On August 11, 1973, an 18-year-old, Jamaican-American DJ who went by the name of Kool Herc threw a back-to-school jam at 520 >Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York. During his set, he decided to do something different. Instead of playing the songs in full, >he played only their instrumental sections, or “breaks” - sections where he noticed the crowd went wild. During these “breaks” his >friend Coke La Rock hyped up