{"id":221910,"date":"2026-01-13T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=221910"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:22:00","slug":"the-story-of-billy-bill-one-of-hip-hops-first-hit-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-story-of-billy-bill-one-of-hip-hops-first-hit-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Billy Bill &#8211; One of Hip-Hop&#8217;s First Hit Songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G1h3BMRpURc?si=LQM1W_ToJheLHU5B\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay Quan<\/strong>, a Hip-Hop historian, music journalist, and author, shines light on another piece of golden Hip-Hop history. He interviewed <strong>William &#8220;Billy Bill&#8221; Waring<\/strong>, one of Hip-Hop&#8217;s first major behind-the-scenes songwriters. He had a part in creating some of the earliest classics from artists such as <strong>Run-DMC<\/strong>, <strong>The Fat Boys<\/strong>, <strong>Lovebug Starski<\/strong>, and <strong>Kurtis Blow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As the official historian of The National Hip-Hop Museum, <strong>Jay Quan<\/strong> brought us plenty of historical gems via his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheFoundationhiphop\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube Channel<\/a> throughout the years. Be sure to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"221912\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-story-of-billy-bill-one-of-hip-hops-first-hit-songwriters\/billy-bill-video-thumbnail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Billy-Bill-video-Thumbnail.avif\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Billy Bill video Thumbnail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Billy-Bill-video-Thumbnail.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-221912\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Billy-Bill-video-Thumbnail.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Billy-Bill-video-Thumbnail.avif 640w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Billy-Bill-video-Thumbnail-540x405.avif 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Jay Quan, a Hip-Hop historian, music journalist, and author, shines light on another piece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-VJc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}