From DJ Kool Herc dropping the needle on a record at a party in the Bronx more than fifty years ago and then experimenting with mixing beats and scratching records, worldwide legions of rappers, dancers, street artists, and deejays constantly reinvent what is arguably the most American of inventions, hip-hop. 

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