Foundations of Hip-Hop & The DJ (Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2005)

Hip-hop started on the streets of New York with the Black and Latino community
And it's gone on to spread across the world, bringing together Blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians
People from England, people from Amsterdam, people from Germany
People from Ireland, people from Japan, from Africa, from Cuba
From where else? Suriname, yes, Suriname, yeah
From the Caribbean all over, right? South America
Bringing together all people, y'all, all under what we call hip-hop...
Now, in the basement, we love hip-hop and we wanna take it forward
But in order to move forward, you gotta understand where you come from, you dig?
Now, at the North Sea Jazz Festival, we should know
We all know that hip-hop got these different elements
It's not just rappin', it's different elements
You got MCin', you got graffiti, you got breakdancing, B-boying and B-girlin'
But the foundation of hip-hop, where it all started is with the DJ