Little Starsky aka Lovebug Starski (Kevin Smith, The Bronx, New York, U.S., May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018) was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career in 1971, as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "hip-hop". As an artist, he released his first songs, 1979's "Gangster Rock" and 1981's "Dancin' Party People", under the name
Little Starsky before putting out "Positive Life," credited to Love Bug Starski and the Harlem World Crew, in 1981.Smith was an early acolyte of Grandmaster Flash, rhyming alongside the DJ at parties at...
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