Who was the holy trinity? Why were they important? Why was NY and CA the hot spots? What was the music technology that was used? How did it influence the future of hip hop? What was the role that cypher’s played? What role do they play now? Did the dance keep up with the music in terms of growth and popularity?

According to Art Historian Robert Farris Thompson in “Aesthetic of the Cool.” the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc armed himself with gigantic speakers and thundering frequency ranges and defined a world where, as one hip hopper put it, ‘the loudest noises were the newest.’ Herc took a conga drum break and extended it across two copies

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