DJ Hollywood

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DJ Hollywood (* 10. December 1954 , real name Anthony Holloway ) is a hip-hop - DJ and MC and one of the pioneers of the genre. He or his former partner Lovebug Starski coined the term hip hop.

Career

Hollywood began his musical career at the age of 14. After his first attempts at singing in a few groups, he switched to DJing. From 1971 he put on in the Apollo Theater and the Charles Gallery in Harlem . With the advent of the disco style , he gained first notoriety. In the 1970s he was one of the most popular artists of old school hip hop and one of the first DJs to deliberately isolate danceable passages from songs. He underlined his mixes with different rhymes, the first rape so to speak. Together with partners and competitors such as Kool Herc , King Tim the 3rd and Grandmaster Flash, he is considered to be the inventor of hip hop and is counted among the first rappers . According to Grandmaster Flash he was "one of the greatest solo rappers that ever there was".

He is also considered a pioneer of beat juggling . He coined various rap phrases such as “Up my back and around my neck” and “Woo-Ha, got the girls in check”, which were later used by other DJs. In the late 1970s, he had a partner named DJ Smalls . He celebrated the high point of his career at the end of the 1970s, when he appeared regularly at the Apollo Theater and heated the audience with his sets between performances by other artists. His music influenced Melle Mel , Kurtis Blow and the Sugar Hill Gang , among others . However, he missed the opportunity to get a recording deal in the early 1980s. His single Shock, Shock the House was released in 1980 on Epic Records , but while many of his companions made careers, Hollywood's DJ career stagnated.

DJ Hollywood withdrew from the hip-hop scene in the mid-1980s to fight his drug addiction . He later attempted a comeback and joined veterans with old partner Lovebug Starski Tha , performing in New York and New Jersey.

Discography

As with many DJs of the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood's early DJ works are nowhere to be found on record. In the early 1970s, however, he sold some 8-track cassettes around his concerts.

Albums / compilations

  • 1995: Rarities (Ol 'Skool Flava)
  • 1995: Hollywood's World (Tuff City Records)

Singles / EPs

  • 1980: Shock, Shock the House ( Epic Records )
  • 1983: I Feel great (from CB's Bandstand, Mercury Records )
  • 1984: Hollywood's Message (HIKIM - ALI Records)
  • 1985: Got the Beat for Christmas (with DJ Tango , A&M Records)
  • 1986: To Whoever It May Concern (World to World Records)
  • 1987: Hollywood's World (Abdull-Akbar Records Inc.)
  • 1987: Love in the Afternoon (World to World Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DJ Hollywood at Discogs (English)
  2. ↑ Paul MacInnes: Was DJ Hollywood the first rapper? The Guardian , June 13, 2011, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Love Saves the Day by Tim Lawrence (word quote)
  4. ↑ a b biography at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b DJ Hollywood. Oldschoolhiphop.com, January 7, 2010, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  6. ↑ David Shanks: Iptown Baby !: Hip hop in Harlem and Upper Manhattan . In: Mickey Hess (Ed.): Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide . ABC-CLIO, 2009, ISBN 978-0-313-34321-6 , pp. 33 .
personal data
SURNAME DJ Hollywood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holloway, Anthony (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hip hop DJ and MC, one of the pioneers of the genre
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1954