Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Buh, welcome to see P Time,
Speaker 1: the only show that's for the culture. Today, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about hip hop, and I mean real hip hop,
Speaker 1: not this new school trap mumble rap when you can't
Speaker 1: even understand what they're saying, Hobble the hook. If I
Speaker 1: couldn't hoover the Perkins, hover the hobble, that's not lyrics.
Speaker 1: That's the sound Fred flint Stone's feet make when he
Speaker 1: driving off his feet just joined the me goes Nope.
Speaker 1: Today we're going to talk about old school hip hop
Speaker 1: legends like DJ Cool, HRK, Grand Master Flesh, Runsby and
Speaker 1: c and of course my short lived group Regular Roy
Speaker 1: and the Trapezoids. We broke up right after we took
Speaker 1: that picture. Had a huge argument over what exactly a
Speaker 1: trapezoid is. Didn't record a single track, Kiss my ass Leroy. Tonight,
Speaker 1: let's discuss of the seminal moments in the birth of
Speaker 1: hip hop, starting with the fortieth anniversary of Rapper's Delight,
Speaker 1: the first commercially successful rap song. Rapperster Light got everyone rapping.
Speaker 1: In fact, thanks to rapperster Light, hip hop went so
Speaker 1: mainstream it even led to stuff like this and every
Speaker 1: rapping cat. I thankfully hip hop survived that commercial Many
Speaker 1: now rappers de light might be the reason rap went commercial,
Speaker 1: But what gave hip hop its flavor was undubitably the
Speaker 1: sound of the record scratch. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't notice, but the record scratch was actually invented by accident.
Speaker 1: A young DJ by the name of Grand Wizard Theodore
Speaker 1: was practicing in his room when his mother came in
Speaker 1: and he stopped the record with his hand, which led
Speaker 1: to this. That's right. That sound was accidentally created by
Speaker 1: a young black man trying to avoid an ass whoopen
Speaker 1: and now it's the signature of hip hop. It's also
Speaker 1: the sound of when some ship hadn't gone wrong, the
Speaker 1: condom had a hole in it. What do you mean
Speaker 1: that wasn't beasts. You may be a dentist, but that
Speaker 1: ain't my mouth. Yeah. But before you could scratch on
Speaker 1: the turntable, you needed a turntable, and that was one
Speaker 1: of the biggest obstacles for aspiring hip hop DJs. Turntables
Speaker 1: were too expensive. Luckily, in nineteen seventy seven, an act
Speaker 1: of God changed the course of black history. A massive
Speaker 1: blackout hit New York City and in the ensuing chaos,
Speaker 1: over a thousand stores were looted. Now, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be the one to say that black people had
Speaker 1: anything to do with it, but let's just say that
Speaker 1: the neck today there were a bunch of brand new
Speaker 1: DJs in New York City coincidence of deep Now, before
Speaker 1: you judge those people who looted on that faithful day,
Speaker 1: remember that looting can lead to some beneficial side effects.
Speaker 1: Black people looted, and now we have hip hop. White
Speaker 1: people looted, and now we have museums. If you know,
Speaker 1: damn well, those Moneys didn't just woke themselves into the museum.
Speaker 1: Now that his story night and seven and seven. My
Speaker 1: uncle Bibo also took part in the looting, but because
Speaker 1: of the darkness, he couldn't identify what he was taken.
Speaker 1: He thought he stole two turntables. Turns out it was
Speaker 1: too lazy, Susan's you never did become a DJ, but
Speaker 1: he could pass the hell out of some catch up. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all the time we have for today. But before
Speaker 1: we go, I want to make peace with the trapezoids.
Speaker 1: Le Roy, if you're watching this tonight, I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: I said a trapezoid is just a square with an attitude.
Speaker 1: That's so, I'm sorry for having sex with your wife. Well,
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