Our first black vice president just erased over 150 years of black musicians while proclaiming that a subsequent genre will not be erased. Share
In 1973, brother and sister Clive and Cindy Campbell hosted a back-to-school party. Clive, better known as DJ Kool Herc, provided the entertainment. During that party, he used a technique he invented, the Merry-Go-Round, in which he alternated between two turntables playing two copies of the same record. DJ Kool Herc had discovered that when DJing, the dancers in the audience enjoyed the drum breaks the most, so he’d play the break on one turntable and, when it reached its end, switch to the other turntable, which was cued up to the start of the same break.
Thus, hip-hop was born, though Clive would never go on to commercial success, instead sticking to block parties […]
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