That means hip-hop, from the very beginning, had one humble definition: Making something from nothing. In other words, what does it matter if you can sit anywhere on the bus, or at a lunch counter, if you have no money to ride the bus, no money to buy a burger? These were people from the very same class King warned us not to abandon and forget.
One year later King would be dead, assassinated, but not before he began to spread the gospel of a “Poor People’s Campaign,” a crusade for folks like the poor African Americans, West Indians and Puerto Ricans in the Bronx who would later give birth to hip-hop. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning King was blasted as a traitor and unpatriotic.Īnd second, Kool Herc arrived from Jamaica that same year, making his way to the Bronx, the anointed and undisputed homeland of hip-hop. broke with the heart and soul of the Civil Rights Movement, and boldly came out against war, declaring that the United States was sending poor Blacks and poor whites to fight poor Asian people in a place called Vietnam, and that America was the greatest purveyor of violence on this earth. In 1967, six years before Sedgwick Avenue, a couple of significant things happened. But I believe it is deeper than squabbles over this or that date.
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