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You've Gotta Believe (Vocal) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Vocal) / You've Gotta Believe (Instrumental) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Instrumental)
You've Gotta Believe (Vocal) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Vocal) / You've Gotta Believe (Instrumental) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Instrumental)

You've Gotta Believe (Vocal) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Vocal) / You've Gotta Believe (Instrumental) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Instrumental)

Performing artist Lovebug Starski
Record company Fever Records
Producer Sal Abbatiello
Date1983
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (HW): 12 × 12 3/16 in. (30.48 × 30.956 cm)
Overall (Diameter): 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number2001.279.9.A,.B
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You've Gotta Believe (Vocal) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Vocal) / You've Gotta Believe (Instrumental) + Starski Live At The Disco Fever (Instrumental) is an EP released in 1983 by Lovebug StarskiReleased under Fever Records, this EP was produced by Kurtis Blow, Larry Smith, and Russell Simmons. 

 

Lovebug Starski (Kevin Smith, b.1960 – 2018), was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as Hip-Hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "Hip-Hop". Starski claimed that he coined the phrase, while trading the two words back and forth and improvising lines with Keef Cowboy of the Furious Five, at a farewell party for a friend who was headed into the Army. Lovebug Starski, a versatile D.J. and rapper who was a key figure in the development and early evolution of Hip-Hop in the South Bronx throughout the 1970s. He was famously mentioned as part of the roll call of influential early Hip-Hop D.J.s on the Notorious B.I.G.’s seminal 1994 single “Juicy.” 

The Fever…catch it! Is printed in red and yellow font in the upper left corner on a black background. 
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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