DJ Kool Herc, left, not to be confused with LL Cool J, right.
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“When greedy landlords in the Bronx wanted to close the home on Sedgwick Avenue where L.L. Kool Herc invented hip hop and lots of hardworking people lived, we stopped them.”
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— Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accidentally conflating two hip-hop legends — DJ Kool Herc and LL Cool J — at a gala for minority politicians in Albany over the weekend, the New York Observer reports. They’re both constituents, anyway.
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