7 Nov
2017
7 Nov
'17
10:24 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
Close. "Boogie Down Productions" is a specific group (actually a trio)
that formed in the South Bronx (I guess the term "Boogie Down" is kind
of specific to the South Bronx; I mean, it's kind of hard to image
much boogie-ing happening in Parkchester or Riverdale...). BDP's only
constant member, KRS One, was/is highly influence and considered
something of an elder in the rap community.
I'm afraid this is VERY far afield from the typical TUHS content,
though. In deference to other list members, I'm going to bow out of
the history of hip hop and NYC geography before I incur the wrath of
Warren et al. :-)
- Dan C.
[*] "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.