DJ Kool Herc and the birth of hip-hop | Christie's
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2022
- The founder of hip-hop on humble beginnings, musical evolutions and the origin of a billion-dollar business
It was 11 August 1973 and Cindy Campbell was throwing a back to school party. She had asked her brother to DJ the event, which would be held in the recreation room of their building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Cindy planned to charge admission at the door - a quarter for girls, 50 cents for the boys. She wanted to use the proceeds to buy new clothes for the upcoming school year.
Cindy's brother was known by most as DJ Kool Herc - a name that alluded to the Greek God of strength, Hercules. An up-and-coming DJ looking to make a name for himself, Herc understood that a party lived and died on the dancefloor, and so he found what set it off. As Herc’s hands worked across two parallel turntables, he unknowingly ushered in a new era of musical culture, laying the foundation for what we now call hip-hop.
Introducing a technique he called ‘The Merry-Go-Round,’ Herc pioneered a way to strip down the music by isolating the percussive nature of the ‘breakbeat,’ the instrumental section that is considered a ‘break’ from the main musical pattern. It was during the ‘breaks,’ he noticed, that the crowds would hit the dancefloor. Using two copies of the same record, Herc was able to shift quickly from break to break by allowing a second back-cued record to continue the beat as the first record reached its end.
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"There's three kinds of people. There's white people, there's black people, and there's my people. That's where you'll find me at." ~ DJ Kool Herc
Powerful quote-it should be noted that, he's quoting a song on the "Baby Huey" album he pointed out.
THAT WAS A BOSS COMMENT
To bad it’s all singular and it a comes back around again. DJ Kool Herc did not create anything he sampled it and killed real artists at the same time every year we get further from what started it all, Jazz
@@alive2583keep crying
Thank you, DJ Kool Herc for bringing Hip-hop to life! Happy 50th anniversary to Hip-Hop!
This man didn't create hip hop
@@montbrink4700who did then?
@@mauricesantinomf Disco king Mario....
@mauricesantinomf hip-hop is an evolution of previous black american music genre.
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When Sister Cindy started talking about how she threw the party and started naming the date, I got hit by a rush of emotion and nearly lost it. Long Live Hip Hop!!
50 years of HIP HOP Today 11Aug 1973 - 11Aug 2023. Thank you to KOOL HERC and to all the REAL HIP HOP PIONEERS in the music, M.C'S , D.j's , B-boys & Girls , Graffiti artists Beatboxers, all over the world. The BRONX is the home of HIP HOP.........AND YOU DON'T STOP.
Peace 5000g
Beautiful, the God father of Hip Hop. Thank you Sir. ❤
Thank you 🙌🏼 for the mixing. You have not only created Hip Hop but the roots go partly to House music too. So thank you because I have been mixing and creating house & garage music for 30yrs and without your pioneering mind we wouldn’t be doing what we do today. Bless up 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🔥
Yardie 🇯🇲 man thing 💯🇯🇲
I’ve seen Kool Herc several times in a spot in the Bronx. I’m not a person that really goes up to celebrities but come on now it’s Kool Herc (history), I asked him if I could take a picture with him, and he told me for a fee. 😂 I didn’t get the picture.
That's so Hip-Hop. Try Melle Mel-he gave me a picture once. :D
That sucks
One of the greatest moments of my life was making the pilgrimage to 1520 Sedgwick.
Amazing! Great interview, Christie’s.
Thank you legends
A legend despite the haters!
Happy 50th Birthday to the greatest music genre ever invented ❤️
That's now owned by the other people.
@@jamesway what?
TO : KOOL HERC AND CINDY CAMPBELL. I'M FROM THE BRONX I WILL AND ALL WHO IS AND HAS BEEN APART OF THE HIP-HOP MOVEMENT WHETHER RAPPING , TAPPING, SCRATCHING OR ROCKIN THE MIC . I WANT TO GIVE YOUR HONORS AND RESPECT AND FLOWERS WHILE I'M ALIVE AND MUCH RESPECT TO RED ALERT YOU GAVE US AWARENESS OF BEING PROUD WHILE PLAYING IT LOUD .
..BRONX RIVER I'M REPRESENT ALL THE WAY TO SEDGWICK I RESPECT .PEACE AND LOVE WHILE WE WAS AND HAVING FUN .KEEPING IT HUMBLE WHILE BEING KIND ! ❤❤❤❤💯
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Love this guy.
Legend ty kool herc you have your heart n soul to us. Greatest music genra ever
thank you sir
Growing up in the 80s and 90s it was gospel truth that hip-hop started at Sedgwick with Kool Herc and them, but now it's like so much damn controversy over who and where I never thought I'd see it.
In 1973 a kid decides to combine existing music with technology. Great idea! One can make a new form of music without studying the language of music. I like it. The kid is having fun! Love it. I want to get into it if I'm a kid in 1973.
50 years of Hip Hop my MF man my Mello DJ Kool Herc!!!! It’s about MF time this man gets his props for real!!!!
Hip Hop Legend
OLD SCHOOL AT IT ROCKING FRESH BEST PRESENTATION 👍
168th & Nelson, Shakespeare, Sedgwick, so many memories up in that part of the neighborhood.
Here cuz Harry Mack educated me on history of hip hop. respect
Krs one sent me
Very cool
I was 10 years old at that time, but I did not know about Hip Hop until a few years later when Sugar Hill Gang came out with Raper's Delight. I grew up in Ohio, and the urban radio stations were playing Soul Music or Funk back then.
