Hip Hop Royalty, Iconic Legends First Female MC Sha-Rock and ICON Busy Bee

Sharon Green, better know by her stage name Sha Rock is a rapper from Wilmington, North Carolina. MC Sha-Rock became one of the earliest female emcee"on wax" or recorded on vinyl who began as a local b-girl or breakdancer in the earliest days ofSouth Bronx hip-hop scene and culture in the late 1970s. She recorded with the Funky 4 + 1, which consisted of four male emcees + 1, the plus one denoted Green as the sole female emcee.]The Funky 4 + 1 had their first significant hit with the 12-inch single "Rapping and Rocking the House" on Sugarhill Records(1979) as well as "That's the Joint" (1980).As an early pioneer affiliated with the Zulu Nation, MC Sha-Rock inspired a style of rapping emulated and made notable by Run DMC called the "echo chamber". The early roots of girls and women in hip-hop are often downplayed but Sharon Green aka MC Sha-Rock is considered the first to record and the first to appear on national television. .......

David Parker, known by the stage name Busy Bee, is an old school hip hop musician, and MC. First coming on the New York City music scene in 1977, Busy Bee worked with many of hip-hop's founding fathers,including Melle Mel,Afrika Bambaataa and Kool DJ AJ.