Before Volume Two drops in the next couple of months (preview here), I decided to re-read the 1970s-1981 edition of Ed Piskor’s amazing masterwork, Hip Hop Family Tree. Longing to be part of the crowds that Ed depicts so vividly, I started YouTubing and  couldn’t stop…

Music below appears in the order it does in the book, so read along and lose yourself in the late 1970s and early 80s…