The city's northernmost borough is the home of groundbreaking artists from OGs Grandmaster Flash and Slick Rick, to contemporary stars including Cardi B.
DJ Kool Herc threw a rec room party in 1973 that put hip-hop as we know it in motion. The "Boogie Down" Bronx is the origin point of hip-hop history. New York is indisputably the birthplace of hip-hop, but which of the city's five boroughs has dominated the genre continues to be a spirited debate among its scholars and natives. (Click here to read Wild's other GRAMMY blog installments.) "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" - Stevie Wonder "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" - Neil Diamond "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" - The Eurythmics with Aretha Franklin "This One's For The Girls" - Martina McBride "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" - Shania Twain As for the gentlemen of the GRAMMYs, thanks so much for being such excellent "plus ones." So if all those GRAMMYs weren't enough for you - Beyoncé, Taylor, Gaga - here are some songs to honor this moment and to have your head spinning like Pink was last night.Ĭongrats to all the amazing women who won, who performed and who just made the red carpet infinitely more red hot. My personal song for this morning is "I'm So Tired," but before I go into any post-GRAMMY debriefing, rehabbing hibernation, I wanted to share my special celebratory GRAMMY playlist for all the winning women this GRAMMY night. Wild's most recent book, He Is…I Say: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Neil Diamond, is now in paperback. He is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, a blogger for Huffington Post and an Emmy-nominated TV writer. David Wild has written for the GRAMMY Awards since 2001.
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