{"id":916318,"date":"2026-07-06T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:43:13","slug":"savannah-author-peter-relic-tells-the-story-of-the-little-l-a-label-that-changed-hip-hop-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916318\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah author Peter Relic tells the story of the little L.A. label that changed Hip-Hop forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savannah author Peter Relic tells the story of the little L.A. label that changed Hip-Hop forever<\/p>\n

From Hollywood apartment to Hip-Hop history: Peter Relic tells the Delicious Vinyl Story<\/p>\n

\"Frank<\/a>SAVANNAH, Ga. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Savannah author and music journalist Peter Relic is bringing one of hip-hop\u2019s great untold stories to the page with BUST A MOVE: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hits that First Conquered Pop.<\/p>\n

With a foreword by B-Real of Cypress Hill, the book chronicles the rise of Delicious Vinyl, the scrappy Los Angeles label founded in 1987 by Matt Dike and Mike Ross. Working out of a modest Hollywood apartment with just $5,000, primitive drum machines, and a deep belief in the music, the pair helped ignite a cultural shift that would send L.A. hip-hop from the underground to the global mainstream.<\/p>\n

Relic\u2019s book captures the energy, risk, and raw ambition behind a label that delivered era-defining hits including Tone Loc\u2019s \u201cWild Thing,\u201d \u201cFunky Cold Medina,\u201d and Young MC\u2019s \u201cBust a Move.\u201d At a time when New York dominated hip-hop\u2019s center of gravity, Delicious Vinyl proved that Los Angeles had its own sound, swagger, and commercial power. In doing so, the label helped transform hip-hop into a pop force with lasting historical impact.<\/p>\n

More than a music story, BUST A MOVE<\/a> is also an entrepreneurial one: a tale of ingenuity, instinct, and fearless bets on new talent. Relic shows how two DJs disrupted the traditional music industry and built a label whose influence still echoes across generations of artists and fans. As Newsweek once declared, the men behind Delicious Vinyl were \u201cThe New Heroes of Hip-Hop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perfect for readers of Fab 5 Freddy\u2019s Everybody\u2019s Fly, Questlove\u2019s Hip-Hop is History, and Mark Ronson\u2019s Night People, Relic\u2019s book places Delicious Vinyl where it belongs: in the pantheon of great music start-ups and cultural game changers.<\/p>\n

To accompany the release, Peter Relic has also curated Delicious Vinyl playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, giving fans a chance to hear the soundtrack behind the story.<\/p>\n

A book signing and discussion is set for Friday, July 10 at E. Shaver, Bookseller in Savannah.<\/p>\n

The free event<\/a> is happening from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at E. Shaver, Starland at 1921 Bull Street. Space is limited, RSVP is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savannah author Peter Relic tells the story of the little L.A. label that changed Hip-Hop forever From Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":916319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[13978,43580,370205,370206,370210,370207,171,1888,14839,472,19498,117236,370213,5826,975,370214,370208,162848,29914,370211,370209,370212,645,67,132,68,67241,340379],"class_list":["post-916318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-book","tag-book-signing","tag-bust-a-move","tag-delicious-vinyl","tag-e-shaver","tag-e-shaver-bookseller","tag-entertainment","tag-fan","tag-hip-hop","tag-history","tag-hit","tag-label","tag-matt-dike","tag-move","tag-music","tag-music-journalist-peter-relic","tag-peter-relic","tag-relic","tag-savannah","tag-savannah-author-peter-relic","tag-savannah-college-of-art-and-design","tag-scrappy-los-angeles-label","tag-story","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-west-coast","tag-young-mc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116873095004729295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}