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: 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’s story began back in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, where many other musical legends also came from, such as Bob Marley and the Marley family, Big Youth, Sir Coxsone, Lee Scott ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

On this day in hip-hop, Aug. 11, DJ Kool Herc hosted his first back-to-school party in the Bronx, N.Y., which is credited as the birthplace of hip-hop.

Kool Herc and the History (and Mystery) of Hip-Hop’s First Day Even as the world celebrates rap turning 50, the debate over the genre's birth date spins on By David Browne ...

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 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.

THE SPIN INTERVIEW: DJ Kool Herc Read More » The post THE SPIN INTERVIEW: DJ Kool Herc appeared first on SPIN. Twenty-five cents admission for girls, 50 cents for boys. Olde English 800 or Colt ...