UNDERWORLD/MUSIC WORLD 1966

#beforehiphop

A prominent New York R&B DJ was beaten outside a bar in Harlem and hospitalized with injuries to his face. NYPD chalked it up to some typical uptown bar beef. But his friends didn’t believe it was that cut and dry. One theory was that the DJ hadn’t played a record he’d been paid to showcase on the air and a label owner, a volatile white man with serious…