Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school ... to talk with DJ Kool Herc over the phone earlier this year. He was 18 the day of that infamous party, but he's 68 years ...

It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc's 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx ... Entrance cost 25c for "ladies" and 50c for "fellas". The party wasn't special for its size – the rec room ...

When Cindy Campbell decided to throw a back-to-school party in the recreation ... came to the Campbell’s event on Sedgwick Avenue. No one had heard of DJ Kool Herc prior to that summer evening ...

It’s why she turned to her 18-year-old brother, Clive, whom the community knew as DJ Kool Herc ... one that started with a simple back-to-school party. “We need to understand that hip-hop ...

On this day in 1973, a young lady named Cindy Campbell held a back-to-school birthday ... evening was Cindy’s 18-year-old big brother Clive, who went by the name DJ Kool Herc.

It was mid-August in 1973, when a young, ambitious Clive Campbell, better known as DJ Kool Herc, was hired to spin records at his sister's back-to-school party in the Bronx. He used two turntables ...

"My sister gave a party to go back to school," Herc said ... of the first to write about DJ Kool Herc, after seeing a flyer at a record store near Manhattan's Times Square for a show Herc was ...

LL Cool J gave DJ Kool ... back on how Kool Herc kicked off the origins of hip-hop by DJ’ing a party for his sister, Cindy Campbell. She was doing it to earn money for back-to-school clothes ...

Though the official 50 th anniversary of Hip-Hop has passed, the world is continuing to honor the culture’s recognized progenitor. DJ Kool ... the Back To School Jam in 1973 party with his ...

DJ Kool Herc, who’s credited with birthing hip hop during his 1970s parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, has teamed with Christie’s for an online auction of memorabilia, including an ...

But to see how it's grown, Clive Campbell, known globally as DJ Kool Herc and credited ... said they never though their Bronx back-to-school recreation room party in 1973, where Cindy made the ...