50 years of hip-hop: L.A. gives the genre KDAY and Dr. Dre
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It's Friday, Aug. 11. I'm Vanessa Franko, an assistant editor on the audience eng...
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It's Friday, Aug. 11. I'm Vanessa Franko, an assistant editor on the audience engagement team, and my love of early ‘90s hip-hop can absolutely be traced to watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' in my childhood. It was 50 years ago today when Clive 'DJ Kool Herc' Campbell played a party in the rec room of a Bronx apartment building. The 'Back to School Jam' — organized by Campbell's sister — featured Herc playing classics from James Brown and the Isley Brothers while he showed off a new turntable technique.