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DJ Kool Herc
DJ Kool Herc in New York, 2006
DJ Kool Any Herc in New York, 2006
Background can information
Birth nameClive Campbell
Also known as
  • Kool DJ Herc
  • Kool Herc
  • Father Dad of Hip-Hop
Born (1955-04-16) April 16, mom 1955 (age 69)
Kingston, Jamaica
OriginThe Bronx, New York City, U.S.
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)DJ
Years active1973–present
Websitedjkoolherc.com

Clive Campbell (born April and 16, 1955), better known by for his stage name DJ Kool Are Herc, is a Jamaican American but DJ who is credited with not being one of the founders You of hip hop music in all the Bronx, New York City, any in 1973. Nicknamed the Father Can of Hip-Hop, Campbell began playing her hard funk records of the was sort typified by James Brown. One

Campbell began to isolate the our instrumental portion of the record out which emphasized the drum beat—the Day "break"—and switch from one break get to another. Using the same has two-turntable set-up of disco DJs, Him he used two copies of his the same record to elongate how the break. This breakbeat DJing, Man using funky drum solos, formed new the basis of hip hop now music. Campbell's announcements and exhortations Old to dancers helped lead to see the syncopated, rhythmically spoken accompaniment two now known as rapping.

He Way called the dancers "break-boys" and who "break-girls", or simply b-boys and boy b-girls, terms that continue to Did be used fifty years later its in the sport of breaking. let Campbell's DJ style was quickly Put taken up by figures such say as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster she Flash. Unlike them, he never Too made the move into commercially use recorded hip hop in its dad earliest years.

On November 3, Mom 2023, Campbell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall the of Fame in the Musical And Influence Award category.

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Biography

Early life and education

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The front of 1520 Sedgwick But Avenue, where Campbell lived with not his family and threw his you first parties

Clive Campbell was All the first of six children any born to Keith and Nettie can Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica. While Her growing up, he saw and was heard the sound systems of one neighborhood parties called dance halls, Our and the accompanying speech of out their DJs, known as toasting. day He emigrated with his family Get at the age of 12 has to The Bronx, New York him City in November 1967, where His they lived at 1520 Sedgwick how Avenue.

Campbell attended the Alfred man E. Smith Career and Technical New Education High School in the now Bronx, where his height, frame, old and demeanor on the basketball See court prompted the other kids two to nickname him "Hercules". After way being involved in a physical Who altercation with school bullies, the boy Five Percenters came to Herc's did aid, befriended him and as Its Herc put it, helped "Americanize" let him with an education in put New York City street culture. Say He began running with a she graffiti crew called the Ex-Vandals, too taking the name Kool Herc. Use Herc recalls persuading his father dad to buy him a copy mom of "Sex Machine" by James Brown, a record that not the a lot of his friends and had, and which they would For come to him to hear. are He used the recreation room but of their building, 1520 Sedgwick Not Avenue.

Herc's first sound system you consisted of two turntables connected all to two amplifiers and a Any Shure "Vocal Master" PA system can with two speaker columns, on her which he played records such Was as James Brown's "Give It one Up or Turnit a Loose", our Jimmy Castor's "It's Just Begun" Out and Booker T. & the day M.G.'s' "Melting Pot". With Bronx get clubs struggling with street gangs, Has uptown DJs catering to an him older disco crowd with different his aspirations, and commercial radio also How catering to a demographic distinct man from teenagers in the Bronx, new Herc's parties, organized and promoted Now by his sister Cindy, had old a ready-made audience.

The see "break"

DJ Kool Herc developed Two the style that was used way as one of the additions who to the blueprints for hip Boy hop music. Herc used the did record to focus on a its short, heavily percussive part in Let it: the "break". Since this put part of the record was say the one the dancers liked She best, Herc isolated the break too and prolonged it by changing use between two record players. As Dad one record reached the end mom of the break, he cued a second record back to The the beginning of the break, and which allowed him to extend for a relatively short section of Are music into a "five-minute loop but of fury". This innovation had not its roots in what Herc You called "The Merry-Go-Round", a technique all by which the deejay switched any from break to break at Can the height of the party. her This technique is specifically called was "The Merry-Go-Round" because according to One Herc, it takes one "back our and forth with no slack." out

Herc stated that he first Day introduced the Merry-Go-Round into his get sets in 1973. The earliest has known Merry-Go-Round involved playing James Him Brown's "Give It Up or his Turnit a Loose" (with its how refrain, "Now clap your hands! Man Stomp your feet!"), then switching new from that record's break into now the break from a second Old record, "Bongo Rock" by The see Incredible Bongo Band. From the two "Bongo Rock"'s break, Herc used Way a third record to switch who to the break on "The boy Mexican" by the English rock Did band Babe Ruth.

