- ohh! ohh! - ahh. yo my name is john, and i m from queens i m here with tony touch, and we re on the scene - all right. - you know how we do you know where we re from we latinos have been funky since day one - ohh! - oh! oh! that s why i m not quitting my day job because otherwise i ll be broke and hungry on the street. - lord. - yo, man. thank you so much. what a pleasure. - you re the man, brother. i love you, bro. - love you, too, my man. -good seeing you. - i m gonna leave you with some tools of the trade. - oh, yeah. - and you go, i crown you king of the djs. - yes. ordained. - ordained, my brother. ordained. - peace. voltaren. the joy of movement. age is just a number, and mine s unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein.
the mix tape, a new york city 90s hip-hop institution, and arguably the most democratic form of music sharing there ever was. and before hip hop was really a thing, or before any radio stations saw its true potential and bothered to play it, it was djs like tony who would create mixes on cassette tape. you were keeping certain music alive, right, that wasn t getting radio play. - exactly. nobody was playing hip-hop. [hip-hop music] - tony touch and other djs played their tapes in clubs around the city, but hip-hop s big breakthrough happened even earlier in 1977 when lightning struck. no, no. i mean, literally. like, lightning struck and knocked out the power to most of the city. it all happened in 1977. and the blackout did what? - it boosted hip-hop cause now everybody was robbing the electronics stores. so now we had, like, 1,000 djs in new york. - once all those new djs started creating beats, the rap battles were on.
yo my name is john, and i m from queens i m here with tony touch, and we re on the scene - all right. - you know how we do you know where we re from we latinos have been funky since day one - ohh! - oh! oh! that s why i m not quitting my day job because otherwise i ll be broke and hungry on the street. - lord. - yo, man. thank you so much. what a pleasure. - you re the man, brother. i love you, bro. - love you, too, my man. -good seeing you. - i m gonna leave you with some tools of the trade. - oh, yeah. - and you go, i crown you king of the djs. - yes. ordained. - ordained, my brother. ordained. - peace. hey, man. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance. so you only pay for what you need! whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. this is frank. he runs a sustainable camping supply business. he s smiling because fedex is growing it s fleet of electric vehicles. and