DJ Kool Herc at The Source Awards in NYC, April 25, 1994. (Credit: Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) It really began as a family affair.

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, who’s credited with birthing hip hop during his 1970s parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, has teamed with Christie’s for an online auction of memorabilia, including an ...

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. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images) *DJ Kool Herc, a ...

DJ Kool Herc And Cindy Campbell To Auction Off 200 Original Items From The Birth of Hip-Hop. By: Kershaw St. Jawnson Category: News August 1, 2022. ... Polaroid photos of Herc and friends, ...

Hip-hop is now 50 years old. The genre was born in The Bronx, New York City, in 1973. Here are photos from every year since then that showcase hip-hop's evolution. An invite to DJ Kool Herc's 1973 ...

DJ Kool Herc had an emotional response to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.. During the induction ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Fri., Herc, born Clive Campbell, was ...

The list featured “ a mixer, a disco ball from Sedgwick Avenue, sneakers worn by Kool Herc, and various images from the early hip-hop heyday of the 1970s and 1980s.” DJ Kool Herc's History ...

Kool Herc and Grandmixer DXT in front of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue Enid Alvarez/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images. ... reference to “the rec room where hip-hop was first created by DJ Kool Herc.” ...

It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc's 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence. On a hot August night in 1973, Clive ...

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 broke down in tears while accepting the Musical Influence honor during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 induction ceremony. Jaelani Turner-Williams. November 4, 2023.