T-Connection, Nov. 20, 1981
- Title:
- T-Connection, Nov. 20, 1981
- Collection:
- Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers
- Performer:
- K.K. Rockwell (Early Hip Hop Performer, Member of the Funky Four)
Lil Rodney Cee (C) (Hip Hop Performer, Member of the Funky Four Plus One)
Sha-Rock (Hip Hop Performer, Early Female emcee. Member of Funky Four Plus One)
T-Ski (Early Hip Hop performer, DJ with the Erotic Disco Brothers)
Mean Gene (Early Hip Hop DJ, member of The L Brothers, older brother of Grandwizzard Theodore)
Melle Mel (Born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961, also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
Kool Moe Dee (Hip Hop MC prominent in the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Member of the Treacherous Three.)
Electric Force
The Cold Crush Brothers (Hip Hop group, South Bronx (original members: Tony Tone, Charlie Chase, Easy A.D., Kay Gee, Jerry Dee, Grandmaster Caz, DJ Outlaw))
Spoonie Gee (Born Gabriel Jackson, Harlem, NYC. Early rap artist.)
Grandwizzard Theodore and the Fantastic Five (Pioneering Hip Hop group. Originally called "The L Brothers," later called "The Brothers Fantastic.")
Kool DJ AJ (Hip Hop DJ. Played with Busy Bee, Kurtis Blow et al.)
Busy Bee Starski (Early Hip Hop emcee (aka Chiefrocker Starski), b. David Parker in South Bronx, NYC.)
Sequence (American female hip–hop trio from Columbia, South Carolina, formed in 1979. Signed to Sugarhill Records late 1970s-early 1980s. Members: Cheryl Cook, known as "Cheryl The Pearl", Gwendolyn Chisolm, known as "Blondy", and lead singer and rapper Angie Stone, known as Angie B.)
- Graphic Designer:
- Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") (Hip Hop Flyer Designer, active in the 1970s and 1980s)
- Guest:
- Mean Machine, G.M Flash and Furious 5, Sequence, Sugar Hill Gang and all other well known D.J.s and M.C.s
- Promoter:
- D.T. M.G. B.J. Productions
- Date:
- 1981-11-20
- Date 2:
- 1981-11-21
- Coordinates:
- 40.8776131,-73.8657074
- Latitude:
- 40.8776131
- Longitude:
- -73.8657074
- Location:
- 3510 White Plains Rd.
Bronx, New York, New York, United States - Country:
- United States
- Venue:
- T Connection
- ID Number:
- HHC8052BE_0014
- Collection Number:
- 8052
- File Name:
- HHC8052BE_0014.tif
- Occasion:
- Double Trouble a Sure Shot Disco Bash
- Transcription:
- $5 All Nite
- Work Type:
- fliers (printed matter)
posters - Materials/Techniques:
- dry-transfer letters
markers (drawing instruments) - Subject:
- Hip-hop--United States
Popular culture--United States
Rap (Music)
Disc jockeys - Description:
- Rules, frames, photograph
- Cite As:
- Breakbeat Lenny Archive, #8052. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell University Hip Hop Collection
- Archival Collection:
- Breakbeat Lenny Archive
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images on our web site are made available for non-profit, educational use. Higher resolution versions of the images may be requested by contacting rareref@cornell.edu. Although Cornell University Library is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (17 U.S.C.) on the flyers and other materials made available on this site (unless otherwise indicated) permission and possible fees may be required from the owners of any copyright independently of the Library. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in this collection. Researchers must make their own assessments of rights in light of their intended use.
If you have any more information about an item you've seen on our website or if you are the author or copyright owner and believe our website has not properly attributed your work to you or has used it without permission, we want to hear from you. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with your contact information and a link to the relevant content.