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DJ Kool

Hip-Hop/Rap

The next DJ Kool concert is scheduled for Friday, July 18, 2025 at North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center in North Charleston, SC, United States. See all 1 upcoming concerts
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Top Songs By DJ Kool

Listen to Let Me Clear My Throat (Live) by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
Let Me Clear My Throat (Live)DJ Kool
Listen to Let Me Clear My Throat (Old School Reunion Remix '96) by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
Let Me Clear My Throat (Old School Reunion Remix '96)DJ Kool
Listen to It Takes Scoop (feat. DJ Kool) by Fatman Scoop, see lyrics, music video & more!
It Takes Scoop (feat. DJ Kool)Fatman Scoop
Listen to Cha Cha Cha by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
Cha Cha ChaDJ Kool
Listen to Let's Get Dirty (I Can't Get In da Club) [feat. DJ Kool] by Redman, see lyrics, music video & more!
Let's Get Dirty (I Can't Get In da Club) [feat. DJ Kool]Redman
Listen to Block Party by Chuck Brown, see lyrics, music video & more!
Block PartyChuck Brown
Listen to Have a Good Time by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
Have a Good TimeDJ Kool
Listen to I Got Dat Feelin' (Live) by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
I Got Dat Feelin' (Live)DJ Kool
Listen to Put That Hump (In Your Back) by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
Put That Hump (In Your Back)DJ Kool
Listen to 20 Minute Workout by DJ Kool, see lyrics, music video & more!
20 Minute WorkoutDJ Kool

Upcoming Concerts for DJ Kool

  • Jul
    18
    Jul 18, 2025
    North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center
    North Charleston

Latest Release

Listen to Unpublished by DJ Kool & Wreckx-n-Effect
ALBUMUnpublishedDJ Kool & Wreckx-n-Effect

More albums from DJ Kool

Listen to Let Me Clear My Throat by DJ Kool
ALBUMLet Me Clear My ThroatDJ Kool
Listen to The Music Ain't Loud Enuff by DJ Kool
ALBUMThe Music Ain't Loud EnuffDJ Kool

About DJ Kool

Listen to DJ Kool, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Hometown
Washington, D.C.
Born
1959
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
A fusion of feel-good go-go music with hip-hop's original block-party aesthetic led DJ Kool to the fore in rap's return to the old school during the late '90s. A veteran of D.C.'s go-go circuit who worked as a warm-up DJ for Rare Essence during the early- to mid-'80s, Kool began recording in 1988 and early on tried to inform the studio art of hip-hop with a live feel in keeping with his experience. His first album, The Music Ain't Loud Enuff, used call and response much like early hip-hop and go-go (and also included the hip-house track "House Your Body" prefaced by a remarkably accurate monologue on the history of house music). Kool took it to the stage in 1992 with the mini-LP 20 Minute Workout, recorded live in Richmond, VA, and released on Steve Janis' CLR Records. By the time of 1996's Let Me Clear My Throat, mostly recorded live in Philadelphia, the East Coast underground was buzzing about Kool's way with a crowd. American Records won a five-way bidding war and reissued Let Me Clear My Throat early the following year; providing remixes of the title track were Funkmaster Flex and Mark the 45 King (whose funky underground hit "The 900 Number" was the basis for the title track in the first place), helping it climb into the Top Five on the rap charts. In mid-2000, he and Fatman Scoop released the remixed Rob Base classic "It Takes Two." ~ John Bush

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