that was, like, the favorite in our house, that was one of the favorite shows, hee haw, you know? and all of those things, kind of, became the components of what became hip-hop music. [ melle mel ] from the poor man s range of the burning sand here i stand my weapon is a mic in my hand and though i strive to be the strongest man alive y all sold out quicker than the iphone 5 melle mel: i started out as a break-dancer, so i used to break dance. you know, my brother used to, you know, do graffiti. he used to go out, so all in all of those individual elements, it wasn t really happening anywhere else. so, it was just something that could, could only have went on right in that area in the bronx. anthony: yeah okay, you may be thinking, what about the sugarhill gang? what about them? they were an industry band like the monkees or the archies, built to cash in quick on what was seen as a fad. and they did cash in. anthony: where were you when you suddenly realized
here i stand my weapon is a mic in my hand and though i strive to be the strongest man alive y all sold out quicker than the iphone 5 melle mel: i started out as a break-dancer, so i used to break dance. you know, my brother used to, you know, do graffiti. he used to go out, so all in all of those individual elements, it wasn t really happening anywhere else. so, it was just something that could, could only have went on right in that area in the bronx. anthony: yeah okay, you may be thinking, what about the sugarhill gang? what about them? they were an industry band like the monkees or the archies, built to cash in quick on what was seen as a fad. and they did cash in. anthony: where were you when you suddenly realized, holy shit there s there s money in this! melle mel: well, that first record i ever heard was king tim iii. the second and the most popular record was rappers delight. i used to live on the fifth floor walkup. i walked out, somebody was pl
so you have said that the data tells you this recording was modified four seconds after it was created. just four seconds later. i m trying to make sense of that. can you specify what kind of modification? well, there was an edit, obviously. i re-created the edit today by making a recording on an iphone 5 that had an operating system more recent. it was actually 10.2. the original recording that i could see in the data was created on an iphone five with the operating system 9.3. so i didn t do any research to learn how many updates away that was from where this recording was created. but what is important here is that it was created in a voice memo app that is capable of editing. it has a trim feature in it. so could an incoming call or running out of battery have been the reason for that abrupt
we don t know what the reason was for the end of that tape. joining us now to discuss what may have happened there, ed primo, one of the nation s audio forensic experts with 30 plus years of experience. ed, great to have you with us. earlier this week you confirmed to my colleague that the tape was in fact edited. and i want to dig into that issue specifically. since that seems to be a point of contention right now. what does your analysis tell you about what was modified and when it happened? well, the recording was created using the voice memo app on an iphone 5. i can see the operating system in the data. and in the voice memo application, there is a feature or a function called trim. so i believe the recording was edited in the voice memo app. but the biggest problem that we have here, it s a misrepresentation of the events as they occurred. when i testified in court
in my hand and though i strive to be the strongest man alive y all sold out quicker than the iphone 5 melle mel: i started out as a break-dancer, so i used to break dance. you know, my brother used to, you know, do graffiti. he used to go out, so all in all of those individual elements, it wasn t really happening anywhere else. so, it was just something that could, could only have went on right in that area in the bronx. anthony: yeah okay, you may be thinking, what about the sugarhill gang? what about them? they were an industry band like the monkees or the archies, built to cash in quick on what was seen as a fad. and they did cash in. where were you when you suddenly realized, holy shit there s there s money in this! melle mel: well, that first record i ever heard was king tim iii. the second and the most popular record was rappers delight. i used to live on the fifth floor walkup. i walked out, somebody was playing it next door. they was playing it on th