DJ Chuck Clasik - VA's Problem Child

DJ Chuck Clasik, A.K.A Earl Stinnie, a Charlottesville, Virginia native was exposed to Hip Hop at an early age. Sit with him and he will tell you the feeling he got the first time he heard Grandmaster Flash's Adventures on the Wheels of Steele. It was at that moment he became curious about that sound, how it was made, and who did it. Living in a small university city in his early years yielded little hip hop, so when he heard this music he grew attached. His uncle would get tapes from New York of dj's like Jazzy Jay, Chuck Chillout, and Mr. Magic & Marley Marl to name a few. He would listen to these tapes over and over again. Then one day when he was just 8 years old, his uncle got a pair of turntables. His uncle showed him these turntables and put on Malcom McClaren's Buffalo Gals. Then his uncle did something that he had only heard on tapes from NY, he did a Scratch. From that day, Clasik was hooked. He knew that this was something he wanted to do from that point on. He would be like a siamese twin to his uncle, taking in all he could when it came to music and DJ'ing. One summer day he was allowed to help his uncle set up for a cookout..party. Not only would he help to set up, but he got to help with the DJing. He was given the opportunity to get on the Wheels of Steels. As his uncle took the mic to hype the crowd up, he introduced his young nephew to the crowd. The crowd was hype; Clasik emulated what he had been watching his uncle do for hours at a time. The party goers went off as he remembered. "They were like, look at this kid doing what we only heard on records, and at that time, the only urban radio station in the small city" he says. That day would forever be remembered as the day he started DJ'ing. When Clasik was 12, he and his mother moved to the capitol city of VA. In the 6th grade he was befriended by a guy named Derrick who actully would become his partner in rhyme. Derrick, AKA Freak D was the MC and back then, known as MixMaster E, Clasik was the DJ. They would record songs at Clasik's house and soon added a couple of members to even out the sound. Over the years they both honed their skills and became well known in the Richmond area. From MixMaster E he changed his name to DJ Debonaire, he was known as the youngest dj, in Cap City. They would open for top acts such as, Run-DMC, Whodini, and LL Cool J, just to name a few. He had a spot on WCDX Power 92 on Saturday nights along side DJ Sky. He would be the music maestro in control of some of the top clubs in the Richmond area. He became the resident DJ at the Ebony Island club as well as numerous hiphop concerts at the Richmond coliseum. He would accomplish all of this before the age of 17. He was djing at clubs he was to young to get into and he loved every minute of it. 15+ years later, there has been no love lost. Clasik feels today about djing and the music as he did when he first touched a turntable. He still gets goose bumps. And that's real talk. Clasik dropped his latest mix CD Enigma on the internet after a long hiatus from the dj scene in May of 2006. It was free for download just to get exposed and to make a name for himself that extends past his child hood town which he returned to to raise his children with his wife Barbara. He says ask Google about me. Visit Clasik's web sites, www.djchuckclasik.com as well as www.soundclick.com/chuckclasik for them Beats..