7/2/2023 0 Comments Doug e fresh![]() So when they had a sound system, Barry DJ’d for them, because he was a house DJ for Mike and Dave parties. They had a sound system called the Sasquatch. You should do it out in the big park.” The big park was in Lincoln Projects and it was a group of promoters named Mike and Dave. So he said, you should call it “the human beatbox.” And when he said, “Call it the human beatbox,” I said, “I’m not doing that. How do you say, “Boom! I’m gonna use my mouth as an instrument to create this new sound that’s going to compliment what’s already going on?”īarry Bee took the idea from that particular thing (beatbox) because we knew what that was. How Hip-Hop Transcended All The Haters & Came To Rule The World ![]() I created it in ’81 but I presented it in ’82. I am the final element, which is the beatbox that came in ’82. I’m like the first child of the first generation… And because of my relationship to hip-hop, we grew up understanding components about hip-hop that other people did not, really. Photo by Ethan Miller / BET / Getty Images / BET Fresh perform onstage at the Soul Train Awards 2013 at the Orleans Arena on Nov. His twist, his main thing that made him different, was the way that he was able to command the microphone and DJ at the same time. He wasn’t the kind of DJ that would be considered a hip-hop DJ at that time. Fresh: DJ Hollywood supersedes Herc in regards to MC’ing because Hollywood was the MC. 11, 1973 mean to you? We know Herc played a major role in the organization, but talk to me a bit about the history before ‘73.ĭoug E. Pollstar: You’ve maintained such a level of consistency in hip-hop that not everybody’s been able to do. Pollstar caught up with Doug just after he returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he is a Global Ambassador for Hip-Hop. ![]() Doug created the fifth element, the human beatbox, which he used to create “The Show” and “La Di Da Di,” two stone-cold hip-hop classics. While the four elements of hip-hop are DJing, MC’ing, breaking & graffiti. Fresh is one of the greatest entertainers in hip-hop history. Men's Health's Hip Hop Health series aims to highlight the evolution of Black men's health through Hip-Hop in honor of the genre's 50th anniversary and the outlet's 35th anniversary, both of which occur later this year.Doug E. Snoop was in the back, and he said, ‘Man when you started crying, made me think about my grandmother and I went in the corner and started crying too.’” You can’t see them, but you can feel them. "Sometimes if you lost a parent, you can feel them around you sometimes. “I cried when I got an award my mother passed," Fresh explained. That's when he told the story of how he cried at the 2014 BET Hip-Hop Awards with Snoop Dogg not too far away. The Hip Hop Public Health co-founder noted that the event, which went down last Friday, April 7, happened on the same day his mother died. But you should allow yourself that place to free that energy.”įresh gave another tear-jerking reason why he has no shame in crying. ![]() You are a real man and you can cry and the way you do it is to your own choice. So I’ve learned how to use all of these things, and it doesn’t make me less of a man… My honesty is my vulnerability to let you know that it’s ok to cry my brothers, and don't you let nobody make you feel that you’re a sucker or your soft or whatever because trust me because I could never be any of those things. And sometimes you can be so mad that you cry. Because the energy that you’re carrying is gonna make you take it to another level. A man if he has to cry, should cry, because it’s a release for him to let go of some of the tension that he may take and do something else with. "I think that we have been taught as Black men that you should not cry: ‘Man up.' That line of saying ‘man up’ has been misinterpreted, overused and abused in a way that a man is looked as as he is not supposed to cry, and that is the most craziest bit of bulls**t in the world. ![]()
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