About Me
I've been asked so many times about KDAY and never responded until now...I'll say this:For those of you that don't know, KDAY was the first radio station in the world to play rap/hip hop 24/7. It was me that started it...I can tell you the exact month and year...July 1983...To understand how I did that you have to understand where I started...KTSA/KTFM, San Antonio, Tx. is where my career began in 1975 as an intern...Radio was exciting even though my initial job was to answer phones for popular djs' Robert Lopez, Charlie Brown, and my mentor, Lee Randall...I was even the mascot for the FM station dressed in a big bird outfit...my voice was done by San Antonio popular dj Hector Reyes...I wanted to do whatever it took to be successful...A new PD came in and told me that he would do whatever it took to get my black ass out of the station, you n---a! True story!Luckily my mentor, Lee Randall, had moved on to Program KEYS/KZFM in Corpus Christi, so when I told him what happened, he said I can't give you a full time gig but weekends and help you get a part time gig, which he did, I worked as a dj at a club called the Windjammer and a VTR operator at KIII-TV in Corpus Christi...It was my first on air gig and I had so much success that he gave me a full time air shift on KEYS after a short time. I sharpened my skills by assembling the top 1000 rock songs of all time. That's right, rock, was my roots and I still love "classic rock" to this day...A radio consultant named Jerry Clifton heard my show and had one of his clients, Majic 102 in Houston, Tx. offer me a job. PD Bill Travis gave me my first gig at an Urban Radio Station, it was 1980...My boy there, Snowman and I were always turning Houston out!In 1983, I was offered a gig at KDAY-L.A., my dream market. Jack Patterson gave me a shot...I couldn't believe it...working w/Ed Kerby, JJ Johnson, Russ Parr, Lisa Canning, Don Tracy, Steve Woods...we had so much talent there. They got a kick out of me pulling up to the station in my pickup wearing cowboy boots...Jack and Ed asked me if I could create a sound that could compete and with everything that I had learned from everyone, I created a new format...It was never intended to be an all rap station, it was intended to be an all hit station, a reflection of the streets, truly a station for the people...I was the first to use phrases like "the traffic jam", "the high five countdown", and others...I never knew at the time how many lives we were changing and the whole new genre we were creating...Imagine if your "street team" consisted of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Battlecat, Tony G, Joe Cooley DJ M Walk, Julio G, Ice-T, Kid Frost, Egyptian Lover, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, M.C. Hammer, Tone Loc, L.A. Dream Team, Young M.C.,and the list goes on and on...Anyone I omitted, you know the story...I surrounded myself w/only the best talent...assembling one of the hottest group of djs ever, the Mixmasters...playing at "World on Wheels", "Dootos'", Skateland U.S.A., "the 321 Club", "The Casa Camino Real", we played the different areas because we wanted to show the Crips, the Bloods, and all gangs that we were down w/everyone and no one in particular...we had "street respect for everyone"...I do understand their struggle, I don't approve of it, but I do understand it...
