Man-mountain Clive ‘Hercules’ Campbell, aka Kool Herc, was a Jamaican DJ already armed with a two-turntable setup, and he started mixing tracks and scratching live for the first time (publicly, at least), while his friend ‘Coke La Rock’ (no one remembers him!) rapped over the beats. And that, says legend, is when hip-hop was born. I n August 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx, there was a party: 25c for ‘ladies’ and 50c for ‘fellas’. Michael Leonard digs through 40-plus years of LPs from wildly differing styles of urban music born of vinyl itself… From block-party origins to multi-millionaire empires, no music quite represents the ‘American Dream’ (and nightmare) like hip-hop.
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