A city becomes a living being, a guardian. I met this girl when I was 3 years old / And what I loved most she had so much soul, Kanye West says of his hometown, Chicago, in Homecoming. With Hello Brooklyn 2.0, Jay-Z pays tribute to his borough: Like a mama you birthed me / Brooklyn you nursed me.
At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an unassuming high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, DJ Kool Herc spun tunes at a party in the first-floor rec room on Aug. 11, 1973. Herc was just 18 at the time, and the event was hosted by his sister, Cindy Campbell, to raise money to buy new clothes for school. But that night would come to be known as the birth of hip-hop. All of it came from here, Herc told The Times in 2007. From this building. It should be respected.
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