BY DANA SCOTT / MARCH 5, 2018

Herbie Hancock is a 14-time Grammy Award recipient (as well as an Oscar winner) that many cite as a provider of their introduction to Hip-Hop and DJ’ing on television. Although the Jazz impresario’s recording career began at the top of the ’60s, Hip-Hop and Hancock helped each other achieve mainstream recognition two decades later with his gold-certified 1983 single, “Rockit.”

With its memorable keytar riff, turntable scratches (courtesy of Grandmixer DXT), and surreal video for the Electro-Funk gem, “Rockit” garnered Hancock his first career Grammy in 1984 for “Best R&B Instrumental,” and later won “Video Of The Year” honors at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards.

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