Zogblog Book Club: Grandwizzard Theodore

I'll be interviewing the hip-hop DJ who invented "the scratch" on 12/1 at 3pm—live on Zoom for all my subscribers—with a reader Q&A at the end. Details attached!

As hip-hop’s 50th anniversary festivities continue, founding fathers like DJ Kool Herc have been getting their flowers. But another South Bronx legend also deserves credit as one of hip-hop’s great innovators: Grandwizzard Theodore, who invented the seminal DJ technique known as “the scratch.”

Given his role as a pioneer, Theodore seemed like an ideal fi…