This rap group put 'Strong Island' on the hip-hop map, broke through NYC barrier

They’re still number one in the 631.

Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has new life stretching all the way across the pond.

“People have come up to me and were telling me ‘you do not know how much that song meant to us,” member AJ Rok, who moved from Westchester to Islip as a little kid, told The Post.

Rok and partner B-Luv recently reunited — nearly 37 years after “Strong Island” was released — and embarked on a fall mini-tour in Europe where fans are clamoring for old-school hip-hop.

“Love has never ceased overseas. I probably do six [foreign] interviews a year,” Rok said before boarding a flight to a recent JVC show in Amsterdam.

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