Happy 50th Hip Hop

Rapper’s Delight by Sugarhill Gang

Hard to believe, but Hip Hop turned 50 years old this past week. The genre’s origins are tied to an early 70s block party and a DJ affectionately known as Kool Herc who broke out two turntables and with this tool created break beats, overlapped and combined songs for a crowded dance floor, the groundwork for what eventually became a force of nature. Hip…