![]() ![]() ![]() But even as the city’s style evolved, the attitude remained scrappy, whether it was Rakim starting his cosmic flights by putting 16 dots on a piece of paper (one for each bar in a verse) or Just Blaze building the colossal Roc-A-Fella sound on a sampler in his mom’s living room: portable music made with modest ingredients by people who never expected a shot in the first place. The genius of hip-hop’s early sound lay in making do with what you had-take JAY-Z, who practiced his rhymes by banging out beats on the kitchen table. The who of hip-hop’s birth depends on how you want to tell the story, but the where is always New York. ![]() Let’s say it was Kool Herc at a back-to-school party in the rec room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, or Grandmaster Flash marking his favorite breaks in a record with a grease pencil or crayon so he could run them back on infinite loop. ![]()
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