Dj Kool Herc's Fashion Industry: What Is Hip Hop Overall?

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What is hip hop overall ? well hip hop is many things. one thing that hip hop is it's fashion. Fashion is a really big deal in the hip hop industry. Sportswear and fashion brands, such as Le Coq Sportif, Kangol, Adidas and Pro-Keds attached themselves to hip hop.
In the mid 1950 a new genre of music came out. Dj kool herc performed first at his sister's birthday party. This party occurred on August night DJ Kool Herc, and his sister Cindy put on a back to school party.The party was at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx. Dj kool herc said that his first hip hop party would change the word and it did. Soon after He moved into bigger clubs and the Bronx’s Cedar Park, and for a few years because he could no longer throw parties is the

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