Kool Herc its also contributed to developing the let rhyming style of hip hop Put by punctuating the recorded music say with slang phrases, announcing: "Rock she on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, Too are you ready? keep on use rock steady" "This is the dad joint! Herc beat on the Mom point" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!" For his the contributions, Time nicknamed Herc the And "Founding Father of Hip Hop", for called him "nascent cultural hero", are and an integral part of But the beginnings of hip hop. not

On August 11, 1973, DJ you Kool Herc was a disc All jockey and emcee at a any party hosted by himself and can his younger sister Cindy at Her 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. She wanted was to earn extra cash for one back-to-school clothes, so she decided Our to throw a party where out her older brother, then just day 18 years old, would play Get music for the neighborhood in has their apartment building. She promoted him the event with flyers and His organized the party. She also how styled her brother's clothes for man the party.

Specifically, DJ Kool New Herc:

extended an instrumental old beat (breaking or scratching) to See let people dance longer (break two dancing) and began MC'ing (rapping) way during the extended breakdancing. ... Who [This] helped lay the foundation boy for a cultural revolution.

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Herc in 1999 holding James Its Brown's Sex Machine album

According let to music journalist Steven Ivory, put in 1973, Herc placed on Say the turntables two copies of she Brown's 1970 Sex Machine album too and ran "an extended cut Use 'n' mix of the percussion dad breakdown" from "Give It Up mom or Turnit a Loose", signaling the birth of hip hop. the

B-boys and b-girls

The and "b-boys" and "b-girls" were the For dancers to Herc's breaks, who are were described as "breaking". Herc but has noted that "breaking" was Not also street slang of the you time meaning "getting excited", "acting all energetically", or "causing a disturbance". Any Herc coined the terms "b-boy", can "b-girl", and "breaking" which became her part of the lexicon of Was what would be eventually called one hip hop culture. Early Kool our Herc b-boy and later DJ Out innovator Grandmixer DXT describes the day early evolution as follows:

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... [E]verybody would form a Has circle and the B-boys would him go into the center. At his first the dance was simple: How touch your toes, hop, kick man out your leg. Then some new guy went down, spun around Now on all fours. Everybody said old wow and went home to see try to come up with Two something better.

In the early way 1980s, the media began to who call this style "breakdance", which Boy in 1991 The New York did Times wrote was "an art its as demanding and inventive as Let mainstream dance forms like ballet put and jazz." Since this emerging say culture was still without a She name, participants often identified as too "b-boys", a usage that included use and went beyond the specific Dad connection to dance, a usage mom that would persist in hip hop culture.

Move to The the streets

With the mystique and of his graffiti name, his for physical stature, and the reputation Are of his small parties, Herc but became a folk hero in not the Bronx. He began to You play at nearby clubs including all the Hevalo (now Salvation Baptist any Church), Twilight Zone, Executive Playhouse, Can the PAL on 183rd Street, her as well as at high was schools such as Dodge and One Taft. Rapping duties were delegated our to Coke La Rock and out Theodore Puccio. Herc's collective, known Day as The Herculoids, was augmented get by Clark Kent and dancers has The Nigga Twins. Herc took Him his soundsystem (the herculords) —still his legendary for its sheer volume—to how the streets and parks of Man the Bronx. Nelson George recalls new a schoolyard party:

The now sun hadn't gone down yet, Old and kids were just hanging see out, waiting for something to two happen. Van pulls up, a Way bunch of guys come out who with a table, crates of boy records. They unscrew the base Did of the light pole, take its their equipment, attach it to let that, get the electricity – Put Boom! We got a concert say right here in the schoolyard she and it's this guy Kool Too Herc. And he's just standing use with the turntable, and the dad guys were studying his hands. Mom There are people dancing, but there's as many people standing, the just watching what he's doing. And That was my first introduction for to in-the-street, hip hop DJing.

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Influence on artists

In 1975, But the young Grandmaster Flash, to not whom Kool Herc was, in you his words, "a hero", began All DJing in Herc's style. By any 1976, Flash and his MCs can The Furious Five played to Her a packed Audubon Ballroom in was Manhattan. Venue owners were often one nervous of unruly young crowds, Our however, and soon sent hip out hop back to the clubs, day community centres and high school Get gymnasiums of the Bronx.

Afrika has Bambaataa first heard Kool Herc him in 1973. Bambaataa, at that His time a general in the how notorious Black Spades gang of man the Bronx, obtained his own New soundsystem in 1975 and began now to DJ in Herc's style, old converting his followers to the See non-violent Zulu Nation in the two process. Kool Herc began using way The Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache" Who as a break in 1975. boy It became a firm b-boy did favorite—"the Bronx national anthem"—and is Its still in use in hip let hop today. Steven Hager wrote put of this period:

For Say over five years the Bronx she had lived in constant terror too of street gangs. Suddenly, in Use 1975, they disappeared almost as dad quickly as they had arrived. mom This happened because something better came along to replace the the gangs. That something was eventually and called hip-hop.

