How Kool Herc Invented Hip-Hop in 1973
On August 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Clive Campbell threw a back-to-school block party in a Bronx apartment building recreation room and, almost by accident, invented hip-hop. The technique he used that night — isolating the percussion break and looping it between two copies of the same record — became the founding gesture of…
