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Celebrating Fifty Years of Hip-HopAugust 11th is being celebrated as the 50th anniversary of the dawn of hip-hop. In honor of DJ Kool Herc's landmark block party, we've collected ten of the groundbreaking and influential albums that came out of that first decade of old-school rap.
Celebrating Fifty Years of Hip-Hop
www.allmusic.comOn August 11, 1973, 18-year-old Jamaican-American breakbeat pioneer DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell threw the now-famous "back to school jam" block party in The Bronx.…