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363:". Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players. As one record reached the end of the break, he cued a second record back to the beginning of the break, which allowed him to extend a relatively short section of music into a "five-minute loop of fury". This innovation had its roots in what Herc called "The Merry-Go-Round", a technique by which the deejay switched from break to break at the height of the party. This technique is specifically called "The Merry-Go-Round" because according to Herc, it takes one "back and forth with no slack." 707:, the site that performed the previous surgery, requested that he make a deposit toward the next surgery, because he had missed several follow-up visits. (The hospital noted that it would not turn away uninsured patients in the emergency room.) DJ Kool Herc and his family set up an official website on which he described his medical issue and set a larger goal of establishing the DJ Kool Herc Fund to pioneer long-term health care solutions. In April 2013, Campbell recovered from surgery and moved into post-medical care. In May 2019, Kool Herc released his first vinyl record with 258: 606: 44: 416: 347:' "Melting Pot". With Bronx clubs struggling with street gangs, uptown DJs catering to an older disco crowd with different aspirations, and commercial radio also catering to a demographic distinct from teenagers in the Bronx, Herc's parties, organized and promoted by his sister Cindy, had a ready-made audience. 596:
Grandmaster Flash suggests that Herc may not have kept pace with developments in techniques of cueing (lining up a record to play at a certain place on it). Developments changed techniques of cutting (switching from one record to another) and scratching (moving the record by hand to and fro under the
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The "b-boys" and "b-girls" were the dancers to Herc's breaks, who were described as "breaking". Herc has noted that "breaking" was also street slang of the time meaning "getting excited", "acting energetically", or "causing a disturbance". Herc coined the terms "b-boy", "b-girl", and "breaking" which
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at a party hosted by himself and his younger sister Cindy at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. She wanted to earn extra cash for back-to-school clothes, so she decided to throw a party where her older brother, then just 18 years old, would play music for the neighborhood in their apartment building. She promoted
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affordable housing property. In the summer of 2007, New York state officials declared 1520 Sedgwick Avenue the "birthplace of hip-hop", and nominated it to national and state historic registers. The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development ruled against the proposed sale in February
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Kool Herc also contributed to developing the rhyming style of hip hop by punctuating the recorded music with slang phrases, announcing: "Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready? keep on rock steady" "This is the joint! Herc beat on the point" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!" For
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The sun hadn't gone down yet, and kids were just hanging out, waiting for something to happen. Van pulls up, a bunch of guys come out with a table, crates of records. They unscrew the base of the light pole, take their equipment, attach it to that, get the electricity – Boom! We got a concert right
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stylus for percussive effect) in the late 1970s. Herc said he retreated from the scene after being stabbed at the Executive Playhouse while trying to intercede in a fight, and the burning down of one of his venues. In 1980, Herc had stopped DJing and was working in a record shop in South Bronx.
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here in the schoolyard and it's this guy Kool Herc. And he's just standing with the turntable, and the guys were studying his hands. There are people dancing, but there's as many people standing, just watching what he's doing. That was my first introduction to in-the-street, hip hop DJing.
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For over five years the Bronx had lived in constant terror of street gangs. Suddenly, in 1975, they disappeared almost as quickly as they had arrived. This happened because something better came along to replace the gangs. That something was eventually called
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forms like ballet and jazz." Since this emerging culture was still without a name, participants often identified as "b-boys", a usage that included and went beyond the specific connection to dance, a usage that would persist in hip hop culture.
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and Theodore Puccio. Herc's collective, known as The Herculoids, was augmented by Clark Kent and dancers The Nigga Twins. Herc took his soundsystem (the herculords) —still legendary for its sheer volume—to the streets and parks of the Bronx.
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name, his physical stature, and the reputation of his small parties, Herc became a folk hero in the Bronx. He began to play at nearby clubs including the Hevalo (now Salvation Baptist Church), Twilight Zone, Executive Playhouse, the
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2008, on the grounds that "the proposed purchase price is inconsistent with the use of property as a Mitchell-Lama affordable housing development". It is the first time they have so ruled in such a case.
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Hager, in Cepeda, p. 12–26. Cepeda writes that this article was the first appearance of the term hip hop in print, and credits Bambaataa with its coinage (p. 3).
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came to Herc's aid, befriended him and as Herc put it, helped "Americanize" him with an education in New York City street culture. He began running with a
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He called the dancers "break-boys" and "break-girls", or simply b-boys and b-girls, terms that continue to be used fifty years later in the sport of
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Since 2007, Herc has worked on a campaign to prevent 1520 Sedgwick Avenue from being sold to developers and withdrawn from its status as a
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DJing, using funky drum solos, formed the basis of hip hop music. Campbell's announcements and exhortations to dancers helped lead to the
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album and ran "an extended cut 'n' mix of the percussion breakdown" from "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose", signaling the birth of hip hop.
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nicknamed Herc the "Founding Father of Hip Hop", called him "nascent cultural hero", and an integral part of the beginnings of hip hop.
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gang of the Bronx, obtained his own soundsystem in 1975 and began to DJ in Herc's style, converting his followers to the non-violent
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Hager, Steven. Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music, and Graffiti. St Martin's Press, 1984 (out of print).
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became part of the lexicon of what would be eventually called hip hop culture. Early Kool Herc b-boy and later DJ innovator
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in the Bronx, where his height, frame, and demeanor on the basketball court prompted the other kids to nickname him "
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crew called the Ex-Vandals, taking the name Kool Herc. Herc recalls persuading his father to buy him a copy of "
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According to music journalist Steven Ivory, in 1973, Herc placed on the turntables two copies of Brown's 1970
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the event with flyers and organized the party. She also styled her brother's clothes for the party.
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Herc stated that he first introduced the Merry-Go-Round into his sets in 1973. The earliest known
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and a Shure "Vocal Master" PA system with two speaker columns, on which he played records such as
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DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was used as one of the additions to the blueprints for
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first heard Kool Herc in 1973. Bambaataa, at that time a general in the notorious
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Clive Campbell was the first of six children born to Keith and Nettie Campbell in
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Dunning, Jennifer. "Nurturing Onstage the Moves Born on the Ghettos' Streets",
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And It Don't Stop! The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
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Herc's first sound system consisted of two turntables connected to two
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DJs, he used two copies of the same record to elongate the break. This
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Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture
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on my feet and some gold around my neck because that is how I feel."
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Kool Herc appeared in Hollywood's motion picture take on hip hop,
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section of the Bronx at a February 28, 2009 event addressing the "
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It's Not About a Salary...Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles
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placed to relieve the pressure. He needed follow-up surgery but
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on 183rd Street, as well as at high schools such as Dodge and
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wrote was "an art as demanding and inventive as mainstream
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
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Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School
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In the early 1980s, the media began to call this style "
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On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc was a disc jockey and
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Kool DJ Herc
DJ Kool Herc in New York, 2006
Kingston
Jamaica
The Bronx
Hip hop
djkoolherc.com
hip hop music
the Bronx
Father of Hip-Hop
hard funk
James Brown
break
disco
breakbeat
syncopated
rapping
breaking
Afrika Bambaataa
Grandmaster Flash
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1520 Sedgwick Avenue
Kingston, Jamaica
sound systems
dance halls
toasting
The Bronx
New York City
1520 Sedgwick Avenue

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