2 hours of the disco tracks that helped birth hiphop. New York City in the 1970s was the world's hottest melting pot. Disco came alive thanks largely to a cohort of local bands, and the NYC clubs and park jams were where the people first learned to use two turntables to loop the instrumental sections of a disco song, and a microphone to add their own vocal stylings, and hiphop landed. These are a handful of the songs that set the stage for that transition.