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Speaking of rap/hip hop I wasn't born in 1968 but I a Canadian kid was on a vacation in NY in 1977 but it was in August.

I thought it would have been interesting if I had been there in NY city in July 1977 when the big blackout occurred. Apparently looting of stereo equipment is what (maybe) spurred the new art form of hip hop sure it's debatable but it sounds cool. I'm not even a fan of rap or hip hop but it would have been fun to have been there for it.

It's also interesting that rap/hip hop was born about a month before Elvis died it's like to ages of music colliding one birth and one death.