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Surely hip-hop taking over. >> the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and its a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ only god knows what you go through ♪ >> "the message" was the first hip-hop song that w...

Twenty years from now theyll still be talking about "the message" and "planet rock" and all the classic records. you know what i mean? so thats what it is. >> anthony: robert moses has been dead over 30 years now. and people in the bronx, for the most part, still hate him. in his role as master builder he ran the cross bronx expressway and the parkway system straight through dozens of working-class neighborhoods, seemingly uncaring about the destruction of whole communities. massive housing proj...

>> typically nato has been that wall. nato and eastern europe has been that wall. we have sent mixed messages. if youre lindsey graham and john mccain the message is, were here with you all the way to the end. if youre donald trump, maybe we are, maybe we arent, who knows. >> its been a little inconsistent, obviously, from this administration from the words there. but the actions on russia have been pretty solid and pretty good. when we see nikki haley come out and reaffirm nato and things like ...

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Disco music we used to play at the block parties to slowly and surely hip-hop taking over. >> the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and its a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ only god knows what you go...

Think. its pure uncut garbage. let me bump, feel my energy. no logic, a bunch of false prophets, pushing a poisonous product. >> im not hard to find. im right by the zoo, by the gorilla cage. holler at me, baby, hoo, hoo. watch it. ♪ ♪ [ dog barking ] ♪ ♪ >> first to call himself an mc. another pioneer, melle mel. in 1982 he and grand master flash wrote and recorded the album "the message."

An album that was a complete groundbreaking departure from the kind of lyrics and content up to that point. >> before we started hip-hop music there was no hip-hop, so we played everything. reggae, rock, watched heehaw. that was like a favorite in our house. heehaw. and all of those things kind of became the components of what became hip-hop music. ♪ to the burnin sand ♪ here i stand ♪ the weapon say mike in my hand ♪ ♪ >> i started out as a break dancer. i used to break dance. my brot...

>> the thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ god is smiling on you but hes frowning too because only god knows what you go through ♪ >> "the message" was the first hip-hop song that wasnt just a party song. it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime...

♪ pick pocketer, peddlers, even panhandlers ♪ >> when "the message" hit it was put that down, what did he just say? put the record back. play it again. ♪ dont push me because im close to the edge ♪ >> everyone knew the game had changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. ♪ its not michael jackson >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. ♪ you cant ...

>> as a young kid running around with a local dj crew i watched the transition from all the disco music we used to play at the block parties to slowly and surely hip-hop taking over. >> the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and its a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is bo...