The Legend Grandmixer DXT Breaks Down The Origins of Hip Hop | Sway's Universe
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The pause button is part of hip hop. As a Dj back in the beginning of hip hop I use to record and cut with the pause button and sell my mix tapes in high school for $5. I’m so glad I was a kid during the birth of hip hop. Hip HOp should have a holiday.
I did that too👍 never sold my mixtapes though. Just for the love of hiphop. Respect 💯
Classic pause tapes.
True but a Grandmixer DxT stated, it's a later part of Hip Hop. That came with the technology and 'pause' buttons becoming more standard on tape recorders & stereos, Before it was mainly 'record' and 'stop'.
I had a Sanyo box back in 79 that made the best pause tapes. A lot of the break beats that I had I didn’t have a second copy.
If you needed Grandmixer DST to tell you Hip-Hop is now poisonous, then you haven't been paying attention! Professor Griff has also echoed this sentiment by say Hip-Hop is Higher Infinite Power Healing Our People and it's not doing that anymore.
I *LIVE* for this shit.
I am hip hop, and hip hop is me.
If it weren’t for Disco King Mario there wouldn’t be no Herc no Bam no Flash. I’m shocked DXT didn’t mention the influence Mario had as one of the fathers of hip hop
Exactly he did not meet Herc until 1974.
czcams.com/video/8Bhd50Sx7i8/video.html Proof it was Mario who started it.
That's b*******. Charlie Rock said it was herc that started everything. Look up his interview on here. He was original b-boy.
@@kaykayjohnson9427
I beat witness to Disco King Mario but I also believe that Herc and others used to go to parties where other DJ'S were playing records. I think they got some of their style and influence from these DJ's that get no mention.
@@seanwright8786, LIKE DJ (JB) JOHN BROWN FROM THE TUNNEL!!
Outstandingly Awesome 😎 I’m 58 yrs old from Brooklyn (living in LA) produced Ice Records and did not know a lot of this info.... YESSSSSSSSS!!!!
Bible Right Here. He Was There At The Beginning. Solid
THIS IS HISTORY! Thank You Grandmixer #DXT & #SWAY for educating those of us who know not~ #SALUTE
DST is the 1st turntablist ever and I learned from his understudy DJ Lil Quick, Infinity 4, Edenwald, Bronx River, we both went to Kennedy in the Bronx. Quick was super ill on the set and he brought his style he learned from DST to my neighborhood in Wash Heights, cuttin' in my crib on SL-210s & the Gemini 800. Droppin needles, no spinback, speed and tight cuts, precise, and the collection was crazy. MC groups were around in 77,78,79 for sure and pause button tapes were being made in the mid to late 70s. Having a Flash tape in the late 70s was like gold. He mentioned Breakout who never gets credit for the SNL appearance with the Funky 4 +1 More facilitated by Blondie & Fab 5 Freddy. He also mentioned Elroy from Downstairs Records who I bought tons of records from. Does anyone know where Elroy is now? I know he was bouncing in clubs after he left the record business. Great interview.
Elroy breaks and mixes was dope! Where I search more from him?
I met DSt in 1982. He was a phenomenal DJ and a jaw-dropping break dancer
He changed his name. Put some respeck up on it😊
This interview needs to hit 20 million + views
Been a Hip Hop scholar since the 80s when I started b-boying to graffiti till my first LL and Ice T tape i was hooked and never looked back. Thank you Grandmixer DXT for blessing me with some wisdom. Much love from Cape Town, South Africa!
As an MC who began rapping in 1976 in Buffalo NY, I have to give the highest accolades to Sway for this gem here. Being from outside of the Mecca of the Bronx, the information trickling outward from the BX at that time became the mantras I've based my entire being around. After the exposure of Afrika Bambaataa by Hassan Campbell and Ronald Savage in April of 2016, I began discovering that a lot of the information I held sacred from that era was lore or completely sensationalized. I began a deep and serious re-examination of the history of Hip Hop from a more mature standpoint. This segment has reaffirmed and validated my decision to take it back to my beginning as a B-Boy. Herc is the father and that is where this man DXT shined in this interview. He gave no sensational opinion or hype over the others who have been placed on par with Herc. I'm impressed by the objective nature of this particular segment because that is what will keep this thing called Hip Hop as pure as it should be. Again, Sway, genius. I will remember to discuss this with you when I make it on to your show.👊
Respect 💯
Much love and respect to you fam.
