A Real Rapper S Delight

First hip-hop DJ: Kool Herc

Location of Kool Herc’s first party: 1520 Sedgewick Avenue, Bronx, N.Y., 1973

First rap artist signed to a major label: Kurtis Blow (Mercury)

First rap album on CD: “King of Rock” by Run-D.M.C. (Profile, 1984)

First major network news program to document hip-hop: ABC’s “20/20,” July 1981