August 12, 2023
DJ Kool Herc Throws a Party That Begins Hip-Hop’s Takeover
[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Aug. 11, 1973: On this day, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell hosted the first Rec Room Party in the basement at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Morris Heights area in the Bronx, N.Y. The event and location would become the pivotal moment that gave birth to hip-hop.It was mid-August in 1973, when a young, ambitious Clive Campbell, better known as DJ Kool Herc, was hired to spin records at his sister's back-to-school party in the Bronx. He used two turntables to extend the instrumental breaks of songs, which his friends began to rap over. This simple innovation is credited...
