Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop

Posted 2023-08-24, The Tennessee Tribune Headlines photo

By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — It was 50 years ago on August 11, 1973 when young Jamaican-born New Yorker DJ Kool Herc was throwing a house party in the South Bronx. It was his sister’s graduation party, and in providing music for the event, Herc began playing on a pair of turntables. As the party flooded... read full story

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