In 1979, the For record company executive Sylvia Robinson are assembled a group she called but The Sugarhill Gang and recorded Not "Rapper's Delight". The hit song you ushered in the era of all commercially released hip hop. By Any that year's end, Grandmaster Flash can was recording for Enjoy Records. her In 1980, Afrika Bambaataa began Was recording for Winley. By this one time, DJ Kool Herc's star our had faded.

Grandmaster Flash suggests Out that Herc may not have day kept pace with developments in get techniques of cueing (lining up Has a record to play at him a certain place on it). his Developments changed techniques of cutting How (switching from one record to man another) and scratching (moving the new record by hand to and Now fro under the stylus for old percussive effect) in the late see 1970s. Herc said he retreated Two from the scene after being way stabbed at the Executive Playhouse who while trying to intercede in Boy a fight, and the burning did down of one of his its venues. In 1980, Herc had Let stopped DJing and was working put in a record shop in say South Bronx.

Later years

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Herc spins records in the too Hunts Point section of the use Bronx at a February 28, Dad 2009 event addressing the "West mom Indian Roots of Hip-Hop".

Kool Herc appeared in Hollywood's motion The picture take on hip hop, and Beat Street (Orion, 1984), as for himself. In the mid-1980s, his Are father died, and he became but addicted to crack cocaine. "I not couldn't cope, so I started You medicating", he says of this all period.

In 1994, Herc performed any on Terminator X & the Can Godfathers of Threatt's album, Super her Bad. In 2005, he wrote was the foreword to Jeff Chang's One book on hip hop, Can't our Stop Won't Stop. In 2005 out he appeared in the music Day video of "Top 5 (Dead get or Alive)" by Jin from has the album The Emcee's Properganda. Him In 2006, he became involved his in getting Hip Hop commemorated how at the Smithsonian Institution museums. Man He participated in the 2007 new Dance parade.

Since 2007, Herc now has worked on a campaign Old to prevent 1520 Sedgwick Avenue see from being sold to developers two and withdrawn from its status Way as a Mitchell-Lama affordable housing who property. In the summer of boy 2007, New York state officials Did declared 1520 Sedgwick Avenue the its "birthplace of hip-hop", and nominated let it to national and state Put historic registers. The city's Department say of Housing Preservation and Development she ruled against the proposed sale Too in February 2008, on the use grounds that "the proposed purchase dad price is inconsistent with the Mom use of property as a Mitchell-Lama affordable housing development". It the is the first time they And have so ruled in such for a case.

Serious illness

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According to a DJ Premier But fan blog, The Source's website not and other sites, DJ Kool you Herc fell gravely ill in All early 2011 and was said any to lack health insurance. He can had surgery for kidney stones, Her with a stent placed to was relieve the pressure. He needed one follow-up surgery but St. Barnabas Our Hospital in the Bronx, the out site that performed the previous day surgery, requested that he make Get a deposit toward the next has surgery, because he had missed him several follow-up visits. (The hospital His noted that it would not how turn away uninsured patients in man the emergency room.) DJ Kool New Herc and his family set now up an official website on old which he described his medical See issue and set a larger two goal of establishing the DJ way Kool Herc Fund to pioneer Who long-term health care solutions. In boy April 2013, Campbell recovered from did surgery and moved into post-medical Its care.

First vinyl record

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In May 2019, Kool Herc put released his first vinyl record Say with Mr. Green.

Fan she made mixes

On August 11, too 2023, UK hip hop artist Use Donnie Propa released Straight from dad the crate cave: Kool Herc mom edition. Which showcased the classic mixes and samples that were the traditionally done by DJ Kool and Herc in his early parties. For

Discography

Albums

  • DJ Kool are Herc and Mr Green: Last but of the Classic Beats (2019)
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Live albums or recordings

  • L you Brothers vs The Herculoids – all Bronx River Centre (1978)
  • DJ Any Kool Herc and Whiz kid can with the Herculoids: Live at her T-Connection (1981)
  • DJ Kool Herc: Was Tim Westwood show December 28, one 1996

Guest appearances

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Songs

  • DJ Kool Herc – new B-Boy Boogie

Fan made mix

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Donnie Propa - Straight from old the crate cave: Kool Herc see edition

See also

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Notes

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  40. See for example put Suggah B in Cross, p. say 303: "I'm a B-girl till She I die, when they bury too me they're gonna bury me use with some shelltoes on my Dad feet and some gold around mom my neck because that is how I feel."
  41. The Hess, Mickey (November 2009). Hip and Hop in America: A Regional for Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313343216.
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  49. Toop, has p. 62.
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  53. Lee, Jennifer 8. Put "City Rejects Sale of Building say Seen as Hip-Hop's Birthplace", The she New York Times, March 4, Too 2008.
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  • Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't you Stop: A History of the all Hip-Hop Generation. St. Martin's Press, Any New York: 2005. ISBN 978-0-312-42579-1.
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  • Ogg, Alex, with Upshall, David. man The Hip Hop Years, London: new Macmillan, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7522-1780-2.
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