Scott LaRock Would Have Been 50 Years Old Today

The late, legendary DJ Scott LaRock was born March 2, 1962. He was working at a homeless shelter in 1984 when he met his future partner, KRS-One, who was a resident there, and started a group, Boogie Down Productions. They had just six-months prior put out their classic debut album, Criminal Minded, when on August 27, 1987, in one of hip-hop’s first great tragedies, LaRock was killed in a shootout in the Bronx. Noah Callahan-Bever wrote a nice story about his life for XXL in 2002.