The Story of DJ Hollywood

[@cherylknight4954]

Thank You DJ Hollywood 👋🏽 For Your Contributions to the HOUSE OF JOY & FUN: CLUB 371 THE BRONX, NY!!! 💯☝🏽👏🏽🙌🏽👍🏽👊🏼✊🏽👌🏽✌🏽💃🏽🕺🏾

[@2daypresents]

"The culture of Hip Hop is peace, love, unity and having fun."

[@PatThoms]

Did anyone in these comments actually live in the Bronx or go to Club 371, where Hollywood spun? I lived in the neighborhood (Morrisania section of the Bronx) and went to Club 371 while in junior high/high school - 1974 - 75. Hollywood and Eddie Cheeba (who makes it sweeter?! Cheeba, Cheeba, Cheeba!) were THE ones to listen to and party with.

[@michaelallen2418]

So DJ Hollywood basically emloyed the same rappping techniques that U Roy did in Jamaica (who happened to release an album as well as two other singles in 1970) and before Kool Herc invented the "Merry Go-Round" technique w/ breaks in 1973, which added much to the development of Rap and Hip Hop music. Still gotta give the guy his due, Hollywood played an integral role. Kool Herc never released any singles, a mixtape perhaps, but DJ Hollywood released a few the first in raps second year in the American mainstream being 1980.

[@michaelallen2418]

lol

[@michaelallen2418]

It's ok if you don't know your history. LOL.

[@ghetuyi]

U-Roy actually got it from Black American DJs like Jocko Henderson who was a rhyming DJ in the 50's and 60's. This is why U-Roy named one of his songs the 'Ur Ace From Outer Space' after Jocko Henderson whose famous catch phrase was Ur from Outer Space. Jamaican DJs actually copied American DJs not the other way around. The rhyming DJ is actually an American concept not Jamaican. Jamaican DJ Count Matchuki admitted he and other Jamaican DJs were trying to mimic American DJs. American DJs are the originators of this before Jamaicans copied the concept. American DJs were doing this even as far as the 1940s.

[@michaelallen2418]

Thank you for the info MisterZoe. I was able to find Douglas Jocko Henderson's 2 Songs released from circa 1963 (A Little Bit of Everything, and Blast Off To Love) as well as Count Machuki's 3 Songs released before 1970 (Machuki's Cooking, Warfare, and It Is I) on youtube in my research I've found that The Jubalaires released 3 songs songs between 1946-1947 which very much sound like rap (Noah, God Almightys Gonna Cut You Down, and The Preacher and The Bear). The two earliest songs I've located which sound like rap are perhaps Harry Reser - Send For Our Free Booklet (1930) and W.H. Auden - Night Mail (1936).

[@ghetuyi]

Yes rap was already here in the States and the Jamaican DJs were influenced by American culture. Glad you found other songs. There are rap songs in the 1920's too check out the Memphis Jug band The Whitewash Station from 1928. Have you checked out Pigmeat Markham's Here Comes The Judge this was in 1968. Also "Let's Have Some Heat" which is another one of Pigmeat Markham's rap songs that came out in 1958.

[@eddieferguson3307]

A true pioneer and legend, right up until today!!!!

[@BeatStylist]

Thank you for this.!

[@harrisont.griffin4654]

Very interesting

[@jehovahhohenzollern3329]

I was used as a witness in 85' to remember the writings over the bookmobile when he gave credit to a white man named Man Parrish for 5 Genres, he gave second place to Egyptian Lover.

[@ArunThrifty]

🙌🙌

[@jeffcard1A]

Hip-Hop came from the streets not the clubs and it was a youth-based movement. is hollywood a pioneer and did he influence the people who are the cornerstones of what came to be known as Hip-Hop? absolutely. did hollywood invent Hip-Hop? hell no. he wasn't even part of its development. people need to stop trying to rewrite history. B-boys and graffiti artists were an essential part of the development of Hip-Hop and that wasn't in the clubs.

[@StevenHager]

True. And Coke La Rock predates Hollywood.

[@GOAT-HRDRZ]

When did he say he invited Hip-hop, you triggered goofy ass snowflake. You just wrote a paragraph for nothing. You need slow down and take your meds bro. Frfr

[@jeffcard1A]

@@GOAT-HRDRZ awww, you scared?

[@GOAT-HRDRZ]

@@jeffcard1A scared of what? Some weird Nirvana fan that doesn't even fully understand the first four elements of Hip-hop correctly. Djs are just as important as the writers, the breakers and the mcs. He paid his dues and contributed enough to be a legend. Give the man his flowers and STFU

[@jeffcard1A]

@@GOAT-HRDRZ go listen to your pussy house music while dancing around like the pansy ass bitch you are