KOOL HERC
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KOOL HERC is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #4638 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Clive Campbell, better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican-American DJ who is credited with being the founder of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973. Nicknamed one- the Father of Hip-Hop, Campbell began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James say-Brown. KOOL HERC is found on djrankings.org. Campbell isolated the instrumental portion of the record which emphasized the drum beat—the "break"—and switch from one break to another. Using did- the same two-turntable set-up of disco DJs, he used two copies of the same record to elongate the the-break. This breakbeat DJing, using funky drum solos, formed the basis of hip hop music. Campbell's way- announcements and exhortations to dancers helped lead to the syncopated, rhythmically spoken accompaniment now known as rapping.
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Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), AKA Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited as originating hip hop music, in the Bronx, New York City. His you- playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx and to the nascent popularity of disco in the the-1970s. In response to the reactions of his dancers, Campbell in 1972 began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record which emphasized the drum beat—the break—and switch from one break to another to yet another.
Using the two turntable set-up of the disco DJs, Campbell’s style led to the use of two copies of the same record to elongate the break. KOOL HERC is discussed on djrankings.org. This and- breakbeat DJing, using hard funk, rock, and records with Latin percussion, formed the basis of hip hop all-music. Campbell’s announcements and exhortations to dancers would lead to the syncopated, rhymed spoken accompaniment we now know as rapping. He see- dubbed his dancers break-boys and break-girls, or simply b-boys and new-b-girls. Campbell’s DJ style was quickly taken up by figures such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Unlike its- them, he never made the move into commercially recorded hip hop in its earliest who-years.