I was rapping at the time, but after a year it seemed Ski had more passion to rap more than I did so we became the rapper / DJ duo. ![]() With all the deejaying I was doing and making mixtapes in the basement, at some point the friend would bring him by to check out what I was doing and we decided it was a good match. I said, “what the fuck you laughin’ at?” I was younger than Ski, so he looked at me like what this little fuck talking like that to me and he ignored it. Him and my childhood friend were watching and Ski started to laugh. I was on my roller skates one day coming down a flight of stairs at my house and I almost fell down the flight. What particular string of events led to you initially linking up with E-A-Ski and the ultimate formation of SKI $ CMT?Ī neighborhood friend who went to school with E-A-Ski used to bring him around the neighborhood when I was 10. I wasn’t into the up-tempo songs, I was more into songs like LL Cool J, Whodini, Run-DMC “Sucker M.C.’s” and most of the Profile artists during the Def Jam / Profile reign. Most of the music I was influenced by was East Coast, but when Egyptian Lover and Uncle Jamm’s Army sound started to come into play I got into that as well…but I only liked to spin those records. My sister went to school with him and would talk about it, but she wasn’t a fan of it so it never came across my household. Now you’re a native of Oakland, CA, correct? So growing up in ‘The Town,’ who all did / do you consider to be your strongest musical influences?Ĭorrect! Too $hort was very popular in the ‘hood, but because it was so explicit I was too young to understand why everyone wanted to hear it. We recreated “Pee Wee (Herman’s) Dance,” and made it a love song called “Monica,” like LL Cool J’s “I Need Love.” We would borrow friends’ Roland 909 to do our versions of famous Hip Hop songs, but would add a bass line to it. One of the guys in the band I was in name was Troy Lampkin …he and I took in the love of deejaying as well, and loved making beats. ![]() Not taking piano lessons, a cousin of mine who was in a band that played funk covers like Parliament / Funkadelic, he sat me down to teach me how to play Prince “1999.” I took what I learned from the chords of that song and played by ear from there to learn other songs, joined a band with a couple of neighborhood friends, lasted about a year and started my love for deejaying one RadioShack turntable and a Fisher stereo turntable with a RadioShack mixer. I asked my parents to get it for me for Christmas. I was 10, a fan of Roger / Zapp and the whole vocoder / talk box music Casio had a preset that was close to sounding like that…they would have keyboard displays at Macy’s, this particular…I would play on it every time I walked in. Tell me your whole inception into music - When did you first become interested in it? And, how did it all begin for CMT? By MuzikScribe 0 CMT Miraculous: On A Higher Frequency
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