p Diddy jz owes this man reparations .this is talent
43:48
@14:22 Coke travels 2 blocks to go home for a dump instead of using the clubs facilities, whilst carrying 3 firearms & then Kool Herc gets stabbed. This is very suspicious behaviour from Coke & casts doubts on his loyalties. No wonder he's not speaking to anybody from those days.
Right!
Kings are not friends with other Kings.
No soundsystem, no hip hop
What was going on before Herc was not hip hop or hip hop culture.. At no time what was going on before Herc was called hip hop or had anything to do with hip hop and life choice changes in New York it was just regular social behavior of black youths living in the hood environment small gangs rivalry and whatever was trending at the time at disco and funk parities there was no hip hop... It was after the implementation and fundamentals of several activities brought to the forefront by Herc that the word even came about....you cant take something of the past and just stitch into something of the future and say this is were it all started...It a lot of thing and what was before hip hop might have played a role as a part of developing the genre but its impossible to say Herc did not play the major and most important part of developing the genre.. Herc used bits from what he know about the sound system in Jamaica he used the funk beats from the USA and developed the this art form which then became what is known as Hip hop and a culture developed behind it to compliment the art.. everything else is total rubbish and there is no way of going around it...
i am Jamaican 58 born June 1964 Kingston Jamaica. but let me educate you on something you have no idea about and want to make an input into it without research and knowledge.... This song that you are about to listen to was done in Jamaica Joe Gibbs recording studio 5 Retirement road Kingston 5 in July of 1979 the engineer was Errol Thompson.. i was in studio that day at the age of 15 years old... here is the song...ruclips.net/video/uHplHw-IG8s/видео.html.. This would be the first rap song ever done by and human being male or female and it was done in Jamaica... Rappers delight by the sugar hill gang i don't know when it was recorded but it was released in September of 1979 one week before Xanadu and sweet lady rappers delight was released... why Joe Gibbs held back the release of the song so long i have no idea. Engineer and Joe Gibbs are not with us anymore may their soul rest in peace...everybody can talk all the chit they want but these are raw facts and i witness to it all...now this is were the debate can start... who and where exactly was the first rap song was done ever...If sugar hill gang song was recorded before July of 1979 then they were first but if its after July 1979 then Xanadu and sweet lady was the first artist to rap song ever on vinyl make careful note of it. There is the proof look at the label. and start your own research when you are finish get back to me.. By the way this other song which became the side B was done in April of 1979 on a reggae beat before voicing on a disco funk beat the genre was then called Reggae disco and quickly change to hip hop genre name of song it was called Rockers Choice ruclips.net/video/FrJpw9Hs_DM/видео.html
🙋🏾♂️1. Outdoor Block Parties in the Bronx with Speakers was done BEFORE Herc. 2. Using two turn-tables was done BEFORE Herc. 3. Extending the "Break" of a song was done BEFORE Herc. 4. Even Graffiti and was done BEFORE Herc. And a Black American named COKE-LA-ROCK was the 1st Rapper... Let me tell you what Herc is... Herc is an excellent STUDENT👨🏾💻 of BLACK AMERICAN CULTURE just like Bambada.
@@wwrecords1 you are a sick individual making pictorial claim with no Evidence go to youtube and resaerch how hip hop started and then be quiet withh all that nonsense
Eminem u owe huge to this man huge REPARATION .his non racist ways allowed blacks to accept u
Kid Rock name was inspired by Coc La Rock as well, he started as a Rapper. It's a reason they don't wanna hear from the Founders. They want to white wash Hip Hop with frauds like Crazy Legs who came in the 80s, and same moves he claimed he created are on RUclips from the 1930s.
Dominican Puerto Rican created hip hop with only NYC blacks
@@robluv4592 We don't Separate dude...😂😂....Notice you didn't say "NYC Puerto Ricans." Black America is one dude. Can't name anything that was created
@@Soufside_Slim one but not in hip hop there no separation hip hop isbt from Zimbabwe .hello it's not from outside NYC blacks those are facts ..
@@Soufside_Slim Dominican from NYC Puerto Rican from NYC & only afro American from NYC created hip hop .there no need divide history already did ...u want credit I black not from NYC. Hello not happening hip hop NYC NYC NYC not black ya wish ur music js Jackson 5 mo town Diana Ross Lou Rawls Lionel Richie Billy Dee Williams commodores
Why not be Green Tea La Apple Juice?
Why does the nyricans come into all of this thats right they didnt exist den
Peace ✌🏽 to coke la rock but he wasn’t the first to do it search 🔍 pigmeat markham here come the judge or the jubalaries