Sedgwick Blvd Women's short sleeve t-shirt

Sedgwick Blvd Women's short sleeve t-shirtArtwork: photo realistic painterly rendering of the actual NYC street signs at the co named intersection green street sign panels reading Sedgwick Av and Hip Hop Blvd in white serif lettering. Sky and surrounding building windows in teal and beige tones. Black framing border. Sedgwick Blvd. On August 11, 1973, an eighteen year old named Clive Campbell Jamaican born, raised in the Bronx, known on the block as DJ Kool Herc threw his sister Cindy's back

Artwork: photo-realistic painterly rendering of the actual NYC street signs at the co-named intersection — green street-sign panels reading “Sedgwick Av” and “Hip Hop Blvd” in white serif lettering. Sky and surrounding building windows in teal and beige tones. Black framing border.

Sedgwick Blvd.

On August 11, 1973, an eighteen-year-old named Clive Campbell — Jamaican-born, raised in the Bronx, known on the block as DJ Kool Herc — threw his sister Cindy's back-to-school party in the recreation room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. He plugged two turntables into a sound system and ran the breakbeat back and forth between them, extending the part of the record where the dancers went hardest. That night the entire genre of hip-hop was born. Fifty years later, the city of New York co-named the street Hip Hop Boulevard — making this the only piece of geography in America officially designated as the home of a music genre.

This piece is for the heads who know the address. The ones who can find 1520 Sedgwick on a map without Google. The Bronx natives, the Jamaican diaspora kids who claim Herc twice — once for the borough and once for the island. The signs in the artwork are real signs you can stand under right now. Geography is the only kind of history nobody can take from you.

For the cookout. The hip-hop history class. The day you want to wear the actual address. Pair with white sneakers, gold chain, and the volume that brought the whole block out.