KEITH “COWBOY” WIGGINS
The origin of the term “hip hop” is interesting; again from Wikipedia: “Keith ‘Cowboy’ Wiggins, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five has been credited with coining the term in 1978 while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army by scat singing the words ‘hip/hop/hip/hop’ in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers. Cowboy later worked the ‘hip hop’ cadence into his stage performance. . . . The song 'Rapper’s Delight', by the Sugarhill Gang, released in 1979, begins with the line, 'I said a hip, hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop'.”
(September 2016)
