Did hip-hop really started 44 years ago? I'm getting

>>74494009
It was when DJ Kool Herc first did the thing where he extended the break of a song while DJing. It's more proto-hip-hop than hip-hop, but it's the roots of it, I guess

DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was the blueprint for hip hop music. Herc used the record to focus on a short, heavily percussive part in it: the "break". Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players. As one record reached the end of the break, he cued a second record back to the beginning of the break, which allowed him to extend a relatively short section of music into "five-minute loop of fury".[7] This innovation had its roots in what Herc called "The Merry-Go-Round," a technique by which the deejay switched from break to break at the height of the party. This technique is specifically called "The Merry-Go-Round" because according to Herc, it takes one "back and forth with no slack."[8]

Herc told The New York Times that he first introduced the Merry-Go-Round into his sets in 1972.[9]