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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Sugarhill Gang

Ed Piskor at 5:54 am Tue, Apr 17, 2012

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  • terry childers

    neat! i can probably make that!

  • http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce

    At first glance, I saw the spit drops as teeth, and thought, “Ed, calm the fuck down”. (and have some vitamin C)

  • http://profiles.google.com/nickmarino Nick Marino

    Ahhhhhhhhhh man, it makes me sad reading this one. Caz got ripped off so bad!!!

  • http://hame.ca/one/ Hamish Grant

    Sugarhill gang in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diiL9bqvalo

  • thedefog

    I still can’t believe Big Stank Hank used the rhyme with Cassanova’s name in it like that without even changing it. Pretty dumb.

    • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

       ”Big Stank Hank” haha. I might have to steal that for use in the comic later on.

  • http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

    I absolutely love the artwork!

  • http://www.facebook.com/charles.lenchner Charles Lenchner

    What a treasure this series is. How wonderful that it is on BB. Pure morning deliciousness. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m really looking forward to the origins of PE and NWA getting this loving treatment. And dammit, there should be some kind of hip hop legacy fund foundation giving Piskor shitloads of cash just because. You hear me Simmons?

    • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

       There is some fun, little known, proto-Public Enemy stuff I’m looking forward to talking about. Like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPX4zWHMjSo

  • Dave X

    This is the most wonderful thing on BB ever. 

  • CJR

    The family tree is missing the forgotten father of hip-hop, Pigmeat Markham who was rapping in 1968… 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvMBxlu62c0

    • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

       The whole “Family Tree” idea is about direct relationships. Kool Herc is the most logical place to start. If we fall down the rabbithole of documenting influences, it will add about 600 pages to the story.

  • bibulb

    Please tell me you’re going to collect these into a book some day. 

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/RBIFLFRA2F5WQA3SHC4NPXPIYI elliot

      Word. This would make such an awesome graphic novel.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

    I have always wondered why they chose the name Sugarhill. Was miss Sylvia a big fan of SugarHill Studios? They were a pretty influential studio at the time and had just done some work for Todd Rundgren and Ted Nugent at the time?

    I’m guessing it was just a coincidence.