Re: the "hip-hop" thing

John G. Dennett III (dennettj@stripe.Colorado.EDU)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:50:57 -0600 (MDT)


Hi Jordan!

"Hip-hop" is about 15 years old (give or take a year). You'd have to take
it back to Afrika Bambaataa and even older to get the origins, but I'm sure
that someone else on the list will be able to trace it with more accuracy
than I.

Cheers!
John

At 06:23 PM 6/19/96 -0400, Jordan Feinman wrote:
>The first time I even heard the term "hip-hop" was from
>Naughty-by-Nature's "Hip-hop Hurray". Am I correct in assuming the term
>is quite new, relatively speaking?
>
>Jordan
>