The World's Famous Supreme Team was an American hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 group founded in the 1980s

1980s

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. Members included Larry Price and Ronald Larkins Jr., among others. The group joined forces with Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...

 on a number of early hit hip hop records. Among the group's most well-known works were the singles "Buffalo Gals

Buffalo Gals (Malcolm McLaren song)

Buffalo Gals is a hip-hop single released by Malcolm McLaren & the World's Famous Supreme Team as a single in 1982 and on their 1983 album Duck Rock. The song is composed of extensive scratching with calls from square dancing...

" (Charisma Records

Charisma Records

Charisma was a record label founded by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith in 1969. Manager for The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator at the time, Stratton-Smith was unable to find a record company willing to release an album by one of his favourite groups so he founded his own...

 (UK) Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 (US)) and "Hey DJ

Hey DJ

"Hey! DJ" is a song by the World's Famous Supreme Team. Writing is credited to Larry Price, Malcolm McLaren, Ronald Larkins Jr. and Stephen Hague. Released on 12" in 1984 on Island Records, there were three mixes included...

" (Island Records). The crew also had a radio show starting in 1979 on WHBI-FM 105.9 out of Newark, NJ. "Hey, DJ" was later sampled on the Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

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 song "Honey

Honey (Mariah Carey song)

"Honey" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey from her sixth studio album, Butterfly. It was released as the lead single from the album on August 26, 1997 by Columbia Records. The song was written by Carey, Puff Daddy, Q-Tip and Stevie J, all of whom served as the song's producers...

." The group reunited with McLaren in 1990 and recorded the album Round the Outside! Round the Outside! which was released on Virgin Records.