A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.
From his childhood in Jamaica to his yout.
He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born .
He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks--the musical interludes between verses--longer for dancing.
Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records.
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.
A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc