7 Nov
2017
7 Nov
'17
10:17 p.m.
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
[*] "The Boogie Down" is hip-hop slang for
the New York City borough
of the Bronx and is generally credited as the place where rap/hip-hop
was born in the early-1970s. Google did a doodle for this earlier this
year: https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop,
narrated by the one and only Fab 5 Freddy.
That would explain the name "Boogie Down Productions" that got sampled a
lot around the turn of the millennium.
-uso.