DJ Kool Herc is considered the first DJ to isolate the breaks --the most danceable beats in a record — and repeat them, to keep the dancers going. Originally broadcast in 2005.

DJ KOOL HERC: Some of them wasn’t born. They go by what their mother told them, or their grandfather told them. I’m the beginning. I’m still young, but still old.

DJ Kool Herc’s story began back in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, where many other musical legends also came from, such as Bob Marley and the Marley family, Big Youth, Sir Coxsone, Lee Scott ...

DJ Kool Herc is known as the father of the DJ breakbeat, part of the foundation of modern hip-hop. He also wrote the introduction to the recent history of hip-hop, Can't Stop Won't Stop.

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 ...

Forty years ago, DJ Kool Herc spun records at his Bronx apartment building that led to the beginnings of hip-hop. At first glance, the 102-unit apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the ...

DJ Kool Herc was among the class of 13 inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night (November 3) at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Following an introduction by LL COOL J, DJ Kool Herc ...

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 ...

The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc kicked off the origins of hip-hop by DJ’ing a party for his sister, Cindy Campbell. She was doing it to earn money for back-to ...

DJ Kool Herc's appearance in The Get Down was brief but memorable. It didn't delve very deeply into his personal life, but his mark is all over the music and culture represented in the show.

DJ Kool Herc is considered the first DJ to isolate the breaks --the most danceable beats in a record — and repeat them, to keep the dancers going. Originally broadcast in 2005.