He was born Clive Campbell on April 16, 1955, in Kinston, Jamaica, but he’s best known as DJ Kool Herc. Hec’s family immigrated to the Bronx in 1967. Due to his size, kids at Alfred E.

Hip Hop was a culture that was already beginning even before [DJ] Kool Herc, when people were wearing the mock necks, the Kangols, the British Walkers, the Gazelles, the graffiti on the denim on ...

Hip-hop may have begun in the Bronx, but over the last 50 years Connecticut has developed its own vibrant artistic and ...

Kool Herc is widely credited with developing the ... record of the period because its use of scratching established the DJ as one of the key pillars of the song. The 1990s saw an increase ...

DJ Kool Herc is credited with creating hip-hop in 1973, after playing "breaks" in songs at a party in New York. Google tweeted about the doodle using the hashtag "#BirthofHipHop" According to the ...

Breaking originated in the Bronx in the 1970s. DJ Kool Herc realized that people tend to dance with more energy during the instrumental section songs, also known as the "break." He then created the ...

When hip-hop first started in 1973 at a party thrown by Clive Campbell, also known as DJ Kool Herc, it might have sounded different from the hip-hop we know today, but much of the groundwork has ...