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Cold Crush Brothers: As one of the first HipHop crews to come out of the Bronx in the late 70's, the Cold Crush Brothers raised the standard for the groups of the time. With their synchronized routines and flashy costumes, the Cold Crushers were definitely the crew to see live. As the Crushers stand today, there members include DJ Tony Tone (Angelo King), Easy A.D. (Adrian Harris), DJ Charlie Chase (Carlos Mandes), GrandMaster Caz (Curtis Fisher), Almighty KG (Kenneth Pounder), and JDL (Jerry Dee Lewis). The original crew included Chase, Tone, A.D., WhipperWhip, Mr. T, and Dotarock. This lineup never recorded anything together. WhipperWhip and Dotarock left and became members of the Fantastic Five.
DJ Charlie Chase was one of, if not the first Latin American DJ to get involved in the HipHop movement. He was raised in a family of musicians, and was a bass player before he became a DJ. He got his first chance to start spinning with the DJ crew Tom and Jerry. They would play disco records and let Chase get on in the middle of their sets. Crowds of the times were getting tired of disco, so when the party started dying, the two DJ's Tom and Jerry would let Chase spin his HipHop albums to get the crowd going again. Most of the time, after hyping the crowd back up, the other DJ's would make Chase get off the tables so they could look like they were the party pleasers. After leaving Tom and Jerry, Chase took to the streets to build his own reputation and following. He got up with a few MC's around the area such as Cisco Kid, and RC. RC introduced Chase to Tony Tone one day, and that was the beginning of the Cold Crush. Tony Tone was part of the Brothers Disco (DJ Baron and DJ Breakout) at the time and took Chase to one of their shows. It was the first all HipHop show Chase had ever been to, and he loved it.
Tony actually came up with the name Cold Crush, after waking up from a dream one night. Tone said in the book Yes, Yes, Ya'll ," Cold Crush, when I thought up the name meant anybody steps in our way, they get crushed, cold crushed, no remorse. Once we get on stage, it's no friendship, we got to walk off the stage victorious." Eazy A.D. was first part of the group the As-Salaam Brothers. They broke up, and he joined the Cold Crushers. Grandmaster Caz (one known as the DJ Cassanova Fly) hooked up with the Crush after his crew, the Mighty Force disbanded. Dotarock and WhipperWhip also came along for the ride. It just so happened that Kevie Kev and the guys from the L Brothers were looking at the two MC's to join their crew. Back then, it was all about the system you had to perform on, the louder the better, and Chase and Tone’s system wasn't the best of the time. So, Data, and Whip chose the crew with the better sound, and joined the L Brothers to form the Fantastic Five. Later the Cold Crush even took in some of the Furious Five MC's, after they were pissed at Grand Master Flash for taking too much of their money. They later went back to Flash, only after he had them ruffed up. What a world.
One of the most funked up parts in the history of HipHop, involved GrandMaster Caz and the first mainstream group of HipHop, The Sugarhill Gang. As the story goes, Sylvia Robinson of SugarHill Records heard a demo of the Cold Crush with Caz rocking the mic, and decided to make a rap album. She over heard a bouncer of a local club named Hank, rapping along with a Cold Crush tape and asked him to join her new group. Now, Big Bank Hank as they called him, was a friend of the crews, who helped them get the big sound system that they needed. So Hank goes back to Caz, and asks him if he could use the lyrics he wrote. Thinking that after he let him use the lyrics, he would help bring him into the SugarHill Gang, Caz let him use them. As history goes, Hank goes on to be part of the first platinum HipHop album ever "Rappers Delight", with Caz's lyrics. Caz never sees a dime from Hank or SugarHill, and doesn't even get credit for his rhymes. It's a major lesson to learn in the industry. Never let anyone use your stuff if your not getting something out of it.
Cold Crush started to attract a lot of attention from other crews, and was approached constantly to battle. Caz one said, "It's like I don't care if God, Moses and Abraham, come down here to battle us, we bustin' they ass".
Some of their most famous battles were against Grand Wizard Theodore and the Fantastic Five. Both of the crew were featured in the film Wild Style, and were both on the soundtrack. They were the first crew to sign with Tuff City, a label under CBS records. The Crushers went on to release numerous singles like, "The Weekend, "Punk Rock Rap", "Fresh, Wild, Fly, and Bold," and "Heartbreakers." The group never recorded a full-length album though. The Cold Crush broke up in 1986, but today are still affiliated with one another. The members have released solo material throughout the late 80's and 90's such as KG's and Tony's 1988 album "Troopers", and GrandMaster Caz's 2000 release "MC Delight", which was an album done as a comeback for not receiving credit for "Rapper's Delight".
The group as recently performed at the grand opening of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, and brought down the house during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's "HipHop Nation: Roots, Rhyme and Rage" exhibit when it opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Sept. of 2001.
Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five:
Born Theodore Livingston, Grand Wizard Theodore (with such groups as the L Brothers and GWT and the Fantastic Five), was a pioneering DJ who perfected the art of needle dropping and was the first to invent the scratch. Although he is best known for both foundation-forming techniques, Grand Wizard Theodore and his crew, go deeper than his famous first cut.
Grand Wizard Theodore learned the art of DJing from his older brother ("Mean Gene" Livingston), and Grand Master Flash, who in the early 70's performed together. A young Theodore started helping his brother and Flash out, by doing things like carry records and helping set up the sound systems. Eventually, Theodore even started pulling the records that Flash would need during his sets. The two older DJ's became so confident in Theodore's taste of beats; they would send him to local record shops to pick out new records for them to spin. One record shop offered free 45's to people who beat a certain score on a pinball machine. Theodore would sit and play pinball, listening to the storeowner playing the newest records behind the counter, beat the score needed for the 45, then pick out the hottest new tracks he heard being played. In the summer of 1975, as the story goes, Theodore was playing records too loud, and his mother started to bang on the door, telling him to turn it down. When his mother came through the door, he stopped the record with his hand, and started moving the record back and forth. When she left the room, Theodore knew he had invented something no other DJ had ever done, and the "Scratch" was invented. He kept perfecting the new innovation so it would blow people away when he unveiled it. The practice of "needle dropping" as Grand Master Flash coined it, came from Theodore's dislike of having to keep back spinning records to reach the break beats. He started picking the needle up, totally off the record, and placing the needle back down at the being of the break. He would watch the thickness of the grooves on the records to accomplish this feat, something many DJ's still to this day can't perfect.
Theodore's skills were developing so fast that his brother "Mean Gene" started getting jealous, at one point threatening to leave Flash if "his little brother got on the set.� Flash took it upon himself to help craft the young DJ's style and technique. While Gene was gone, Flash would let Theodore watch and learn the basic skills, and then let him work on his own. Refusing to keep Theodore a secret, Flash finally thought Theodore was ready for a crowd, and let him get on the tables at the 63rd park. The crowd went crazy for the little DJ. People knew he was going to do big things in the future.
After the demise of the L Brothers (Theodore's first group with his brother), he formed Grand Wizard Theodore and the Fantastic Five. The group consisted of Theodore and MC's Waterbed Kev (Kevin Strong), Master Rob (Robin Strong), Prince Whipper Whip (James Whipper), Ruby Dee (Rubin Garcia), and Dot-A-Rock (Darryl Mason). Whipper Whip and Dot-A-Rock (known together as "Salt & Pepper) were in a group called The Mighty Gestapo Crew, with DJ Kenny B, and Count D and the Funky Phase Four MC's. They were also members of the original Cold Crush Brothers. One of the original members of the Fantastic Five was an MC called Busy Bee. Ruby Dee eventually replaced him because of Busy's want to be a solo artist, and because he didn't get along with Kev.
Theodore and the Fantastic Five wanted their performances to be totally original and different. They would were fresh white tuxedos and perform intricate routines with their moves and rhymes. The group tried recording a song with a band, for the record label Soul On Wax Records, but in the end were disappointed, and ended up not using it. They were now dead set on never signing a record deal. They were happy with their success as a live group, and that was all they needed. One of their biggest shows was a battle against the Cold Crush Brothers at Harlem World. At the end of the night the crowd decided whom won by applause and the Cold Crush was just that, crushed. This was memorialized by the release of the battle tape a few years ago. The two groups were rivals, but respected each other’s skills. It just so happened that they were the two most popular groups around, and both were unsigned to any record labels. The two groups would later go up against each other in the cult film, WildStyle, but on the basketball court. Grand Wizard Theodore was also involved in making the soundtrack for the film.
Grand Wizard Theodore to this day is still part of the HipHop culture. >From judging DJ battles, to teaching the skills of the DJ to up and comers. He was inducted to the DMC Technics DJ Hall of Fame in 1998, and has received a Lifetime Achievement award from the International Turntablists Federation. Theodore as also served on the panel of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's HipHop Conference in 1999, and 2000. He's is one of the many DJ's honored and starring in the documentary independent film "Scratch".
