That would be Percy Sutton Ellis
There is a Stevie Wonder song Black Man which at the end includes a list of all the contributions to the world made by brown, red, yellow people with children chanting answers and it goes like this ... Who was the woman who led countless slaves to freedom on the Underground railroad? Harriet Tubman - a black woman.
A black man who contributed far more than many realize died at the age of 89 just after Christmas, and his name was Percy Ellis Sutton.
Pop culture and journalist, Jamaican/Canadian Dalton Higgins, just releaesd his book Hip Hop World. In 130 pages he takes you from the rise of hip hop almost forty years ago and its spread across the world. The book in itself is like a sample track of names and highlights and backed by a good back beat would make a great hip hop song on its history and influence. Higgins takes you from the early greats like Grandmaster Flash and a music genre created by D.I.Y musicans to young bloods like Somalian Ka'nan. Thursday night he is doing a book signing at Hue Man Bookstore