Coke La Rock: Hip Hop's First MC
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this should run on history channel
definitely
The founders of hip hop DJ Kool Herc and Coke La Rock the very first ones to start it back in 1973 the birth of rap/hip hop everyone should show respect to these two men
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Rap?......was around way before 73😉
The First EMCEE ON were DJ Hollywood, and DJ Eddie Cheebia in 1970. Coke La Rock started in 1973 with DJ herc in 1973.
@@dolobrolic6066 Right, but the First to EMCEE IN 1970 were DJ Hollywood, and DJ Eddie Cheebia before Coke la Rock.
@@stanleyshack26 thats true..i believe Coke La Rock switched the drumming sound what we call the boom bap beat.
True living legend,thank u for your contribution for the hiphop culture
yep
For starting*
Its not just contributing, he literally started it
I want to thank Coke La Rock, for creating this whole music that makes me feel like a true human being. From Mexico to La Rock.
I know him and Herc I remenber when his first child was born...I went to a lot their parties at the Executive Playhouse also known as the Sparkle Coke and Herc was friends with my neighbor who lived on Long Island CoCo La Rock ( what the ladies called him) speak the truth especially about that go move your car and that Echo was crazy these were the best parties ever....they had a special mix for us coming from LI they use to run that train mix everytime we came thru the door...a BT Express and Trans Euro Express track mix it was crazy...they were way ahead of Sugar Hill...this is where it originated my neighbor had a tape of every party I had one that was stolen from me in college...much love to him Herc. Doronda and RIP Jimmy who introduced me to them...I'm a part of history I tell my kidsI was there when and with the Hip Hop originators...
That's really dope
Its a shame the tape was stolen... if it hadn't then it would be the first recorded hip hop track.
I would love to get more history from Coke La Rock
same
Has he ever been honored by B.E.T. Or Hiphop awards??? We need to celebrate the founding father of hiphop..... He is truly the one who put millions of dollars into peoples hands
2:10 His first rhyme is pretty hard tho
I respect him 100%
Mad respect for founder of Hip-Hop
Respect and thank you and Herc for Hip Hop.
*Happy Birthday Legend! We love you!*
Word the first mc was a Taurus like me
He seems like a really cool dude to hang out with
So glad I came across this.
This man is regarded as the 1st known rapper! Amazing!
Nope Rapping ,and Jive talking goes back to African American slavery times. There are rap records that goes back to 1920 African American Blues, Jazz, rapping in those styles of music on records. Coke la Rock did a good job but Rapping goes back to African American slavery times.
Mad homage to this man right here" coke la rock" the foundation of rap everybody
The Fathers of EMCCE Are DJ Hollywood, and DJ Eddie Cheebia in 1970. Coke La Rock in 1973 with dj herc
He is not the foundation of Rap because Rapping and Jive talking goes back to African American Slavery times then African musicians blues, jazz and rock and roll was Rapping in 1920 on records.
The first time I saw Coke La Rock, he was at a park in Highbridge with DJ Kool Herc in 1973. This guy is genuine.
And ...in this time,was he rapping?
@@funkyfreshzorro00 What I remembered was Coke LA Rock as more of a Hype MC than a rapper by today's standards. He would hype the crowd and say a couple of rhymes to get the people dancing.
@@chuckanthanio ok. Thankbyou very much....Hiw do you remember later Clark Kent and Timmy Timm? How were rapping,rhyming? Was better than Nasty Coke?
@@chuckanthaniothat’s how all the early MC’s were at first. The DJ was the star. The Mic Controller or Master of Ceremony contolled the crowd
It’s nice to see one of the black American pioneers of hip-hop able to tell his story because a lot of them are gone & written out of history
Cowboy was the first dude to make crowd response rhymes like "all the ladies in the house say oooooow!" you know like rhymes that required an answer from the audience, big up to Coke La Rock and R.I.P. Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins.
Wow! This brings back so many childhood memories. I remember seeing Coke LaRock's name on the old school flyers with the Herculoid and thinking to myself, this is one of the flyest names in the game. But you also had City Boy, Clark Kent and Turtledove from the heavens above! and can't forget Mandiplite (he wasn't with the Herculoids).Thanks Coke for help planting the seed of hip hop in me!
