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Kool Herc (881 words) |
 | Kool Herc emigrated to the Bronx in 1967 when he was 12 years old. |
| Herc became aware that although he new which records would keep the crowd moving, he was more interested in the break section of the song. |
| Herc would say, "Flash in order to be a qualified disc jockey...you must have highs." Then he would crank up the highs and they would sizzle through the crowd. |
| Wikipedia: DJ Kool Herc (134 words) |
| DJ Kool Herc is a Jamaican American musician and producer, generally credited as the inventor of hip hop during the 1970s. |
| He was a pioneer in the development of break-beat DJing, wherein the breaks of funk songs, being the most danceable part, were isolated for the purpose of all-night dance parties. |
| During the later part of the decade, Herc was stabbed at one of his own parties, sidelining him during most of the 1980s as hip hop spread throughout the country. |
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