Google is breaking down the birth of hip-hop with its latest interactive Doodle.
If you click on the Google logo today, you’ll get an overview of the hip-hop’s origins in New York City, courtesy of Fab 5 Freddy—specifically the Aug. 11, 1973, back-to-school party in the Bronx where DJ Kool Herc created the “break.”
You’ll also get a tutorial in mixing, scratching, and fading, and get to flip through an incredible crate of records that provided source material for many early hip-hop tracks, and many more to come. Did you remember how many hip-hop tracks sampled Little Feat? Because I sure didn’t.
Artist and Def Jam Creative Director Cey Adams designed the Doodle, and provided his own memory: “One of my earliest memories is when I went to the Jamaica Armory to see Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. I realized that hip-hop belonged to us—it was music for myself and my friends, something that nobody could take away from us.”