Afrika Bambaataa Discography
Year, Title, Label
1986 Planet Rock - The Album Tommy Boy Records
1986 Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) Tommy Boy Records
1987 Death Mix Throwdown Blatant
1988 The Light EMI America
1991 The Decade of Darkness 1990-2000 EMI Records USA
1992 Don't Stop... Planet Rock (The Remix EP) Tommy Boy (EP)
1993 Zulu War Chant Profile (12"
1993 What's the Name of this Nation?... Zulu Profile (12"
1994 Feel the Vibe DFC (12" (with Khayan)
1996 Jazzin' by Khayan ZYX
1996 Lost Generation Hot
1996 Warlocks and Witches, Computer Chips, Microchips and You Profile
1997 Zulu Groove Hudson Vandam (Compilation)
1998 Agharta - The City of Shamballa Low Spirit (12" (with Westbam)
1999 Electro Funk Breakdown DMC
1999 Return to Planet Rock Berger Music
2000 Hydraulic Funk Strictly Hype
2001 Electro Funk Breakdown DMX (Compilation)
2001 Looking for the Perfect Beat: 1980-1985 Tommy Boy(Compilation)
2004 Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light Tommy Boy
Afrika Bambaataa Afrika Bambaataa was born on April 10th 1960 as Kevin Donovan in Bronx, New York. Known as one of the "Godfathers" of Hip Hop culture, he was one of the 3 original DJs to create the break beat movement in the mid to late 70's. As a founding member of the Bronxdale area street gang the Savage Seven (later known as the Black Spades because of member growth) he came to power in the position of Division leader. After a chance trip to Africa that changed his life forever, as well as changing his name to Afrika Bambaataa Aasim, he decided to use his power in the streets to help those involved in the gang lifestyle change their ways and play a more positive roll in their community, and their lives. He began to develope a group called The Organization, a group of rappers, graffiti artists, B-boys, and other people that politically and socially aware of the real problems facing the world. This group eventually became The Zulu Nation (inspired by Michael Caine film, Zulu and his studies African history) and was involved in creating a positive Hip Hop culture from the early 80's up till the present.
Bam's early use of drum machines and synths, were pivotal in creating a new sound for Hip Hop and R&B. His style of music which he dubbed "Electro Funk" paved the way for other musical genres like early Techno, House, Electronica, and the Miami Bass sound. He was also known for his record collection that he played at shows which you could hear Ennio Morricone to Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" which was the main melody of Bam's "Planet Rock". Bam is also responsible for helping many young cats get into the music business, with his connect to Tom Silverman at Tommy Boy Records, a label that was very successful in the 80's and 90's.
In the early 80's he created a sort of super group called the Soul Sonic Force. Soul Sonic was made up of the groups and people that Bam help form and performed with. These groups within groups were mostly all members of the Zulu Nation.
Bambaataa, in 1982, was the first person to ever organise the a Hip Hop tour in Europe. He brought with him all the elements of the culture represented by the heavyweights of the time such as, DJ Grand Mixer DS.T, graffiti artists Fab 5 Freddy and Phase 2, and B-boy and girl groups the Rock Steady Crew, and the Double Dutch Girls. This tour created the international scene which even still today is felt by Headz across the globe.
With a resume that runs consistently through 2 decades, Bam is still creating music and helping the youth of the world to see the positive light of equality, and hope. He is one, if not the, hardest working man in Hip Hop throughout it's history and even still today.
Kool DJ Herc Known as the Godfather of Hip-hop, Kool DJ Herc (born Clive Campbell) was born in Jamaica april 16, 1955. Using 2 copies of his records, he pioneered the art of using break beats while DJing. These were the juiciest percussion and straight rhythm sections of the songs he played. they also were the best parts to dance to, so he started extending the songs to keep the party going all night long. His love for music started while listening to American music like James Brown while living as a young boy in Jamaica. Then he moved to the Bronx in 67, at the age of 12. His first DJing gig was at his sisters birthday party, and after that he started throwing parties in his families rec room. This was the beginning of the B-boy era, a phrase he actually came up with.
Early on he knew the importance of keeping the crowd hype. He knew all the types of songs that keep people moving, and also learned the importance of keeping it fresh. When he started Djing, the most popular music was Disco. In reality, the youth of the ghetto's in New York were into a much different sound and scene. Kool Herc catered to all types of musical tastes (from R&B, Soul, and Funk, to underground Disco).
In the mid 70's he started playing the clubs of N.Y.C, such as the Twilight Zone, and the Hevelo. At this time his reputation was huge for having the best sound system of any DJ around (this was the first form of "battling" musically). During this period Many of the up and coming DJ's like Afrika Bambaataa, and Grand Master Flash were attending Herc's parties or getting burnt at them. There are numerous stories of battling Herc and his system and getting embarrased or getting blown off the stage.
Many elements of Hip-Hop were either created, or refined by Kool DJ Herc. the Breaking, the Djing, the MCing all grew to take over the culture of B-boys and Headz everywhere. Its true that alot of people give respect to Herc for everything he's done for Hip-hop, but not enough of the current youth, or the current peps in the industry do. I wonder if the so called artist that plague the airwaves, and television today really know where their opportunities came from. I myself would like to thank Kool Herc personally, and maybe one day will have the chance to.
ar fi bine dak s'ar citi macar jumtate din ce-i aici...da ma indoiesc...
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