Hip Hop is born in New York City.

August 11, 1973

DJ Kool Here hosts a back-to-school party for his sister in their apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Here beings MC-ing or rapping, while playing and scratching instrumental records with a backbeat spurring people to dance longer (breaking) at the party. The music goes on to spur a political, social, and cultural movement.