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Lloydski and Egg Foo were givin me shit the other day for only ever doin one lab post, so the peer pressure sunk in and now I present my SEGUNDO LAB POSTO!!
Blu Jemz recently called me out on Scion radio for gettin' fired from the Lab a few years back. Not many know the full story, so here goes.
Kevin aka DJ Stress was 'managing' the store at the time. It took a long time for Head Quarters to catch on, but dude NEVER showed up on time. I mean never, and when i mean late, we're talking 3,4, sometimes even 5 hours. No excuse either - just a head shake, smile, and a quick 'sorry'. I always covered for his ass too. Warehouse calls, 'where's Kevin?'
'Oh, he's at the deli' or 'Oh, he's at the bank'. Anyway, I had been up all night Djin on a Friday and got to the store still half drunk, but on time. Kevin was a no show. It was Saturday and the store was packed. I was running around pulling records, getting equipment out of the basement, ringing people up, answering the usual dumb phone calls, like 'Uh... yeah. Yo. uhhh...yeah yeah. Umm...where y'all at?'
Kevin finally shows up at like 5pm, and i still haven't eaten a thing, and am maintaining on about 3 hours sleep. Kevin's like 'aww so sorry dude' in such a cute way i can't even get mad. I tell him i'm going in the back to take a lil' disco nap cause i'm exhausted, and he's like yeah yeah go ahead man.
Not 2 minutes after i put my head down, Tony walks in the store and screams 'See! This is the kinda shit i'm talking about! I'm not paying you to sleep!'
So busted, so fired. Kevin never said a word...I was done.
Here's another old school pic/story. This is before the days when 'Serato' was the best-selling new genre at the Lab. The ROC and I were dorking around on Halloween day in 2001. Andy got all jealous when i busted out my Cheech costume so he's like 'I'm gonna be Al Pacino from Serpico!' and he went and bought this hat on St. Marks, and some gay leather vest (not shown here). We were fucking around having scratch battles, and outta nowhere Andy busts out his newest scratch technique.
And now for the give away. I guess to have a really cool blog, you're supposed to giveaway your most secret and favorite rare records. I don't get it. But Lloyd assured me i'd get more gigs and pussy if i do. So here's an old baltimore track I used to play A LOT back in the day. I almost put it on my Rave Classics mix, but for some reason it didn't make the final cut. Enjoy...
Much Too Much by Scottie B & DJ Equalizer 1991
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