Sha-Rock is a member of the Funky 4 and the Funky 4 + 1, one of the first MC crews formed in the Bronx in the late 1970s. The Funky 4 were the first Hip-Hop group featured on national television via their February 14, 1981 appearance on Saturday Night Live as guests of Debbie Harry of Blondie. The Funky 4 are the first mixed-gender crew in Hip-Hop, and they were the first to release a recording (1979's "Rappin' & Rockin' The House") on Bobby Robinson's Enjoy Records after he transformed it from an R&B label to a rap label in 1979.
In 1984, Sha appeared in Beat Street as one-third of Us Girls with Lisa Lee and Debbie D. Sha-Rock told The Foundation that she first experienced Hip-Hop in 1975 during her 8th grade year of high school when she saw Kool Herc. "I used to go to the B-Boy parties at the P.A.L. (Police Athletic League) where they played 'Bongo Rock,' 'Sex Machine' and stuff like that," she explained.
Sha Rock auditioned for DJ Breakout of The Brothers Disco for his new group which only contained KK Rockwell and Keith Caesar as members, and she made the cut.
In April 2013, MC Sha-Rock was appointed as a National Advisor for the Cornell University Hip Hop Library Collection. She was recently appointed to sit on the Advisory Board for the Universal Hip Hop Museum scheduled to open in the Bronx, New York in 2024.
