A national tour of the show was scheduled to launch in November 2015 with Kurtis Blow reprising his role as Guest MC opening the show.
#Kurtis blow discography update
In December 2014, Kurt was the Guest MC for the world premiere of The Hip Hop Nutcracker at New Jersey Performing Arts Center, a well received update of Tchaikovsky's holiday classic. In 2002, he traveled to the Middle East to tour the Armed Forces bases performing seventeen shows for the troops. ASCAP honored Kurt and Next at a gala affair on for having the number one song for 8 months. In 1998, the group Next released " Too Close", in which the music of "Christmas Rappin'" was sampled. In the same year, rapper Nas debuted at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his version of Blow's "If I Ruled The World". He also worked for Sirius Satellite Radio on the Classic Old School Hip Hop station Backspin (Channel 46) from 2000-2004.īeginning in 1996, Kurtis Blow was featured in a hip hop display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He hosted The Old School Show on Sunday nights, featuring hits from the past. In 1995, he started working on-air in radio, Power 106, the #1 CHR radio station in Southern California. Al Sharpton's Action Network in New York City. Jesse Jackson's Operation Push and National Rainbow Coalition in Chicago and with Rev. He was an active participant in the Artists United Against Apartheid record “ Sun City”. Kurtis has spoken out emphatically against racism. Kurtis was recently a producer for the Netflix show, "The Get Down". Kurtis also co produced “Slippin, Ten Years With The Bloods” and won praises from Showtime for being the most viewed documentary in 2003. As host and associate producer for Miramax’s Rhyme and Reason, he gave an informative account of the status of hip hop, while he participated in the three volume record release The History Of Rap for Rhino Records in 1998. He was host and co-producer for Das Leben Amerikanischer Gangs (1995), an international film production focusing on the West Coast gang scene. He performed as an actor and in music coordination in several feature films including Leon Kennedy’s Knights of the City and the hip hop film Krush Groove. federal holiday inaugurated in January 1986. Walker produced, with Phillip Jones as co-producer and Dexter Scott King as executive producer, the song " King Holiday", celebrating the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. Former label mates René & Angela had their R&B chart topping debut " Save Your Love (For #1)" was gift rapped by Kurtis. Lovebug Starski, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced by, or collaborated with, Walker. Run began his career billed as 'The Son of Kurtis Blow'. īesides his own work, Kurtis has been responsible for hits by The Fat Boys and Run DMC. He lived in Co-op City in the Bronx in the mid-1980s. From this album, the song "If I Ruled the World" became a Top 5 hit on Billboard's R&B chart. His 1985 album, America, garnered praise for its title track's music video. Ego Trip included the hits: "8 Million Stories", "AJ Scratch", and "Basketball". Party Time featured a fusion of rap and go-go. His first album was Kurtis Blow, while his second was the Top 40 pop album Deuce. He released ten albums over the next eleven years. Its follow-up, " The Breaks", sold over half a million copies. It sold over 400,000 copies, becoming one of the first commercially successful hip hop singles. In 1979, at the age of twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released "Christmas Rappin'".
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