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DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973. Nicknamed the Father of Hip-Hop, Campbell began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown.

DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell

  • Kool DJ Herc
  • Kool Herc
  • Father of Hip-Hop

(1955-04-16) April 16, 1955[1][2][3]
Kingston, Jamaica

The Bronx, New York City, U.S.

DJ

1973–present[4]

Campbell began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record which emphasized the drum beat—the "break"—and switch from one break to another. Using the same two-turntable set-up of disco DJs, he used two copies of the same record to elongate the break. This breakbeat DJing, using funky drum solos, formed the basis of hip hop music. Campbell's announcements and exhortations to dancers helped lead to the syncopated, rhythmically spoken accompaniment now known as rapping.


He called the dancers "break-boys" and "break-girls", or simply b-boys and b-girls, terms that continue to be used fifty years later in the sport of breaking. Campbell's DJ style was quickly taken up by figures such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Unlike them, he never made the move into commercially recorded hip hop in its earliest years.


On November 3, 2023, Campbell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Influence Award category.[5]

DJ Kool Herc and : Last of the Classic Beats (2019)[51]

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Disco King Mario

 – American MC and disc jockey (born 1954)

DJ Hollywood

 – American rapper and DJ

Grandmaster Flowers

Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. , New York: 2005. ISBN 978-0-312-42579-1.

St. Martin's Press

Cross, Brian. It's Not About a Salary...Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles. New York: Verso, 1993.  978-0-86091-620-8.

ISBN

Hager, Steven, "Afrika Bambaataa's Hip-Hop", , September 21, 1982. Reprinted in And It Don't Stop! The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years. Cepeda, Raquel (ed.). New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0-571-21159-3.

The Village Voice

Ogg, Alex, with Upshall, David. The Hip Hop Years, London: Macmillan, 1999,  978-0-7522-1780-2.

ISBN

Shapiro, Peter. Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, 2nd. ed., London: Rough Guides, 2005,  978-1-84353-263-7.

ISBN

Toop, David. Rap Attack, 3rd. ed., London: Serpent's Tail, 2000,  978-1-85242-627-9.

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– Official site

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at AllMusic

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discography at Discogs

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at IMDb

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biography at OldSchoolHipHop.com

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Archived January 19, 2023, at the Wayback Machine—Lengthy biography at hiphop.sh

DJ Kool Herc