Hip Hop Family Tree
Hip Hop Family Tree, by Ed Piskor
Just at the end of the 70s, a new sound began to emerge in New York – first in basements and at block parties, then in small clubs and eventually, at battles where crews would show off their skills. Beats and pieces of music were provided by older records on turntables, pieced together by skilled DJs, and MCs would throw down rhymes over top. This was the birth of hip hop, and this graphic novel traces its origins and the first several years of big players as it moved to the mainstream.
3 thoughts on “Hip Hop Family Tree”
This is history told in a fun way, I would probably read this.
Being someone who has tried to create mini graphic novel stories of my own, I respect anyone who can make them educational.
It is pretty great, and interesting to see how it started, how it touched the edges of punk, how graffiti was part of the same culture… I’m excited that the second volume is following soon.