Fresh 3 MC’s
Mr. Bee Supreme GQ Jay Cool DJ Devine The Fresh 3 MC’s were signed to Profile records in 1982 and the single “Fresh” was released the following year. They also recorded a little played B…
Month: February 2018
Crash Crew
E.K. Mike C La Shubee Barry Bistro G-man Reggie Reg DJ Darryl C (d. late 1990’s) Formed in Harlem in 1977 by a group of high school pals, they began giving performances at neighborhood playgrounds.…
The B-Boys
DJ Chuck Chillout Donald D Brother B The B-boys hail from the Bronx, New York. Their best known record is “Rock The House” which has been sampled on just about every early cut and paste jam.…
Word of Mouth Featuring DJ Cheese
Original G The K.MC DJ Cheese (Robert Cheese) Their big track was “King Kut” which is part of the long history of basing songs around how great your deejay is. The song features several recognizable…
Cold Crush Brothers
DJ Tony Tone (Angelo King) Easy AD (Adrian Harris) DJ Charlie Chase (Carlos Mandes) Grandmaster Caz (Curtis Fisher) Almighty KG (Kenneth Pounder) JDL (Jerry Dee Lewis) Money Ray (Eric Hoskins) d. 10/3/02 This was one…
Funky 4 Plus 1
KK Rockwell (Kevin Smith) Keith Keith (Keith Caesar) Lil’ Rodney Cee (Rodney Stone) Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Myree) Sha Rock (Sharon Green) Forming in 1979, this was one of the first hip hop groups that contained…
Disco Four Biography
DJ Al Bee Ronnie D Greg G Mr. Troy Country Kool Gee Harlem based group used to jam in combination with Bee Fats, Donald Dee,and JR. DJ Al Bee was the DJ. MC’s were Ronnie…
Kool DJ AJ Scratch
Kool DJ AJ Scratch, a pioneering hip-hop disc jockey who had been in the business since the late 1970s, died Wednesday, according to his friend and collaborator, the rapper Kurtis Blow. “RIP to my DJ…
Davy DMX Biography
Davy DMX, born David Reeves, got his start as a deejay in the late 1970’s in his hometown of Queens, New York. He worked with many groups who wanted to employ the beats he created…