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In the 1970s, several people left the Caribbean islands, due to their complicated political and economic conditions, and emigrated to New York. Thus, the Jamaican groups joined the New Yorkers, teaching a new way of expressing their resistance. Those who paved the way for this trend were Kool Herc, Jamaican by birth, and the Barbadian Grand Master Flash, both people from the Bronx. Using the tradition of African griots, who sing stories and epics across Africa, Jamaican DJs produced music with political and spiritual messages, although the main rhythms in the region were funk, soul and other African-American styles at the time.
