This photo is a cover as a book, which teaches young children the Real HIPHOP. A man name Dj Cool Herc created a Music that you had to be from that Era.
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Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.
On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks–the musical interludes between verses–longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill’s book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.
WHAT BEGAN AS A BACK-TO-SCHOOL PARTY HELD BY CINDY CAMPBELL AND HER BROTHER DJ KOOL HERC, TURNED INTO THE MOMENT WHEN THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON OF HIP-HOP MUSIC WAS CREATED.
On August 11, 1973, the 102-unit apartment complex at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the New York City borough of The Bronx became more than just a residential building. It became the birthplace of a new and exciting genre of music called HipHop, and the start of a cultural revolution that continues to evolve, even 50 years after its inception.
When Cindy Campbell decided to throw a back-to-school party in the recreation room of this now-historic high-rise, it was to raise money to purchase new clothes for the upcoming school year. The entrance fee was 50 cents for boys, and a quarter for girls; and her parents supplied food and drinks, which also came with a reasonable charge. The most important aspect of this event was the music, which was provided by her 18-year-old brother Clive Campbell, or Kool Herc, as he was called around the neighborhood.