DJ Kool Herc, who’s credited with birthing hip hop during his 1970s parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, has teamed with Christie’s for an online auction of memorabilia, including an old ...

The Father of Hip-Hop will be honored with 125 other distinguished Jamaicans from all over the world. Though the official 50 th anniversary of Hip-Hop has passed, the world is continuing to honor the ...

Set the scene: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, August 11, 1973, a summer party in an apartment building’s rec room. Twenty-five cents admission for girls, 50 cents for boys. Olde English 800 or ...

The man who inspired a music, a movement, and a culture needs your help: DJ Kool Herc, one of the founding fathers of hip-hop, is allegedly “very sick” and cannot afford hospital treatment. The man ...

MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential rappers and DJs over the last 50 years. We'll start at the ...

Fifty years on, the details of that historic night in the Bronx — the night everyone now says gave birth to hip-hop — still elude DJ Kool Herc, the man at its center that evening. “I remember the ...

This is so not cool. The Father of Hip-Hop, DJ Kool Herc, does not have health insurance. And, now, because of a recent bout with kidney stones, he is in financial straits. That's why some friends of ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential ...