many moons ago, back when i was in high school, i recall seeing a flyer for a house party in a nearby suburb (westland, michigan) where the headliner was MC Kid Rock. Being the curious 15 year old lad i was, i went to this party...only to find several large men booing the hell out of this scrawny looking white kid who was rhyming over poorly edited too short, grandmaster flash, and kool moe dee instrumentals.
though i do not doubt he used to spin alot of those records he mentioned (as if i recall right he is a capable dj in his own right), i find it highly unlikely he was rhyming over old Wizard shows. *shrug* i think i still might have that flyer from the evening. rht np: om : john coltrane (its his birthday week. every play yr trane!) On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Cyclone Wehner wrote: > > Here are the techno related extracts from my Kid Rock interview last week > which I put in a local hip-hop column. > > Can't say I like Kid Rock's music but the guy is really quite amiable. > > I guess you could say I like Bob Ritchie, not Kid Rock. > > Here goes: > > Did Kid, too, grow up on the progressive radio shows of innovators like The > Electrifyin' Mojo and The Wizard, aka Jeff Mills, both of whom totally > disregarded racially-segregated formats? Yes, he did: > > "I grew up on Mojo and The Wizard!," Kid enthusiastically explained. "I used > to actually do all the raps for The Wizard on the radio - like, he'd make > beats and then I'd come over to his house and rap on them - just some > no-name guy. I'm good friends with him. I haven't seen him in a while, but > we're good buddies. [Mojo and The Wizard] used to play a lot of hip-hop, so > every kid used to listen to 'em. Jeff Mills was all rap, a big hip-hop DJ, > and then he started getting into house. And then he got into techno." > > Kid himself mingled with the techno luminaries in the Detroit scene when he, > too, was a DJ rockin' basement parties. "I was a DJ myself, so I used to > spin Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes, Kevin Saunderson, all the Metroplex > records... I even worked with Juan Atkins on some rap projects when I was > 15-years-old." > > Has Kid ever considered tapping into the increasingly influential Detroit > booty? "No, though I do love booty music. I love all the Miami bass music. I > always did. I think it's great. I mean, I made a couple of tracks on my > first record, actually. They were kind of like this, but they were more like > block music... I love that shit!" > > Still can't believe this but hey. > > C > >