Yeah, Herc is the father, but people put extras on what he did, which is why some argue that he is the father. People try to make it seem like he helped create rapping, bringing sound systems from Jamaica(we had them already), and inventing the use of break beats. All of that is far from true, but he was the first to throw parties with breakbeats being his theme, that is why he is the father to me, everything else is just bullshit, and can be disproven easily!
One thing I don't like about Herc's story is he makes it seem like his first party is when he started spinning breaks, but I read where he said he started spinning breaks like a year later, which means hip hop parties didn't start until 1974/1975. I guess he changed the story to combat what the Zulu nation said as far as them doing hip hop before herc, which is true because disco king mario was jamming before herc, and others as well, and Bambatta came after mario. He even used his sound system. They just didn't make break beats their main theme like Kool Herc did. But, none of them are the creators, the gangs, specifically the black spades, were.
If you want to learn more, go to Michael wayne tv here on youtube, he talks to the older people from 1968, and later, who actually created the culture that herc was watching, and gave a music to. LOTS of real information, no fairy tales.
DONT FORGET ABOUT GO GO MUSIC
YAL NEED TO KEEP IT REAL
This is the event he was talking about attending on Feb. 23rd
czcams.com/video/40fAqZ9K0T4/video.html
Respect the architects.
Grandmaster Flowers out of Brooklyn
Respect to the pioneer
9:11
I've literally been thinking about this the last couple days, and all of a sudden here's an interview about it😂🔥🔥
thanks for this type of interview
Grrandmaster Flowers was a club DJ, because Brooklyn, where he's from, was into the club-disco music back then, from my understanding.
I've bookmarked this video! It's the ultimate history lesson in Hip Hop!
Thank u Sway..the legend!!
FINALLY. Somebody saying what I've been saying FOREVER. Hip-Hop was and IS a CULTURE that STARTED WITH NYC DJS and SOUND SYSTEMS. AROUND NYC. NOT JUST THE BRONX. I WAS THERE! Brooklyn, Bronx, Harlem and Queens
Not New York City DJs get it straight. It started first by DJ Kool herc. Period
Wrong! Herc extended the breaks yes but he didn’t invent all the other elements in hip hop homie with the rappers hip hop would have never made this far and herc was rapper! DJ Mario came before herc him and the black spades created hip hop herc just extended the break beats
@@Black_unity597 no first of all the sound systems came from Jamaica and it started out in the 40s. Portable we made it portable and being able to play in parks and on the streets why you only had two turntables and speakers that can only play indoors.
We made the culture popular because we brought the culture to England, Canada, Italy and Japan and then United States.
Everybody was everybody said that they learned to play records because of DJ Kool herc.
DJ Hollywood said he was the first rapper.
DJ Kool herc play the breakbeats and everybody learn to dance with that so you can give him credit for the break dancing to.
Nobody knew what hip-hop was until that party in 73
@@khalilparks3049 BULLSHIT. WE had DJs like Hollywood, Flowers Pete DJ Jones, Disco Mari BEFORE HERC. Herc didn't know SHIT about Fucnk, Disco, Soul or R&B. Hollywood WAS the first DJ that incorporated "signifying" to the "BREAK" of a song. SOUND SYSTEMS and CULTURE are 2 SEPARATE things all together.
The CULTURE that became KNOWN as HIP-HOP is 100% Afro-American.
