DJ KOOL HERC HIP HOP MASTERS

DJ Kool Herc (Father of Hip-Hop) , is a Jamaican-American DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s through his "Back to School Jam",[4] hosted on August 11, 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.  Hip hop as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx

DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was the blueprint for hip hop music. Herc used the record to focus on a short, heavily percussive part in it: the "break". Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players. As one record reached the end of the break, he cued a second record back to the beginning of the break, which allowed him to extend a relatively short section of music into "five-minute loop of fury".   This innovation had its roots in what Herc called "The Merry-Go-Round", a technique by which the deejay switched from break to break at the height of the party. This technique is specifically called "The Merry-Go-Round" because according to Herc, it takes one "back and forth with no slack."