Rare early hip-hop flyer for this “convention” held at the Audubon Ballroom (166 Broadway in Harlem – the same ballroom in which Malcolm X had been assassinated thirteen years earlier) in early Dec. 1978. Featuring some of the most important figures in early rap: DJ [Grandwizard] Theodore (widely credited with inventing scratching), Kevie Kev (member of the Fantastic Five), The Funky Four (Raheim, KK Rockwell, Keith Keith, and Sha-Rock — the first female MC), Lovebug Starski (perhaps the earliest coiner of the term “hip-hop”), DJ Breakout (soon to join the above Funky Four as the Funky 4 + 1), DJ Jones, Mean Gene, Casanova Fly (aka Grandmaster Caz, whose lyrics – it is now generally recognized – were plagiarized by Big Bank Hank in “Rapper’s Delight”) and many others pioneering MCs and DJs. A jaw-dropping lineup from the “disco rap” era and an important survival.

$600