DJ Kool Herc

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Let Me Clear My Throat 04:46 Tools
Let Me Clear My Throat (Old School Reunion Remix '96) feat Doug E Fresh & Biz Markie 04:52 Tools
B-BOY Boogie 04:03 Tools
Call Me Herc 01:32 Tools
Let Tha Beat Rock 03:27 Tools
B Boy Boogie 04:03 Tools
It Takes Two 04:34 Tools
Let Me Clear My Throat (Old School)●•٠· 04:46 Tools
I Got Dat Feelin' 06:46 Tools
Tootsee Roll 04:04 Tools
Let me clear my throat (old s 04:52 Tools
Jungle Boogie 03:03 Tools
Twenty Minute Workout 04:52 Tools
b-boy 00:30 Tools
Put That Hump (In Your Back) 06:12 Tools
Twenty Minute Work-Out (Remix) 08:08 Tools
I'm Not From Philly 00:34 Tools
Music Ain't Loud Enuff (Live remix '95) 02:51 Tools
Let Me Clear My Throat (Remix) 02:50 Tools
DJ Kool Herc - Let Me Clear My Throat 02:50 Tools
set 02:50 Tools
DJ Kool Herc Makes A Name Mix 02:50 Tools
B Boy Boogie.mp 02:50 Tools
Let Me Clear My Throat (Old School Reunion Remix '96) 04:51 Tools
Let Me Clear My Throat (live) 04:51 Tools
It takes 2 04:51 Tools
Kool Herc 04:51 Tools
Let Me Clean My Throat 04:51 Tools
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DJ Kool Herc is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited as originating hip-hop music in the Bronx, New York City. His 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 1970s. In response to the reactions of his dancers, Kool Herc 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 setup of the disco DJs, Kool Herc's style led to the use of two copies of the same record to elongate the break. This breakbeat DJing—using hard funk, rock, and records with Latin percussion—formed the basis of hip-hop music. Kool Herc's announcements and exhortations to dancers would lead to the syncopated, rhymed spoken accompaniment now known as rapping. He dubbed his dancers "break-boys" and "break-girls," or simply "b-boys" and "b-girls." Kool Herc's DJ style was quickly taken up by figures such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, but unlike them, Kool Herc never made the move into commercially recorded hip hop in its earliest years. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.