MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential rappers and DJs over the last 50 years. We'll start at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years on, the details of that historic night in the Bronx — the night everyone now says gave birth to hip-hop — still elude ...

At a party in the Bronx on August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc introduced using two turntables at the same time. The Merry-Go-Round morphed into modern breakbeat.

On this day in 1955, DJ Kool Herc was born Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to the Bronx when he was 12 years old and took on the name “Kool Herc” when he became a member of the graffiti ...

The Father of Hip-Hop will be honored with 125 other distinguished Jamaicans from all over the world. Though the official 50 th anniversary of Hip-Hop has passed, the world is continuing to honor the ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential ...

On this day in 1955, Clive Campbell, better known to the world as DJ Kool Herc, was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At the age of 12, he relocated with his family to the Bronx, New York, where his ...