It was 30 years ago today… October, 1979: Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang was released. It became the first hit rap song 30 years ago after it entered the US Billboard.

Here’s an interview with a New York City paramedic who, as a very young photographer on the South Bronx scene back in the day, was the unofficial photo-documentarian of the birth of hip hop.

Here, photographer and paramedic Joe Conzo – who took pictures of the early hip-hop scene in the Bronx – takes us on a tour of the New York borough, recalling the early days and explaining how the area has changed.

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