The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue " an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway " as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.

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Beginning with the advent of beat match DJ ' ing, in which Bronx DJs ( Disc Jockeys ) including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc extended the breaks of funk records, a major new musical genre emerged that sought to isolate the percussion breaks of hit funk, disco and soul songs.

In 1973, Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc, widely regarded as the " father of hip-hop culture ," performed at block parties in his Bronx neighborhood and developed a technique of mixing back and forth between two identical records to extend the rhythmic instrumental segment, or break.

One of the first rappers in the beginning of the hip hop period, in the end of ' 70s, was also hip hop's first DJ, Kool Herc.

Like the pioneering Bronx crews of DJs Kool Herc, Afrika Bambataa and Grandmaster Flash, the soundsystems provided party music for public spaces, often in the economically deprived council estates from which some of their members originated.

The rhythmic rhyming of vocals in Jamaican deejay toasting influenced the development of rapping in African-American hip-hop, and the development of the Dancehall style ( e. g. hip-hop pioneer and Jamaican expatriate DJ Kool Herc and Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest ).

This part of the culture was initiated by Kool DJ Herc in 1972 using breaks from James Brown, The Incredible Bongo Band and English rock group Babe Ruth in his block parties.

These crews were the Swiss hip hop founders and brought the hip hop culture fundamentals ( Peace, love & unity state of mind, graffiti, breakdance, DJing, MCs ) and clothing styles straight from the roots and basic founders in New York City ( Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa & The Zulu Nation, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, The Rock Steady Crew, The New York City Breakers and many other U. S. hip hop masters …).

Fast forward to the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop turntablists, such as Kool DJ Herc, began using several Funk breaks in a row, using irregular drum patterns from songs such as James Brown Funky Drummer and The Winstons Amen Brother, to form the rhythmic base for hip-hop songs.

Jamaican immigrant DJ Kool Herc is widely regarded as the progenitor of hip hop ; he brought with him from Jamaica the practice of toasting over the rhythms of popular songs.

" Early artists of the form, including DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, the Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Jam Master Jay, and Run-D. M. C., pioneered East Coast hip hop during hip hop's development.

In the early 1970s, Deejays such as DJ Kool Herc took the practice of toasting to New York City, where it evolved into rap music.

* Hip hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc, raised in the Bronx and resides in 220th and Carpenter ( Uptown Bronx )

Scene pioneer DJ Kool Herc recalled that while there was a heavy gang presence in attendance, the Five Percenters were also there as a de facto peace-keeping element.

Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc also influenced the early development of scratching.

Kool Herc developed break-beat DJing, where the breaks of funk songs — being the most danceable part, often featuring percussion — were isolated and repeated for the purpose of all-night dance parties.

Kool DJ Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash are widely credited for having cemented the now established role of DJ as hip hop's foremost instrumentalist.

Kool Herc introduces the break-beat technique as a way of extending the break indefinitely.

New DJs, turntablists and crews owe a distinct debt to old-school DJs like Kool DJ Herc, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Afrika Bambaataa and other DJs of the golden age of hip hop, who originally developed many of the concepts and techniques that evolved into modern turntablism.

Several Jamaican DJs such as DJ Kool Herc exported much of the hip hop dance culture from Jamaica to the Bronx in the early 1970s, including the common Jamaican practice of DJs rapping over instrumental dub remixes of hit songs ( See King Stitt, U Roy, Dennis Alcapone, Dillinger ), ultimately leading to the advent of rap culture in the United States.

The genre began there at neighborhood block parties when DJs, such as Kool Herc, began isolating percussion breaks in funk and R & B songs, eventually rapping while the audience danced.

Although it created a jarring difference in tempo in the center of the song, it allowed Hip-Hop DJs to extend the beat by switching between two copies of the record on two separate turntables at a danceable tempo while ignoring the rest of the song ( this technique was created by Kool Herc in 1974 and became a trend at large in 1977 with the efforts of Grandmaster Flash ).

In old school hip hop, Kool Moe Dee says that improvisational rapping was instead called “ coming off the top of the head ”, and he refers to this as “ the real old-school freestyle ”.

In the early 1960s, the image of the cartoon penguin was no longer used, and Kool instead began marketing their cigarettes by linking the cool taste of menthol to cool outdoor scenes portraying water or snow.

Artists and critics often credit Rakim with creating the overall shift from the more simplistic Old School flows to more complex flows near the beginning of Hip Hop ’ s new school – Kool Moe Dee says, “ any emcee that came after 1986 had to study Rakim just to know what to be able to do ... Rakim, in 1986, gave us flow and that was the rhyme style from 1986 to 1994 ... from that point on, anybody emceeing was forced to focus on their flow ”.

Busy Bee Starski's defeat by the more complex raps of Kool Moe Dee meant that " no longer was an MC just a crowd-pleasing comedian with a slick tongue ; he was a commentator and a storyteller ", which KRS-One also credits as creating a shift in rapping in the documentary Beef.

One of the earliest and most famous battles was in December 1981 ( evidenced by BB's DJ asking if the crowd is ready for ' 82 ) when Kool Moe Dee challenged Busy Bee Starski-Busy Bee Starski's defeat by the more complex raps of Kool Moe Dee meant that " no longer was an MC just a crowd-pleasing comedian with a slick tongue ; he was a commentator and a storyteller ", which KRS-One also credits as creating a shift in rapping in the documentary Beef.

Hip hop music first emerged with Kool Herc and contemporary disc jockeys and imitators creating rhythmic beats by looping breaks ( small portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern ) on two turntables, more commonly referred to as sampling.

The K was originally suggested to stand for " Kool ", but it was quickly decided that the K should stand for nothing in particular.

The Juice Crew included Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Craig G, MC Shan and Masta Ace, and produced many songs for outside artists including King Tee, LL Cool J, and Lords of the Underground.

Ced Gee and Moe Love both provided demos and unreleased songs spanning the group's entire career to Tuff City for a series of four albums which were released without Kool Keith's consent.

Joey Starr and Kool Shen started learning how to dance and defined their own style, smurf for Joey Starr and break dancing for Kool Shen.

After this period Joey and Kool got into the rapping industry where they were publicly heard on the radio for the first time in 1989 on radio Nova.

In 1996, The Plimsouls, without Ramirez, reunited for a few shows and some recording sessions, resulting in a little-heard reunion album called Kool Trash.

That became so popular that it was closed down by the fire department for over-capacity, and Freddy helped Blue ( whom he dubbed " Kool Lady Blue ") find another home for the party.

Kurt had previously worked as a producer for several of Kool Keith's albums, many of which featured Motion Man on a track.

The late 1970s saw a lull in Kool & the Gang's except for the album Open Sesame which yielded the title track " Open Sesame " which achieved some success in the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

In October 2010, Kool & the Gang signed with indie label Expat Records for the release of their electro-pop single " Miss Lead " with a female lead vocalist.

In 2012, Kool & the Gang performed as the opening act for select shows on Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth Tour.

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and the Sunshine Band, Kool & the Gang, Walter Murphy, Tavares & Trammps for Saturday Night Fever

The very next year, Team Penske made its return to the Indianapolis 500 after a five year absence and was joined by Ganassi, Walker Racing and Michael Andretti, driving for Team Kool Green in a separate effort headed by Kim Green, known as Team Motorola.

Kool Herc's revolutionary technique set the course for the development of turntablism as an art form in significant ways.