{"id":1435,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:47:26","slug":"mercedesladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/mercedesladies.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc33;\">Members<\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>Baby D (D&#8217;Bora) <br \/>\n Sherri-Sher<br \/>\n RD Smiley<br \/>\n Zina-Zee<br \/>\n DJ LaSpank<br \/>\n Eve-a-Def<br \/>\n Sweet P<br \/>\n Sty-Sty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Widely recognized as the the first all female group, The Mercedes Ladies were  founded around 1976.\u00a0 They were the sister group to <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/fantastic5.htm\">Grandwizard Theodore<\/a> and the L Brothers.\u00a0  They shared the same manager Trevor.<\/p>\n<p>They did shows with such acts as Kevie-Kev, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/busybee.htm\">Busy Bee  Starski<\/a>, Master Rob, <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/afrika.htm\">Bambaataa<\/a>, <a href=\"\/aritsts\/deejays\/redalert.htm\">Red Alert<\/a>, <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/kooldjherc.htm\">Kool Herc<\/a>, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/furiousfive.htm\">The Furious Five<\/a>, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/coldcrushbrothers.htm\">The Cold Crush Brothers<\/a>,  <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/grandmixerdst.htm\">Grandmixer DST<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Baby D was taught to scratch by Grandwizard Theodore. She later went on to released the track &#8220;No Sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They were featured on <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/donaldd.htm\">Donald D&#8217;s<\/a> recording &#8220;Don&#8217;s Groove&#8221; in the early  1980&#8217;s. Although they never had  their own record deal and are rarely mentioned, they paved the way for  many females  to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet P and Sty-Sty were later members.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, 2000, The Mercedes Ladies were presented with the Hip-Hop Heritage Award from  ICAST.com.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out Davey D interview Sherri Sher<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xIYlznG8nhE?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Infor submitted by dgentertain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/artists\/emcees.htm\">Back to MC&#8217;s Biographies<\/a><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members Baby D (D&#8217;Bora) Sherri-Sher RD Smiley Zina-Zee DJ LaSpank Eve-a-Def Sweet P Sty-Sty Widely recognized as the the first all female group, The Mercedes Ladies were founded around 1976.\u00a0 They were the sister group to Grandwizard Theodore and the L Brothers.\u00a0 They shared the same manager Trevor. They did shows with such acts as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,26,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}