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
travel the world without leaving the borough. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: and, you know, it s like an addiction. when you go to another country, and that first day in the market anthony: yeah. baron ambrosia: and all your dreams, and you smell the diesel, and you re just looking around you re like, where s that one thing i m looking for? to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is anthony: cool. callita: we have a hudutu. that s coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. anthony: oh, that looks good. callita: smoked neck bone with, uh, banana, yucca, yautía, malanga, in coconut soup. anthony: well, that sounds good. yeah! i ll definitely have some neck bones and, uh, plantains. yeah, let s do that! callita: okay, so, let s put some plantain here. anthony: in garifuna cuisine mashed plantains come with just about every dish. baron ambrosia: plantains are just part of it. that s part of hudutu. you would never have this without wi
that one thing i m looking for? to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is anthony: cool. callita: we have a hudutu. that s coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. anthony: oh, that looks good. callita: smoked neck bone with, uh, banana, yuca, yautía, malanga, in coconut soup. anthony: well, that sounds good. yeah! i ll definitely have some neck bones and, uh, plantains. yeah, let s do that! callita: okay, so, let s put some plantain here. anthony: in garifuna cuisine mashed plantains come with just about every dish. baron ambrosia: plantains are just part of it. that s part of hudutu. you would never have this without without the plantains. anthony: right. so it s like fufu. same, uh baron ambrosia: yeah, yeah. absolutely, same method, same right hand. anthony: same principle. baron ambrosia: same everything. anthony: there s fish and coconut soup. what kind of fish is this? callita: bluefish. anthony: bluefish! oh, awesome!
dreams, and you smell the diesel, and you re just looking around you re like, where s that one thing i m looking for? to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is anthony: cool. callita: we have a hudutu. that s coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. anthony: oh, that looks good. callita: smoked neck bone with, uh, banana, yuca, yautía, malanga, in coconut soup. anthony: well, that sounds good. yeah! i ll definitely have some neck bones and, uh, plantains. yeah, let s do that! callita: okay, so, let s put some plantain here. anthony: in garifuna cuisine mashed plantains come with just about every dish. baron ambrosia: plantains are just part of it. that s part of hudutu. you would never have this without without the plantains. anthony: right. so it s like fufu. same, uh baron ambrosia: yeah, yeah. absolutely, same method, same right hand. anthony: same principle. baron ambrosia: same everything. anthony: there s fish and coconu
here you probably ain t seeing in central park. the garifuna come from honduras, guatemala, and belize, and they trace their ethnic group back to a single slave ship that crashed off . vincent, and whose freed africans then mixed with carib-indians. where is home for many of the garifuna community living in the u.s.? you guessed it, the bronx. baron ambrosia: living in the bronx you re able to, kind of, travel the world without leaving the borough. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: and, you know, it s like an addiction. when you go to another country, and that first day in the market anthony: yeah. baron ambrosia: and all your dreams, and you smell the diesel, and you re just looking around you re like, where s that one thing i m looking for? to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is anthony: cool. callita: we have a hudutu. that s coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. anthony: oh, that looks good. callita: smoked neck bone