2023 will mark 50 years since the birth of hip-hop. Many historians and industry pioneers date the beginnings of this ground-breaking music and culture to the summer of 1973, when DJ Kool Herc rolled his massive sound system and record collection out onto Sedgwick Avenue in the South Bronx for a street party fueled by the sounds—and especially the breakbeats—of funk and disco. … [Read more...] about New York Times Best-Selling Author Jonathan Abrams Preps “The Come Up: An Oral History Of the Rise Of Hip-Hop”