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 ...

This year’s honorees included Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc and N.W.A. DJ Kool Herc will receive the Grammys Trustees Award along with Joel Katz and Peter Asher. The award aimed to acknowledge ...

He described the event as a celebration dedicated solely to AllHipHop, featuring celebrity guests like Wendy Williams, DJ ...

“We didn’t call it... Hip-hop has come a long way since DJ Kool Herc started isolating funk-record instrumental breaks to make Bronx dance parties even more danceable. Along the way, it ...

People==* Kool (surname), surname of Dutch originAs ... Roger Kool (1954–2005), Singaporean DJ (Roger Kiew)* Kool DJ Herc (born 1955), Jamaican–American DJ and hip hop pioneer (Clive Campbell ...

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 ...

With the stroke of a pen, de Blasio christened the block “Hip Hop Boulevard” in honor of the Aug. 11, 1973, party where DJ Kool Herc invented hip hop at 1520 Sedgewick Avenue. “If you have ...

Hip hop historian Bill Adler said, “Joe Conzo is the greatest hip hop photographer of all because he came from within the ...

If DJ Kool Herc is generally considered the godfather of hip-hop, it can be argued that Cornell Benjamin was its first martyr. Benjamin was neither a musician nor a DJ. Rather, he was a drugs ...