Do you happen to know what the earliest recorded rap song is? The only song I could think of is "Rappers Delight"
DAVID Edwards Talkin' radio play or bootleg? Lotsa bootleg rap battles from way before Rapper's Delight. They can be found online if you look hard enough. Good luck!
Chris Wallace
Well if you find any let me know, I played some Kool Herc at work
Try old-school-hip-hop-tapes-at-blogspot-dot-com. Lots of very nice stuff!
Thanks
When you hear the story from the horses mouth you get the truth. Respect Mr La Rock
My kind of history
The Amazing SAHSAH the first dancer B-BOY - HE DANCED TO JAMES BROWN RECORDS at kool herc parties
Let us not forget ‘slim’ , who was the floor show highlight at each jam
They didn't say Cowboy invented rhyming. They just said he invented the term hip hop and was the best crowd rocker of the 70s.
It’s mad the first ever mc is still alive but the amount of rappers that came after him that died it’s because the ogs looked after themselves
So amazing to see this man. Living history.
Thanks for sharing, I could have listened to him for hours.
Living Legend, much respect from Poland!
Damn!!...true black history...black don't crack!!...
Salute! We respect the Elders.
respect the founders! elders thank you! thank you for posting.
WORD UP! REAL LEGENDS ARE BORN NOT MADE
just listening to him talk, you can tell this guy is true shit. this kind of art barely exists anymore, the music industry has just about killed real hip hop.
Life back then seems so much more fun
True story i use to work with him and didn't know who he was until he said who he was
I've heard the name and it's soooo good to see the man is alive! : )
This is the real shit.I kicked it with him. My boy dj Ice is Busy Bees dj. Coke L Rock is the real deal. djRodneyO
wow did i just witness history or what with a vision so clear
MAXIMUM RESPECT for this interview....Hip-Hop History Word Up! Peace Love N Infinite Blessings! Salute!
Big big super large shout to Coke La Rock
...with Coke La Rock, Kool Herc and then Bam.....
Thanks KRS.
Old skool. the source.
Thank you sir!!! Coke LA rock!
Can somebody tell me what the hell his REAL NAME IS!!!? IT'S NOWHERE ON THE INTERNET. I cant even write my fckin paper!
and you dont stop. hip hop lives forever
To here this man talk you know he speaks the truth,Even his eyes say it brothers.
SALUTE KING, Words could never 🙏🏾express youy contributions to the CULTURE of HipHop and for HighTimes
respect and salute..
They need to make a movie of Coke La Rock from when he started
DJs like Jocko Henderson were using rhymes to introduce songs long before hip hop started. This was already apart of black culture in America going back to the 20s. Check "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs" an old cartoon from the 40s to see that. You had "talking blues" like Albert King and Cold Feet which used it and Bebop Jazz was another background for this style of rhyming and then into the 60s some radio DJs started using it for their shows and then into the 70s with Disco you had folks doing it and then it moved into Hip Hop. And of course don't forget the last poets either. Also check what the Jamaicans were doing with "cut selectas" or "dub selectas" as well.
No one disputes elements of hip hop came from earlier sources. DJ Hollywood was rapping at Bronx block parties two years before Herc threw his first party. However, the teens in the South Bronx took elements and forged them into something new they called hip hop, and that hybrid changed the world. Busy Bee was the first solo MC who never did any deejaying. The rest of the early MC's came in the form of crews or MC/deejays, of which Coke was the first.
Yes. I am just saying the idea of rhyming in between records as a way of introducing songs as a DJ was not really new . Not to mention other genres of black music had rhyming to rhythms not unlike later hip hop prior to that as well. So it is an evolution not something truly "brand new". Without the 50s and 60s blues bebop and jazz, there are no 70s and 80s soul, r&b and disco which leads to hip hop. Hip Hop borrowed many elements from previous eras, even the dance. Heck you can see "beat boxing" and break dancing in the Mills brothers from the 1940s on "Caravan".
As Grandmaster Caz says: "Hip hop didn't invent anything. It re-invented everything."
