Early HIP-Hop producer & ex-Billboard employee was 81

Early HIP-Hop producer & ex-Billboard employee was 81

JB Moore, an important contributor to some of hip-hop’s earliest hits, died in Manhattan on March 13 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Although Moore was not well known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream-Success in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he helped produce and write records for Kurtis Blow with … Read more