The Jamaica Music Conference took place in Kingston at the Courtleigh Auditorium earlier this month.
As part of the event, Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell joined SVP of artist/label relations at TIDAL Jason Kpana, Reggae/Caribbean/World curator and music programmer for Pandora Music Diego Herrera and YouTube’s Director of Urban Music Tuma Basa in a discussion about Jamaica’s direct connection to Hip Hop.
While walking by Herc and Campbell’s childhood home at 11 ½ York Street in Kingston’s Franklyn Tower, Herc revealed he was working on a Hip Hop museum for the island.
“When I was looking around [Kingston throughout the weekend], I saw that Peter Tosh and Bob Marley had museums,” Herc told Billboard. “Well guess what? I created something, so therefore, I have a contribution myself and it would add to the Jamaican economy with tourism.”
During the interview, Herc said it was time for Jamaica to take Hip Hop back while condemning the continuing trend of mainstream music stealing from Jamaican culture.
“It started with Eric Clapton when he covered Bob Marley’s“I Shot the Sheriff” [in 1974],” Herc said. “We should use it to our benefit instead of just making noise about it. It’s nice when somebody else uses our music. Just give recognition and give back money where it comes from. [It’s always about] taking something from us, but at the same time they know we are powerful and to be respected. When they are picking off of you it says something about the music.”
Campbell agreed “because we are the ones who bought the style and the technique to America, which [later] became Hip Hop.”
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As the Jamaica Music Conference website explains, “The Jamaica Music Conference (JMC) is the preeminent music conference that connects music artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs globally with the who’s who in the Jamaica music industry.”
Herc is widely credited as Hip Hop’s founding father. Last May, he released his first vinyl record ever with DJ/Producer Mr. Green called Last of the Classic Beats.
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Lol ok boomer
This is why white people should have NEVER been allowed to listen to Hip Hop
Lol, they are guests in hip hop. Let us treat them well!!!
Yes. The people who funded it and are its biggest supporters. LOL. They also invented everything used to make it, including the equipment this guy used (and the art form he used) to invent it. DJing existed long before Herc. So did Turntables and microphones. He is a guest. LOL. All of those black guys in the NFL, NBA, MLB… guests. I’m a Latino BTW.
Y’all just say silly shit He invented Hip Hop this generation is fucking stupid to history.
No one said he DIDN’T invent hip-hop. I did say he DIDN’T invent DJing. A white man did. He was a guest in the white mans house to invent Hip-Hop. The point is… it IS stupid. No one owns culture. It’s to refute these weirdo racists saying people are guests etc. I don’t see ANYONE mad at people of color for playing sports invented by white men, calling them guests etc. it’s ridiculous. No one would ever say Herc is a guest in Djing, although he is if the guest in Hip-Hop argument for Eminem is valid. Pick one. Sense or hypocrisy ridiculousness. One choice will keep people oppressed and laughed at. The other brings inclusion and unity. Who is stupid exactly?
Djeeing was not invented by white people smh!!!!lmao
HAHAHAHAHA! Could you please KEEP being wrong? PLEASE READ: The term “disc jockey” was ostensibly coined by radio gossip commentator Walter Winchell in 1935, and the phrase first appeared in print in a 1941 Variety magazine, used to describe radio personalities who introduced phonograph records on the air. Playing recorded music for dancing and parties rose with the mass marketing of home phonographs in the late 19th century, and Jimmy Savile is credited with hosting the first live DJ dance party in 1943. Savile is also credited as the first to present music in continuous play by using multiple turntables. In 1947, the Whiskey A Go-Go opened in Paris as the first discotheque. In the 1960s, Rudy Bozak began making the first DJ mixers, mixing consoles specialized for DJing. HAHAHAHAHA. All of those people listed were WHITE!! I’m a Latino BTW. Get your facts straight. With your rhetoric, the inventor of Hip-Hop was a GUEST in the house of djing. Hahahahahah
The first DJ was a white guy from England. He was the first to use multiple turntables and throw a live party while playing vinyl on turntables. I’m sure it matter to YOU, but he was white as they come. Jimmy Savile. That’s history. Proven facts. So Kool Herc is a guest in the white man’s culture? See how stupid you’re dumbass, racist argument is?
