Chris “The Glove” Taylor
Chris “The Glove” Taylor was one of the DJ pioneers on the West Coast. Ice T’s first appearances on wax were on his records “Reckless” (from “Breakin'”) and “Tibetan Jam” both in 1983. He was signed to Electrobeat Records. He was also in a crew known as The Radio Crew before he was a solo artist. Other members of The Radio Crew were Ice T, Super AJ, and The Egyptian Lover. They...
Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa is undoubtedly one of hip hop’s godfathers. As a teenager in the mid-1970’s, he fell into the Black Spades gang, but had a different interest than causing trouble. Bam started deejaying in 1970. He had a passion for buying records (he would later be known as the “Master of Records”) and his tastes were very diversified from rock to r&b to African sounds to Latin, calypso, and classical. ...
