Friday, August 1, 2008

Ghetto Blasters

Kids these days...
In a trend coming out of Queens, a subculture of youth from Trinidad and Tobago have pimped out their BMX bikes with homemade stereo systems. Its a new embodiment of what brought hip hop and DJ culture onto the scene back in the 70's. At that time local DJs and gangs would roll up carts of stereo equiptment in NYC parks, plug into the lampposts and face off to see who had the loudest sound system (Kool Herc was the first).

I really want to hear what these things sound like and am not sure that I can wait until the short documentary on the kids and the culture, comes out.

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