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Timeline: Atlanta hip-hop milestones
- Aug. 11, 1973
- Sept. 16, 1979
- January 1982
- April 1982
- October 1989
- Oct. 2, 1990
- Feb. 6, 1992
- Feb. 25, 1992
- February 1993
- Apr. 26, 1994
- July 1995
- Aug. 3, 1995
- Nov. 7, 1995
- Oct. 17, 2000
- May 14, 2002
- Sept. 23, 2003
- November 2003
- October 2005
- March 2006
- Nov. 15, 2006
- June 18, 2012
- February 2016
- Sept. 6, 2016
- September 2016
- February 2017
- June 2017
- Oct. 4, 2018
- Feb. 10, 2019
- May 2023
- August 2023
Eighteen-year-old Clive Campbell, also known as DJ Kool Herc, and his sister Cindy Campbell threw a block party at an apartment building in Bronx, New York. When DJ Kool Herc used two turntables and a mixer to switch back and forth between the breakbeats of popular funk and dance records, he became the first to implement a technique he dubbed the Merry-Go-Round. He also used the sound system to give announcements and shoutouts to friends. The event not only introduced the sonic style of rap, but it also became a launching pad for other elements of the culture, including graffiti and breakdancing. The infamous celebration is heralded as the birth of hip-hop.
