“For me, just to put the whole thing together, that was the best part,” Campbell said in 2020.By the time the party got underway, the crowd had come to see Herc, whose loud system was an attraction for young people. He later proclaimed in ““Everybody put on their best that day,” Herc recounted in the documentary about Aug. 11, 1973.At that time, Coke La Rock thought of himself as more of a marijuana dealer than an MC.
Rapper Kurtis Blow echoed that sentiment, recalling one Herc party that had him sticking his head next to the bass speaker and closing his eyes, “and the bass would just rumble all through my body, all the way down to my toes.” The success of that first party spawned other jams in the Bronx that summer, which eventually got the attention of Grandmaster Flash after someone talked about a party they attended featuring a “slammin’ DJ with a killer sound system,” according to the 2008 autobiography ““This wasn’t yet a genre of music, it was just parties. These people throwing parties was just part of the culture,” Carnas told The Post.