The Original Uber: The Oral History of the OJ Car Service
The OJ Car Service was literally Uber before Uber. The service owned a few cars, but it was actually the owners of luxury cars that made up the heart of this cab service of sorts. Street hustlers, DJs, MCs and all fly kids who wanted to arrive in style would do so in an OJ.
shop.rockthebells.com "A skip jive, what can I say? I can’t fit ‘em all inside my OJ /Hotel, motel - what ya gonna do today? Gonna get a fly girl, get some spank and drive off in a def OJ...”
Iconic words from rap music’s first commercially successful recording: "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugar Hill Gang. Those words spoken by Big Bank Hank belonged to a collection of rhymes shared by D.J. Hollywood, Eddie Cheeba and others. "Rappers Delight" is the song that your parents and grandparents know and possibly had in their record collections at one time. The rhymes contained in that song are possibly the most remembered and repeated in the genre's history, but - as far as the OJ - how many outside of the five boroughs and the tri-state knew the meaning behind what they were repeating? Many thought that it was a reference to the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers running back Orenthal James, but those in the 5 boroughs - specifically the Bronx - knew the origins of those lines.
