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 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. Former label mates René & Angela had their R&B chart topping debut " Save Your Love (For #1)" was gift rapped by Kurtis. Hyde, 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'". He attended CCNY and Nyack College, studying communications/film and ministry. Walker was raised in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. (To the hoop, ya'll, Watch out, Watch out In yo' face, now here comes the rest)Ĭlyde, Rick Barry, and Pistol Pete, Now these players, could never be beat, Isiah, and Iceman too, Just give 'em the ball, and then you chalk up two, Dantley and Wilkins are on the scene, And Ralph Sampson is really mean, Bill Russell didn't take no junk, and Darryl Dawkins got a monster dunk, Tell me, were you in the joint?, The night Wilt scored 100 points, Or when Celtics won titles back-to-back, And didn't give nobody, no kind of slack, Or when Dr.Early life, family and education I used to go to dinner, and then take the girl, To see Tiny play against Earl The Pearl, And Wilt, Big O, and Jerry West, To play Basketball at it's very best, Basketball has always been my thing, I like Magic, Bird, and Bernard King, And number 33, my man Kareem, Kurtis Blow - Basketball. J and Moses Malone I like Slam dunks take me to the hoop My favorite play is the alley oop I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go, Cause it's Basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow, (Now rapping Basketball Number 1 Kurtis Blow) Basketball is my favorite sport I like the way they dribble up and down the court Just like I'm the King on the microphone so is Dr. Chours: They're playing Basketball We love that Basketball They're playing Basketball We love that Basketball
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