On this date 38 years ago, the Hip Hop community lost one of its early pioneers when Scott Sterling, better known as DJ Scott La Rock of Boogie Down Productions, was shot and killed in the South Bronx.
Sterling was just 25 years old when he tried to break up a fight near the Highbridge Housing Projects on 167th Street and University Avenue. Tragically, the attempt to keep the peace cost him his life, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
…