The first time the term 'Hip-Hop” appeared in any publication was right here within the prestigious pages of The New York Amsterdam News.
Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!anniversary of Hip-Hop culture, recognition must be given to the media outlets that have promoted it since its infancy. A recent interview with the co-curator of The Universal Hip-Hop Museum, Prime Minister Pete Nice, revealed that the very first time the term “Hip-Hop” ever appeared in any publication was right here within the prestigious pages of The New York Amsterdam News.
“A lot of people don’t realize that the term ’Hip-Hop’ did not show up as early as 1973. Actually, there’s a flyer from 1979 from Brooklyn which first put ’Hip-Hop’ on a flyer, on printed matter,” he explained. “But, in journalism and periodicals, Paradise and I tracked down an item from thein December 1979. Alton B Chase, a Bronx politician, threw an MC contest which The Furious Five attended.”
The author, Colis Davis, did not realize they were making history at the time by having their ears to the streets, but the“A news article ran the first week of January 1980, and the writer referenced ’Hip-Hop, the world of Hip-Hop, Hip-Hopers,’ several times in that article. So we looked at that as the first time in journalism that Hip-Hop as a term was memorialized.”
He goes on to mention a couple of other articles which previously were believed of as breaking the ice in 1981. This “was not correct,” he explained. “We found this one. Peace to theand it’s a great resource for hip-hop researchers and archivists.”Amsterdam News is renowned for its reporting of the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years.
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