DJ Kool Herc gave a moving speech for his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
as “one of the great founders of hip-hop” when the pioneering musical visionary received the Musical Influence Award at the 2023Induction Ceremony. During his speech, the rapper recounted the legend of the party Kool Herc DJ’d in 1973 to help his sister, Cindy Campbell, raise money for back-to-school clothes, charging 25 cents for women to enter and 50 for men.
When Kool Herc ascended the dais with his sister, he was overcome with emotion. LL Cool J helped him find his place in front of the mic. “I got tears in my eyes,” he told the audience. He called out the people who were no longer alive, like James Brown and Harry Belafonte. He also credited his parents, Keith and Nettie Campbell, and he gave the mic to his sister, Cindy, to speak. “Do your thing,” he told her, smiling, as he stepped aside and marveled at the statuette he received with LL Cool J.
Herc’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year is particularly fitting as hip-hop celebrates itswith the party he hosted in the rec room of his apartment complex on Aug. 11, 1973, a date, as LL Cool J noted, that is now celebrated as hip-hop’s birthday. There, the core elements of hip-hop coalesced as Herc spun funk records on two turntables, with a particular focus on the drum breaks, while incorporating his love of reggae and toasting with shoutouts to his friends.
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