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Coke La Rock is an American rapper and one of the founding fathers of hip-hop. He was born in the Bronx, New York, on April 25, 1955. He is best known for his work with the pioneering rap group, The Cold Crush Brothers.
Coke La Rock began his career as a DJ in the early 1970s, spinning records at parties and clubs in the Bronx. He soon began to rap and was one of the first to do so in the Bronx. He was a member of the Cold Crush Brothers, a pioneering rap group that was formed in 1978. The group released several singles and albums, and Coke La Rock was featured on many of their tracks.
Coke La Rock has continued to be active in the hip-hop community, appearing on various albums and collaborating with other artists. He has also been featured in documentaries and books about the history of hip-hop.
As of 2021, Coke La Rock's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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69 years old |
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Taurus |
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25 April 1955 |
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25 April |
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Coke La Rock Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Coke La Rock Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Coke La Rock worth at the age of 69 years old? Coke La Rock’s income source is mostly from being a successful Rapper. He is from . We have estimated
Coke La Rock's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Coke La Rock Social Network
Timeline
Coke La Rock's raps were always purely improvisational, unlike those of later 70s-era rap groups—such as the Furious Five and Cold Crush Brothers, who wrote down and rehearsed their rhymes and created elaborate routines. According to La Rock, while rapping "at first I would just call out [my friends'] names. Then I pretended dudes had double-parked cars; that was to impress the girls. Truthfully, I wasn’t there to rap, I was just playing around."
Gary Harris, an employee of the first hip-hop record label, Sugar Hill, noted that "people respected Herc and Coke, but by the early eighties those guys were like specters—they just weren’t visible on the scene anymore." In contrast to other early Bronx hip-hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, Coke La Rock—like his partner Kool Herc—never achieved any recording success (indeed he did not record at all). However, late 2008 saw the release of what was deemed the first ever recording featuring La Rock, a song titled "Hello – Merry Christmas Baby!" which was released by Sedgwick & Cedar as part of a special holiday compilation to pay homage to the birthplace of hip-hop.
In November 2010, Coke La Rock was inducted into the High Times Counterculture Hall of Fame at the annual ceremonies at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.
La Rock's place in hip-hop history was arguably immortalized in the legendary 1986 Boogie Down Productions song "South Bronx" (the opening salvo of the so-called "Bridge Wars") wherein KRS-One raps:
As other nascent hip-hop groups patterned themselves after Herc and La Rock and improved on their formula, the popularity of Herc and the Herculoids began to wane as early as 1977.
Coke La Rock was a friend and musical partner of DJ Kool Herc, who himself is generally considered to have laid down the foundation for hip-hop music starting in 1973. La Rock was thus an original member of Herc's MC crew the Herculoids. According to Herc, Coke La Rock's MC name had various iterations, beginning as "A-1 Coke" and then moving on to "Nasty Coke" before it was finalized as "Coke La Rock".
Coke La Rock joined Kool Herc for his first party, in 1973, to celebrate Herc's sister Cindy's birthday. It wasn't until about the fifth or sixth party that he took the name Coke La Rock. The name came to him in a dream. Before that time, he had no name and did his rapping out of sight from the audience, so no one knew who was doing the rapping.
Nonetheless, La Rock's raps would, as with much else at Kool Herc's parties in the mid-1970s, serve as a basic model for other hip-hop artists that would come onto the Bronx music scene by the end of the decade. La Rock himself has argued, in a reference to two pioneering New York City narcotics dealers, that "me and Herc were to hip-hop what Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas were to drugs."
Coke La Rock (aka Coco La Rock) (born April 25, 1955) is an old school New York City rapper who is sometimes credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop.
Although it has been written that La Rock comes from Jamaica, he was born in The Bronx, New York City on April 24, 1955.
