Basically, I wasn’t spinning on the radio during this time, and wanted to be spinning on the radio, so I created my own radio station: WMEK, which not surprisingly had an all-mixshow format. I clearly wanted to make a mixtape badly because I filled up a 120 minute tape. At the time, i was doing tape duplication at Volume Productions, which was/is an electronic music DJ crew out of Providence. My dude Dek One hooked me up with the job, and with the kid John aka Myth who did these covers. The picture of me is from a Halloween party that Jaysonic threw when he was still in D.C., where I let out my inner nerd. Myth had the concept to put me at a different national monument for each tape. Suspenders, orange pants, and oxford shirt all courtesy of my father’s wardrobe.
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This mixtape was a breakthrough for me in so many ways, most of all because it was my first mixtape that got sold in stores–six years after i tried to scratch my first record it finally happened. I dropped a copy off at Skippy White’s record store (where i practically grew up) for the one and only Heartless Jim (a true legend!). I was so shook, i just kind of put it on the counter and ran out. The next time i was in there to buy records, Jim was like “yo, we want some copies to sell”. This was at a time when they weren’t just selling ANY mixtape; there was a definite filter and if you weren’t good enough they wouldn’t sell your tape. I was gassed!! This was also my first mixtape with an official cover, thanks to my dude Andrew Unknown who designed it. It was getting mentioned on the radio, and actually sold a gang of copies! This one means the most to me of all my tapes and really got my name out there locally.
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