In this post, DJ Kool Herc’s contributions to hip-hop are ... entertainment, art, dance, media, language, politics, and more. Even now, hip-hop persists as a global phenomenon and has continued ...

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 ...

DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy ... dancehall and reggae’s top booking, promotion and production agency in Jamaica. Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell — the self-proclaimed “First ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legend of hip-hop dates back to August 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc electrified his sister's back-to-school party by extending an instrumental beat to let people dance longer, and hip-hop was born.