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DJ Kool Herc, the Glossary

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), 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.^[1]

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Jamaican hip hop musicians
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Adidas Superstar

The Superstar is a style of low-top athletic shoe which has been manufactured by the German multinational company Adidas since 1969.

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Afrika Bambaataa

Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa are American hip hop DJs, American rappers of Jamaican descent and rappers from the Bronx.

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Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School

Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School is a vocational public high school in the South Melrose neighborhood of The Bronx, New York.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

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Apache (instrumental)

"Apache" is a song written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded by Bert Weedon.

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Audubon Ballroom

The Audubon Theatre and Ballroom, generally referred to as the Audubon Ballroom, was a theatre and ballroom located at 3940 Broadway at West 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Babe Ruth (band)

Babe Ruth are an English rock band from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

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Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s.

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Black Spades

The Black Spades were a mostly African-American street gang which started in the Bronx during the late 1960s and gained popularity in the 1970s.

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Bongo Rock

"Bongo Rock" is a rock and roll instrumental written and recorded by Preston Epps.

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Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an American instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul.

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Break (music)

In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called b-boying, b-girling or breaking, is a style of street dance originated by African Americans in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

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Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a 2005 book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.

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Coke La Rock

Coke La Rock (aka Coco La Rock; born April 24, 1955) is an American rapper from New York City who is sometimes credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop. DJ Kool Herc and Coke La Rock are rappers from the Bronx.

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Colony of Jamaica

The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire.

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Crack cocaine

Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked.

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Dance

Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.

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Dance hall

Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing, but usually refers to a specific type of twentieth-century venue, with dance clubs (nightclubs) becoming more popular towards the end of the century.

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Dance Parade

Dance Parade is non-profit organization that promotes dance as an expressive and unifying art form by showcasing all forms of dance.

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Dig Your Own Hole

Dig Your Own Hole is the second studio album by the English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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DJ Kool

John W. Bowman Jr. (born March 20, 1958), better known by his stage name DJ Kool, is an American rapper who produced several popular rap singles in the late 1980s. DJ Kool Herc and DJ Kool are American hip hop DJs.

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Elektrobank

"Elektrobank" is a song by English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers.

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Enjoy Records

Enjoy Records was a record label owned and operated by Bobby Robinson from 1962 through the mid-1980s, and was run out of his record shop at 125th Street and 8th Ave.

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Five-Percent Nation

The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE/NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is an Afro-American Nationalist movement influenced by Islam that was founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by Clarence 13X, who was previously known as Clarence Edward Smith.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" is a funk song recorded by James Brown with Bobby Byrd on backing vocals.

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Give It Up or Turnit a Loose

"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" is a funk song recorded by James Brown.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.

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Grand Mixer DXT

Derek Showard, better known by the stage name GrandMixer DXT, is an American musician, and the first DJ to use the turntable as a musical instrument. DJ Kool Herc and Grand Mixer DXT are American hip hop DJs.

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Grand Wizzard Theodore

Theodore Livingston (born March 5, 1963), better known as Grand Wizzard Theodore, is an American musician and DJ. DJ Kool Herc and Grand Wizzard Theodore are American hip hop DJs.

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Grandmaster Caz

Curtis Brown (born April 18, 1960), better known by the stage names Grandmaster Caz and Casanova Fly, is an American rapper, songwriter, and DJ. DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Caz are American hip hop DJs and rappers from the Bronx.

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Grandmaster Flash

Joseph Robert Saddler (born January 1, 1958), known by his stage name Grandmaster Flash, is an American musician and DJ. DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash are American hip hop DJs, rappers from the Bronx and the Godfathers Of Threatt members.

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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978.

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Hercules

Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hip-O Records

Hip-O Records is a record label that specializes in reissues and compilations.

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History Detectives

History Detectives is a documentary television series on PBS.

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Honorific nicknames in popular music

When describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and are often religious, familial, or most frequently royal and aristocratic titles, used metaphorically.

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Incredible Bongo Band

The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records, producer, MGM Records executive and Curb Records founder Mike Curb and arranger Perry Botkin, Jr. Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the B-film The Thing With Two Heads.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.

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Jeff Chang (journalist)

Jeff Chang is an American historian, journalist, and music critic on hip hop music and culture.

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Jimmy Castor

James Walter Castor (June 23, 1940 – January 16, 2012) was an American funk, R&B and soul musician.

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Kidney stone disease

Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal calculus) develops in the urinary tract.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Kurtis Blow

Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.

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MC Jin

Jin Au-Yeung (born June 4, 1982), known professionally as MC Jin, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor and comedian of Chinese descent.

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Melle Mel

Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961), better known by his stage name Grandmaster Melle Mel or simply Melle Mel, is an American rapper who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. DJ Kool Herc and Melle Mel are rappers from the Bronx.

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Mitchell–Lama Housing Program

Co-op city in the Bronx, a Mitchell–Lama development The Mitchell–Lama Housing Program is a non-subsidy governmental housing guarantee in the state of New York.

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Mr. Green (record producer)

Aaron Green, known professionally as Mr.

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Nelson George

Nelson George (born September 1, 1957) is an American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon.

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Police Athletic League

The Police Athletic League (PAL) is an organization in many American police departments in which members of the police force coach young people, both boys and girls, in sports, and help with homework and other school-related activities.

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Rapper's Delight

"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track that serves as the debut single of American hip-hop trio the Sugarhill Gang, produced by Sylvia Robinson.

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Rapping

Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".

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Refrain

A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry — the "chorus" of a song.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Russell Simmons

Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive.

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Sex Machine (album)

Sex Machine is a 1970 double album by James Brown.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Kool_Herc

Also known as Cindy Campbell (Hip hop), D.J. Kool Herc, DJ Cool Herc, Kool DJ Herc, Kool DJ Hercules, Kool Herc, Kool Herc & the Herculoids, Merry-Go Round Technique, The Merry-Go Round Technique.

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See also

Jamaican hip hop musicians

The Godfathers Of Threatt members

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