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The Holy House of Hip-hop
On August 11, 1973, D.J. Kool Herc didn’t know he was revolutionizing pop music—he was just trying to keep people dancing. The rec room where it all went down might have been forgotten, until it became a battleground for the future of affordable housing. ... Read the story