HIP -HOP HISTORY dancing in a Washington Heights sub- Bambaataa and Treacherous Three; Continued from page 38 way station. "Mr. Magic's Rap Attack" rapper Ice -T appeared in "Breakin "' moved rap to a larger world with a and "Breakin' 2." when it burst out of the confines of three -hour radio show, airing on The future was forever changed in its birthplace, things were changed WHBI from 2 to 5 a.m. Sunday mom - 1984, when two entrepreneurs were forever. Sylvia Robinson put the Sug- ings. Women started trying to break introduced at New York's Danceteria. arhill Gang together and cut "Rap- the glass ceiling of rap, and the all - Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons per's Delight," generally considered female crew Sequence hit the charts. would shortly establish Def Jam the first commercial rap record. The Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" became Records. same year, Flash and his crew, the the first certified -gold rap single, and It began to be all about posture Furious Five, became rap's first the rock group Blondie introduced rap and payback. The Juice Crew's "The supergroup. Flash is responsible for to the pop world with "Rapture." Bridge" and Boogie Down Produc- some of the most important records In 1981, Disco Daddy And Captain tions' "The Bridge Is Over" carried on in the history of hip -hop, including Rapp's "Gigolo Rap" became the first one of the longest- running payback "Superrappin "' and 1981's, "The West Coast rap on vinyl. The next battles in hip -hop history. People saw Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On year, Flash released "The Message," more and more rappers at the The Wheels Of Steel." one of the first urban -story political movies: 1985's "Krush Groove" raps. Bambaataa recorded "Planet included performances by LL Cool J, THE '80s Rock," the first big techno -funk hit, Run D.M.C., the Fat Boys and Kurtis As the '80s began, more of the in 1983 and "Looking For The Per- Blow; the Fat Boys starred in "Disor- world became aware of the culture fect Beat" the next year, signaling derlies." called hip -hop. With exposure, some- the onset of digital sampling. Run -D.M.C. and Aerosmith created thing strange happened. Seen in the Things got more political. the first rap /rock crossover hit with neighborhoods as positive and unit- By the mid -'80s, the move- "Walk This Way." Hip -hop broke out ing-even if only to party-hip-hop ment was unstoppable, spinning on the pop charts. MTV, mass media started becoming something else, on the number of Benjamins. and death became part of the picture although everybody in it worked to Los Angeles radio station KDAY when DJ Scott LaRock was killed in keep things on the positive tip. For became the country's first rap - the South Bronx in 1987. KRS -One whatever inexplicable reasons, those only radio station, and hip -hop carried on Boogie Down Productions' on the outside looking in deemed tours started to make serious mission and message. hip -hop dark and menacing. An easy bank. The Fresh Fest concert Rap life on both coasts got crazy, comparison is the adult world's view tour, featuring Run -D.M.C., Kurtis got strapped and got bumped off. In of rock 'n' roll 30 years earlier. Blow, Whodini, the Fat Boys and 1988, the year Russell Simmons and Alarmists then said the world was Newcleus, became hip -hop's first big Rick Rubin split up, Niggaz With Atti- damned forever; now their cultural moneymaking tour ($3.5 million on tude (N.W.A) came roaring with inheritors made the same claims 27 dates). Hardcore rap evolved into "Straight Outta Compton," scaring the about rap as truth began to edge out gangsta rap. hell out of the Federal Bureau of of the inner city. Films spread rap's visibility. The Investigation. This neighborhood in In 1980, members of the High 1984 movie "Beat Street" featured Los Angeles became the heartbeat of Times Crew were arrested for break- performances by Hero, Melle Mel, Dr. Ore and Ed Lover Continued on page 64

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