Today In Hip-Hop: Happy Birthday, DJ Spinderella!
On this day, August 3, in hip-hop history…
1971: Today marks the 41th birthday of pioneering female DJ, Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper AKA DJ Spinderella of the seminal hip-hop group, Salt-n-Pepa.
Chosen by the group's producer, Herbie "LuvBug" Azor, to replace fired DJ Latoya Hanson after Hanson proved unreliable, Spinderella was only 16 years old when she was plucked from obscurity