| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Just took a long Walk and Talked Pretty Much
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| Mon, Sep 3, 07 12:05 PM |
agantt |
Female |
Unspecified |
Local |
Family With Children |
| The one speaker gave lots of information but we just walked and walked and he just talked and talked. Pointing out some things as we walked was the extent of the tour. Nothing exciting happened we did not actually go inside any building or viewed any demonstrations. I was very disappointed and so was my 16 year old. We were expecting something exciting to happen. I would have rated this lower but the speaker seemed enthusiastic about hip hop. There just was no substance to the tour. |
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Excellent
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| Wed, Aug 29, 07 12:05 PM |
juliaralph |
Male |
Under 20 |
Local |
Family With Children |
| Reggie was the best! |
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relaxed
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| Sun, Aug 19, 07 12:05 PM |
rohapi |
Male |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| We enjoyed our several hours walking tour with Rahiem. Hope we can do it once again
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Do it!
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| Thu, Aug 9, 07 12:05 PM |
MartinBirch |
Male |
50-59 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| My 15-year-old son and I have a somewhat limited interest in hip hop per se, but we dig the culture, graffiti, origins of all black music styles, including jazz, old style R&B, soul, funk, etc. Our charming tour guide, 'Reggie Reg' from the legendary 'Crash Crew' (authentic Sugarhill Records act, known for their 1980 debut 'High Powered Rap' ) met our 8-strong walking group at an uptown museum, and walked us to deepest Harlem, via the Graffiti Wall of Fame, Apollo Theatre and Happyhouse Record Store
Reggie spun the sounds on a portable speaker, including S Wonder, J Brown and Fatback Band and explained how hip hop came about through young R&B fans in the Bronx wanting to make their own noise, DJ-ing, scratching, rappping, taking it all the way to Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, etc. By recording live DJs direct onto their boom boxes and recycling cassettes to the new young hip hop market, pioneers like the Crash Crew virtually invented the illegal download (!) and today's multi million dollar hip hop industry. Reggie finished the two hour walk on 125th Street - an area us whiteys would have avoided even five years ago - but no worries, it was as calm as Downtown Disney, with loads of great record and clothing stores, and for a thrilling remnder of the past, the Hotel Theresa building where Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and every black superstar stayed when they played the Apollo in the glory days. A dignified subway ride on the A-train took us back to midtown. A highly recommended tour to anyone who digs black music. |
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Very cool
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| Thu, Aug 9, 07 12:05 PM |
ananner |
Male |
20-29 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| This tour was great! It provides a great opportunity to walk through the streets of Harlem, all while getting informed on old school hip-hop culture and history. I highly recommend it. |
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Can be recommended!
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| Sun, Aug 5, 07 12:05 PM |
cstuurman |
Male |
50-59 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Not only our children enjoyed the walk very much, even my wife and myself were very amused about the enthusiastic way our guide explained the early days of the Hip-Hop movement.
It was a very enjoyable (and safe) way to get to know Harlem a little bit better as well. |
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Refreshing
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| Thu, Jul 19, 07 12:05 PM |
garryy |
Male |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We were looking to do something different in NY and this certainly ticked the box. This is a great tour around Harlem and fantastic insight into the origins of Hip Hop music, provided by Reggie Reg from the legendary Crash Crew. If anything, the time went too quick. Very, very enjoyable. G Young (UK) |
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much walking and talking, few sites visited
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| Thu, Jul 19, 07 12:05 PM |
dupayo |
Male |
50-59 |
Local |
Family With Children |
| CWe enjoyed our host, Reggie Reg, who was friendly, funny and knowledgeable. Had trouble hearing what he was saying due to street noise. But aside from the graffitti wall of fame (really unique), we did not see much that was specific to hip hop culture or history. Also some stops listed on the web site -- hip hop clubs, oldest record store in Harlem -- were not visited and the Apollo stop was just a brief step into the lobby. The MSNY stop at the beginning, especially the video, had nothing to do with the tour, really. Better would have been a stop to see a video with some of the hip hop performers mentioned by our host. |
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This tour is da bomb!!
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| Sun, Jul 15, 07 12:05 PM |
lin3579 |
Male |
Under 20 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| I'm 19 from Scotland, and me and ma bro(13) persuaded my mum to go on the tour with Reggie Reg from the Crash crew (cool as ice!!) Was a little aprehencious (dunno bout the spelling?!) bout the tour when i found out it was just us three cause other people got lost, plus me and ma bro are more into new skool rap. But learning all about hip hop's origins with an absolute legend was not only informative but exciting, felt like i was walking during the era that Reggie Reg covers. We walked through Harlem and learned all about it's history for 2 hours and it just flew in. If you want to learn bout 50 cent or Jay Z...go on the net! For a real live feel for hip hop, check out the tour!!!
Jamie from (near) Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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Very godd, worth going!!!!
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| Tue, Jun 26, 07 11:05 AM |
pcullen1 |
Male |
Under 20 |
International Tourist(s) |
Individual |
| Very good experience for Hip Hop fans!
Takes you right through Harlem! No gimics!
It was very good and safe too! |
