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How A NYC Street Gang Helped Birth Hiphop
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How A NYC Street Gang Helped Birth Hiphop

The Ghetto Brothers was a gang tough enough to demand peace

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Nov 02, 2024
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The story of the L.A. gang world is endlessly captivating, but we need to talk about 1970s gang culture in New York City because it’s a critical part of the beginning of hiphop. Without the New York gangs doing what they did in the early 70s, we may have never had hiphop culture at all. It’s a crazy story and it centers on a little-known early 70s soul …

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