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Nothing really popped up on Google in reference to today, but here is the story from AHH from a few years back (I edited the years) and some links and some history....
http://allhiphop.com/2009/08/11/happy-birthday-hip-hop-august-11-1973/
It was (40) years ago to this very day that a young Clive Campbell aka DJ Kool Herc and a handful of kids in a small, sweltering rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue on August 11, 1973 started a music and cultural revolution that changed the world forever!
It began from very humble beginnings in The Bronx. Cindy Campbell (Hercs kid sister) decided to throw an end of summer, back to school jam. Her big brother, DJ Kool Herc, performed the ground breaking art form of the Merry-Go-Round, playing the same 2 records, isolating the funkiest percussion sections, extending those 5 second break beats into 5 minutes of dance fury.
He tapped his Jamaican roots where Island Djs at yard partys would toast DJ Kool Herc individuals Herc used the Mic to move the original Bronx house party crowd with photo by Joe Conzo shout-outs over the records, which began the element of Emceeing.
Herc’s parties featured a new style of dance where people would up-rock or hit the ground to go off. Herc named these dancers b-boys. Soon DJ Kool Herc had to move the party outside from 1520 Sedgwick Ave. to Cedar Park.
Herc hot wired the base of a street lamp to juice up his Herculord speakers. Three thousand people showed up in complete darkness that summer night. Hip Hop would never be contained in-side again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1520_Sedgwick_Avenue
http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/50665/
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Many point to a gang truce in The Bronx in 1971, known as the H*e Avenue Peace Meeting, as a major factor in the explosion of Hip Hop in NY as well. From there, the violence in NY declined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/***_Avenue_peace_meeting
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...street-violence-1970s-article-1.988287?pgno=1
Afrikaa Bambaataa, a member of The Black Spades goes on to found the Zulu Nation in 1973 and move into music etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spades
Times were also changing, park jams, block parties and clubs were becoming more popular. The beginnings of hip hop culture began to form in these venues, and as gang members and former gang members started getting involved in more Hip Hop activities, involvement in the gangs declined.
Kool DJ Herc, an early hip hop music pioneer, credits gangs like the Black Spades with getting the hip hop scene started.
“ It started coming together as far as the gangs terrorizing a lot of known discotheques back in the days. I had respect from some of the gang members because they used to go to school with me. There were the Savage Skulls, Glory Stompers, Blue Diamonds, Black Cats and Black Spades. ”
Afrika Bambaataa was the warlord of the Black Spades before becoming a famous hip hop DJ. He later went on to form the Universal Zulu Nation on November 12, 1973;[1] Many Black Spades gang members followed Afrika Bambaataa into the group.
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Happy Birthday to the culture that since it's birth, has changed the world.
http://allhiphop.com/2009/08/11/happy-birthday-hip-hop-august-11-1973/
It was (40) years ago to this very day that a young Clive Campbell aka DJ Kool Herc and a handful of kids in a small, sweltering rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue on August 11, 1973 started a music and cultural revolution that changed the world forever!
It began from very humble beginnings in The Bronx. Cindy Campbell (Hercs kid sister) decided to throw an end of summer, back to school jam. Her big brother, DJ Kool Herc, performed the ground breaking art form of the Merry-Go-Round, playing the same 2 records, isolating the funkiest percussion sections, extending those 5 second break beats into 5 minutes of dance fury.
He tapped his Jamaican roots where Island Djs at yard partys would toast DJ Kool Herc individuals Herc used the Mic to move the original Bronx house party crowd with photo by Joe Conzo shout-outs over the records, which began the element of Emceeing.
Herc’s parties featured a new style of dance where people would up-rock or hit the ground to go off. Herc named these dancers b-boys. Soon DJ Kool Herc had to move the party outside from 1520 Sedgwick Ave. to Cedar Park.
Herc hot wired the base of a street lamp to juice up his Herculord speakers. Three thousand people showed up in complete darkness that summer night. Hip Hop would never be contained in-side again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1520_Sedgwick_Avenue
http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/50665/
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Many point to a gang truce in The Bronx in 1971, known as the H*e Avenue Peace Meeting, as a major factor in the explosion of Hip Hop in NY as well. From there, the violence in NY declined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/***_Avenue_peace_meeting
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...street-violence-1970s-article-1.988287?pgno=1
Afrikaa Bambaataa, a member of The Black Spades goes on to found the Zulu Nation in 1973 and move into music etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spades
Times were also changing, park jams, block parties and clubs were becoming more popular. The beginnings of hip hop culture began to form in these venues, and as gang members and former gang members started getting involved in more Hip Hop activities, involvement in the gangs declined.
Kool DJ Herc, an early hip hop music pioneer, credits gangs like the Black Spades with getting the hip hop scene started.
“ It started coming together as far as the gangs terrorizing a lot of known discotheques back in the days. I had respect from some of the gang members because they used to go to school with me. There were the Savage Skulls, Glory Stompers, Blue Diamonds, Black Cats and Black Spades. ”
Afrika Bambaataa was the warlord of the Black Spades before becoming a famous hip hop DJ. He later went on to form the Universal Zulu Nation on November 12, 1973;[1] Many Black Spades gang members followed Afrika Bambaataa into the group.
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Happy Birthday to the culture that since it's birth, has changed the world.
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Didn't know that.
