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Kurtis Blow presents the history of rap. Vol. 1, The genesis

In the early 1970s a musical genre was born in the crime-ridden neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Hip-hop, as it was known then, was a mix of pure streetwise ingenuity, extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with searing poetry chronicling life in the hood. Presented here are works from the roots of hip-hop as it spilled out of the ghetto gaining millions of new fans across America.

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