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Re: Hip hop back in tha day July 16, 2012 04:27PM |
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EyeGetzRaw
The Real Roxanne was seeing Bobby Brown at this time and dude came through to see her. This was pre-"My Perrogative", he had only had that 1st solo album, which didn't really blow up but, bottom line...his New Edition fame was still in full effect.
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Anyway, the art of mixing, which to me is what set Hip Hop apart from pure mobile DJ'ing, was probably the very first thing Eye was exposed to that was distinctly Hip Hop. My older brother had been messing around with the stereo equipment my pops had, which included this cassette deck. Don't remember what brand that joint was but, it was a relatively large deck that had all the controls and cassette bay on the top surface of the deck (as opposed to the front facing controls of most latter-day decks). All amped up, he calls me in the room as says, "check this out"...swag on 1000 and whatnot. He presses play and it's Rick James, "You an I". The song plays on for several minutes and he's got that, "yeeeeeeah boy" look goin' on....and I'm standing there looking at him like, "what's the big deal?!?" Finally, Eye just ask him..."what???"...and he says, "you don't hear that?!?!?"...Eye said, "yeah, it's, You and I....soooo???"......what Eye wasn't noticing was that he had paused mixed the song in several places...a tribute to my pops' deck and my brother's skill because, as Eye would later learn, a lot of machines made a nasty sound at the points where the pause happened and even if they didn't, precision was not easy to achieve when editing your songs with the pause button.
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Re: Hip hop back in tha day July 20, 2012 05:36AM |
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Re: Hip hop back in tha day July 20, 2012 03:21PM |
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LES Lady
I'm sure that was the weed and champale talking. LOL
hahahahahahahaha
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Re: Hip hop back in tha day July 22, 2012 12:39AM |
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Re: Hip hop back in tha day August 07, 2012 07:39PM |
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EyeGetzRaw
... @ a show we (Eye was one of the cats that replaced the original members of Newcleus....another story for another time) were playing in Miami. The lineup was Too Tough Tee, 2Live Crew (who hadn't quite broke out nationally yet), The Real Roxanne & Howie Tee, Schooly D...and Eye don't remember if Mikey D. & The Symbolic 3 did this particular show but, they were supposed to be there. Anyway, 2Live had already earned a reputation locally for having wild shows, so naturally they drew a rowdy crowd. Newcleus was supposed to be going on last, after Roxanne & Howie but, unfortunately, that never happened...
