shit....I grew up in a house full of DJs. My Mom's brothers used to DJ in various clubs around the city, and they were always practicing their mixes and making tapes. I ALWAYS loved music, but when I first heard Hip Hop, I literally lost my mind. I havent been able to think about anything else since. I had to, in one form or another, be involved.
I tried the breakin' thing, but your boy is too damn clumbsy to be spinnin' on body parts. hahaha. I took to the turntables right away, because I LOVED the reaction from people when you threw a good song on, or mixed some shit they never have heard together. I got out of high school in 1990, and got an internship at KSFM 102.5 in like late '92-early'93. I started out just taking requests in the middays, to doing call-ins and impersonations on the morning show, to co-hosting the Flava Show for a brief time. I had this big idea that I was going to do what I could to get local artists and REAL hip hop on the air. I NEVER knew that I would face SO many obsticles and bullshit politics. I mean, we had at that time SO many styles of hip hop in Sac, yet NOTHING was gettin' ANY airplay. We used to have SUPER CYPHERS in the parking lot sometimes until the sun came up. Sometimes you'd see EVERYONE in the Sac Hip Hop community in that lot on a saturday night rappin' they ass off!! Due to all of the behind the scenes bullshit, I left the station in '94, and in a few months helped bring about Community Powered Radio 100.1 in Oak Park.
Now THAT was a radio station. We had alot of community events, and at any given time, Lynch, Bo, Homicide, Suga Free, Triple Beam, Redrum & OE, to name a few, would pop up and show the station love because we actually PLAYED their stuff!! Needless to say, KSFM hated on us!! We had a nice little battle goin' on for a minute. They even challenged our DJ, Slap-a-Pitch to a battle. We went up to KSFM, and Slap slapped Joe Pechi, and Jonas the Blender up something fierce. Pesci and Blend arent battle DJ's, they barely can mix, and Slap SHIT on those cats ON THE AIR. Had Pesci so damn frustrated, he was breakin' wax and shit....comedy. We got kicked out shortly thereafter, and to our surprise, the FEDS came knockin' at the station door. They came thru like we had WMDs, straight YANKED shit out the wall. We got it up and running a couple more times after that, but it just was too hot. We moved to Florin and 24th and set up 107.1. We were the first cats to play house music on air in Sac, and even gave it it's own time slot. That too got shut down, and I got into the business side of hip hop. I hooked up with my potna PFunk from the Beat in LA, and we did promotions and marketing for everything from chronic candy to Snoop.
I made MANY close friends in the community, and went to work helping promote everyone that would let me. This is when I caught microphone fever. Always being around people like the CUF, the Legends, Soul Clap, Fonke Socialistiks, Verbatum....inspired me to do my part to keep REAL shit alive. I started rockin' shows as Clap's hypeman, but after he dipped to DC, started workin' on my own shit. I met my fiencee, and started workin' with her cuzzos in the studio. We knocked out a few songs, but never did shit with them. One day I found the siccness, and it's been all uphill since. I've been on several compilations and mixtapes from here to KC, and have got to work with a lot of people I respect in the game.
DAMN......sorry I wrote a friggin' book, but shit I'm an old dude, and you did say history, so who better to talk about history then a dinosaur. hahaha
