I was born before hip-hop existed. In fact, I was in my 20s as the music made its way into a wider world from where it was born. And I remember thinking, “So this is what it must have felt like when the earliest forms of rock ‘n’ roll were introduced into the world of music.”
Like the music of Little Richard, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Chuck Berry, the earliest forms of hip-hop were disruptive. And by that I mean the music challenged people to consider the communities from which this music came from. Hip-hop was defiant in the way…
