Today In Hip Hop History: Hip-Hop Celebrates Its Birth In The South Bronx 51 Years Ago!
On this day 51 years ago (August 11, 1973), Kool Herc threw his legendary back-to-school basement party, which would go on to create the foundation for Hip-Hop music through the “breakbeat” DJ technique he used to keep the party rocking. Many aspiring emcees at the time paired ‘the break’ with the rhymes flowing through their […]