Find the dot. Most origin stories need a legend. This one has an address. August 11, 1973. Cindy Campbell rented the recreation room in the basement of her building for twenty-five dollars, made the invitations by hand, and set the door at a quarter for girls, fifty cents for boys. Her brother Clive, known as DJ Kool Herc, played the records. He had noticed the room only really moved during the break, the few seconds when the drums carry alone. So he put two copies of the same record on two turntables and ran the break deck to deck, for as long as the crowd needed it. The front of this shirt is that night in four lines, set beside a map of the streets around the building. One dot. No photograph. People still live there. Know the history, link to the free Vault article: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue: Where Hip-Hop Began THE DETAILS • Street map of the West Bronx around 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in charcoal, with a single light gray dot marking the building • LOOP THE DRUMS. / EXTEND THE BREAK. / HOLD THE CROWD. / HIP-HOP IS BORN. set beside the map in condensed caps, the last line bold • Small annotations between the lines: 1520 SEDGWICK AVENUE · THE BRONX · AUGUST 11, 1973 • Back: BX Originals mark • QR code on left sleeve with THE VAULT handstyle above, light ink • Black body, two-tone gray print. Single colorway MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION • 100% combed ring-spun cotton • Fabric weight: 4.3 oz/yd² (145.8 g/m²), 32 singles • Set-in sleeves, side-seamed, ribbed collar with shoulder-to-shoulder taping, double-needle hems • Fitted cut. Size up for a relaxed fit • Pre-shrunk SIZE SPECIFICATIONS Size Length Width XS 27" 17 ½" S 28" 19" M 29" 20 ½" L 30" 22" XL 31" 24" 2XL 32" 26" 3XL 33" 28" All measurements in inches. Width is measured flat across the chest. This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions! _________ BX ORIGINALS — TRUE TO THE CULTURE Hip-hop has four elements: DJing, MCing, Breaking, Graffiti. Each product in our collections carries one, set in that element's own lettering tradition. Not four versions of one graphic — four distinct hands held together by one system. THE BX VAULT Every BX Originals piece connects to the BX Vault — our library of long-form writing on hip-hop history and practice. Not marketing copy. Real research on the people, places, and decisions that built this culture. The culture on the product. The context behind it. FROM THE BRONX BX Originals documents hip-hop's four elements from where they started. We're not a fashion brand borrowing an aesthetic. We're building an archive that happens to make things you can wear.BX Originals. True to the culture.
