Toppa Top 10: Caribbean Hip-Hop Pioneers

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September 20, 2011

1. DJ Kool Herc

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No question about this choice. The guy who set everything in motion by dropping a needle directly onto some breakbeats at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in 1973 spent the first 11 years of his life in Kingston, Jamaica, absorbing deejay chatter and other elements of sound system culture that he would later translate into hip-hop for his audiences in the Bronx.