Google celebrates 44th anniversary of Hip hop

Jonathan 10:45 - 14 August 2017

Google is celebrating the 44th anniversary of birth of hip-hop with an interactive doodle.

Google is celebrating the 44 birthday of Hip-hop.

Historians recognize today, August 11, as the birthday of Hip hop. This is because Forty-four years ago Jamaican American DJ Kool Herc pulled out his turntables and deejayed a Bronx party , where he played an extended cut of the percussion-heavy portions of James Brown’s Sex Machine album while shouting instructions to dancing audience.

To celebrate the occasion, YouTube Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen and the legendary Fab 5 Freddy teamed with Google to create the company’s first ever hip-hop Doodle. When you visit the Google main page, you’re greeted with a colorful and interactive doodle that allows you to scratch popular R&B/soul records, much like Herc did when he threw his legendary block party 44 years ago.

In the interactive doodle, Fab 5 Freddy’s voice is in the intro and a voice barking out various minor congratulations as you learn to scratch the records after watching the tutorial and learning the ropes.

Before revealing it earlier today, Google previewed the doodle for hip-hop legends like DJ Red Alert, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Roxanne Shante, and others. The newest edition to Google’s celebratory doodles will be live on Google domains until Saturday (Aug. 12).