Hip-hop has had a strong connection to reggae music since the days of DJ Kool Herc’s summer house ... for the soundtrack to cookouts and dance parties. Most recently, Nicki Minaj dropped ...

DJ Kool Herc, the Jamaican sound system maverick widely hailed as the creator of hip hop, is promoting the festival with his sister, Cindy Campbell. Tentatively dubbed Reggae Hip Hop Connection ...

The entertainment for the evening was Cindy’s 18-year-old big brother Clive, who went by the name DJ Kool Herc. Herc was born in Jamaica, where he absorbed reggae’s soundsystem culture before ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Clive Campbell, better known to hip-hop historians as DJ Kool Herc ... MC’s and dancers, whom Kool Herc dubbed B-boys and B-girls, would dance to the breakbeats, making ...

LL Cool J honored DJ Kool Herc as “one of the great founders ... while incorporating his love of reggae and toasting with shoutouts to his friends. While the party has gone down in music history ...