How A NYC Street Gang Helped Birth Hiphop

The Ghetto Brothers was a gang tough enough to demand peace

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 …