I recently stumbled upon this tidbit about DJ Kool Herc's situation, which pointed me to this article where Dres of Black Sheep put the hip hop community on blast for not helping pay for Kool Herc's medical bills even though the "Godfather of Hip Music" has no insurance. It was only after this act of shaming that today's rappers got on the ball. The delayed reaction is basically the community forgetting where it came from. The link at the end of the post points out that many of the genre's founding fathers are in the same boat as Kool Herc. As for Dres, he never got enough money back in the day to quit his day job.
Black Girl Pain...: Hip Hop Benefits don't include Health Insurance......: "By now everyone has heard about DJ Kool Herc and how he needs money for an operation for kidney stones (I believe). Twitter and many hip hop..."
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