Explore the Roots of Hip-Hop in New York City
Tourists can easily trace hip-hop’s roots throughout the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island on a tour of hip-hop New York.
OUTLET:
Marriott Traveler
DATE:
March 27, 2017
PROJECT:
https://traveler.marriott.com/new-york-city/explore-roots-hip-hop-new-york-city-tour/
Excerpt
Flashback to 1973 and into the rec room of a Bronx apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Here DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw the ultimate back-to-school party. That night DJ Kool Herc played an eclectic mix of funk music, always extending the “breakbeat” — the best part of the song. More 300 kids danced and partied for hours.
By the next day, DJ Kool Herc, whose government name is Clive Campbell, was known across the Bronx. This was the beginning of hip-hop.
Over the next decade, the sounds from this party evolved into hip-hop culture, which now includes four elements: Rapping, DJ-ing, graffiti-writing and b-boying. Netflix’s musical drama “The Get Down” pays homage to this history of hip-hop and its four elements.