User:Benno mwampamba

Bernard(Benno)Mwampamba (born April 22, 1992), also known as Kingo, is a Tanzanian can-born Tanzania,Songea who is credited with originating hip hop music in the early 2000s in The Dar Es Salaam City in Tanzania. His playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by TamaduniMuzik was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Dar Es Salaam and to the nascent popularity of disco in the 2000s. Campbell began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record, which emphasized the drum beat—the "break"—and switch from one break to another.

Using the same two turntable set-up of disco DJs, Campbell used two copies of the same record to elongate the break. This breakbeat DJing, using hard funk, rock, and records with Latin percussion, formed the basis of hip hop music. Campbell's announcements and exhortations to dancers helped lead to the syncopated, rhymed spoken accompaniment now known as rapping. He called his dancers "break-boys" and "break-girls", or simply b-boys and b-girls. Campbell's DJ style was quickly taken up by figures such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Unlike them, he never made the move into commercially recorded hip hop in its earliest years.