1959: Parks Commissioner Robert Moses began building an expressway through the heart of the bronx. as a result, the middle class Italian, German, Irish, and Jewish neighborhoods disappeared overnight. in addition, businesses and factories relocated and left this borough. these exiting middle classes and businesses were replaced by poor black and hispanic families. Accompanying these poor people were crime, drug addiction, and unemployment.

1968: Around this time a gang by the name of the savage seven would hit the streets of the east bronx and eventually become the black spades, then the organization , and ultimatly the Zulu Nation

1973: Tthe Zulu Nation" was founded by a young student of stevenson high school, in the bronx named "Afrika Bambaata" original b-boy crew called the "Zulu Kings"

1974: "James Brown" records the song that became the foundation for drum programing for rap records. "funky president" with "allan schwartzberg" on the drums

1974: Around this time one of hip hop's all time crowd pleaser dj/ mc's "love bug starski" started makin references to this culture using the words "hip hop" according to legends like "bambatta", starski is one of the people responsible for the word hip hop as a slang and a name for this culture.

1979: (Spring) First rap record ever recorded by a non rap group "king tim iii (personality jock)" by the fatback band.

1979: First rap hit record "rappers delight" by the sugarhill gang, even though they were not actually a group of rappers at all, and big bank hank used grandmaster caz's rhymes by asking to borrow some (hence the "cassanova" reference in the song)

1980: The punk group blondie released the record "rapture" which featured lead singer debbie harry doing what she considered rap. but by making mention of legit hip hopers as fab 5 freddie and grand master flash, the song is widely excepted in the hip hop community, and helps to fuse the punk and hip hop scene together.

1982: Abc's 20/20 produces an episode that takes a look at this new cultural phenomenon now named hip hop culture by afrika bambaata

1982: Charlie ahearn filmed "wild style" the movie that featured hip hop in it's purest form.

1984: The movie "beat street" came out and featured rock steady crew, magnificent force, new york city breakers, shango, kool herc, treacherous 3, dougie fresh,and many more legends...

1999: Rock n Roll hall of fame honors hip hop legends with a hip hop museum and conference titled "roots, rhymes and rage: the hip hop story." featuring such legends as dj kool herc, don campbellock (inventor of locking), boogaloo sam (inventor of poping), afrika bambaata,krs one, dst,grand master flash, grand wizard the adore, ken swift, the electric boogaloos, henry chalfaunt, chuck d, and many others.