DJ Kool Herc

burning”. Poverty gripped the city, and the struggle that the people endured, particularly young blacks, gave way to a new form of music, Hip-Hop. As stated by Rebecca Laurence, of BBC News, “On a hot August night in 1973, Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, and his sister Cindy put on a ‘back to school jam’ in the recreation room of their apartment block at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx” (Laurence). The party was a simple get together, but as later stated by Laurence, the children…

While scanning through the radio, one might hear samples of songs by Florida Georgia Line, Eminem, Bob Marley, and Led Zeppelin in quick succession. Not surprisingly, we are able to easily identify what type of radio station we are listening to after only a few seconds (just enough time for a few lyrics and chords to be played). To help provide deeper insight as to why this is possible, Jennifer C. Lena extensively studied the idea of musical genres as a way to help organize and understand…

which they called the “Back to School Jam”. They hosted the party at the recreation room of their apartment building at 1520 Sedgewick Avenue, which at the time could only hold a few hundred people. At this party, Clive Campbell, also known as DJ Kool Herc, used two turntables and a mixer to create his extended drum breaks for the audience, which became known as breakdancing. Break dancing, along with DJing, MCing, and graffiti are elements of…

Race relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans have always been rocky. In order to understand the historical relationship between Asian and Black Americans, it is important to understand the intersectionality of hip hop and how it’s shifted through history. There is so much racial tension between Asian and Black people and hip hop was used both to widen and close the gap between the two groups. Hip-hop for both Asian and Black people has been used as an act of rebellion, but despite…

By the 1990's rap artists like, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, Curtis Blow and Biz Markie were no longer accepted in the rap music" (Toms, 2006, p1). Those rap artists were considered as roll models, because those rap artists relayed positive messages to their listeners (Toms, 2006, p1). "The majority of today's rap culture involves a lot of explicit material and negativities" (McGarrell). According to McGarrell, This new form of rap music glorifies big money, degrading of women, drugs,…