DJ HOLLYWOOD: CIPHER COMPLETE
Hip Hop fans under the age of forty may not recognize the name but they know the game. Too young to witness DJ Hollywood holding court at '70's nightspots such as Charles Gallery and Club 371, there is no doubt they remember Kurtis Blow's booming baritone on Christmas Rappin' and The Breaks or Big Bank Hank waxing poetic on The Sugar Hill Gang's " Rapper's Delight " to being mesmerized by party rocker Doug E. Fresh and Busta Rhymes' 1997 smash Whoo-Ha (Got You All In Check). Style. Delivery. Showmanship. No matter what flavor that they savored, all points lead back to DJ Hollywood. Each of those artists took a page from the legendary dj/emcee whose autobiography, It's Star Time captures a critical yet overlooked era in hip hop history. Written in collaboration with Lucio Dutch, prolific author of several books under his Hip Hop Memoirs imprint, Time is the latest in a series chronicling untold st...