Friday August 11, 2023 is the 50th anniversary to the day of the now legendary summer party in the Bronx where an 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc played his sister’s back-to-school fundraiser in the rec room of their apartment building, an event now recognised as the spark which ignited hip hop music and culture.

2SER Breakfast kicked off the the day by interviewing several key figures who brought hip hop to the airwaves via community radio.

Starting in 1990, Miguel D’Souza hosted The Mothership Connection, a weekly hip-hop show here on 2SER. The show featured many, many MCs, DJs, writers, b-boys and b-girls and provided a home for the burgeoning Sydney hip-hop scene. Miguel returned to the station to celebrate the good times.