I started listening to Rap music in 1982. I attended a house party here in Davenport, Iowa. I heard many jams that night but two songs I remember very distinctly were The Breaks by Kurtis Blow and The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel. I did not know the names of these songs at the time but made it a mission that next week. I had been a heavy metal head during the 70's but remained a undercover soul music and disco fan. My friends were not into different music styles. I grew up in a very diverse area of town and was also on the lower scale of pay as well. We did not have a mainstream radio station that played cutting edge rap at that time. The local college station is where I heard my first rap radio song which was Rappers Delight in 1982. This station is what I had been longing for: KALA 88.5/105.5 FM. I needed something different. I was tired of the same old music! I sat in my room and just stationed surfed then I heard this cut...hip hop a hibbie to the hip hip hop you don't stop. I didn't know what it was? But I knew it was just like the music I heard at that house party. I became hooked in like a second and I started to find these jams at Co-op Tapes and Records or Musicland. The crazy deal is when I went to buy The Sugarhill Gang's Rappers Delight the store clerk bugged out and said I was too young to purchase the record. So I went out into the mall and confronted a person who I knew was able to buy the wax. He looked confused at first but I told him my situation. I went nuts with my paper route money and I also corn detassled to be able pay for my music! All of these early groups and many more have shaped my music side. I love old school and mixin old school.
I spent four years in the United States Navy. I went to boot camp in Orlando, Florida. I then proceded to my school in Meridan, Mississippi. My orders came in and was transferred to the USS Vreeland FF-1068, Mayport, Florida. During this time music was a huge part of my life. There was not much to do out to sea. I played music all the time in the supply room. I was a storekeeper and handled issue/receipt of material for the entire ship. Music was my way out when things were not going well for me. The guys tripped out on me because here I was a white kid from Iowa and I had all of this rap music. I had taught myself how to break dance, DJ, and mix.
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