About Me
the short story goes like this: been in love with hip hop since Sugarhill Gang. Couldn't breakdance, grafitti not widely practiced or known of in Dayton, and my parents were not going to buy me DJ equipment, guess what I chose. Rapped mostly to myself until a Easter Day after church thing that my mom made me enter (note that I am not a Christian Rap act). More rapping mostly to myself until senior year (Colonel White) high school talent show. Decided to enter with broken Mattel Synsonics drum machine, recruited human beatbox @ the last minute, rocked the crowd but didn't win. Went to college (Bowling Green State University) got no ass because frat boys and jocks and rich boys took it all. Decided @ Christmas Break in freshman year to get seriously back to hip hop, wrote rhymes to Big Daddy Kane's "Get Into It" instrumental and Stetsasonic's "Bust That Groove". Came back to school found Shawn Smith (DJ Shockin' Shawn) from Cleveland and entered a talent show on campus. Won 2nd place. More importantlly, hooked up with more hip hop heads. Found PRIME (formerly known as T'Sta, the Prime Minister, then just Prime Minister until 3rd Bass came out) from Columbus, Ohio and World T from Michigan (Flint/Detroit) and DJ J-Rock (Toledo, Ohio). PRIME and World T went by the name BG Posse (you know, Bowling Green), but combined with J-Rock they were called IBM - Incredible Beat Mechanics/Intelligent Black Men. I got down with them, watched them record one song and got to record a song (my 1st ever recorded shit). EQUIPMENT USED: two turntables(not Technics 1200s, not even Technics), Roland 909 drum machine, Radio Shack mixer, 2 tape decks, 1 Radio Shack microphone. EXPERIENCE: Priceless. Fast Forward to Fall 1989. Somehow met more hip hop heads who were freshman cats from Cleveland. Went back to some dorm room and freestyled, immediately called PRIME. These guys were the rapper Hi-C (Clarence Bass, a.k.a. Kra-C-Bass), Danny Dan The Poet Supreme (Daniel Kontar Gray, a.k.a. The Beatnik a.k.a. rep life), and S.P.I.C.E. - Specialized Pro In Crucifiying Enemies (Tyre Davis a.k.a. KILO KING a.k.a. Brotha Laylow). Hi-C and Rep Life were in a group called Poetry In Effect with their partner T Dash. Brotha LayLow had his crew in Cleveland. Hooked them up with PRIME and World T, Brotha LayLow came up the name Black Minds Of Musik and we became a group/crew/family/movement and the New York Yankees of BGSU hip hop. Did many shows on-campus then spread to bars/clubs off-campus. Turned into Bowling Green State University's best/only hip hop group, added dancers and singers and even a promotional/multimedia specialist (Al) into the mix, and (hey, it was the 90's ya'll) all turned into producers due to PRIME's influence. Opened shows for X Clan and Louis Farrakhan. Brotha LayLow left BGSU and released an album with a group called Strugglin' Souls. PRIME was a DJ @ WBGU 88.1 FM, then got promoted/voted to the Urban Programming Director position, Kra-C-Bass and I decided to get all FCC certified and be DJs at the station too. PRIME graduated, Kra-C-Bass left school and I became the Urban Programming Director. Meanwhile new hip hop heads were coming to BGSU, most memorably my nigga JoeSmpte (a.k.a. J.O.E. Boston/Dorschester, Massachusetts). TO BE CONTINUED
