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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, DJ Kool Herc Spawns A New Culture

Ed Piskor at 9:30 am Tue, Jan 10, 2012

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  • Genre Slur

    Awesome thank you

  • strangefriend

    Tell us how Grandmaster Flash met Blondie . . .

  • hexmonkey

    There was a documentary called “The Freshest Kids” that explained some of this too:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhisX4mVoDI

  • http://twitter.com/mitchelka Mitchel Ahern

    [wants to mouse over the players and get links to more info]

  • coryf

    Very cool.  Don’t know much about Hip Hop, interesting to learn about it’s origins.

  • http://www.eff.org/ deaduncledave

    Reminds me of a great documentary, Scratch. Is it online? You betcha! http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/scratch/ (NSFW, adult language.)

  • ill lich

    I predict this rapping-style-music will be very popular with the youngsters someday.

  • jarmstrong

    This is awesome.  Another great film in which to see a number of these artists is Wild Style. “Ain’t nothing to it but to do it.”

  • http://marrickvillian.blogspot.com/ Al Corrupt

    Nice 1.

  • Tony Canepa

    Great piece.  Love the art and the weathered, four-color look. 

  • wrecksdart

    Outstanding–can’t wait to read the next installment.

  • http://www.kidvector.com/ KidVector

    very cool!

  • sean

    Thanks for cluing all of us white hipsters in on a strange, fearful and mysterious form of music that we want to be cool enough to “dig” but don’t really understand…our inherent lack of rhythm, as white people, may be part of the reason…can you teach me how I can bust a rhyme, dissing the ho’s and playuhs, so I can buy a big gold medallion to wear?

    • Mister44

      Dude – what’s your problem?

  • 666beast1

    Great writing and art, Thanks for creating it.

  • Mister44

    Three things for the artist:

    1) How do you replicate the look of old comics so well?

    2) I am enjoying you 10x more than Bill the Skipping Water Beetle

    3) If you leave out Doug E Fresh, I won’t forgive you.

  • UncaScrooge

    I honestly did not care for any of your comics until you started writing about Hip Hop.  These are great stuff.  I know you don’t need any constructive criticism from the likes of me, but I think your journalism trumps your editorialism.

  • Maeg

    This is amazing!  I was born in South Bronx in ’79, my older brother in ’73; this was the beginning of our personal soundtracks of our lives.  Ah, the memories… Imagine two little white kids bringing THIS to suburban MD in ’85.