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02/09/25
Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington.
This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored with a special celebration at Live Oak Bank Pavilion. MC Sha-Rock Day, which is being organized in part by the city of Wilmington Commission on African-American History, is scheduled for May 17.
Jackson was born Sharon Green in Wilmington in 1962 and attended the former Peabody Elementary School, now Classical Charter Schools of Wilmington, at 507 N. Sixth Ave.
When Jackson was 8, she moved with her family to New York. Until she was 18, however, Jackson came back to Wilmington every summer to stay with her grandparents, the late Naomi and Joseph Pryor, on Campbell Street and later Orange Street, attending First Baptist Missionary Church on North Fifth Avenue and frequenting the historic Black beach spot Seabreeze, near Carolina Beach.
Jackson started rapping as a teenager in New York in 1976 or '77 and was an original member of one of the first rap groups: the Funky 4 + 1, which emerged from The Bronx and included Jazzy Jeff, D.J. Breakout, Guy Williams and Keith Keith
Hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native to be honored with her own 'day' this spring
The trailblazer and Wilmington native is considered to be the first female rapper.
www.starnewsonline.com
02/09/25
Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington.
This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored with a special celebration at Live Oak Bank Pavilion. MC Sha-Rock Day, which is being organized in part by the city of Wilmington Commission on African-American History, is scheduled for May 17.
Jackson was born Sharon Green in Wilmington in 1962 and attended the former Peabody Elementary School, now Classical Charter Schools of Wilmington, at 507 N. Sixth Ave.
When Jackson was 8, she moved with her family to New York. Until she was 18, however, Jackson came back to Wilmington every summer to stay with her grandparents, the late Naomi and Joseph Pryor, on Campbell Street and later Orange Street, attending First Baptist Missionary Church on North Fifth Avenue and frequenting the historic Black beach spot Seabreeze, near Carolina Beach.
Jackson started rapping as a teenager in New York in 1976 or '77 and was an original member of one of the first rap groups: the Funky 4 + 1, which emerged from The Bronx and included Jazzy Jeff, D.J. Breakout, Guy Williams and Keith Keith