Yes black people do own hip hop because once again whites wanted no part of Hip hop yo have never been to the south Bronx and are idiots to the history of Hip hop.
I have been all over NY Jackass. White people wanted no part in Hip-Hop? HAHAHAHA. Who distributed the music? Who sold it? What was the first number one record on the charts dummy? Hip-Hop wise? Who owned the record label? Who was the A&R? Hahahah. Get a GED dummy.
Tell me, whos gonna stop us from making or listening 2 it? Not a soul.
RESPECT THIS MAN! Only 26 but know your history, DJ Kool Herc is a legend
This is going to be funny they couldn’t even get money for the building in NY and he wants to get a museum in Jamaica..Good luck with that one
They got 70 million
So basically lord jamar stile hiphop and is a guest in the house of jamacian music LOL
When the hip hop museum opens in 2020 please take a trip yall are fuck ing stupid.
They’re all guests in the house of British music. The first DJ was a white man from England. He was the first to play a live party with vinyl, and the first to use multiple turntables. LOL
All of those black men in the NFL, MLB and NBA are guests for all the hypocrite racist dummies in the comment sections. Not white BTW.
No you moron they are Employees jackass nice try ass clown!
so All of the people at parks, high schools and universities playing Baseball, Basketball and Football are employees? I played little league baseball as a kid. Who do I sue for a check?
No you dummy you are an amateur you idiots have zero logic sports are not a culture. Hip Hop was created for black people in the bx to stop the violence and because whites did not want blacks in their clubs.
Wrong. Hip-Hop was invented by Kool Herc at a dance hall to make people dance, you dummy. That is his official take, no one argues that was where and why it was invented. Planet Rock and Rappers Delight has nothing to do with stopping violence. It was dance music. By the way… A sport IS CULTURE. Look up the definition. I get it, your little argument is asinine so you have to keep switching up definitions and meanings. Reality doesn’t bend to your ignorant, racist will. Here is a definition as far a sport with Culture “ Sport forms part of a nation’s culture. It is a global event, able to delight billions and attract their attention to periodic Olympic, world, international or paralympic games. … Sport is to be appreciated for its own sake, as part of the nation’s activities, a positive aspect of our world activities.” Hahahahahaha. You dummy! During the World Cup, at the beginning of the ceremonies , they should make everyone take a moment of silence to that England for being a guest in their house. Hahahahaha
Wrong. Look up the definition of culture as far as sports. Sport forms part of a nation’s culture. It is a global event, able to delight billions and attract their attention to periodic Olympic, world, international or paralympic games. … Sport is to be appreciated for its own sake, as part of the nation’s activities, a positive aspect of our world activities. HAHAHAHAHA. I’m Brazilian. Football (soccer) is part of our culture, regardless of what your simple Simon ass thinks. Scholars and historians agree. Donee have to ask England’s permission, or thank them for being in their house? HAHA. We have more World Cup titles than they do. So do several other countries. Kind of like Eminem has more… Never mind. I can tell you didn’t study much. Hahahaha
Hip-hop music originated in the late 60s of the 20th century and continues to evolve to the present day. That what began more than 30 years ago, boiled over into a particular movement and culture. Hip-hop culture originated in New York among black and Latino urban. Street culture existed for centuries in all countries.
The first “Hip-Hop” artist was this man. Unquestionably. He created Hip-Hop they isolating breaks of beats whilst DJing. Hence break beats. This term later referred to DJs as “Break Boys” then B-Boys. All this “white man is a guest in this house etc” is decisive and stupid. Herc was a DJ. The first DJ was a white man from England, almost 30 years before Herc. He was the first to use multiple turntables, the first to play records live for an audience. I’m sure he didn’t consider Herc or ANYONE to be a guest in his house or a culture vulture. He was happy to see people envisage in the art he loved his whole life. Score keeping, racism and segregation doesn’t bring people together, it does just the opposite. Music is meant to unify people. It is art. I don’t imagine French impressionists Would care who painted in their style as long as the art was good. People wonder why Trump got elected, and unfortunately will get elected again.