DJ Kool Herc is known as the father of the DJ breakbeat — isolating and repeating breaks, the most danceable portions of songs that form part of the foundation of modern hip-hop. He also wrote the ...

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.

If you’re not a hip-hop head, you might not know that a Jamaican was one of the founding fathers of the genre. This year, DJ Kool Herc (real name Clive Campbell) will be inducted into the Rock and ...

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 ...

On this day in 1973, a young lady named Cindy Campbell held a back-to-school birthday party in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the ...

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 ...

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.

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 rappers and DJs over the last 50 years. We'll start at the ...