Little Starsky

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Little Starsky aka Lovebug Starski (Kevin Smith, The Bronx, New York, U.S., May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018) was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career in 1971, as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "hip-hop". As an artist, he released his first songs, 1979's "Gangster Rock" and 1981's "Dancin' Party People", under the name Little Starsky before putting out "Positive Life," credited to Love Bug Starski and the Harlem World Crew, in 1981. Smith was an early acolyte of Grandmaster Flash, rhyming alongside the DJ at parties at the Bronx River housing project in the 1970s. "He would play on my set from time to time, but his skills became so sharp that he wanted to play more," Flash says. "He came from my camp, but he exploded when he became a tandem with Bronx disco jock Pete 'DJ' Jones." Around 1978, Smith joined Flash and other hip-hop pioneers at Disco Fever, the Bronx nightclub seen in the seminal hip-hop movie Krush Groove, where he remained a resident DJ through the mid-1980s. Starski recorded the single, "Positive Life," on the Tayster record label in 1981, sampled by the British Group MARRS with the single number one : Pump up the Volume in 1987. Later he recorded a song for the soundtrack of the 1986 film Rappin', which was released on Atlantic Records, before recording his first album, House Rocker, on Epic/CBS Records

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Gangster Rock

Soul Jazz Records Presents BOOMBOX 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 1979-83

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Equidity Funk

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BOOMBOX 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83

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Harlem World: The Sound Of The Big Apple Rappin'

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Rap Music

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Hits, Hits, Hits V.1

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P&P Records Hits Hits Hits [Disc 2]

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79

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Soul Jazz Records Presents BOOMBOX 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 1979-

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Essential Old School Hip Hop 1

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Sources - The P&P Records Funk & Rap Anthology Compiled by Bill Brewster

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