This is how we became the original Funky 4. And then at the beginning of '78, we add another MC to the group, Rahiem. In late 1977, I became the first female MC, but at the time there were only two male MCs - Keith Keith and K.K.
But because they loved the way that I wrote my rhyme and how my cadence was, I became the MC for the organization.įlyers for early hip-hop events featuring Sha-Rock, including one as a member of the original Funky 4. I had to go home from school that day I wrote the rhyme on the bus and just recited it over and over and over again heading back uptown. Everybody uptown knew where he worked, where he lived. And so I took a friend with me uptown in the Bronx and auditioned. Would you wanna come and audition for MC?" I said, "Sure, why not?" The audition was held in the basement at DJ Breakout's house. He said, "Listen, you know, we're having an audition. It just empowered you as a woman.Ī young man that was a part of the organization called the Brothers Disco Work was passing out flyers. I mean, just being out there in the street and just listening to some of this, the sounds and the music and the percussion - it just gave you a feeling like you could just take on the world. So when we came within that circle, that was our way to get away from all the other negative stuff. Some of us was living in poverty, politicians always doing their own thing. But there was just a feeling that you knew you had to be a part of. I traveled all over the Bronx just to be a part of the whole scene. I used to travel around with them to B-girl, to every park jam, every DJ that played, every house party, every hip-hop venue. They taught me what it was to uprock, what it was to just hit the beats whenever you hear that certain break beat.įrom there, you know, I used to travel and watch the famous twins perform, back then were called the N**** Twins, now they are called the Legendary Brothers, Keith and Kevin. The first person that I saw breakdance was friends of mine that had went to junior high school with me. The very moment my taste for hip-hop is 1976 as a B-girl - you know, being out there, break dancing, watching young kids move around throughout the Bronx, traveling as nomadic B-girls and B-boys, just to hit those breakbeats.
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