.......how it all began (part1)

circa 1985

christmas used to be the shit before i de-programmed.. that year my parents brought my brother and i voltron, a toy piano and a drum set.

i used to rock on that thing any chance i get. not knowing then, i was tapping into my future.

I still think back to those days... 85 was cool to me because i was before my own time.. my cousin Ryan was the one with the boombox and i would try to spit shit.. wasnt making sense then...

but i tried, only being 5.. the yougest of the bunch

circa 1986

ok..ok... another christmas story..lol

really, i never believed in santa clause.. i was dyslexic and spelled satan by accident. back my story, i woke up late one christmas eve to catch the muthafucka in the act.. there was no way a fat cracka can make his way through a chimney that doesnt exist.

to my surprise i caught my pops with a big ass bag.. in it was the second thing that captured my interest in music.

i looked passed the lazer tag set for my brother and i and headed straight to my pops keyboard.. i never touched the piano from the previous year and the drumset was broken by the time school was out.

back to the keyboard.... i never seen a keyboard that operated with a sampler.. shit.... i never saw a keyboard at all

casio sk-200

i took over that keyboard and learned how to use the sampler, unfortunatly i fucked up and broke it.. got my ass beat then pops brought my brother and i an sk-1

casio sk-1

i pimped that keyboard from 86-89.. no sequencing, no tuning, no EQ, no effects processor, NOTHING... but it still sampled. since then pops brought a new sk-200 and every now and then i would sneak it out of the room to chop up a beat.. mainly shit off the radio. those who know me well can say that i have a nack for taking shit a part and rebuilding it to something different.. since my brother used his keyboard rarely i decided to build my own 2-channel mixer.. i realized something was wrong when i put out the fire.. then genius struck.. snuck my parents record player in the room and used the line in to hook both up... Im bout to end this story here so i can finish choppin' these samples.. i'll hit u with part 2 later