Hell, even JAMAICANS know they "borrowed" their MUSICAL STYLE from Soul Singers in the U.S. You wrote an essay full of nonsense. And I doubt you are OLD ENOUGH or were even IN NYC when it was all coming together. i WAS
@@khalilparks3049 exactly
Mc Shan Had A Song Living in the World of Hip Hop In 86; The album says 87, but I was a DJ working in a record store and we brought Mc Shan to Syracuse in 86 and he song that song and the rest of his album.. What these Bronx and NYC brothers do is tell their side of the story about what was happening in their neck of the woods, but that same stuff was going on in Syracuse, Buffalo, the Roc, Jersey, Philly, And all around the U.S.. I was born in Syracuse in 66 and when I was a kid in Syracuse and most of my life I heard the host rhyming, rapping, and talking jive on the radio and long before I ever heard a hip hop record.. We use to call it Jive talking..
Only 880 views and 18 comments. This definitely needs to be seen by more people.
The master DJ!!!
love learning more about my culture i feel in love with since i had ears!
Much respect for this
*keep it goin man*
history books take notice
GrandMixer DXT.....Peace King! You are definitely a staple in this culture. Thank you for educating many who have no clue. And the analogy of Hip Hop being a virus now....mind blown. Zulute!! 🤘🏾
Highly intelligent brother and an inspiration the most DJ’s from the 80’s 90’s and even the present. History told from the source.
The True Fathers of Hip Hop which are African Americans are Grandmaster Flowers, King Disco Mario, DJ Pete Jones, Kool DJ Dee, and Mixologist Tyrone. They were playing the Breakbeats, the get down part, extending the break, blending, Mixing, special records, they played disco, and Funk, the Mexican song, apache, and James Brown.
The True Pioneers Fathers of Hip Hop are the older African American's DJs from 1960s, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and up until now.
FACTS!
@@themightyhebrew777 Mightyhebrew Hip Hop is divided on who made Hip Hop and what is True Hip Hop.
@@sls554 I UNDERSTAND BUT WE HAVE LIVING LEGENDS THAT ARE STILL ALIVE LIKE TRICXI, SASHA, COKE LA ROCK, DJ PHASE, KOOL DJ DEE, CORNBREAD, M.C. EL BEE, ECT., THAT WE CAN GO TO. EVEN KOOL HERC SAID FROM OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH THAT WHEN CAME FROM JAMAICA HE WAS DRESSED LIKE A HICK AND THAT HE LEARNED HOW TO BE KOOL FROM FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS. THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF HIP HOP WERE ALREADY IN FULL EFFECT WHEN HERC GO INVOLVED. BEFORE KOOL HERC WAS A DJ HE WAS A B. BOY WHICH REALLY STOOD FOR BRONXDALE BOYS. HIP HOP STATED IN BRONXDALE PROJECTS IN 1971 AMONGST THE BLACK SPADES, THAT WAS BORN FROM OUT OF THE BLACK POWER ✊🏿 MOVEMENT, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, ALONG WITH PIGMEAT MARKHAM, JAMES BROWN AND FUNK MUSIC.
REST IN COMPLETENESS TO THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF HIP HOP:
DJ DISCO KING MARIO.
SHALOM!
03:38 That is how me and my crew use to DJ before we had turntables and mixer. One of us would bring our parent's all in one stereo to another's house with an all in one stereo. We used the headphone as a microphone so the DJ had to put his ear close to the record to listen for when the break part started then you cue up by holding the record till you ready to release and turn that stereo up and the other one down. All of that had to end before the parents came home from work. Even when I got a mixer and 2 turntables in 1980-81 I still didn't have an amp or speakers or headphones for that matter someone would have to bring their parent's stuff over.
Respect !!!!!!!to the Grandmixer D.X.T.
The man has a head on his shoulders .
peace; Sway hands down is the illest with the early morning radio show.
Heard it in germany 1983. glad to be alive at that era. Breakdance, Nike's. Oh, good times! Greetings to all of you!
GrandmixerDXT is one of the legends I have met over the years great source of knowledge...I hope I can met you all again peace...
Graaaaand Mixerrrrrrrr DXT! INFINITY!❤
80s and 90s Great times Hip Hop Forever 🎙
There are plenty of artists out there supporting the growth of our culture. Often times we shoot ourselves in the foot generalizing each other...and using platforms like this show to do it. Educating ourselves on the things we have strong opinions about is imperative
GRANDMASTER FLOWERS HAD SPECIAL RECORDS TOO. HE WAS DJing from the 1960s. A HIP HOP DJ from Brooklyn.
The Old African American's DJs the so called Disco DJs helped develop The art of DJ skills and techniques. Then turn those dj skills and DJ techniques into Hip Hop skills and Hip Hop DJ techniques. DJing skills in America goes way back. These Older African American's DJs Invented Hip Hop with DJ skills and DJ techniques before herc, baambaata, and flash.
Grandmaster Flowers which is a DJ, started DJing in 1960s from Brooklyn maybe by himself developed beatmatching and playing records in sequence.
I Came Up With This Dude. He Is An Element! He Is The Music!
He is right, people used to say "rap", not hip hop until the 90's. Once labels wanted to spend less money on black artists, they just called anything that is young black music, "hip hop"! lol
I can't believe people fell for it, its why an artist like Post Malone is considered hip hop when all he does is sing! He just looks like a rapper, but nothing is hip hop about him! Same thing with R&b artists!
But the rest of the world called it hip hop from 83 as we were all sold it as hip hop, we had a hip hop section in record shops, we wrote it as graffiti, we held hip hop events, we knew it as hip hop since 83
@@paulweston2246 The graffiti was called hip hop because it was, but the music was called rap. In the states, the record stores had a rap section, not hip hop.
Even magazines BEFORE "the source", called it rap. One of the first magazines that dealt with hip hop was called "rap masters". Even rappers called it rap music. In the words of Krs-One, "rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live". People forgot!
@@RealDealy I know all this shit, what I'm saying is that around the world it was known as hip hop and sold to us as hip hop. By the 90s people started to call it rap as hip hop as we knew it which was rapping, DJing, graffiti & bboying had finished and it was just rapping
But let's remember hip hop was before all of this shit
@@paulweston2246 I think you got what we are saying confused. We are talking about the music, not the culture.
In the states, by the 90's people called it hip hop, but that included r&b too, and it was because the labels wanted to save money when it came to black music so they mixed everything together. It had nothing to do with graffiti, bboying and djing. In fact djing was getting even more crazy in the 90's, it didn't die down until the late 2000's, and that's because of the feds raiding mixtape spots. Djing is still going strong, its just not associated with just hip hop anymore
Tell the story D! Salute
29:05 IT GETS REAL!!! #TeamHipHop #GroundZero Chicago~
I’m From Chicago.
And He’s On Point!!!!
Before I even watch,, damn! Grandmixer DxT! Thumbs up
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The rest of the world knew it as hip hop from 83, we were sold it as hip hop, we wrote it in graffiti, we held hip hop events, we had hip hop sections in record shops.. it became rap to us in the 90s when the graffiti, bboying etc started splitting off in their own directions
Legendary shit
the best interview twenty nineteen on sway in the morning,,,going to be hard too top this one,,#realisrare #fakiseverywhere
DST is KING 👑!
Looking for and wanted to see 👀 Grandmixer DXT on the wheels of steel. This video comes on saying that was a great set. Where it at Sway?
Salute to turntablist wizard / pioneer, GrandmixerDXT ! #HipHop #Innovator #Rockit #CrazyCuts
How he said that Sway is the best/realest since Video Music Box; I wonder how he feels about Stretch & Bob? Not sure exactly how they fall in the timeline but I definitely think they were one of the best on the radio, at least during that time period.
The WORD
Disco tech preceded
Disco music;
it just was the terminology for
Night club.
Greatest dj ever 💪💯
Dont forget about your little sis Booshe(Monica Pratcher) from Stamford Ct. With the 1973 Mean Green Cougar V8 Cyl. And my 1973 Mustard Yellow Mustang V8 Cyl., Driving You, Booski, Shahiem and Godfather KC Everytime that all of you had to go to the studio in Manhattan all the time, and going to the Rocksies, T-Conection, Harlem World and everywhere else we all useta go and have so much fun back on 1984 then my beautiful daughter Ivory was born 1985 with Booski😘 Dont forget about all of us my big brother DST😘Love you❣️
Some Lies Herc was not the only one with Special records.
