"The Mother of Hip-Hop"

"'She saw where a D.J. was talking and the crowd was responding to what he was saying, and this was the first time she ever saw this before,' her son, Joey Robinson, recalled in a 2000 interview with NPR. 'And she said, "Joey, wouldn’t this be a great idea to make a rap record?"'"

James C. McKinley, Jr., in The New York Times reports the death of singer and producer Sylvia Robinson.