DJ Kool Herc

Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell (born April 16, 1955) is a Jamaican-American DJ who is credited with originating breakbeat DJing in hip-hop music which helped to develop rapping and b-boying.

Quotes about Kool Herc

 * Now he took the music of like Mandrill, like "Fencewalk", certain disco records that had funky percussion breaks like The Incredible Bongo Band when they came out with "Apache" and he just kept that beat going. It might be that certain part of the record that everybody waits for ]]— they just let their inner self go and get wild. The next thing you know the singer comes back in and you'd be mad.
 * Afrika Bambaataa quoted by David Toop (1991). Rap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop'', p. 60. New York. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1852422432.


 * Herc really slipped up. With the monstrous power he had he couldn't mix too well. He was playing little breaks but it would sound so sloppy. I noticed that the mixer he was using was a GLI 3800. It was a very popular mixer at that time. It's a scarcity today but it's still one of the best mixers GLI ever made. At the time he wasn't using no queueing. In other words, the hole was there for a headphone to go in but I remember he never had headphones over his ears. All of a sudden, Herc had headphones but I guess he was so used to dropping the needle down by eyesight and trying to mix it that from the audio part of it he couldn't get into it too well.
 * DJ Grandmaster Flash quoted by David Toop (1991). Rap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop, 62. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1852422432.