He dropped a lot of history.
I appreciate these brothers. We have to do better as a people and it starts with "you": the mindset, how you treat people, principles and morality. We have to do better, I keep hearing these woke people saying we come from this and that, that ain't shit if you're not implementing it.
Do it, D.
Yes I produced re cords on Cube,Mack 10, DaLynch Mob, K-Dee, TROOP BUT NEVER HEARD THESE TRUTHS THANK YOU SWAY FOR BRINGING THE REAL
Kool Herc was influence by DJ John Brown ftom the Plaza Tunnel 1971 till March 1973. Kool Herc start 11 August 1973.
AND HE WAS INFLUENCED BY DJ DISCO KING MARIO OF 1971 , WHO WAS A FOUNDER OF THE BLACK SPADES
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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
this needs more views. he dropped truth
Bongo Rock!!!!
Good interview... However, the term hip-hop was around and "popular" in the early 80's - contrary to what DXT said. As a matter of fact, he said he "never heard the term" when in fact he produced and released a record called "The Home of Hip-Hop" in 1985. Did I miss something?
I just made a similar comment. I used to love that song too!! “Real Hip Hop my man…”
He said “Cold Crush happens in the 80’s.” But Rapper’s Delight was released in 1979 and one of the members of The Cold Crush had written lyrics for one of the Sugarhill Gang members. 🤷🏾♀️
Caz wrote ....he was the rapper and DJ. He was not in the group yet.
HIP HOP FOUNDER:
THE LATE DJ DISCO KING MARIO,
YEAR: 1971,
WEST BRONX..
FOUNDATION:
THE BLACK SPADES
🌎⭐
I want to see Grandmixer, Killer Mike and Lupe in a conversation together.
The great thing about this is he's speaking from a sound man's perspective. Anyone who is familiar with Jamaican music culture will see that its the same thing. Hip hop, Dance hall music/bashment is a sub genre of Sound Systemism.
Man knock it off your own elders already spoke they copied black Americans hip hop has nothing to do with Jamaicans not it’s creation anyway
@@Black_unity597 you aren't even on the same subject as me..must be the attention deficit you acquired in your youth. This isn't about who came from who. You really should rethink you account name.
ALL MUSIC RAPS RHYMESSSSSSSSS
THE BEAT JUST DIFFERENT
Yeeeah mannn..
DXT says they were not using the term Hip Hop untill the 90's ... I think he mispoke there or clearly does not remember his dates properly. He himself has a record called "Home Of Hip Hop" that was relesead in 1985 ... where he is rapping and clearly stating that the Bronx is the Home Of Hip Hop!!! Sway and his boys missed that one BIG time. Good Interview though still ... although that part clearly confused me and I would of asked him about that track!!!
this is true.. you will be hard pressed to find us say " hip-hop " in the 80's in the ways we express it now - shan is the first record who modified that word
Interesting. Always wondered where the term Hip Hop came from. #StudentofTheGame
I thought he was called Grandmixer DST
I hope he's gonna be part of the Hip hop museum to partake in the history??!
DST must be confused, he even came out with a song called “The Home Of Hip Hop” around like 84. He started the song lyrically saying “do you remember the days when Kool Herc played…” and the chorus said “real Hip Hop my man…”
Clarification is necessary.
We need more of this and less of the bullshit!
Bro' ... there are a lot of people in Chi-Town doin' serious work. Among them are the 'Violence Interrupters' ---who if it were not for their bravery and sacrifice the homicide rate would have been much higher. Reach out to them and they will give you an assessment regarding the violence and the reasons it continues. Peace.
kanye west talked about the violence in chicago on watch the throne and common is organizing in chicago and donda's house is still operational? chance the rapper is helping the culture in chicago too
tribe called tri 28:37
This doesn’t have enough views
21:55 kayne?
Bambaataa's legacy is now tarnished
#salute!!! Disagree a little as far as the term "Hip Hop". It was being said and called that. Many people were saying "Rap" though. But the culture of Hip Hop was known. Check #wildstyle.
