In the summer of 1973, at a recreational center in a Bronx housing complex, an 18-year old named Clive Campbell, a.k.a. DJ Kool Herc, sparked a musical movement. Switching between two copies of the same songs to elongate the “breaks,” or most danceable parts, Herc added his own vocals in the “toasting” style of his Jamaican birthplace. The global journey of hip-hop had begun.

Almost forty years later, young New Orleanians can join this tradition through