Essay: Never forget the Pioneer Women of Hip Hop from the Bronx and Harlem, NYC
Essay: Never forget the Pioneer Women of Hip Hop from the Bronx and Harlem, NYC If not me, then who can document my early days in the 1970s of attending Hip Hop center jams, park jams and parties in the Bronx and Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Please, you couldn’t tell me nothing, as I rocked my brand new fresh white-on-white leather/suede Puma Clyde sneakers to the center jams at Bronx River Community Center in the summer of 1976. Of course I was sporting my flare Lee jeans and short sleeve sweatshirt. Jewelry in those days included a round silver or gold Virgin Mary medallion and I usually had some variation of extension cornbreads, hell I was only 10 years old. My early days of learning Fly Girl and B-Girl moves was so much fun in the South Bronx. Yes I, Eva Marie King, MS was known as MC Juiccy E in those days. I usually carried my “box” aka FM/AM radio tape cassette to school to listen to the tapes that my crew and I on 169th Street created and various tapes that I