Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades of intense renewal and influenced a plethora of musicians around the world – including in France.
On that fateful night in the Bronx, Jamaican-born Clive Campbell – better known as DJ Kool Herc – came to his sister's birthday bash where like-minded funk and soul DJs, producers and wannabe graffiti artists had gathered. And he mixed two records together, adding beats from one track to rhythmics from another.
