Hip Hop Is Reality Summit 2009 on the campus of WSSU. Got a chance to meet the legendary DJ Kool Herc, DJ SPCLGST, and the HBO BBOY crew from Atlanta, Georgia. Very interesting folks.
Herc was explaining his take on the laptop dj versus the DJ, DJ. NOTE: He was carrying his own crates and everything, but made it look effortless as the guy is pretty buff for any age, but especially a 50+ year old person)
He was doing what I have come to call "Herc-Ups" where he repetitiously would drop to the ground in between statements and proceed to do inclined push-ups (jail style)-Which he referred to as "Feeding Time". He considered the down time before his set, his time to stay lean and mean. Either way
this 10-year old kid went on to kill me with several fresh freezes like the one pictured above. He's like double-jointed, ambidextrous, yoga-zen'd out of this fucking world. He had a sick name for this patented move but it got lost as Herc made me cut my recorder off.So I got to meet one of Hip-Hop's pioneers, see some real B-Boys holding shit down( F**K America's Best Dance Crew-thats another blog, entirely) and hear a panel talk about Hip-Hop, which was okay at best.
Shout to DJ Special Guest( SPCLGST)pictured with red fitted cap, Chelii Broussard, HBO Crew, and Winston-Salem State University.
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