You're listening to Comedy Central. Buh, welcome to see P Time, the only show that's for the culture. Today, we're going to talk about hip hop, and I mean real hip hop, not this new school trap mumble rap when you can't even understand what they're saying, Hobble the hook. If I couldn't hoover the Perkins, hover the hobble, that's not lyrics. That's the sound Fred flint Stone's feet make when he driving off his feet just joined the me goes Nope.
Today we're going to talk about old school hip hop legends like DJ Cool, HRK, Grand Master Flesh, Runsby and c and of course my short lived group Regular Roy and the Trapezoids. We broke up right after we took that picture. Had a huge argument over what exactly a trapezoid is. Didn't record a single track, Kiss my ass Leroy. Tonight, let's discuss of the seminal moments in the birth of hip hop, starting with the fortieth anniversary of Rapper's Delight,
the first commercially successful rap song. Rapperster Light got everyone rapping. In fact, thanks to rapperster Light, hip hop went so mainstream it even led to stuff like this and every rapping cat. I thankfully hip hop survived that commercial Many now rappers de light might be the reason rap went commercial, But what gave hip hop its flavor was undubitably the sound of the record scratch. And a lot of people don't notice, but the record scratch was actually invented by accident.
A young DJ by the name of Grand Wizard Theodore was practicing in his room when his mother came in and he stopped the record with his hand, which led to this. That's right. That sound was accidentally created by a young black man trying to avoid an ass whoopen and now it's the signature of hip hop. It's also the sound of when some ship hadn't gone wrong, the condom had a hole in it. What do you mean that wasn't beasts. You may be a dentist, but that
ain't my mouth. Yeah. But before you could scratch on the turntable, you needed a turntable, and that was one of the biggest obstacles for aspiring hip hop DJs. Turntables were too expensive. Luckily, in nineteen seventy seven, an act of God changed the course of black history. A massive blackout hit New York City and in the ensuing chaos,
over a thousand stores were looted. Now, I'm not going to be the one to say that black people had anything to do with it, but let's just say that the neck today there were a bunch of brand new DJs in New York City coincidence of deep Now, before you judge those people who looted on that faithful day, remember that looting can lead to some beneficial side effects. Black people looted, and now we have hip hop. White
people looted, and now we have museums. If you know, damn well, those Moneys didn't just woke themselves into the museum. Now that his story night and seven and seven. My uncle Bibo also took part in the looting, but because of the darkness, he couldn't identify what he was taken. He thought he stole two turntables. Turns out it was too lazy, Susan's you never did become a DJ, but he could pass the hell out of some catch up. Well,
that's all the time we have for today. But before we go, I want to make peace with the trapezoids. Le Roy, if you're watching this tonight, I'm sorry that I said a trapezoid is just a square with an attitude. That's so, I'm sorry for having sex with your wife. Well, this has been c pizza and book before the culture New Kissing my song from Me throwing my feet in. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus.
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