Over the past five decades, the sound has expanded as a multi-genre invention. Hip-hop today is a powerful, unapologetic force that has influenced every genre of music and impacted every facet of society and pop culture around the world. What began as a local sound and burgeoning scene in the "Boogie Down Bronx" has since evolved into a global movement.
11, 1973, would become known as the origin of hip-hop, with Herc being anointed the genre's founding father. While there is evidence that foundational elements of hip-hop emerged long before it boomed out of that South Bronx party - listen to Pigmeat Markham's "Here Comes The Judge" from 1968, for example - this momentous day, Aug.
The genre's mythical-like origin remains an integral part of American history: From the recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an 18-story apartment building in the South Bronx, New York City, DJ Kool Herc captivated audiences young and old as he commanded the turntables at a birthday party for his sister, Cindy Campbell, while MCs Theodore Puccio and Coke La Rock shouted out rhymes over Herc's instrumental beats. At its core, hip-hop began as a joyful expression, a grassroots community-organizing method, and an outlet to creatively and freely rebel against the socioeconomic turmoil happening across America in the early '70s.
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