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This story was first published on Feb. 13, 2011. It was updated on Aug. 11, 2011.

If you were listening to music in the ’80s, 토토사이트 says Serena Altschul, you might have been hearing it out of a boombox, a very loud boombox – maybe too loud!

Big stereo speakers, a tape deck (or two), and lots of heavy D batteries.

Boomboxes were first introduced in the late 1970s, so instead of listening at home, you could take the beat to the street.

“It meant that you were like a walking jukebox, if you will,” says artist and hip hop pioneer Fab5Freddy. “I grew up in the Bed Stuy section of Brooklyn, so it was a cool, typical, fun thing. Everybody would gather around it to hear that cool music.”

Fab5Freddy remembers the sounds of the city, and the importance of bass to the boombox:

“Well, the bass was important to the boom,” he explained. “I mean, that’s where the boom comes from. Because, you know, the popular music as we came from disco into, you know, funk, of course, disco and then hip hop, that bass was important, and getting a good, clean, boom boom bass meant a lot.”

In the early ’80s, hip hop was still in its infancy. It wasn’t on MTV, and you could hardly hear it on the radio.

But through the boombox you could listen to the songs often dealing with urban decay and racial injustice – songs like “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:

“The bill collectors they ring my phone,