In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whodini'sJalil Hutchins (left) and John "Ecstasy" Fletcher (right) backstage in 1984. (Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) A ...
GRAFFITINSPIRE, an exhibition curated by Carmelo Alvarez at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (photo by Khalid Farquharson, courtesy Goethe-Institut Los Angeles) LOS ANGELES — Jose "Prime" Reza was 11 ...
Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...