Us Girls Stage Outfit Formerly Owned by MC Sha Rock

Hip-Hop MC Sha Rock wore this sequined ensemble when she performed with Us Girls, an all-female Hip-Hop trio featured in the 1984 film Beat Street. To make a strong impression in the film, the group, which also included Lisa Lee from Cosmic Force and Debbie Dee, purchased the glittery outfits from a New York, Fifth Avenue boutique. While Beat Street placed Sha Rock in the media spotlight when it brought Hip-Hop culture to mainstream audiences, she had already developed a strong following in New York’s Bronx area as the only female MC of the pioneering rap group Funky 4 plus 1.

MC Sha-Rock (Sharon Green, b. 1962) was one of the original members of the Funky 4 and then became the +1 More when she returned to the group. With Funky Four +1 More One being the first rap crew with a female MC, Sha-Rock is known as Hip-Hop ’s “First Lady”, “Mother of the Mic” and the first most prominent and influential female battle MC and founding member of Hip-Hop culture in the late 1970s. When the Funky 4+1 More disbanded, Sha-Rock joined a new group with two of her peers, Debbie D (b.XXXX) and Lisa Lee (b.XXXX) , called Us Girls. While apart of US Girls, they had their first major film debut in the 1984 Hip-Hop movie Beat Street. Sha-Rock’s early contributions to Hip-Hop paved the way for not only urban youth growing up in the South Bronx, but she also laid the foundation for emerging female MCs in Hip-Hop.