Kool DJ Red Alert

Not enough can be said or written about Hip Hop's premier radio deejay Kool DJ Red Alert. He's been on the scene from day one. He came up under Afrika Bambaataa and is cousin to the legendary Jazzy Jay. Red was also recently honored for holding it down on commercial radio longer then anyone else. He started wrecking turntables back in '76-'77 at many of the early Hip Hop block party/ community center gigs. He later went on to put in work with his cousin Jazzy Jay on a show called Zulu Beats which aired on independent radio station WHBI. Red graduated from there and really began to blow up the spot in October of '83 when he was hired by commercial urban giant Kiss FM. He's been holding it down ever since. Now Red can be heard on the Kiss FM's sister station Hot 97 in NYC. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.