THE BRONX (1010 WINS) – This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop’s birth in the Bronx. To commemorate the occasion, 1010 WINS' parent company, Audacy, is launching a limited series called “Hip-Hop Made."
All year long we’ll be producing special episodes focused on the factors that created the culture, leading up to where it is today.
The series will feature prominent voices from throughout its short yet groundbreaking history. In this inaugural episode alone, we speak to some of the movement’s key witnesses who also turned out to be some of its biggest disruptors such as The Last Poets, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels.
Ed Lover, whom you’ll also hear from in this episode, says hip-hop is “the most creative thing ever [made] because it was born from nothing.” As the series will prove, five decades later and it now connects everything.
From the early days of slam poetry, against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, to DJ Kool Herc’s pioneering block party on Sedgwick Avenue, listen as we break down all the factors and events that led to the happy accident now known as hip-hop.
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