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Artist News
Kool Herc ill, but looks like medical bills covered
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 1 February 2011
Hip hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc is reportedly ill and needs surgery, though concerns that he wouldn’t be able to afford the required treatment seem to have been overcome.
It was Gang Star man DJ Premier who first alerted fans to Herc’s condition this weekend, announcing that the early hip hopper was facing major problems meeting medical bills, he having never become especially rich from the now lucrative hip hop genre he helped found. Various fund raising efforts were quickly mooted, including a benefit due to take place in New York tonight.
Whether due to those efforts or one generous benefactor I’m not sure, but the webmaster of Premier’s website posted overnight: “Just got the word from DJ Premier that I can take down the donations address and his bills are getting handled. More details remain unknown. Hopefully we can hear an official text by Kool Herc himself as soon as possible. I guess he had a lot of donations from all around us… Word”.
