: About Me

Freedom fighter.

My passion is ...

the arts

I know too much about ...

life

My parents always told me ...

turn that mess down (radio)

My childhood ambition ...

was to sing like Al. B. Sure, yet rhyme like Chuck D

My favorite memory ...

is playing Gap Band records on my Fisher Price record player at age 4

Why I write ...

I write because it's therapeutic

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Way Of The Turtle/Hulu/Miles Davis

My first job ...

was working for a thrift store called Thrift Fair

Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Defining the differences between hip-hop culture and rap music

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Born out of the slums of Bronx, New York, the earliest hip hop gatherings date back to the 1970's. Then, in its most natural state, hip hop was designed to promote peace and unify the people of this impoverished community. DJs like Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa would rock community parties with no more than two turntables and a microphone. Herc, because of his Jamaican descent, would use massive speakers that closely resembled those used by Jamaican sound systems. A Jamaican sound system is simply another term for a collective of DJ's. The Jamaican sound systems and hip...

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