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Salute to Jay and Nicki Minaj did a great job!

For all donations to Kool Herc, send to: Kool Herc Productions PO Box 20472 Huntington Station, NY 11746

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc has been released from a medical facility, but remains in need of financial aid to help with an unknown health condition.

“I just spoke to Kool Herc.he’s ok and in good spirits..but needs surgery..THIS TUESDAY at SUTRA..we’re gonna do a collection for him,” DJ Tony Touch tweeted earlier today.

According to Gangstarr’s DJ Premier, Kool Herc’s health is deteriorating and he is in need of monetary assistance, because he doesn’t have health insurance.

“Kool Herc is very sick,” DJ Premier revealed on his XM Satellite radio show Live From Headqcourterz. “For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well. It’s funny how we have a father of a culture that still lives, where as in some cultures they are dead and gone even though they may still be worshiped or reflected on in some kind of way.”

According to DJ Premier, he spoke to Herc, who revealed that he was in need of financial assistance because he didn’t have medical coverage.

Kool Herc, 55, is recognized by music historians as the Founding Father of Hip-Hop for his style of “Break” DJ’ing, which isolates the rhythm of a particular portion of a record.

He is credited for laying the foundation for the most popular genre of music in the world, after a party he hosted at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, in the South Bronx.

DJ Kool Herc is also a community activist who led a multi-year effort to prevent the sale of 1520 Sedgwick to greedy real estate speculators.

In September of 2010, the building received a $5.6 million dollar federal loan that halted the sale of the building, allowing hundreds of tenants to keep their homes.

Additionally, the building has officially been recognized as the place Hip-Hop music during the party, which took place on August 11th, 1973.

“Being as though he is the man that set this whole culture off, y’all [the fans] should be willing any type of way you can.”

Salute to co-founder of the SMC Dj Excel as he was the first Philly/SMC dj to get on Dj Revolution’s The Cut!

DJ EXCEL Full Episode from The Cut on Vimeo.

One of my idol’s Dj Revolution started The Cut which is basically what I would have loved to do to educate more on the culture and the elements of Hip-Hop.

Masta Ace & ED OG Part 1 from The Cut on Vimeo.

4 hours of 70′s classics!!!! Limited download for this week only! Click Here

I meant to do this mix on the week Obama was elected, then I meant to do it Monday but couldn’t find the cover that MOAG did for it .  We tracked it down and here is part 1 because there’s so many positive, uplifting, awareness hip hop songs that doesn’t get videos, airplay or exposure!!! So pow! Here it is. Free Download

Here’s The Playlist:

This is just part 1…don’t worry Self Destruction and other clsssicsto come! It’s so many positive Hip-Hop records, I felt it needed to be a series.

This post kinda has something to do with Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream! It’s about FREEDOM..well, freedom on my radio show! I kind of have the day off, I have to voicetrack(insert talk breaks) and record my Legal Mixtape, which airs @ 9p est on 103 Jamz.

I’ve vented several times on my site about the changes to my show..it bothers me to even think about it.  Well I’m recording my mix as I type and I realize that my boss doesn’t listen to the mix but see what I play.  So it’s like I have to make sure what shows up on her screen or print out thru mediabase(which will tell you what song has played on any station & the time it’s played as long as the song is registered).  It’s not even about how the mix sounds anymore..it’s if I’m following the rules and playing the “hits” that people that don’t leave their office tell us what the hits are.  This is very challenging …trying to make the mix sound ill and keep my job!