He's referring to the mid to late 70s...... Wildstyle was released in 82. Watch the Founding Fathers documentary. Its on CZcams. Its talks about DJs and the scene pre Herc
check the interview again DXT clarified his point
First!!
But the heart and mind should be the most valuable commodity on this planet.
The Bible Of Rap and Hip Hop......
Did Grandmixer DXT benefit from the blackout in '77?
Rich Nice needs to stop frontin' on ChokeNoJoke and bring him up there.
When he talks about hip hop saying it's the reason why gang violence and everything else I cannot agree because Blues records like Hustler convention and other things were talking about these topics because these were the situations that black Americans were in and that are still in they're always been Underground Music hip hop just became the first genre to go mainstream with its Street culture rock and roll and blues talk about Royal Street culture talk about tricks and John's and stuff like that these things Sally has been a part of black music because it talked about the situations and day-to-day days that black people went through you can't just blame that on hip hop watch the movie OG Bobby Johnson they were playing Soul music and funk music and still gang banging all these problems came before hip hop Hip Hop was just a music and outlet for people to express themselves then if you go and look at Charlie Rock who admitted in a recent interview that he would MC and white people will write the records there's always been white interest in black people's stuff because they knew they could Market it you have to separate black people from white people to get genuine music that is not corrupted from any other group but this hip hop thing is not the only genre is the most popular genre with this because rock and roll did the same exact same thing
Ooh man sway you got his name wrong it's DST not DxT go check the records
Sway got it right...he goes by Dxt now...Edenwald...Granada place...REPRESENT.
And he found out his father is Puerto Rican 🇵🇷🔥💯
Common, TI, etc. No Sway!
28.26...nail on the head, social conditioning
I feel your words, what a insight. Thank you for speaking out for the youth and how we need to support and teach young people. ❤🔥
I Was Djing Block Parties In Boston At 8 Years Old' That Was 1976. I Was Already Scratching And Looping Break Beats' My Ogs That Was Teaching Me Had Got Into It Because He Came To Boston With Old Mix Cassettes Of Dj Sets And Then They Bought Two Turntables And Mixer And Dj Equipment And That Was In 1975. I Would Always Watch Them Practice And Was Trying To Learn And They Would Never Let Me Touch The Turntables' I Watched For Months And Was Literally Learning Everything Just From Watching' One Day When They Took A Break And Went Upstairs. I Snuck Down Stairs And Cut On The Equipments And Started Going In' They All Heard Me And Came Running Downstairs And Was Amazed At Me Going In' I Was Looping, And Scratching And I Was Doing Stuff That They Never Even Did' They Was Amazed' I Was Only 8 Years Old. They Then Was Teaching Me Some Techniques And Blending. About Two Weeks Later I Was Djing A Block Party In My Hood And The People Was Going Crazy, Because I Was Literally Better Then Them. I Swear I Felt Like I Was In A Movie' After That Stopped Teaching Me And Wouldn't Let My Touch The Tables Anymore' I Kept Asking Why And They Just Said No' That Christmas My Moms Bought Me My Own Dj Equipment And I Taught My Self How To Dj' I Am Not Kidding You, I Was Making Up New Techniques Like What Is Now Called The Transformer Scratch' That I Made Up Myself. I Was Doing That By The Time I Was Nine' I Think I Made Up So Many Techniques First Or At Least From My Own Mind That I Never Got Credit For Because I Never Got Big'' Because Two Years Later My Big Brother Sold My Equipment For Crack' ' He Had Got Hooked At The Beginning Of The Crack Era In The Late 70s' I Never Got More Equipment And That Ended My Motivation To Dj'
Grandmixer DXT: " _It became the term we used around 92, 93_ " 7:02
Also
Grandmixer DXT: " _The Home of Hip Hop_" on Celluloid Records 1985
czcams.com/video/S-yz5Q1DHPE/video.html
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Just saying.
I keep seeing people say the 4 elements of Hip Hop in this chat ... I thought there was 5 elements of Hip Hop !!! Just Saying !!!!
Look like big boy