-The holy trinity 
of hip hop and rap music
happened to be three deejays --
Kool DJ Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, 
and Grandmaster Flash.
Two of the three actually 
have Caribbean roots.
-[ Singing reggae music ]
-The art of toasting 
comes out of the Caribbean,
which is the guy 
who's the deejay
would speak on top 
of the microphone
on top of records.
That over-dubbing process 
is the same reason
they call reggae "dub music."
-[ Singing reggae music ]
-Some of the most 
incredible innovators,
Lee "Scratch" Perry, 
King Tubby,
they were producers who would do 
a whole album of one rhythm
and then have different MCs, 
you know, rhyme over it.
-I often describe hip hop 
as a kind of
result of the Caribbean-ization 
of global popular culture.
You had immigrants coming 
from Latin America,
and particularly from 
the Caribbean in larger numbers
and very often, they were moving 
to lower-income neighborhoods,
like the Bronx, in the 1970s.
They also brought their culture 
to the Bronx.
And in particular, one of 
the things that they brought --
or Jamaicans brought, 
in particular --
was the culture 
of sound systems --
mobile portable sound systems.
