Run-DMC, a 12-year-old Darryl McDaniels got his first education in hip-hop at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic school in Jamaica, Queens.“I was in seventh grade, and Billy Morris — who was in the eighth grade — walked into the schoolyard with a flat Panasonic tape recorder that all the kids would use [back when] there were no boomboxes,” DMC, 59, told The Post.“And he said, ‘Yo, come listen to this!’ He pushed play, I heard a beat … and it was about, like, a minute and 30 seconds of this guy rapping over this little drum beat.
We didn’t know what it was, but whatever that was — for me, it was my DNA.”Hearing the voice of the pioneering ’70s New York DJ Eddie Cheeba over that beat rocked DMC’s world: The Hollis, Queens, native would go on to become part of rap’s first superstar act in Run-DMC, who will headline Hip Hop 50 Live — a star-studded extravaganza celebrating the golden anniversary of the music and the culture — at Yankee Stadium on Friday.Taking it back to The Bronx — where hip-hop was born at a party where DJ Kool Herc introduced the “breakbeat” for MCs to rap over on Aug.
11, 1973 — it’s a who’s who featuring everyone from OG groundbreakers (Slick Rick, the Sugarhill Gang) and ’90s icons (Nas, Ice Cube) to 21st-century titans (Lil Wayne, T.I.) and, of course, the queens of hip-hop (Eve, Lil Kim, Remy Ma and Trina).“It’s history,” said Ghostface Killah, a member of the legendary Staten Island squad Wu-Tang Clan, who will perform solo. “You got a lotta greats on that shit, from old to new.
You could take this flyer and just save that shit for another 50 years.”Queens-born Marley Marl — an influential DJ and producer behind the beats for the likes of Roxanne Shante, LL Cool J and Big Daddy Kane — was already spinning.
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