Interview with DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell about the 1973 party where hip-hop began

In the hot Bronx, New York summer of 1973, Jamaican-American DJ Clive Campbell (aka Kool Herc) was asked to play records at his sister Cindy's "back to school jam" their apartment complex rec room. Having brought two copies of the same funk and soul records—many selected by Cindy—he put one on each turntable and cut back and forth between the drum sections—the "breaks"
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