The Night Hip Hop Was Born: What Really Happened in the Bronx
The history of hip hop begins on one specific night: August 11, 1973, in the recreation room of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx. An 18-year-old Jamaican kid named Clive Campbell — who the neighborhood would soon know as DJ Kool Herc — hooked up two turntables, grabbed a microphone,…