![]() Disk jock eys …to all the fly kids and the young lay- deez. Raps are meant to be heard with music, but Piskor conveys them well, for example on page 11 using bold to emphasise the rhymes in Melle Mel’s complex raps: “Spanish, Indian, Negro and Vietnam ese. ![]() This is no romanticised utopia though: we see the death of one of the early prime movers as the casual waste of life it is.Īs DJs like Grandmaster Flash became more sophisticated on the decks, scratching and mixing sounds, they weren’t able to talk much, so teamed with MCs, who constructed ever more elaborate rhymes. Starting in the New York City’s poor South Bronx, in the 1970s, Piskor identifies hip hop as growing out of the gangs. He paints a picture of community and collectivism, as people bringing different skills, not just as DJs and performers, but as bouncers, managers, and salespeople, with others improvising, like DJ Tony Tone building speakers into oil drums. ![]() Originally serialised a page a week on web site boingboing, Fantagraphics are collecting Ed Piskor’s history of hip hop in a series of deluxe volumes. ![]()
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