Happy Birthday Hip-Hop! Hip-Hop celebrates it’s 52nd birthday today on August 11, 2025. It all started in 1973, in the Bronx, New York. DJ Kool Herc threw his sister Cindy Campbell a back to school party at the rec room of their building 1520 Sedgwick Ave. Kool Herc created the breaks by isolating the break beats at the party and Coke La Rock was on the mic as the master of ceremony, talking, calling out names, rhyming, and essentially rapping.
Our gift is an interview with Hip-Hop’s first emcee, Coke La Rock. Listen to Coke La Rock talk about it below.
Enjoy! & More life Hip-Hop!