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DJ Hollywood (born December 10, 1954) is an American old school hip hop
Old school hip hop

Old school hip hop describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music , and often by extension the music in the period preceding it . The image, styles and sounds of the old school were exemplified by figures like the Fat Boys, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, The Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash...
 DJ and rapper. According to Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow

Curtis Walker , signed with Uncle Louie Music Group is better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is one of the first commercially successful rapping and the first to sign with a major record label....
, Hollywood was the first rapper in the hip-hop style. His rhymes are from the top of the dome, he has never written anything down. Some of his creations other rappers have been using for the last 30 years such as "throw ya hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care."

DJ Hollywood first came to prominence just as disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
 was becoming popular, and he soon became one of the most in-demand performers of the nascent hip hop culture.






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DJ Hollywood (born December 10, 1954) is an American old school hip hop
Old school hip hop

Old school hip hop describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music , and often by extension the music in the period preceding it . The image, styles and sounds of the old school were exemplified by figures like the Fat Boys, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, The Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash...
 DJ and rapper. According to Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow

Curtis Walker , signed with Uncle Louie Music Group is better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is one of the first commercially successful rapping and the first to sign with a major record label....
, Hollywood was the first rapper in the hip-hop style. His rhymes are from the top of the dome, he has never written anything down. Some of his creations other rappers have been using for the last 30 years such as "throw ya hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care."

DJ Hollywood first came to prominence just as disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
 was becoming popular, and he soon became one of the most in-demand performers of the nascent hip hop culture. Most of his body of musical work was live, not recorded, although he did release a single "Shock Shock The House" in 1980 on CBS Records
CBS Records

CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 in music to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties distributed by CBS Paramount Television....
.

Until the mid-1980s, Hollywood was one of the top DJs; he then retired and fought drug addiction
Drug addiction

Drug addiction is widely considered a Pathology. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior, the vulnerability to relapse, and the decreased, slowed ability to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli....
. He has since returned to performing in the New York City
New York City

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 area, appearing with Tha Veteranz which reunited him with his former partner Lovebug Starski
Lovebug Starski

Lovebug Starski is an American hip hop rapping, musician and record producer. His began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip hop music first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a Disc jockey at the Disco Fever nightclub in 1978....
.