Hip Hop Is Culture

"According to the U.S.Department of State, hip hop is"now the center of a mega music and fashion industry around the world," that crosses social barriers and cuts across racial lines. National Geographic recognizes hip hop as "the world's favorite youth culture"

which "just about every country on the planet seems to have developed its own local rap scene."

DJ Kool Herc

DJ Kool Herc is credited as being highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music.

Clive Campbell, also known as Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born American DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music in the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York City.