It took them 6 years from 73 to 79 to finally have a commercially recorded rap performance to release to the masses. Before it was a live thing only rapping on break beats of soul and Funk records at parties
@@MyBroSux24 I bet it took Jazz and Blues a while before those genres of music were accepted enough to get a recording. Disco had been around for a long time before it got national attention with Saturday Night Fever. Many people thought that Hip Hop was going to be shortlived like Disco but it has endured for 50 years and counting.
THE SPIN THAT DID IT Give It Up or Turnit a Loose by JAMES BROWN!!
The Boogie Down! Started it all. We brought the world culture!
Wow my mom was born 2 days after hip-hop😳
Respect.
Kool Herc Is a legend
Respect......
I dont here any carribean artist being played! Those were black FBA artist 🤔
No disrespect to kool herc but have we forgot about disco king mario, the originator.
No
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It's hilarious watching this video with all the African-Americans who are offended with Busta rhymes saying that Herc started hip-hop. They're bringing up the signifying monkey and clips from the early 1900's of old black men rhyming and don't get that hip hop as we know it is accredited a date in 1973. There are university courses about this. He is the founder of the 1973 version which is what we have today 😅 black people can be so divisive it's ridiculous
How you gon be a founder of a culture you became a part of via BA?
@@bettyboopsie9836 that is incorrect I'm so sorry to hurt your feelings here's what you can do to make yourself feel you're right refuse to Google when was hip-hop created because it's going to tell you that it was created it when they say was created by the Jamaican in the 1970s at a house party? If you all used the same amount of energy that you used to talk trash and hate against people of your own color and actually made some positive contributions to your country and stop basking in the success of people like George Washington Carver who are long gone you guys would be better off you're still riding off of Frederick Douglass success that's why you're a failure today
@digitaltrademusic James Brown connected two turntables to mix records so people could breakdance and rap to a break beat? He used to do graffiti? Show me🤡
@digitaltrademusicHip-Hop was not started in the South. Y'all gotta stop listening to that grifting fraud Tariq Nasheed
If herc was born in America, this debate would not exist.
Song ?
Where is he now? What became of him?
Mates chillin' on racks
@@justsandiamnah he basically broke
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thank god for hip hop!!!
If you can create a new genre that's genius
This Man is a Super Hero lol
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Does anybody the songs hat are mixed from the middle of the video? You can hear a guitar pernananty plinging, great drums and hands clapping. ha
I apologize for off topic, but how can a normal person sell your nft?
Hip hop started in NYC
This wasn’t the birth of hip hop. The music style had already existed before 73. This was when hip hop got its image.
Ok know-it-all 🤡
@@peteranthony3134 shut up boy. I fact know what I’m speaking about and have facts, u just an outsider wannabe black American
@@peteranthony3134 u don’t even know anything about hip hop clown. U not even black American trying to talk
Aye!!! I’m sorry but that had to be the lamest museum display. I hope they didn’t charge people to see a couple of turntables, a boxed record collection (that would probably end up stolen), and amp/speaker boxes. Notice how the mini-documentary had NO hippity-hoppity songs in the background. I wonder why ?
I thank Kool Herc for his contributions. He cannot be overlooked. He is a real Hip Hop pioneer. Nonetheless, He didn't create Hip Hop. All elements of Hip Hop before it was called “ Hip Hop” come directly from black American culture. All the music, Dance style, way of dress, and language. Black American culture is the foundation and roots of Hip Hop. Period.
Can you like stop the BS please? We New Yorkers don't care about none of that BS. Hip Hop started in the Bronx and it is documented so. We don't care about none of your rumors, speculations and revisionist history. I was raised in Brooklyn NYC, don't even mess with the the Bronx like that and still give them their respect. Stop with all of this FBA BS, we do not care sir, history is already made.
@@dramafreelyfeand we care! It started in America. That's right. Right here in USA no other place. He used American music made from American artists that were born and raised in America. James Brown soul music mix on the turn tables with funk music created by Americans to make a sound created using American technology. The Bronx a city in America!!!!
Why do some people say he did create hip hop but it was another dj called dj flowers
Why do some people say he did create hip hop but it was another dj called flowers.
Did not create hip hop.
Did not create hip hop I mean
DJ Flowers did disco. thats why
!..1940 BipBop - BeBop - HardBop - HipHop 1970..!
Hip Hop is not rap rap is just one of the elements like graffiti dj ing breaking and beat boxing
Nah to be continued because those pictures have stories.
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Impressive
It was birth of breaking.. im not sure why people calling it hip hop
Herc and Cindy call it hip hop - breaking is more about the dance, hip-hop is the whole culture, rapping, dj-ing, graffiti, dancing to break beats, baby.
A rose legit grew from concrete
How’s this hiphoo
So it's his sista pushing that agenda. I see it.
You hear what she said she didn't want her party to be whacked meaning there was parties before her party, black people were having House parties all over and block parties and parties at the park he was not the first to do it in the black neighborhood
How’s this hiphop
If it wasn't for Kool Herc black Americans would be listening to Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber right now because there would be no hip-hop.
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Ion see NOO Puerto Ricans😂✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
All lies
Where is your history
My dude need a chain upgrade and a better diamond setter.. Damn.
Nah, he's chill.
Who cares
@@icecreambeats101 who cares about ur dumb beats
Two turn tables and one DJ.
He did not create hip-hop stop the lies
Just a reminder that latinos INVENTED hip hop 🇨🇿
Stop it
Thanks for ruining music
He didn’t ruin music. He just ruined some vinyl records.
Go listen Beethoven or something Man. Nobody wants you here.