Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his DJ name DJ Kool Herc, is an American Hip-Hop DJ who is widely regarded as the founder of Hip-Hop music. He is the originator of break-beat DJing, where the breaks of funk songs—being the most danceable part, often featuring percussion—were isolated and repeated for the purpose of all-night dance parties (AMG [LINK: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3s47gjlr16ic~T1] [1]). Later DJs such as Grandmaster Flash refined and developed the use of breakbeats, including cutting.While growing up in Kingston he saw and heard the sound systems firsthand at neighborhood parties called dancehalls (Chang 2005). He moved to the Bronx, New York at the age of 12 and began to throw free neighborhood parties. He is also well known for his massive, high-quality, high-volume sound system, against which even superior DJs could not compete (Toop, 19

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