Hip-Hop Celebration Day 2026: 5 music facts about its origin

Hip-Hop Celebration Day 2026

Every year, Hip-Hop Celebration Day 2026 is observed on August 11 to honour the day hip-hop was invented in the US, but has since then taken over the world

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Who invented hip-hop?

In 1973, DJ Kool Herc hosted a back-to-school jam at 1520, Sedwick Avenue in Bronx, New York where he played the breakbeat technique giving birth to it

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Uniqueness of hip-hop

Hip-hop culture combines unique elements of rapping, DJing, breakdance and graffiti art that has since then evolved around the world including India

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Father of Hip-Hop

Clive Campbell, popularly known as DJ Kool Herc, who invented hip-hop, is widely regarded as the `Father of Hip-Hop` creating some of the most important sounds

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Hip-hop in India

Hip-hop took over India in the 1990s through the likes of Baba Sehgal, and has since grown into so much more with the likes of Bohemia and Divine

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