Hip-hop turns 50: The origins of West Coast hip-hop and its lasting legacy

On Point | Podcast

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Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Born in the Bronx, New York, hip-hop soon found some of its most influential rappers in Los Angeles. On the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, we take a look at how the West Coast helped make hip-hop one of the most dominant cultural forces in the world. Tyree Boyd-Pates and Damita Jo Freeman joined Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:56.0	On August 11th, 1973, Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party.
1:02.0	She asked her older brother, Clive, to provide the music.
1:05.0	They set up in a rec room of a Bronx apartment block.
1:09.0	18-year-old Clive was better known as DJ Cool Herc.
1:13.0	Herc stood behind a pair of turntables and a mixer.
1:16.0	He spun top hits from Aretha Franklin and James Brown.
1:19.0	But he moved between records in a way that mixed one-procussive break right into another.
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