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The Birthplace of Hip Hop? - 1520 Sedgwick Avenue!

submitted by Norsuelefantti

1 decade 6 years 6 months 1 week ago

From Wiki:
"Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), AKA Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited as originating hip hop music, in the Bronx, New York City. His playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx and to the nascent popularity of disco in the 1970s. In response to the reactions of his dancers, Campbell in 1972 began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record which emphasized the drum beat—the break—and switch from one break to another to yet another."

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http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Fun-in-the-Big-Town-historical-Hip-Hop-documentary

17 Comments

Moving this video to Norsuelefantti's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

He's *beggin' it OLDSCHOOL!

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Norsuelefantti.

Awww, come on! I'm *begging you guys...

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Norsuelefantti.

FASCINATING!

That gave me chills when he describes his epiphany and they replay the first tracks he looped the breaks to.

*promote

Good dig..this video describes the formula and portrays a vivid picture of how it was back in the era of classical hip hop

Invocations (promote) cannot be called by waxxx because waxxx is not privileged - sorry.

It's the idea that count's I guess. Thanks waxxx, nice try...

Now go and get some star points!

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*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, May 23rd, 2008 8:49am PDT - promote requested by rottenseed.

*dead

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by jonny.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'dj, kool, herc, recreation, room, old, school, break, dance, turntable, james, brown' to 'dj kool herc, recreation, room, old school, breakdance, turntable, james brown, hip hop' - edited by lucky760

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 3:38pm PDT - promote requested by lucky760.

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