vh1 and you don't stop 30 years or Hip Hop?

I'm just curious, this being a hip hop production forum
am I the only one that watched it ? Not like I really
needed a lesson on Hip Hop and to know the roots.
I used to D.J. in 1978 and can relate to getting the
electricity from the street lamps or somebody running
5 extensions cords from a 3rd floor window.
I had crazy flash backs and chills, it was like going
back in time. I am curoius as to all of the Hip Hop
producers on this site why do you do what you call
Hip Hop, If you just got into hip hop within
the last ten years or less . I recommend that this show
is viewed. Maybe you can learn a thing or two . I am
forty years old and lived that experience. That is
why I Love and live this thing we call hip hop.
It is and was our culture, a means for Black and Latinos
to have fun and be competitive in all the forms of
Break Dancing, Graffitti, D.Jaying and M.Cing .
If it wasn't for my incarceration in 1982, I believe that
I would've been recognized just like Grandmaster flash
and the rest of them. Having grown up in the South Bronx,
where it was just like it is in Iraq with blocks and blocks
of abandoned buildings. We rose through the rubble and
created Hip Hop. My group or Crew how we used to say
backin the day was D.J Meserati and the Fabulous Five.
M.c's. Terry D , Krazy Kev, Krazy Cris,Poochie Dee,and Al Dee
and R.I.P my man Miles Davis who called himself Mel after Melle Mel
Damn that ish was ill. I recorded all the episodes and me and
my 14 year old son watched it . It was history for him because he
needs to know where and who originated this Multi Million dollar music
we call rap.
Thank god for cameras and the people who documented this
and I am glad that there is proof that, Mr Mathers, Nelly and
all of the rest are not credited with the invention of my lifestyle.
Peace!!I'm out with a certain feeling that there's history to
show my kids and I will be transferring the tapes to dvd and
give a copy to all of the artist that come to my studio.
If you got cable, Vh1 will most likely be re-running the program
and for all you youngin's you can see what yall missed.
I like to give props to D.J's Majic Mike, Vinny Vin, D.j paradise.
And to D.j Mcleod who stole the equipment from the Boom Boom
spot and moved to Florida you sucka!!
Hip Hop Lives through me.


family

word up.

word. also check out the freshest kids, scratch, wild style, style wars, ummm **** even beat street and breakin' 1&2. yo meserati when you get them dvd's pressed bootleg style hit me up and i'll probably copp one.

keep it fresh

I'm with you meserati on that nostalgaic thingy. I was into hip-hop before I even knew what it was called. I guess growing up in it you don't realize that this culture was something different from the norm because just about everyone in the projects was living/doing it. I'm the type of cat who takes it personal when ANYONE tries to sh*t on hip-hop. I remember the extension chords from the windows being run all the way across the street to the park. I remember running from cops when you trynna tag a piece. I remember going to ya projects with flattened cardboard boxes to battle n*ggas in break dancing if we heard you were nice with yours. I remember n*ggas getting punched in the face if they were battling and their rhymes was wack or if they bit off of somebody. In short- I remember when Hip-Hop was pure. Before n*ggas was talking about "yo, I wanna get signed so I can buy this, or buy that." It was all about having a rep. F*ck the $$$. I remember making my first demo at 14 and I swore Def Jam was gonna sign me. And $$$ was not even on my mind so I would've been that cat to get jerked like New Edition did on their first album and get hit off with $20 and a VCR. This Hip-hop sh*t is real and I really wonder how many cats would still be making beats or rhyming if there was no loot in it like it was back in the day. I haven't received sh*t for any beat I made yet for people but I still keep making 'em. Hopefully one day I will. I think everyone who claims to live Hip-Hop should watch that sh*t and also cop Ego Trips Book of Rap Lists. Mad info regarding hip-hop. And remember-

Rap is something you do
Hip-Hop is something you live

One...

Yo that's what happening ? yeah cats used to get punched in the face and
cats used to battle for there equipment . Can you imagine that ?
ripping the labels off the records for the biters. I am glad that this
music has been able to be adapted in practically every aspect of life.
I watched shark tale with my son and damn that ish is hip hop out.
Yo aint nothing wrong with getting a little money for your work as
long as you feel comfortable with yourself .Believe me if
somebody came with a good price for one of my tracks I'm gonna
try to break even with the money I spent for the studio equipment.
I was just curious to see what's up with some of the heads on this
forum that claim to be real hip hop and all that .
save the music yall!!!!!!

hiphop is everything around you

Ain't nothing like hip-hop, man. Nothing like it

thats a good idea to give a copy to everybody who comes in your studio. Im thinkin about doin somethin like that now. A lotta people i used to work with is mad ignorant, i dont even **** with em anymore.

It's like masta ace said in GOOD OL LOVE
"Ain't nothing like hip hop music, that's why we choose it. And the world just can't refuse it"

wow. its so nice to hear from people who still think this way. it used to be real not too long ago down here but now the scene is breaking up and dividing. alot of new cats have jumped in and drowned. they're lost and they're missing the point. in no way am i saying i'm a veteran this is just what i'm seeing at the moment

so if you didnt go to jail you think youde be up there with GMF? i dont know man, thats a big call. i typed "dj meserati" into Google and got 0 responses.

im also confused... you claim that Miles Davis was in your crew? Are you talking about THE Miles Davis???????

