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TIMBUKTU
Timbuktu believes in DeSofo and will be giving an interview right back at us...
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TANYA MORGAN
THE MAIN INGREDIENT tanya morgan's freewheeling, populist poetics
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GRANDMASTER CAZ
Grandmaster Caz, DJ/MC of the infamous Cold Crush Brothers, the crew that most...
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SHA-ROCK
Sharon Jackson, also known as Sha-Rock, was the first female rapper, and joined...
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WHIPPER WHIP
You can see Prince Whipper Whip, of the Fantastic 5, him battling the Cold Crush in Wild Style--and he still sounds good on the mic today.
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FROSTY FREEZE
Wayne Frost--Frosty Freeze--was a member of the second generation of the Rock Steady Crew--b-boys that helped revitalize an almost-forgotten art in the '80s.
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WANDA DEE + ERIC FLOYD
Wanda Dee was arguably the first female DJ ever, and the first female inductee into Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu Nation. She went on to be the diva voice of techno superstars The KLF...
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WHIPPER WHIP
You can see Prince Whipper Whip, of the Fantastic 5, him battling the Cold Crush in Wild Style--and he still sounds good on the mic today.
Why'd you move to Detroit?
We left Hollywood cause it's not a good place to raise kids; I have kids, so when I'm in Michigan, I'm just dad.
Your kids don't call you Whipper Whip?
Actually, they do sometimes.
That "basketball throwdown" scene in Wild Style is classic. Do you watch it a lot?
Oh yeah, I know it like the back of my hand. So many people are like, "I got the movie Wild Style!" You can't run away from it.
Do people recognize you?
Usually the reputation precedes me, but yeah... that's what I like about the hiphop culture, all the heads of course won't recognize me cause I look different from then and now, but they hear the name and they're like "Whoa!" They get all excited.
Isn't it amazing? You helped invent hip-hop.
Yes, it is. I mean, I work a regular job, I've always been a hustler as far as making money, you know; you got a wife and four kids you gotta keep the money comin' in. We're not on tour every few months; we just go out a couple times a year.
Are you pretty happy about how hip-hop is y the most influential music in the world right now?
Yeah, as long as people keep remembering, you know. I like the part about my suit being exhibited in the Experience Music Project [music museum in Seattle, Washington]. I'd had that outfit since 1983-'84. And I always said that even though that waistline was so many years ago, one day, that outfit's gonna be in a museum; I'm gonna keep it. And I got the call, and EMP gave me $5000 for a suit that I think I paid $35. Now it's encased in glass forever, for years to come. That kinda makes me feel cool.
Do you feel like the stories of hip-hop's true school have gotten lost?
Aw, heck yeah! There are so many books with all these B.S. stories, so Hollywood, with people filling in their own blanks. I don't know who they do these interviews with, but there's even one book, I think the Source magazine came out with it, and they got Grandmaster Caz, Missy Elliott, Kobe Bryant, and they ain't got no Prince Whipper Whip in there, and I'm like, "Who wrote this bullshit?" You know what I mean? How the fuck you gonna put Caz in there--oh, excuse me for cursing--how do you put Caz's name and not have my name on there? So, I'm like, "So much for your credibility."
By JULIANNE SHEPHERD
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