Clive Campbell born1955 also known as Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born American DJ who is credited with hip hop music in the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York City. His playing of hard funk records by James Brown was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx and to the nascent popularity of disco in the 1970s.

The inventor of hip hop