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  1. Apr 18, 2024 · Who are the founders of hip-hop?

  2. One of the most influential hip hop pioneers was DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant regarded as the founding father of hip hop. Kool Herc made history in 1973 when he and his sister hosted the “Back to School Jam” in the recreation room of their Bronx apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.

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  3. Hip-hop or hip hop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, [9] [10] [11] [12] a borough of New York City.

    • Early 1970s, the Bronx, New York City, U.S.
  4. Nov 16, 2009 · Like any style of music, hip hop has roots in other forms, and its evolution was shaped by many different artists, but there’s a case to be made that it came to life precisely on August 11,...

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  6. It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc's 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence.

  7. Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.

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