History’s New Breed?

Hip-Hop may be dead, but there are those who want to preserve its past. Clive Campbell, better known as DJ Kool Herc, one of hip-hop’s pioneers, wants to have 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx preserved as historic landmark for its role as one of, if not the key, birthplaces of hip-hop. An interesting idea if I do say so. We’re at a point where we can no longer deny the cultural significance of hip-hop and should recognize its beginnings, but hip-hop still has such a negative cultural connotation with so many people. Does it deserve such status? Only the further passage of time will tell, I suppose.