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i rediscover these vids like once a year and end up listening to them nonstop for a week. they're incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SP7gfvX4Ko
"STREET THE BEAT" WERE A GROUP OF VERY TALENTED LATINO EX-GANG MEMBERS FROM THE SOUTH BRONX WHO PLAYED TOGETHER IN THE 1980'S. THE GROUP CONSISTED OF THE MELENDEZ BROTHERS: BENJY, ROBERT AND VICTOR ON HIS "CUSTOM" DRUM KIT, THE ORIGINAL GROUP ALSO FEATURED CLOSE FRIEND, MANNY CORTEZ. DAVID SILVER (A COUSIN), JOINED THE GROUP LATER ON, WHEN MANNY LEFT. THE GROUP'S ORIGINAL PURPOSE WAS TO SHOW THAT YOU CAN LEAVE THE GANGS AND DRUGS BEHIND AND DO SOMETHING POSITIVE WITH YOUR LIFE. HERE THEY ARE ON "HISPANIC HORIZONS" IN 1983 DOING AN ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN BY ROBERT MELENDEZ. UNFORTUNATELY VICTOR PASSED AWAY OVER 10 YEARS AGO. BUT BROTHERS ROBERT AND BENJY ARE STILL OUT THEIR DOING THEIR THING WITH THE GHETTO BROTHERS AND MANNY CORTEZ STILL WRITES AND PERFORMS WITH HIS LOVELY WIFE.
Used to see these guys all the time on the street corners of the West Village in the second half of the 80s. Usually they would do all Beatles covers and then throw in one original. There would invariably be a Whitman's (Whit Stillman's?) Sampler of various types of New Yorkers standing around really digging what they were doing.
seven years pass...
two years pass...
four months pass...