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.

In this post, DJ Kool Herc's contributions to hip-hop are explored, from his innovative techniques as a DJ to his role in popularizing breakbeats and MCing. It also mentions the challenges he ...

Set the scene: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, August 11, 1973, a summer party in an apartment building’s rec room. Twenty-five cents We interviewed DJ Kool Herc, regarded as founding hip-hop ...

Forty-five years ago today, DJ Kool Herc gave birth to hip-hop at a party in the Bronx. Watch Anthony Bourdain Explore Hip-Hop’s South Bronx Roots Watch Anthony Bourdain Explore ...

Following an introduction by LL COOL J, DJ Kool Herc walked arm-in-arm with his sister Cindy Campbell to accept the Musical Influence honor.

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 ...

LL Cool J gave DJ Kool Herc an incredible tribute for his 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction at the Brooklyn ceremony tonight. The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc ...

LL Cool J honored DJ Kool Herc as “one of the great founders of hip-hop” when the pioneering musical visionary received the Musical Influence Award at the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

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

Many music fans and historians credit DJ Kool Herc as the Father of Hip Hop. Herc, real name Clive Campbell, was an 18-year-old deejay of Jamaican descent who held an end-of-summer back-to-school ...

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 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.