#HipHopAdvent 7: 1985
Busy Boys – Funky Fresh Xmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxx83EOCe4
By the mid-80s the DJ finally was incorporated into recorded rap music, and this is the first year that Christmas hiphop tracks feature scratches (there’s also Audio Two’s A Christmas Rhyme of the same year). Hiphop was starting to expand outside New York, too; the Busy Boys’ DJ, for example, was from Hartford, Connecticut. This track has some Spanish lyrics, too, highlighting the Latinx element of early hiphop culture.
(The date, taken from discogs, is not entirely certain, as the release is undated - it may have been 1986. It was picked up by a different label from the original release for a collection album in 1987.)
