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DJ Kool Herc and the birth of the breakbeat (2005 interview) | Fresh Air
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31:15Now PlayingDJ Kool Herc is known as the father of the DJ breakbeat — isolating and repeating breaks, the most danceable portions of songs that form part of the foundation of modern hip-hop.
We’re publishing this interview to YouTube in honor of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
This interview originally aired March 30, 2005.
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