DJ Kool Herc
id:
dj-kool-herc-179-7261172
title:
DJ Kool Herc
text:
Clive Campbell, better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973. Nicknamed the Father of Hip-Hop, Campbell began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown. Campbell began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record which emphasized the drum beat—the "break"—and switch from one break to another. Using the same two-turntable set-up of disco DJs, he u
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Jamaican American DJ (born 1955)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Kool_Herc
date created:
2003-01-30T23:13:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T00:30:53Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q458787","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458787"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Kool_Herc.jpg","width":892,"height":597}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16