On this date 37 years in the past, Scott Sterling aka DJ Scott La Rock of Boogie Down Productions was shot and killed within the South Bronx.
In an try to interrupt up a battle on 167th and College Avenue close to the Highbridge Housing Tasks within the South Bronx, Scott Sterling, identified to the world as DJ Scott La Rock of the mighty Boogie Down Productions, was shot and killed, he died on the scene.
The capturing was the primary of its form in Hip Hop, with BDP being one of many essential artists to usher within the “Golden Period”, it was a shock to all the Hip Hop group to have KRS-1’s DJ shot in chilly blood. Paradoxically, this occurred in the course of the apex of their basic debut album Prison Minded, the place Scott and Kris had been posing with pistols, rifles, and no smiles. Sterling’s loss of life fueled KRS to start out the Cease The Violence Motion, which was broadly publicized with the By All Means Crucial album, and the star-studded “Self Destruction” single.
RIP to Scott La Rock! He Nonetheless Lives Through His Music!
