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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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It's 1973 in the Bronx and a teenage girl is writing a party invitation.
They were doing a back to school party because Cindy's thing was, I need to have new clothes to go back to school.
But Cindy doesn't actually have enough money to buy what she wants. So instead she decides she's going to throw a party to raise some money. And the headline act is going to be her brother.
Who, you know, has been playing these records on their dad's like sound system.
So her brother will be DJ and she will get enough money to buy some fresh new clothes. But what Cindy didn't realise at the time was that by penning that invitation and sending it out, she would set something in motion that would be much bigger than just a new wardrobe.
No one saw it coming that a teenage girl's back to school party would actually lead to the birth of hip hop. He stole my line, but I'll allow it.
I'm Mark Fidel, and this is the tale of how one party would go on to ignite a musical revolution, not just in America, but all around the world. And yes, no one saw it coming.
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Chapter 2: What sparked the creation of hip-hop at a teenager's party?
And on Rapper's Delight, they were talking about, you know, the chicken tastes like wood and, you know, like hotel, motel, holiday inn. For my generation, it was a time of rapid development. There was a lot of offshore investment, money coming in from Japan and California and all these hotels and buildings going up.
And so, you know, in some ways when we heard this, there was like, oh, this is our music. This is speaking to our thing. You know, it was a little more edgy, a lot more urban, obviously. Gave me permission to be able to begin to express myself.
And that hip-hop culture of music and self-expression can be traced back to that party organised by a teenage girl. Her name was Cindy Campbell, and Cindy and her older brother Clive were born in Jamaica, and in the 1960s they moved to America. Fast forward to 1973 and Cindy's on school break, but school's nearly back and she needs some new clothes to start the term with.
And to do that she needs money, so she decides to throw a back-to-school party. The invitation is hand-drawn on this little piece of paper. It's got big 3D letters at top that say, A DJ Kool Herc Party. And underneath, Back to School Jam. It's scrawled in permanent marker with stars all around it. The date? On August 11th. The price? 50 cents for the guys and a quarter for the girls.
And at the bottom, it says, Special Guests with Cindy's name second in line. And the time of the party was from 9pm to 4am. So how do you keep a party going through the night? Well, music of course. Good music. And luckily Cindy's brother was, yes, a DJ. So she has an idea.
I'm going to get my brother who, you know, has been playing these records on their dad's like sound system, which they grew up in Jamaica. So they, you know, they were they were really deeply into music. And her father, you know, was was the guy that brought the sound system for these bands that would play.
Cindy's older brother is called Clive, but his stage name, yes, is DJ Kool Herc. And if that name sounds familiar, it's because these days he is a living legend in the hip hop scene. Some even call him the founder of hip hop. But at the time, he's just an 18 year old playing around on the decks at his sister's party.
There's a lot of excitement. You know, they're rolling these big Shure speakers. These are like tower speakers. So they're probably, I don't know, they're maybe four or five feet high, maybe higher. Trying to figure out how he might be able to take this sound system and do what he saw the DJs do back in Kingston when they were living there.
Because what he saw in Kingston was a new way of playing music. Herc's seen these DJs in Kingston playing these records on these two turntables with this loud sound system and packing tenement yards and different types of places within the city where people gather.
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