One of the first Radio DJ's in the USA, Dr. Hep Cat used to throw some rhymes on the air like, ''If you want to hip the tip and bop the top - You get some mad threads that just won't stop'' This influed other Radio DJ's and ordinary DJ's to say some rhymes on the air and in the club, well known as the first Rappers. Other known Radio DJ's, Poppa Stoppa and Georgie Woods. Some artist took it to their songs, like 'Say Man' and The Story Of B Diddley' with Bo Diddley. Jamaician Coxone Dodd made the way for the ordinary Disc Jockey's. Dodd used regulary go to the states buying new records to his sound system. On one of his travels he was very impressed of the style that Jocko Henderseon and Dr Jive had. He currished his best DJ, Count Machouki to try the same, and the idea was copied around the sound systems. In 1965 you could hear the slang on Sir Lord Comics single 'Ska-ing West'. (Come on you cats, get hep, we'r going west) It took a very long time for reggae to settle in America. But as the cause of many Jamaicans living in New York it was only the lack of time before the toasting would hit N.Y. Kool Herc was one of the DJ's that started rapping over the records. He could talk over the records, sayng stuff like: Ya rock and ya don't stop and this is the sounds of DJ Kool Herc and the Sound System and you're listening to the sounds of what we call the Herculoids. He was born in an orphanage he fought like a slave fuckin' up faggots all the Herculoids played when it come to push come to shove the Herculoids won't budge The bass is so low you can't get under it the high is so high you can't get over it So in other words be with it..He came from Jamaica in 1967. His Jamaican Dub records would not work, so he started playing latino funk. He was living in a hood were there was a lot of youth gangs that had a lot of private parties (Houseparties/Jams), were they was dancing in the street (B Boying) and painting their names all over the city (Tagging/Graffiti). The block parties strated out as a battle between the sound systems. Kool Herc's invention was to repetly play instrumental breaks he would talk street wise with an echo machine. This would Grand Wizard Theodore use by putting some scratching in the echo machine insted. Grandmaster Flash took it from there to the next level. There was only three well known DJ's in the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. They were, Kool DJ Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Herc's favorite artist was James Brown. That's who inspired him. Early Jamaican toasters with their sound systems, Count Machouki as pionečr followed by, U-Roy, Big Youth and Dillinger. In the early 80's, the DJ's and producers took over from were the pop era stopped with 12'' remixed records. And they made a lot of remixes on them, like: Accapella mix, Dub mix, Street Mix, Hip Hop mix etc. As Indeep said it, ''There's not a problem that I can't fix - Cause I can do it in the mix''. DMC WoRlD Technics Championship Winners throughout the time: 1986 - DJ Cheese (USA) 1987 - Chad Jackson (UK) 1988 - Cash Money (USA) 1989 - Cutmaster Swift (UK) 1990 - DJ David (Germany) 1991 - DJ David (Germany) 1992 - Rock Steady DJ's (USA) 1993 - Rock Steasy DJ's (USA) 1994 - Rock Steady DJ's (USA) 1995 - Roc Raider (USA) 1996 - DJ Noize (Demnark) 1997 - DJ A-Track (Canada) Some Known DJ's Funkmaster Flex His father was a dancehall DJ in Jamaica. He grew up in the hood with big block parties and DJ's as Chuck Chillout and Red Alert. Flex watched and lerned. And started playing at the age og 16. Jazzy J A real pioneer of Hip Hop. From rocking jams in the park to his recording career. He recorded Def Jam's third release "Cold Chillin' In The Spot/Def Jam" With Russel Simmons on the vocals. Has also produced Busy Bee album "Runin' Thang". Jazzy Joyce Old School female DJ who recorded with Sweet Tee and can be heard on New York radio. Grand Wizard Theodore The inventor of scratching. Has worked with a various groups. Grandmaster Flash He took the scratching to a new level, and inventet the trixing technice with backspin and transforming. He also inventet a own mixer named the "Flashformer". And he is offcourse known for his Rap group, The Furious Five. I'll put him on the same level as DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa as the Godfathers of Hip Hop. Flash mixed anything from Billy Squire to Michael Jackson to Thin Lizzy to Sly And The Family Stone to Glen Miller to Tschochosky.. Kurtis Mantronik (Mantronix) Born in Jamaica, with a Jamaican mother and an Arabic father. He loved reggae til he turned seven and then turned into rock music. Later he moved til New York with his mother. And in the beginning he diden't even like Hip Hop. But after a show he was interested in how they where able too scratch the record without jumping. So he then got two recordplayers and tried for himself. After a while he and his cousin was trading tapes. He lost interest for rock and got into Rap and Hip Hop. He used to watch Grandmixer DST, and then went home and practised. In 1983 after a job at the infamous Downtown Records Store, he got to know this guy who was doing some Rap. They talked and decided to try something out. He's name was MC Tee. They made this track "Fresh is the word" and a guy from Sleeping Records heard it. Later the record came out. The DJ at Roxy played it, and Mantronix first show was at Roxy. With heavy rotation on Kiss FM, the hit was a fact. Later they brought Chep Nuez as a third member of Mantronix. After the 3rd album, "In Full Effect" MC Tee was out and he signed for the US Airforce. Later replased by Bryce Luvah (LL Cool J's cousin) and DJ Dee. He has produced Joyce Simms, Just Ice, T La Rock among others. Today he is more into US Club sound. Grandmaster Flowers Kool Herc Grandwizard Theodore Grandmixer DST (DXT) DJ Noize The DMC champ of 96, and he is from Denmark. His speciallity is to take different Rap lyrics and put them together making new words. DJ First Rate DJ Q-Bert He is known as the best scratch DJ ever. Da New School Crews Invisible Scratch Pickles - Q Bert, Shortkut, Mix Master Mike, Disk. The Beat Junkies - Shortcut, D Styles The Scratch Perverts - DJ First Rate, DJ Thing, Tony Vegas, DJ Phats. DictionaRy 1 and 2's (Turntable 1 and 2) 1200 (The Technics SL 1200 is regarded as the best turntable for DJ'ing. The reason for this is its very, very high torque. If you hit the start/stop button, the platter will reach top speed within a 1/4th revolution. Not many turntables can match that. Backspin - Making two records repetely say the same stanza by pulling the records back to the same spot and release it to the speakers. This can be done very fast. B Boy - Break Boy, Bad Boy, Beat Boy etc. Cross Fader (Fading switch to select the left or right turntable) Cutting (Cutting the noise without the crossfader) DJ (Disc Jockey, the guy that plays records for a crowd) Scratching - To pull the record back and forth making a scratchy noise. Scratch DJ - A DJ who is into scratching, transforming and trix mixing. Transform Scratch - When cutting up the scratch and cutting up the record back and forth.