In the 1960-1980’s, the Bronx, NY was going through big changes. Murder and crime were at an all time high and the many decaying buildings were left to burn down. Not only was the social and economic state of the Bronx changing, but so was the music scene. Afro-Cuban and Latin music that came to be known as “salsa” music exploded into the scene. Many famous musicians came out of the Bronx at this time like Jerry Masucchi, Johnny Pacheco, Mott Haven, and Hector Rivera. My personal favorite artist to come out of this scene was DJ Cool Herc. I admire him not for his actual music, but for what he did for the hip-hop scene. He is basically the father of hip-hop. Essentially, he used two turn tables to repeat the “break” of many famous songs. The break is the part of the song that enphasizes the drums and the bass. Herc sampled many famous funk tracks by James Brown, Funkadelic, Parliment, and many more influential artists with recognizable breaks. This manipulation of the break of a song led to an explosion of hip-hop popularity in the Bronx. It was something you could get down to. The "b-boys" and "b-girls" were the dancers to Herc's breaks, who were described as "breaking" and “break dancing”. Herc has noted that "breaking" was also street slang of the time meaning "getting excited", "acting energetically", or "causing a disturbance". Herc coined the terms "b-boy", "b-girl", and "breaking" which became part of the lexicon of what would eventually be called hip hop culture.