SouthSide Jamaica, Queens Hip Hop history - Black History month 2021
DJ Professor MC Eva Marie King, BA, MS, est. 1970 - Celebrate Black History month 2021 House parties and park jams in the 1970s were my introduction to what is now referred to as SouthSide Jamaica Hip Hop Movement, Culture and Music. Please don't confuse this with what started in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. Though each town used many of the same instruments the outcome of the art was different. Instruments such as 2 turntables, mixers, fader boxes, echo chambers, amplifiers, receivers, Cerwin Vega speakers, homemade speakers and microphones. Those of us who were there knew how the culture evolved throughout the five boroughs. For a young preteen like me, partying at Bronx River Houses Community Center in 1976, The Hotel Diplomat in 1977 and Fantasia in 1977 gave me a diverse view of how different crews created breakbeat DJing that preceeded recorded Rap and/or Hip ip Hop in 1979. Cipher of Sounds (DJ/MC Crew) was the first crew that I watched Jam in St. Albans...