Alexandra Phanor-Faury

Part One: Rap on Tap "It must be the water, right?" says Mobb Deep's Havoc with a chuckle. One half of the celebrated Queensbridge hip-hop duo, he isn't the first to suggest that a secret ingredient meandering through the pipes of the nation's largest public-housing development might be responsible for its storied hip-hop history.

Hold up! If you haven't read Part One yet, go here. Part Five: They Came From Here One summer night in 1986, Marley Marl and MC Shan were at Queensbridge Park after returning from a tour. “Marley said, ‘Let’s make a record about the Bridge.’ It was a freestyle,” Shan recollects. “We started working on it at 5am and then played it at the jam in the park that same day. The crowd went crazy!” “The Bridge” was Shan’s homage to Queensbridge’s hip-hop history.

Part One: Rap on Tap “It must be the water, right?” says Mobb Deep’s Havoc with a chuckle. One half of the celebrated Queensbridge hip-hop duo, he isn’t the first to suggest that a secret ingredient meandering through the pipes of the nation’s largest public-housing development might be responsible for its storied hip-hop history.