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Kool DJ Herc may be the originator of breakbeat DJing, the substance of hip-hop. By isolating and duplicating the “breaks,” or most danceable parts, of funk information by Mandrill, Wayne Brown, as well as the Jimmy Castor Number, Herc produced the prototype for modern-day hip-hop. Though others such as for …

b. Clive Campbell, 1955, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Kool Herc (aka Kool DJ Herc) shifted to NY, USA in 1967 and has the rights towards the accolade ‘initial hip-hop DJ’, although his skill was under no circumstances captured on record. Illustrating the cable connections between reggae and rap which …