Steven Hager
Totally agree. The main new thing with hip hop was that the DJs and MCs were taking their turntables and records and putting on big parties and productions for local people in the street as opposed to the big discos where DJs had expensive sound systems that you had to pay to go to. And they experimented on their own with their own systems that were put together from scratch which created a demand for Dee Jays and Em Cees to do all the various block parties, playground parties and house parties which became popular at that time based on this new style of sound. And hence the rest is history.
Like all in the music. Rock (not "50s Rock n Roll") was product of the re-inventing Electric Chicago Blues stuff from young musicians fron ENGLAND! (The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Animals). Funk take bass 16th notes previously jammed by jazzist like Oscar Pettiford and Ray Brown.
Thankyou!! this is historic I love hiphop....
peace and blessings..set the record straight...
I respect the OG. And it maybe the truth in the BX but it’s all cap. Hip hop started in brooklyn with grand master flowers 🌺
Flowers Rip was just a Dj Herk was to but he flipped it in the BX and that what's made it take off big time
One of the coolest hip hop interviews on the internet. Great historical source
Mele Mel said a rhyme one time something like "Coke La Rock, Kool Herc and Timmy Tim I wanna be just like them..."
Coke La Rock is the foundation of mcying and DJ Hollywood is the Foundation of rap!BLESS To the Originators!
Id take this guy over 95% of these so called mc's of today
Salut the legend he is amazing. History in the making🙌🏾
WOW allways great to see the pioneers and legends of Hip Hop Kulture. :) I´m gonna be in Amsterdam on november 25th for shure. :)
THIS IS THE TRUTH!!!
This dude is the pure hiphop. these new school niggas should be ashamed.. They do not even know this man. It's a sad day in hiphop.
This BrothaMan right here is a Hip Hop Legend and I will have a big study session on him. Starting.... now lol
No One can say who was the first MC.
Everyone has his own Opinion.
'KC the Prince of Soul' was another NY Rapper in early 70s and Kurtis Blow has mentioned him as First.
But Respect for Coke.
+funkydopebeats True, but remember, the Jamaican reggae scene, and the MC's and Toasters which were DeeJaying way back then, was taken to New York by Herc.
+Martin Henry No Jamaican DJs took it from American DJs. Example Jocko Henderson was an American DJ rapping over records who started in the 1940s. Jamaican DJs picked it up from him.
The Jamaican Reggae Scene is still going strong, and vibrant, also diversifying because of Fu__in' copycats. NY rappers learned from the Jamaicans how to compere. forget who was the first MC. Jamaica's Mento, SKa, Rocksteady, Bluebeat, etc,...etc. Jamaica has always been at the forefront of music. Aknowledge the Jamaicans first.... I'm from London
What we now call rapping, Black Americans doing on record since the 1920's and the 1930s. What Jamaicans call toasting, which they got from Black American R&B radio DJ's who were doing rhyming jive/patter/slick talk live on air.
+Martin Henry That's a lie NY rappers didn't learn how to rap from Jamaicans. NY rappers are heavily influenced by James Brown, the Watts Prophets, the Last Poets, Gil Scott- heron, Hank Spann, Jacko Henderson, and the hustlers convention.
What a legend! Great interview.
GRAND MASTER MY RESPECT COKS LA ROCK
Hip Hop is not dead, it's just not popular as it used to be and it just evolved.
Respect & Salute!!!
Great upload but wasn't Blowfly rapping in the 60's?
Ice Cube: I'm the oldest rapper alive
Coke La Rock: hold my pipe
or weed
I love to document interviews like this because for a lot of people, hip hop started with Eminem. And they could care less about what came before him.
Nobody thought that. Everybody knows 2Pac and Biggie came before Eminem. So did Dr. Dre and he was the one who signed him at first and mentored Eminem.
2:30 I love how he's specifically not trying to take credit for creating rap/hip-hop but simply implying that he was just a DJ shouting out people's names at a block party and saying things in a rhythmical funky way. He didn't intentionally try create rap or hip-hop he more so popularized it or spread it's influence albeit unintentionally. Grandmaster Caz and others were at the same block party peeped the way he said things and pretty much copied it but essentially this style of rap would evole very quickly even in it's early years. Slowly forming into it's own genre in the mid 70 to late 70's. NY is definitely where hip-hop was birthed.
