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      People always ask me what this is hanging on my living room wall. 😏 Hip Hop Heads may already know. 😬 It is Hip Hop’s Birthday. If you don’t know the exact story of how Hip Hop began you should google it cause its a pretty cool piece of history. Technically, the […]

Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare) Kool Herc’s apartmentΒ  1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, NY When: August 11, 1973 What: With his sister Cindy acting as “promoter,” sixteen year old Clive “Kool Herc” Campbell throws a “back to school” party to raise money for school clothes, and inadvertently launching the musical movement that became […]

Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc was hospitalized today suffering from an unknown health condition. According to Gangstarr’s DJ Premier, Kool Herc’s health is deteriorating and he is in need of financial assistance, because he reportedly doesn’t have health insurance. “Kool Herc is very sick,” DJ Premier revealed on his XM Satellite radio show Live From […]

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Jay-Z took a moment during last night’s Home & Home tour finale at Yankee Stadium to acknowledge Kool Herc, the father of hip-hop.