Enter, Steve Monica aka Kontrol, my childhood friend. Upon graduation at SUNY Brockport, Kontrol & I came up with the idea that it would be a good idea to start a Hip-Hop Record Label (pre-cd burning & peer to peer sharing). That's right, two white guys running a Hip-Hop Label, I don't know what was crazier me trying to get to the NFL or us two running a Hip-Hop Label, either way I love against all odds shit...I live for it...so you know I was down.
I moved to Charlotte, NC and Live Wire Entertainment was started in 2001. While we were running our Label, I had several jobs I did on the side, I was always working, I loved the grind. One of these jobs was subin' in for a DJ named T-Nice. My first gigs were DJing for this clubs after hours parties...I would DJ from 3am-6am every other Sat. DJ T-Nice would always throw me and Kontrol gigs, and we helped him set-up for all of his shows. Cool guy, he didn't have to do that, but he did and he paid us. While we were DJing we realized that one, our artists weren't as dedicated as us, two, no one is going to listen to you if you haven't done it yourself, and three, we were developing our own sound that would soon change club music forever...
From then on, we went full board with the label, it was right after 9/11, I got let go from my job due to cut backs and we figured we'd been DJing pretty much our whole lives, so fuck it, why not do it...you see all our boys in NY growing up were dj's, they just never let us play, we always watched and carried all their records to parties...kinda like a back-up quarterback, just watching and learning not knowing one day we would use all that knowledge. As a matter of fact, both their DJ names started with Kidd, that's probably why that stuck with me.
From then on, it was Kontrol & Kidd Star, 3 Bad Brothaz, Live Wire Empire.
So to save you a long story, a couple gigs later, a couple moves through 3 cities, a major hit record and now we are in Atlanta.
Crazy how life is, we're still doing it...I'm blessed not only to be still in the game, but to be doing it with my boy Kontrol. I've seen a lot of shit...I've done a lot of shit...I''ve lost a lot of shit, and I'll be damned if we don't get what's coming to us...THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT CHICO!
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