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The 21 pages that link to DJ Kool Herc, each with the reason it gives.

• Sampling (music)Related: His extended break technique used two copies of a record to prolong a passage.

• Hip-hopRelated: His 1970s parties helped establish the breakbeat-centered DJ style.

• Hip-hop musicRelated: His use of breakbeats helped establish a template for early hip-hop parties.

• TurntablismRelated: His extended break technique helped establish the performance role of the DJ.

• BreakbeatRelated: He extended instrumental breaks between records for dancers, a foundational breakbeat practice.

• Hip-hop productionRelated: His extended break technique helped establish the rhythmic basis producers later recorded.

• Hip-hop cultureRelated: His extended breakbeat technique became a foundation for hip-hop DJing and dance.

• Grandmaster FlashRelated: Herc's influence and Flash's later innovations are often compared in accounts of early hip-hop.

• RappingRelated: His extended breakbeats gave MCs space to speak rhythmically to crowds.

• Afrika BambaataaRelated: Herc’s breakbeat-focused parties preceded Bambaataa’s work in the Bronx.

• East Coast hip-hopRelated: His breakbeat technique helped shape the sound from which East Coast rap developed.

• Block partyRelated: His Bronx parties in the 1970s helped establish the format's musical legacy.

• Golden age hip-hopRelated: His breakbeat technique shaped the DJ-centered musical practices that later generations developed.

• Women in hip-hopNarrower topic: His Bronx parties provide the early scene in which women’s hip-hop participation took shape.

• BreakdancingRelated: His use of extended break sections helped create space for dancers to perform.

• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious FiveRelated: His break-focused party style influenced the local DJ culture from which the group arose.

• New York hip-hopRelated: His extended breakbeats became a foundation for the music developed at Bronx parties.

• Rap musicRelated: His extended breakbeat technique gave early MCs space to address and energize crowds.

• Old-school hip-hopRelated: His extended breakbeats gave dancers and MCs room to perform.

• Eric B. & RakimRelated: His breakbeat DJ techniques helped create the musical tradition Eric B. extended.

• History of hip-hop danceRelated: His extended breakbeats gave dancers repeated passages for expressive movement.