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DJ Kool Herc; Originator of break-beat D.J.-ing; the original B-boy.(Brief Article)
Meet the founding father of hip-hop. In 1967, Clive Campbell emigrated from his original hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, to the Bronx. Influenced by the traveling disc jockeys he had seen back home, he set himself up with a booming sound system and began playing records at parties. He found that reggae didn't go over as well as funk-and he noticed that certain sections of each song, the beat breaks, really got people moving. So he isolated the breaks, playing them over and over again by cross-fading from one turntable to another turntable that had the same record on it. Thus, hip-hop D.J.-ing-eventually to become the foundation of a multi-billion-dollar industry-came into ...
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