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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

written by Laban Carrick Hill, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III

2018

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About the book

From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, chronicles how Clive Campbell became Kool Herc, a DJ credited with contributing to the development of hip hop music in the Bronx, defining a culture and causing gangs to stop fighting in order to breakdance.

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