LL Cool J backed out of Philadelphia's July 4th concert, refusing to cross a picket line amid a city workers' strike.

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On this day in 1955, DJ Kool Herc was born Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to the Bronx when he was 12 years old and took on the name “Kool Herc” when he became a member of the ...

And, as the legend famously goes, Kool Herc was at the center of its creation with the party he hosted in the rec room of his apartment complex on Aug. 11, 1973, a date, as LL Cool J noted, that ...

That party has come to be recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop. Her brother Clive, better known to the world as DJ Kool Herc, has been justly called ‘the Father of Hip-Hop,” LL Cool J said.

In the beginning, on Aug. 11, 1973, Clive Campbell—a Jamaican-born DJ better known as Kool Herc—played a back-to-school jam at a West Bronx apartment complex.

What many don’t know, though, is that it all stems from New York’s DJ Kool Herc, who hosted a party in the South Bronx in August 1973 dubbed the “Back To School Jam.” ...

DJ Kool Herc broke down in tears while accepting the Musical Influence honor during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 induction ceremony. Jaelani Turner-Williams November 4, 2023 ...

DJ Kool Herc had an emotional response to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. During the induction ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Fri., Herc, born Clive Campbell, was ...