Hip Hop Facts | Facts about Hip Hop

When and where was hip hop born?

Hip hop is traced to a party DJ Kool Herc hosted on August 11, 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York.

Hip hop culture has four classic elements: DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti.

Hip hop and R&B became the most-consumed music genre in the US in 2017.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were the first hip hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2007.

"Hamilton," a musical built on hip hop, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

DJ Kool Herc, who helped start hip hop, brought ideas from Jamaican sound systems to the Bronx.