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The Bronx was a phenomenon long before the world knew it as the birthplace of hip hop. It was a place shaped by the constant flow of cultures from Puerto Rican, Jamaican, African American and Caribbean communities. This mixture created a unique environment where mambo rhythms lived next to soul, funk and early street sound systems. Mambo to hip hop was not a jump but a natural progression born from shared spaces, shared struggles and shared creativity. In the 1970s social and economic pressure p