Did dj kool herc create rap as well, because i heard that he was doing the same thing spitting over old funky classics
@@hellchill2453 Coke La Rock was a friend and musical partner of DJ Kool Herc, who himself is generally considered to have laid down the foundation for hip-hop music starting in 1973. Coke La Rock is an old school New York City rapper who is sometimes credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop.
Before that time, he had no name and did his rapping out of sight from the audience, so no one knew who was doing the rapping. Kool Herc can be considered the father of hip-hop but undoubtedly Coke La Rock is the father of rap.
@@Young_Dab yeah i read all that when i was trying to find more information on coke la rock. but it doesnt say he created rap, because it also said kool herc created rap as well.
Yeah i know he was rapping beside herc when know one knew who coke la rock was, but that still doesnt mean dj kool herc never created rap when so many sources say he did and they were both partners
@@Young_Dab coke la rock is credited as being the first mc rapper so many sources say that so i agree.
but kool herc is credited as creating rap when he used to talk during the break of the songs. Since they were partners thats a hard one to know who was the first to spit
@@Young_Dab just because kool herc stuck to djing and didnt become an mc didnt mean he didnt inspire or create rap, his love was djing
the first rapper ever coke la rock
Legendary 🏆💪💯🎤🎶
Respect.....................peace!!
Dude couldn't wait to get that "Nigga Twins" question off! 😂😂😂😂😂 j/k
Bless up fam
Also i think that if you know where to look you can find hip hop music with much more complex and intellectual lyrics then most old school hip hop. I think old school has a more crude language, that while exposing the truth is still different (not saying better or worse) from today's language. Check out uochi toki, but keep in mind that they are an alternative hip hop band from italy, so their lyrics are written in italian :(
Wow!!!
Super legend.
So blessed to see this.
Great interview Mr. Steve Hager
What i really meant to say is differenent, i dont know why i said it in that way. Hip hop nowadays is not underground music as it used to be in the past. So now most people know about it and because of marketing they think it's "cool"... so the major music companies obviously started to sell shitty EMPTY wannabe music. It's easy to get lost in this thing, but you have you a computer. Use it and find new music that you love. Art is not sitting there waiting for you, an artist's job is to think.
Thanks O.G. for the music that I love so much
Rolling 100 deep brought me here....hard bars from a true legend
I'm obsessed with music and everything surrounding the culture..
I see comments below saying Hiphop is dead.. well maybe because you only pay attention to the mainstream.. Go search rap battle leagues.. they are alive and stronger than ever.. and for those who might say that Rap and Hiphop are different things.. think again.. Hiphop is a culture.. and Rap is the biggest part of it.. KOTD, GTN, GTNA, URL, SMACK, DON'T FLOP, BASEMENTALITY, FLIPTOP and a lot more others.. HIPHOP AIN'T DEAD!!
Should be everyone’s top MC
not at all. he does deserve respect thou
It will NEVER die. Drums & Smoke Signals is how I describe it.
N kickn up dust 🔥
God bless!
LMAO! that car shit was hilarious! Love you homie! long live the gods!
Wow, he educated
LOVE THIS DUDE !!! LEGEND
Maximum respect to this guy^^
That Motel, Hotel, rhyme was from the movie Five On The Black Hand Side
I think you are confusing it with: "I'm Imp the Dimp, the ladies pimp, the women fight for my delight" a line from Rapper's Delight that is in the movie. Can you provide the exact time you say it appears? czcams.com/video/rSSizD7xpME/video.html
You know I think you're right...
this dude is nice
*BIG RESPECT*
wow im speachless thank you for creating HIP HOP with dj kool herc Coke la Rock greetings from germany i hear you !
DJ Scott la Rock
I remember Coke La Rock used to say, "El Dorado Mike" got his El Dorado parked in front of the Exec...."..Peace and brotherly Love!...My Mentors Tabu, Charlie Moore and Monster Ron came to the Executive Play House and didn't want to pay to get in so they pushed the table out of their way and walked right in...and I looked at the door way to see what the problem was and when I saw it was them doing it...I knew I was SAFE and SOUND and if there was going to be any STATIC we got everything covered..
Coke La Rock!
Is that Beta Tapes in the background... does anyone know??