LL Cool J gave DJ Kool Herc an incredible tribute for his 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction at the Brooklyn ceremony tonight. The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Clive Campbell, better known to hip-hop historians as DJ Kool Herc, has no classic, influential singles or albums or memorably innovative videos, or any recorded catalog to speak of.

NEW YORK (CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Music's most popular genre is celebrating a milestone. August 11 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The industry has generated billions of dollars and created some ...

Set the scene: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, August 11, 1973, a summer party in an apartment building’s rec room. Twenty-five cents admission for girls, 50 cents for boys. Olde English 800 or ...

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 remember the ...

Hip hop has something that most music can’t claim — a specific birthdate. Classical? Jazz? Polka? Country or rock or pop? They might point to a century and a continent. But hip hop has a date — Aug.

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. MOSLEY: This month marks ...

Herc speaking during a press conference about the fate of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Long-time residents of the rent-subsidized building are protested a plan to bring the building, which they consider a ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential ...