The Bronx looks back at 50 years of hip-hop

(9 Aug 2023)
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Bronx, New York – 27 July 2023
1. Various of attendees at a concert marking 50 years of hip-hop in the Bronx
HEADLINE: The Bronx looks back at 50 years of hip-hop
ANNOTATION: The Bronx is marking 50 years of hip-hop as the birthplace of the cultural movement.
2. Close of artwork depicting Bronx graffiti
ANNOTATION: The four foundational elements of hip-hop — DJing, MCing, B-boying and graffiti “writing” — emerged from the Bronx in the 1960s and 70s.
3. Mid of concert
ANNOTATION: But before it was a global movement, it was an expression of struggle and the realities of a hard life, delivered with grit, resilience, pride and creativity.

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Bronx, New York – 22 October 1970
4. ARCHIVAL image depicting a street in Hunt’s Point, in the South Bronx. In 1970, it was one of the city’s worst slum areas, with 90 per cent of its 204,000 residents on welfare
ANNOTATION: Hip-hop was born in the Bronx, rising from the ashes of a borough ablaze with poverty, urban decay and gang violence.

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New York – 5 July 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lloyd Murphy, Bronx graffiti writer known as “Topaz1”:
“Poverty was the flavor of the day. Could be 15 people in a two, three-bedroom apartment. Landlords didn’t take good care of the buildings, so it was rats, roaches.”

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Bronx, New York – 23 July 1980
6. ARCHIVAL image of South Bronx street

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Bronx, New York – 1 June 1977
7. ARCHIVAL image of children playing in South Bronx

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New York – 5 July 2023
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lloyd Murphy, Bronx graffiti writer known as “Topaz1”:
“We felt forgotten. We felt like we were our own world, where we just had to fend for ourselves. And we did fend for ourselves. That’s what growing up in the Bronx was like, you know, a lot of violence, a lot of people lost on drugs.”

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Bronx, New York – 20 June 1977
9. ARCHIVAL image of children playing in South Bronx

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Bronx, New York – 24 July 2023
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Majora Carter, Founder of The Boogie Down Grind cafe:
“We lost 60% of the population in this community because of the financial disinvestments that led to the era of the ‘burning Bronx’ — the space that we’re sitting in right now, all of it across the street, you know, most of it on the block that I grew up on, were just like, literally wrecks. Just shells of buildings.”

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Bronx, New York – 14 July 1977
11. ARCHIVAL image of fire at a store in the Bronx

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Bronx, New York – 20 June 1975
12. ARCHIVAL image of woman looking out at her building in the south Bronx

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Bronx, New York – 20 June 1975
13. ARCHIVAL image of a fire-scorched and empty tenement stands amidst a row of similar occupied buildings on a South Bronx

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Bronx, New York – 16 March 2023
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Naison, History professor, Fordham University:
“It’s very easy to look at the Bronx in terms of deficits, redlining, disinvestment, white flight, loss of economic opportunity. But during those years, the Bronx was also creating more variety of popular music than any place in the world.”

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Bronx, New York – 24 July 2023
15. Various of copies of old hip-hop party flyers
ANNOTATION: In August, 1973, DJ Kool Herc threw a back-to-school party in the recreation room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.

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Bronx, New York – 22 February 1973






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