![]() ![]() I was working with a group called Bow Wow Wow and I was over there because they were signed to RCA Records and I was looking to put them on in a hall in Manhattan somewhere. Sandwiched between links rapped by Imhotep Gary Byrd, McLaren recounted to a group of hip-hop fans how the visit to the Zulu Nation changed his life. It also signalled McLaren’s tiring of the routine of managing a pop act, as hip-hop fired him into investigating indigenous music from around the world and compacting them into his masterful Duck Rock album. This is seen as a pivotal point in the development of the musical form as a mass phenomenon. It was Holman who took McLaren and his management partner Rory Johnston to Bambaataa’s block party and was instrumental in Bambaata and the Rock Steady Crew being booked to open for McLaren’s charges Bow Wow Wow at The Ritz in the old Webster Hall Ballroom in the East Village in September 1981. This was effected by artist/filmmaker/writer Michael Holman his often overlooked achievements include actually naming the genre “hip hop” in his East Village Eye column, founding the noise group Gray with Jean-Michel Basquiat (Holman also wrote the 1996 Julian Schnabel-directed biopic), running the world’s first hip-hop club (Negril, on 11th Street), creating the New York City Breakers and making the films and TV shows Catch A Beat, Beat Street and Graffiti Rock. In one section Malcolm McLaren talks about his August 1981 introduction to Afrika Bambaataa’s Zulu Nation in the south Bronx. ![]() ![]() Beat This: A Hip Hop History is an hour-long documentary broadcast by BBC in its Arena strand in 1984 and directed by Dick Fontaine (who I interviewed for my Goldie book back in the early 00s). ![]()
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