How Old School Hip-Hop Took Over the World, 1979–1989
Old school hip-hop went from Bronx block parties to the Billboard charts in ten short years. Here’s how two turntables and a microphone changed everything.
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Walk This Way: How Run-DMC and Aerosmith Changed Music Forever
On a humid August night in 1973, a teenage DJ named Clive Campbell looped a drum break in a Bronx rec room — and accidentally invented a sound that would swallow the planet.
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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,…
