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Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has new life stretching all the way across the pond.
“People have come up to me and were telling me ‘you do not know how much that song meant to us,” member AJ Rok, who moved fromPa. church apologizes for grade school Halloween float displaying Auschwitz gates phrase NJ cop — fired for having sex in front of his kids and sharing the videos — found dead in park in suicide Rok and partner B-Luv recently reunited — nearly 37 years after “Strong Island” was released — and embarked on a fall mini-tour in Europe where fans are clamoring for old-school hip-hop. “Love has never ceased overseas. I probably do six interviews a year,” Rok said before boarding a flight to a recent JVCThe city scene hadn’t played nice with outsiders from the early 1980s on, according to Archie Snowden, a hip hop influence of the time who’s now producing a documentary on LI rap history.“A lot of those guys weren’t even saying they were from Long Island. They were saying they were fromRakim was one of the first to boldly divide the two when the Wyandanch-born artist rapped that he was “rough enough to break New York from Long Island” in the 1986 track “My Melody.”Adelphi University, also started coining the phrase and dropped it in the rap “Rebel Without a Pause” a year later.While the genre was born in the Bronx, JVC Force let the world know rappers were also on Long Island.“People didn’t really know Public Enemy was from Long Island at the time. When we did ‘Strong Island,’ it gave identity to those who came after us,” he added of groups like De La Soul of Amityville. Embracing their less gritty habitat proved to be the right move as the record was being spun tons at local college stations like Adelphi andCollege radio was the place to be back in the day, as future game changers like Hempstead’s Busta Rhymes and his group Leaders of the New School used to take calls from the studios, according to Rok. Snowden said “Strong Island” was the catalyst that “started to wake folks up in the music industry” to the vast talents waiting for their moment just a few miles beyond the five boroughs.UK train attack survivor reveals knifeman's chilling response after she begged for her lifeAndrew could be dealt another humiliating blow as King Charles plans to take more action against himInstagram/jvcforce While the genre was born in the Bronx, JVC Force let the world know rappers were also on Long Island.
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