Apart from doubting all that, im not trying to lash out at you. More power to you if you were a part of the birth of the scene. You should without a doubt write some articles on it (if you can write, or else get someone to ghost write... im a writer by trade and i can say youre perspective of how it was in the beginning would be awesome).

Everyone is sick of hearing the usual shit, you know like Kool Herc did this and Flash did that and Theodore was doing this etc. People are craving more info on the little things... what life was like, what equipment was being experimented with, the smells of rustoleum spray, the tools and techniques of hacking into power supplies... etc etc etc

i mean weve all seen Beat Street and Style Wars and Wildstyle and ive got most of the more obscure shit on dvd too (such as the af bam doco with the wierd "af coming from space" intro)... but the first hand experiences are rare, and mostly are just some old crackhead trying to make a buck telling people what they wanna hear... (or even WORSE... when **** like Malcolm McLaren still talk about "discovering" hiphop urgh)...

anyway, lay the k-n-o-w-l-e-d-g-e on us

nooooooo i watched a lot of it

meseratibeats wrote:I am forty years old and lived that experience.

I'm 34 in 7 days (Oct21), I'm catching up to you man.

I been into hiphop since Junior High School. Started as
a 13yr old neighborhood DJ (1983) and moved to makin beats.
I got some good memories also.. Things just aint the same. You
can't go into a park late at night anymore and rock it like back in
the day.

i feel like a youngsta. but i still love oldschool

kvisko wrote:so if you didnt go to jail you think youde be up there with GMF? i dont know man, thats a big call. i typed "dj meserati" into Google and got 0 responses.

im also confused... you claim that Miles Davis was in your crew? Are you talking about THE Miles Davis???????

Apart from doubting all that, im not trying to lash out at you. More power to you if you were a part of the birth of the scene. You should without a doubt write some articles on it (if you can write, or else get someone to ghost write... im a writer by trade and i can say youre perspective of how it was in the beginning would be awesome).

Everyone is sick of hearing the usual ****, you know like Kool Herc did this and Flash did that and Theodore was doing this etc. People are craving more info on the little things... what life was like, what equipment was being experimented with, the smells of rustoleum spray, the tools and techniques of hacking into power supplies... etc etc etc

i mean weve all seen Beat Street and Style Wars and Wildstyle and ive got most of the more obscure **** on dvd too (such as the af bam doco with the wierd "af coming from space" intro)... but the first hand experiences are rare, and mostly are just some old crackhead trying to make a buck telling people what they wanna hear... (or even WORSE... when **** like Malcolm McLaren still talk about "discovering" hiphop urgh)...

anyway, lay the k-n-o-w-l-e-d-g-e on us

Okay that's cool you Typed my name into google and nothing came up
I guess if I wanted to learn about you I should do the same thing.
I'm not doubting that I would've been known like Grand Master flash
and the rest of them, But when I got incarcerated and came home my
mind was on different things. I was very upset with my fam, For 1
when I came home All of my equipment was gone, records and all
even my clothes. See what happened ? my brothers being young, thought
that once you go to jail you'll never come home . My so called crew
told my young brothers that I said they can get my equipment and they
believed them. You might ask why didn't I ask them to pay for it right?
Most of them moved and the ones that was still around was broke
and I forgave them or else I could've wilded out and end back incarcerated. Let me put it like this alot changed when I came home.
Look you had all type of gangs, Savage skulls ,the Nomads Black spades.
then you had the stick up kids Like the Nine crew, Casonovas and mad
other n*ggas that used to Rob cats at the Disco fever that used to
be on 167th st.. You also had the 5 percenters that was doing mad
grime .Try typing Disco fever in google, ask LL Cool Jay about the fever
cats used to get killed and robbed even L-L. See Hip Hop still had grimey
characters that none of the documentaries are talking about. Cat's used to
get killed for Cazals ,Leather bombers, sheep skins and sterling silver, Yo
Kid n*ggas would send you home sneakerless. Lee jackets got stolen
MotherfVckers was not f-ing with the bronx believe me . I used to rock
the sweat shirts with the Iron on letters me and my crew. See nobody
thought Hip Hop was going to make it to where it is and alot of us started
doing other things. Like sticking you up. Webster ave, Washington had some of the grimiest projects southeren blvd simpson and jackson st
don't forget Tracy towers .Damn my pulse is elevating typing this.
My man Miles Davis got Killed by the police .You hear these rappers
screaming about Larry Davis? me and him used to run together untill he shot those cops . Alot of people that was on was selfish just like today and
would get robbed that's why cats got body guards this didn't just start.
Listen to M.c sham in one of his songs he let you know that ish..
Today I produce I got my own lil home studio ,I'm married have a son
and my wife is expecting now. don't look down on people because the might be fVck up now, but Hip Hop always had drugs involved it's just
that some people never woke up from their dream . I would love to
hear something from an Old dope fiend because what they tell you might amaze you. Most of my mans are dead or locked up. But I guarentee you
if you go to Anderson ave in the bronx and ask about Meserati
You will get a bunch of blacks and puerto ricans that can tell you a thing or two Take the D-train or the 4train to yankee stadium ask how to get to
161st on Anderson Ave before you go up that hill look on the concrete across the street from the Masjid my name is etched in stone and if
go to 164th st ask about me . It's safe now????
I got people in fed jaisl and state prisons that made Americas Most Wanted
I just got lucky and never got caught up in that other ish
Peace!