doclinkin wrote:JAR69 wrote:Also would have been a great opportunity to play some ska (and reggae and dancehall ...), where "toasting" has a long tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toasting_(Jamaican_music) And has links to hip hop. https://dancehallgeographies.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/retrospecting-musically-the-link-between-ska-toasting-hip-hop-and-dancehall/
Links. Hell, hip hop exists in large part because of DJ Kool Herc, born and raised in Jamaica, spinning break beats and toasting over the top of it.
I remember when outdoor parties started playing just the breakbeats, when it started to spread in the 100 mile radius around NYC, and DJ's keeping up patter on top of it, before it became real rapping and scratching.
Early rhyme magicians like Slick Rick came from a similar Jamaica/New York hybrid (by way of England in the case of MC Ricky D). Dudes I knew wore this record out:
After Sugarhill Gang, this was the song most memorized and imitated.
A couple years later it was KRS-1 (dad from Barbados) and DJ Scott La Rock (grew up at DJ Kool Herc's house parties) with a heavily Jamaican influenced style. This was the next song that every kid rhymed while beating dents into lunch tables and lockers.