Hip Hop Was Born Here | show | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

LL COOL J charts the creation, evolution and ongoing legacy of Hip Hop not just as a genre but as a culture. | dHNfbHJLX2tzTHBiQ2c

Transcript

00:01Stand clear of the closing doors, please.

00:04That corner right there, that's where Kool Herc used to set up his equipment.

00:07Used to set up in that corner.

00:08Yup.

00:09You saying hip-hop went worldwide?

00:11From right here?

00:13That's crazy.

00:18To understand the power of hip-hop today,

00:20we gotta go back to where it all started.

00:23New York City.

00:25New York in the 70s and 80s.

00:30There was so much joy around this.

00:34Everything in New York was hip-hop.

00:36You couldn't stop the movement.

00:38I had never seen nothing like that before.

00:40I know I want to be a part of it.

00:42What does the word legacy mean to you?

00:44Legacy.

00:45Legacy.

00:46Legacy.

00:47Ooh.

00:48What is my legacy?

00:49I gave birth to most of them MCs.

00:51That's my legacy.

00:52That's the spirit.

00:55They used to bring turntables out on the front step.

01:01The energy permeated the whole neighborhood.

01:04The next thing you know, I became DJ Run.

01:08Oh.

01:12This was our music.

01:13This was how we were able to communicate from borough to borough.

01:18They cut the music program in most of the urban schools.

01:22Hip-hop provided an outlet for storytelling.

01:24I want to impact not only my generation, but the generation before me and the generation after me.

01:32Who would ever think that we could be world famous doing something that we love?

01:37I would have never imagined that.

01:39The mer 할� chums.

01:52And clear the doors, please.