anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
anthony: up north a ways, in west jamaica, another working-class community where subway service is pretty limited. and yet people have to get up, go to work, and often make the long hump to another borough. anthony: afterwards, a person could use a drink. anthony: and if you re a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fever anthony: right. desus: to drinks here in this bar. you get it with cranberry juice, with milk, or water. desus: what water would be in any other borough is what wray & nephew is in the bronx. anthony: cheers, thank you. desus is one half of the brilliant podcast team desus vs. kid mero. it s a very fast freeform riff diatribe on life in the bronx and what s happening on the news, in hip-hop, or last night. desus: growing up in the bronx, you re isolated from the rest of the city.
up north a ways. afterwards, a person could use a drink. anthony: and if you re a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fever anthony: right. desus: to drinks here in this bar. you get it with cranberry juice, with milk, or water. desus: what water would be in any other borough is what wray & nephew is in the bronx. anthony: cheers, thank you. desus is one half of the brilliant podcast team desus vs. kid mero. it s a very fast freeform riff diatribe on life in the bronx and what s happening in the news in hip-hop, or last night. desus: growing up in the bronx, you re isolated from the rest of the city.
mess ? anthony: yes. afrika: that s the big baba, brother rashad, that s right. anthony: he and his associates in the zulu nation were absolutely instrumental in shaping what became hip-hop culture break-dancing, graffiti, deejaying, and rap. anthony: is the story true that you you d soak your records in water and take the label off? afrika: oh yes. we either, we put tape on it or we soaked the label off. um, you know, you had spies in each other s camps, you know, trying to find out what was the beat bambaataa playing. so, i used to soak it up. i used to put on tape to cover the records. and we was digging in the crates hard. anthony: you were, um, unusually voracious in your musical taste. of all the records in the world, how did you come upon kraftwerk? afrika: that came about digging in the crates down in the village. i said, this look type of weirdos here. so, when i took it home and i heard the sound, i said, whoa! i said, this is some funky hmm! i said,
anthony: afterwards, a person could use a drink. anthony: and if you re a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fever anthony: right. desus: to drinks here in this bar. you get it with cranberry juice, with milk, or water. desus: what water would be in any other borough is what wray & nephew is in the bronx. anthony: cheers, thank you. desus is one half of the brilliant podcast team desus vs. kid mero. it s a very fast freeform riff diatribe on life in the bronx and what s happening in the news in hip-hop, or last night. desus: growing up in the bronx, you re isolated from the rest of the city. you know what i m saying? so, the other city has like, citibike. the bronx doesn t get any of that. we re kind of abandoned up here. people get on a boat and go to staten island before they ride up to the bron