DJ KOOL HERC: Some of them wasn’t born. They go by what their mother told them, or their grandfather told them. I’m the beginning. I’m still young, but still old.

DJ Kool Herc is considered the first DJ to isolate the breaks --the most danceable beats in a record — and repeat them, to keep the dancers going. Originally broadcast in 2005.

DJ Kool Herc attends The Source Magazine's 360 Icons Awards Dinner at the Red Rooster on August 16, 2019 in Harlem, New York City. DJ Kool Herc born Clive Campbell was inducted into the Rock and ...

Fifty years on, the details of that historic night in the Bronx — the night everyone now says gave birth to hip-hop — still elude DJ Kool Herc, the man at its center that evening. “I ...

In August 1973, DJ Kool Herc threw a party in the recreation room of his apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in The Bronx. Already a local celebrity, Herc played instrumental breaks of soul, f… ...

dj kool herc 1520 Sedgwick Ave Births Hip-Hop: August 11 in Hip-Hop History Forty-five years ago today, DJ Kool Herc gave birth to hip-hop at a party in the Bronx.

The godfather of hip-hop, DJ Kool Herc, inducted by LL Cool J received the Musical Influence Award at this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame In 2021, LL Cool J was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall ...

DJ Kool Herc was among the class of 13 inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night (November 3) at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Following an introduction by LL COOL J, DJ Kool Herc ...

DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican who is considered the godfather of hip-hop, will be inducted into the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Forty years ago, DJ Kool Herc spun records at his Bronx apartment building that led to the beginnings of hip-hop. At first glance, the 102-unit apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the ...

DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell will be on hand. I just published the biggest freelance story of my life, a long profile of Too Short , in a New York Times Magazine special issue pegged to that ...

DJ Kool Herc is considered the first DJ to isolate the breaks --the most danceable beats in a record — and repeat them, to keep the dancers going. Originally broadcast in 2005.