The year was 1973. DJ Kool Herc pulled out his turntables to give the Bronx crowd at his sister’s back-to-school party a new flavor for their ears. Little did he know that his decision to try something new would birth hip hop. Just a few years later, in 1978, another group of Bronx youngsters would burst onto the scene, bringing an added layer to the genre. Welcome hip hop’s Cold Crush Brothers.
Deemed as the group responsible for taking the music genre international, it was the group’s appearance in the 1982 film Wild Style that allowed a larger audience to get a glimpse of this new sound. According to Grandmaster Caz, the emcees’ trip to Tokyo to promote the film really opened up doors like never before.
