Harmonizing Hip-Hop and Busin BOARD from to Hip-hop was born during a Bronx house party in August 1973, with DJ Kool Herc getting the credit for its birth. Where were you when hip-hop was born? While Shawn M. Graham missed that party, she was at Cedar Park for many park jams where DJ Kool Herc used to deejay. She was taken in by the rhythmic pulse and style of this new sound - hip-hop. " I was entrenched in hip hop as a young girl. During my earlier years growing up in the Bronx near Cedar Park where DJ Kool Herc played, " she reminiscences. " So hip hop was an integral part of my childhood. " 18