of hip-hop was in 1978 at St. Pascal Baylon School in Queens. I was in seventh grade, and this eighth grader came into the school-yard with a tape recorder. He called my friends and me over to him, and one of my friends thought he wanted us to smoke cigarettes. It was common for kids to Then the voice goes, “When you mess around in New York town, you go down with the disco chiba clown. You go down, go down, go down, go down, go down.” We had never heard anything like this.
