DJ Hollywood-The "Godfather of Hip Hop"

How did Rap music actually become part of our world today you ask? It first originated in “the 1970s in the South Bronx area of New York, and was primarily marketed to the African-American community” as a new genre of music (Rap Music: When Did it Start?). It began as a cross-cultural product created by two generations of early artists that derived from Jamaica. These two creators, Jool Herc and DJ Hollywood, used their cutting and mixing of American music which also led to the trend of turntables. Rap began to record by small independent record companies and the term “rap music” became coined in 1978. “The Beastie Boys and Run-DMC were the first two rap groups to hit the Billboard top-ten list” and since then, they have laid the grounds for all of the artists out there today and the inspiring rap artists to come.

Rap Music: When Did it Start?. (2003). Retrieved April 17, 2008, from Rampwayonline Web site: http://www.rampway.org/article.php?id=177




Written by: Morgan Hinson