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Google's Doodle Continues Hip-Hop's Institutional Recognition

At 44, hip-hop has shifted from disregarded to highly regarded.
Google celebrates hip-hop's 44th anniversary with a graffiti Doodle designed by iconic visual artist Cey Adams.

Hip-hop turns 44 today, and Google is giving mad props with a Doodle that drops science on the birth of the breakbeat. In addition to detailing the legendary 1973 party at 1520 Sedgewick Avenue in the Bronx, where DJ Kool Herc originated the style of playing two versions of the same record on different turntables to

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