--- title: Google's DJ Doodle Celebrates 44 Years of Hip Hop description: Google is giving aspiring Hip Hop DJs a chance to practise with their latest Google Doodle that celebrates the 44th birthday of the genre. canonical: https://time.com/4896809/try-your-hand-at-djing-with-the-latest-google-doodle/ author: Rachel Lewis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-11T11:51:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:21.578Z og:title: Google's DJ Doodle Celebrates 44 Years of Hip Hop og:description: Google is giving aspiring Hip Hop DJs a chance to practise with their latest Google Doodle that celebrates the 44th birthday of the genre. og:url: https://time.com/4896809/try-your-hand-at-djing-with-the-latest-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd182ec84fc9ca567/6988d94b196cf4156d04169b/google-doodle-hip-hop.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: google-doodle-hip-hop og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google's DJ Doodle Celebrates 44 Years of Hip Hop twitter:description: Google is giving aspiring Hip Hop DJs a chance to practise with their latest Google Doodle that celebrates the 44th birthday of the genre. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd182ec84fc9ca567/6988d94b196cf4156d04169b/google-doodle-hip-hop.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Try Your Hand at DJing With the Latest Google Doodle by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Aug 11, 2017 11:51 AM UTC  Google by [Rachel Lewis](https://time.com/author/rachel-lewis/) ## Rachel Lewis Aug 11, 2017 11:51 AM UTC [Google](https://www.google.co.uk/) is giving aspiring [Hip Hop](http://time.com/4873179/mtv-vma-video-music-award/item/best-hip-hop/) DJs a chance to practice mixing some beats with its latest Google Doodle that celebrates the 44th birthday of the genre. The custom-made graphic, designed by New York city artist [Cey Adams](http://ceyadams.com/), takes users on a brief history of Hip Hop before showing them how to mix samples from some of the genre’s founding tracks, like [The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4) and [Apache by Incredible Bongo Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ). The birth of Hip Hop can be traced back to one date, [Google argues](https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop). On August 11, 1973, when Jamaican-American DJ Kool Herc decided to play only the instrumental sections, or “breaks”, of songs when he was playing at a back-to-school jam in the Bronx, New York. During these “breaks” his friend Coke La Rock jumped on the microphone and, apparently, the crowd went wild. Google’s DJ Doodle also uses the voice of former _Yo! MTV Raps_ host, Fab 5 Freddy, to tutor you through the experience and congratulate you on earning one of the 10 achievements. 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