When Hip Hop started

Lambert Houses in West Farms, Bronx stands as Hip Hop's sacred birthplace. This docuseries chronicles five decades (1973-present) of how one Bronx housing development cultivated Hip Hop pioneers who shaped global music culture. Featuring Hip Hop legends MC Sha-Rock--- Hip Hop's first female MC-- and Rahiem, both original founding members of the Funky Four, the film documents the community's unparalleled cultural impact. 
Rahiem would go on to leave the Funky Four and join the legendary GrandmasterFlash and the Furious Five, cementing his place in Hip Hop royalty. Sha-Rock also departed the group, but later returned -- and with the addition of a new member, the group was reborn as the iconic Funky Four + 1, with Sha-Rock earning her place as the "+1". Together, their journeys trace the very DNA of Hip Hop from its Bronx roots to global stages.
Through resident interviews and archival footage, we explore how Lambert Houses on 180th Street and Boston Road became a creative incubator, fostering Hip Hop's origins and revolutionizing music worldwide. Honoring Arthur and Dorothy Crier's legacy. 

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  Sports Icons

  Every legend who came through the Bronx basketball scene — from the parks to the pros — started by earning respect on a block just like this one. Lambert Houses on Boston Road was one of those proving grounds.

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  Music Icons

  Sharon Green — the first female MC in hip hop history — lived in the blue building on Boston Road along with Rahiem and the Original Spinderella "Building 1075"
  steps from Lambert Houses. She didn't discover the culture somewhere else and bring it back. She was already home.

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  Graff Nation
  

  Butch 2 and Chain 3 didn't come from the same crew — they came from the same soil. Lambert Houses on Boston Road, the oldest road in America, produced two of the most influential wild style minds of the 1968–1978 generation. The trains were their canvas. The block was their classroom.

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