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I Got the Music

Hip Hop

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio UlsterLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Ulster

Every generation has a musical ‘tribe’ it belongs to, and songs that evoke a special place and time. Joe Lindsay takes a trip through six decades of music and summons up the sounds and stories of each era in the company of those who were there.

Episode 8: Hip Hop
From the east coast of America to Northern Ireland, hip hop brought a new phenomenon to switched on teenagers. With it came the four elements of the movement: rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti.
Joe explores how NI embraced the music of NYC.
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