Set the scene: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, August 11, 1973, a summer party in an apartment building’s rec room. Twenty-five cents admission for girls, 50 cents for boys. Olde English 800 or ...

The man who inspired a music, a movement, and a culture needs your help: DJ Kool Herc, one of the founding fathers of hip-hop, is allegedly “very sick” and cannot afford hospital treatment. The man ...

Fifty years on, the details of that historic night in the Bronx — the night everyone now says gave birth to hip-hop — still elude DJ Kool Herc, the man at its center that evening. “I remember the ...

The godfather of hip-hop, DJ Kool Herc, inducted by LL Cool J received the Musical Influence Award at this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame In 2021, LL Cool J was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Clive Campbell, better known to hip-hop historians as DJ Kool Herc, has no classic, influential singles or albums or memorably innovative videos, or any recorded catalog to speak of.

LL Cool J gave DJ Kool Herc an incredible tribute for his 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction at the Brooklyn ceremony tonight. The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc ...

DJ Kool Herc attends The Source Magazine’s 360 Icons Awards Dinner at the Red Rooster on August 16, 2019 in Harlem, New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images) *DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican who ...

On this day in 1973, a young lady named Cindy Campbell held a back-to-school birthday party in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the ...

Hip-Hop legends DJ Kool Herc and N.W.A will be honored by the Recording Academy the night before the 2024 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy announced the recipients of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement ...

The Father of Hip-Hop will be honored with 125 other distinguished Jamaicans from all over the world. Though the official 50 th anniversary of Hip-Hop has passed, the world is continuing to honor the ...

DJ Kool Herc, who’s credited with birthing hip hop during his 1970s parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, has teamed with Christie’s for an online auction of memorabilia, including an old ...