Bowman Jr. (born March 20, 1958), better known by his stage name DJ Kool, is an American DJ and MC who produced several popular rap singles in the late 1980s...
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(born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop...
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stage name Kool G Rap (or simply G Rap), is an American rapper. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as...
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Frederick Crute (born November 27, 1956), known professionally as Kool DJ Red Alert, is an Antiguan-American disc jockey who rose to fame on WRKS 98.7...
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The effect is akin to hyperventilation." In 2000, American disc jockey DJ Kool used "It Takes Two" as a basis for his song of the same name, featuring...
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Coke La Rock (section Kool Herc and Coke La Rock)
back to North Carolina. Coke La Rock was a friend and musical partner of DJ Kool Herc, who himself is generally considered to have laid down the foundation...
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Let Me Clear My Throat (category DJ Kool songs)
"Let Me Clear My Throat" is a song by American hip-hop artist DJ Kool. It was released in April 1996 as the third and final single from his album of the...
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Hip hop music (redirect from Kool DJ Dee)
Press. p. 45. "Interview w/ DJ Kool Herc: 1989 New Music Seminar". 1989. Frank Broughton (2015). "Interviews: Kool Herc". DJ History. Archived from the...
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Disc jockey (redirect from DJ)
playlist; and the ability of a DJ to select the most suitable recordings, also known as "reading the crowd". DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika...
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you'd be mad. Musicologist David Toop, based on interviews with DJ Grandmaster Flash, Kool DJ Herc, and others, has written: Break-beat music and hip-hop...
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Terminator X (redirect from Terminator X (DJ))
Beets (1991) and Super Bad (1994), featuring Chuck D, Sister Souljah, DJ Kool Herc, the Cold Crush Brothers, and a bass music track by the Punk Barbarians...
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Matthew Thornton (born October 7, 1963), better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper and record producer from The Bronx, New York...
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Breakbeat (redirect from Breakbeat dj)
through the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip hop turntablists, such as DJ Kool Herc began using several funk breaks in a row, using drum breaks from jazz-funk...
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Wanted: Dead or Alive is the second album by the hip hop duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. The album was released a year after the duo's debut, Road to the Riches...
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Campbell, later known as DJ Kool Herc, presided over parties in the community room at a pivotal point in the genre's history. DJ Kool Herc is credited with...
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performed to DJ Kool Herc's breakbeats. The obvious connection of the term breaking is to the word breakbeat.[citation needed] DJ Kool Herc has said...
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bassist and founder of Kool and the Gang Roger Kool (1954–2005), Singaporean DJ (Roger Kiew) Kool DJ Herc (born 1955), Jamaican–American DJ and hip hop pioneer...
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promoters include: DJ Kool Herc, Coke La Rock, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Fab Five Freddy, Marley Marl, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis...
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The Bronx hip hop scene emerged in August 1973 when brother–sister duo DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell hosted the first hip hop party in the Bronx, sparking...
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bestowed the title 'The Godfather of Cantopop' DJ Kool Herc: Baruch, Yolanda (August 11, 2022). "DJ Kool Herc's Sister Cindy Campbell Talks The Birth Of...
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Campbell, later known as DJ Kool Herc, presided over parties in the community room at a pivotal point in the genre's history. DJ Kool Herc is credited with...
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like Disco King Mario, DJ Hollywood, Grandmaster Flowers, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Treacherous Three...
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the earliest DJs to refine their mixing skills was DJ Kool Herc. Francis Grasso was the first DJ to use headphones and a basic form of mixing at the...
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Phillips, Zoe G. (August 31, 2024). "Fatman Scoop Dead After Collapsing Onstage: DJ Was 56". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 5...
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Let Me Clear My Throat (album) (redirect from Let Me Clear My Throat (DJ Kool album))
third and final studio album by DJ Kool, released in April 1996 on American Recordings. Let Me Clear My Throat was DJ Kool's most successful album chart-wise...
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The 45 King (redirect from DJ Mark the 45 King)
artist DJ Kool had a hit with the song "Let Me Clear My Throat". It was call-and-response vocals over a chopped half of the "900 Number" beat. DJ Kool did...
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Grandmaster Flash (redirect from DJ Grandmaster Flash)
became involved in the earliest New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries like DJ Kool Herc and Disco King Mario. Saddler's uncle...
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Funkmaster Flex (redirect from DJ Flex (DJ))
Eminem, LL Cool J, DJ Myth, Method Man, DMX, Nas and Snoop Dogg. Other acts he has worked with include Yvette Michele, Pras, DJ Kool, Foxy Brown and Armand...
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since before the band's dissolution, working with DJ Shadow, El-P, Muggs, Dan The Automator, Roni Size, DJ Premier and Questlove with production partner James...
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the hip hop period, at the end of the 1970s, was also hip hop's first DJ, DJ Kool Herc. Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his...
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