DJ Kool Herc; Originator of break-beat D.J.-ing; the original B-boy.(Brief Article)

Publication: Vanity Fair

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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...

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