Hip-Hop Pioneer Eddie Cheba Has Died

Hip-Hop pioneer Eddie Cheba has died AllHipHop can affirm. In line with shut pal Van Silk, he handed away from a cardiac arrest at 7:16 a.m. ET on Tuesday (February 13). Cheeba’s sister, Sarah Shawn, confirmed the information on social media. Cheeba had been sick for at the very least six months and suffered not one however three strokes. The trailblazing DJ was thought-about one of many largest membership DJs in New York Metropolis all through the Seventies and will simply pack the home on any given day.

“I met Eddie beck in 1975 the identical time I met Dj Hollywood and Reggie Wells. Reggie Effectively and Eddie CHEBA grew up in Douglas Homes in Manhattan,” Van Silk tells AllHipHop. “My expertise with Eddie Cheeba could be very sentimental. He play for a lot of of my events and we did Broadway InternInternational collectively. Eddie positively can’t be not noted of the tradition of Hip-Hop. Belief me. Even the nice article written by Roosevelt Dynamite Simmons is implausible. Unhappy to say Eddie Cheba final efficiency and interview was final August 11 on the Rapamania 50 occasion. Eddie was booked to carry out, however I advised him to get on the mic. We have now alongside private historical past and been in contact with him during the last six years. He will certainly be missed.”

Def Jam Recordings Co-Founder Russell Simmons, who was there within the very starting of Cheeba’s profession, revealed he’d been hospitalized final October. Simmons credit Cheba with inspiring him to pursue a profession in Hip-Hop, when Simmons heard him carry out in Harlem in 1977. He, too, is mourning the loss on social media. As he wrote on Instagram, “Yet another legendary floor breaking rapper has handed and the Hip-Hop neighborhood was too un educated to offer him the correct flowers he deserved it was cheba or hollywood and if u couldn’t get a kind of positively go get a smaller venue ensure u attain out and get love bug starsky (rip) and cost much less however thats the actual fact.

“is it was in that order they had been the three largest stars and so they had been the rationale we acquired to make rap data as a promoter of hip hop selling all 5 boroughs im 100000% certain that earlier than there was a recording artwork when there was solely efficiency artists eddie cheba was a significant mastermind of hip hop all these wealthy rappers and “moguls” you might be standing on his shoulders!!!!! GIVE THE MAN HIS FLOWERS RIP THE GREAT LEGENDARY EDDIE CHEBA.”

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