Curated category
American hip-hop DJs
- DJ HollywoodAnthony Holloway, known as DJ Hollywood, was born on the 10th of December 1954. His approach to MCing changed how audiences heard early hip-hop music.
- Disco King MarioDisco King Mario entered the world on the 1st of July 1956. His family originated from Edenton, North Carolina. This small town in eastern North Carolina…
- Grand Wizzard TheodoreTheodore Livingston was born on the 5th of March 1963 in the Bronx, New York. His life changed during a domestic dispute in 1975 when his mother entered his…
- Marley MarlMarlon Lu'Ree Williams was born on the 30th of September 1962 inside the Queensbridge housing projects in Queens, New York.
- Large ProfessorWilliam Paul Mitchell was born in Harlem on the 21st of March 1972. He grew up in Flushing, Queens, where he attended IS 237 and John Bowne High School.
- DJ QbertRichard Quitevis arrived in this world on the 7th of October 1969. His parents came from Bacolod and Ilocos Sur before settling in San Francisco.
- Afrika BambaataaLance Taylor grew up in the Bronx River Projects during the 1960s and 1970s. He was born on the 17th of April 1957 to Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants.
- Shaquille O'NealShaquille Rashaun O'Neal entered the world on the 6th of March 1972, in Newark, New Jersey. His biological father was Joe Toney, a high school basketball…
- MadlibOtis Lee Jackson Jr. arrived in the world on the 24th of October 1973 within Oxnard, California. His father Otis Jackson Sr.
- DJ Kool HercClive Campbell was born on the 16th of April 1955 in Kingston, Jamaica. He grew up surrounded by sound systems at neighborhood dance halls where DJs known as…
- Lil JonJonathan H. Smith was born on the 17th of January 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in Southwest Atlanta as the oldest of five children.
- DJ Jazzy JeffJeffrey Allen Townes arrived in Philadelphia on the 22nd of January 1965. He grew up watching local block parties from a distance rather than dancing on the…