DJ Kay Slay, Fiery Radio Star and Rap Mixtape Innovator, Dies at 55
Source: New York Times
DJ Kay Slay, who served as a crucial bridge between hip-hop generations, developing from a teenage B-boy and graffiti writer into an innovative New York radio personality known for his pugnacious mixtapes that stoked rap beefs, broke artists and helped change the music business, died on Sunday in New York. He was 55.
Slay had faced “a four-month battle with Covid-19,” his family said in a statement confirming his death.
Few figures in hip-hop could trace their continued presence from the genre’s earliest days to the digital present like he could. In late-1970s New York, Slay was a young street artist known as Dez, plastering his spray-painted tag on building walls and subway cars, as chronicled in the cult documentaries “Wild Style” and “Style Wars.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/arts/music/dj-kay-slay-dead.html
New York legend DEZ TFA / DJ Kay Slay succumbs to COVID after four month battle. Rest in Peace to a legend and innovator.
Classic photo, of course, from the great Martha Cooper.
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