![]() Admission was 25 cents for girls, and 50 cents for boys. "We rented the and it caught on."Ĭindy Campbell, Herc's younger sister, threw that party because she wanted to be able to buy new clothes for the upcoming school year. "My sister gave a party to go back to school," Herc said with a laugh in a recent interview. By August of 1973, he had already learned a fair bit about the art of disc jockeying. "I think there was a need for a back story because hip-hop got so big that people just needed to have a grand story for such a grand culture," says Jay Quan, a hip-hop historian.Īt the center of that grand story is Clive Campbell, better known as DJ Kool Herc. That isn't to say that hip-hop's nascent stage was not exploding with potential. It is silly, of course, to think of such sprawling impact as contained within one moment of creation. It is inextricable from modern popular music. It has seeped into almost every facet of culture, from runway fashion to professional sport. In the 50 years since that party, hip-hop spread around the world. The apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, N.Y. 11, 1973 in a small community room on the first floor he was 18 at the time. That DJ rocked a modest party for fellow teenagers on Aug. It was also home to an innovative young DJ who Jerry Leader often saw in performance. ![]() ![]() It was beautiful," says Leader, who is now 56. "I wouldn't pick another place in the world to have a childhood life. It's a tall, unremarkable high-rise overlooking an expressway.īut he says the building, and his unit, were always filled with music. Leader grew up in an 18-story apartment building in the Bronx, New York City, during the 1970s and 1980s, with his parents and eight siblings. He would sing to himself, "mixing" the tracks. For the records, he cut circles out of cardboard. Two empty cereal boxes were the turntables. ![]() When Jerry Leader was growing up, he made himself a toy set of DJ equipment. was renamed Hip Hop Boulevard in 2016, in recognition of the apartment building where the music is said to have been born. A section of Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, N.Y. ![]()
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