Lovebug Starski has been played on NTS shows including New York Naomi, with Say What You Wanna Say first played on 12 November 2022.

Lovebug Starski (Kevin Smith, The Bronx, New York, U.S., May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018) was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career in 1971, as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "hip-hop".

Starski recorded his first single, "Positive Life," on the Tayster record label in 1981, sampled by the…