12/10/2021
Long before organised hip-hop culture dance battles, it was actually the DJs who battled! In the '70s, when hip-hop parties were taking off, and even before that in Jamaica, a place heavily linked to the birth of hip-hop culture, when the urban music scene was growing, DJs would have crews and spend money on massive, room-shaking sound systems and speakers. It then became a regular thing to have two DJs, with their crews, set up their sound systems at a party and see who could blast out the other with their sound. Partygoers would come to hear, see and dance to this DJ soundclash.