Hip Hop History #4 - Marley Marl

I first got introduced to hip hop

For real though

Like I used to go to this crazy 600 school

High school up in Manhattan

You know I was from Queens

You know

There was cats in from the Bronx you know

Know what I’m saying

There was cats from Brooklyn up there

You know from uptown Manhattan, Staten Island

But anyway

There was cats coming from the Bronx

They had rap tapes

You know

Used to all (?) at lunchtime

Like that’s kind of hot right there

Break down tapes

You know

Grandmaster Flash tapes, Furious Five tapes

You know

All them battle tapes

We used to check it out

It was all love you know

I said yo, I’m living in Queens

These cats living out there

You know what I’m saying

There was cats living uptown

I said yo let me do my thing in Queens

Know what I’m saying

I like where that’s coming from right there

I started doing my thing

You know I got the Sure Shot crew

Up in the projects

You know we did (?) up in the (?) center

You know you had to pay before you entered

It was real like that

Know what I’m saying

But a lot of cats had to come though Queensbridge

To show how tight they was with hip hop

Bambaata came to Queensbridge

We had Grandmaster Flash back in the day

You know what I’m saying

Show & AG, everybody that was popping at the time

Treacherous, you know they had to come through Queensbridge

You know

They say like yo we travelled outside the Bronx

We did our thing so we can rock Queensbridge

So it was like an honor for anybody to come through there and rock Queensbridge

Know what I’m saying

That’s what it was all about

It was like

You know

It was all about peace and harmony at that point

And then crack came out