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August 11th marked the 44th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop, a genre that was created by DJ Kool Herc and Coke La Rock in New York.

According to History.com, Hip Hop was born on August 11, 1973 at a party in an apartment building in the west Bronx, New York City.

The address was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, and the man who is credited with its creation was Clive Campbell, more commonly known as DJ Kool Herc.

Aged 18 then, DJ Kool Herc decided to try something different during his set and instead of playing full songs, he played their instrumental sections only, and the crowd went crazy.

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These instrumental sections later came to be known as ‘beat breaks’, a pivotal term for Hip Hop producers. As Kool Herc played the beat breaks, his friend Coke La Rock began to hype the crowd with a microphone; and that was how Hip Hop was born.

Since then, the genre has spread to every corner of the globe and is considered to be one of the most popular forms of music worldwide.

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