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DJ Pos 2’s love movement
By Wes Flexner

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series and “the Live 95er” are Bustown
Classics.
As out of hand as the Fonoslut night got
at times, it was always kinda silly. I remember listening to rowdy sets of Wu-Tang and
Mobb Deep, later watching emcees rap with
vulgarity, and then somehow ending the night
playing musical chairs in a very wholesome
manner.
Pos says having a slapstick sense of humor

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helped the
Fonoslut
night avoid falling into Hip Hop cliches. They
would let the local panhandlers win the rap
contest. They would give actually good rappers worthless prizes such as a singing fake
fish. The Fonosluts would play the school
yard game of “fart touch” while all types of
chaos was going on.
They enjoyed doing silly things to have fun.
Unfortunately, Przm’s heart problems and a
few other factors eventually brought the event
to close in 2005.
Przm, Daymon Dodson and Camu Tao died
shortly thereafter, all of Natural causes which
brought an end to that era in many ways and
also left Pos mourning the loss of some very
close friends.
Pos spun the Blueprint-Hosted So What
Wednesdays (2007-2009) with Detox and did
random events until starting Buggin’ Out in
2011.
Obviously, if Pos is spearheading a Jazz
Fusion monthly, there has been some maturity
since the days of encouraging fights and the
fart touch. But maintaining a place for people
from his era to go is a primary motivation for
Buggin’ Out and Vibes N Stuff.
“It seems now to have more of a purpose.
We are doing it for a reason because there
isn’t a lot of what we used to do. Now isn’t
exactly what I did back then, People are still
around that are our age. They can relate to
me. They see a familiar face...It gives some of
those people somewhere to go. And hopefully
some of the newer people will come out as
well. It’s more of a purpose for Columbus
than it was back in the day.”
Vibes N Stuff is this Friday November 8th
at the Rehab Tavern located at 456 W. Town
Street. Admission is Free.

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“NOW MORE THAN EVER”

J Pos 2 and I sat
down to talk about
his monthly gig at
the Rehab Tavern Vibes N Stuff which has its
4 installment Friday.
“We wanted to do something different
than Buggin’ Out.” said the Hip Hop veteran
comparing it to the successful bi-monthly
Hip Hop showcase at Carabar that Pos and
Zerostar have been promoting for two and a
half years.
“We just want to do something for the older
crowd. It was just, ‘let’s do jazz fusion. Ohio
funk.’ Just something different from Hip
Hop.”
In addition to Pos spinning jazz fusion
staples such as Miles Davis and Donald Byrd,
Vibes N Stuff also incorporates down-tempo
music such as Flying Lotus and Diabese,
which Columbus instrumental Hip Hop producer Maggz will be playing.
Envelope will also be doing a guest deejay
set of rock and soul classics.
If Vibez N Stuff is different than Buggin’
Out, a beloved Hip Hop showcase that has
had performances by some of Columbus’s
finest such as Illogic, P.Black, Path, J. Rawls,
King Vada and more as well as out of town
acts such as Nemo Achida and Supastition,
then it is a WAY different mood than the
event Pos cut his teeth on.
Pos 2 was the late DJ Przm’s understudy
during the bulk of Columbus’s Legendary Fonosluts Hip Hop Night at Bernie’s
Distillery. The Fonoslut Hip Hop Night was
known as the home base for the internationally revered Columbus Hip Hop scene that the
MHz, Weightless, J. Rawls and Spitball were
putting on the map. Locally, it was a known
as a High Energy Riot/Party.
Pos spun there from the summer of 2000 to
2005 alongside Przm and DJ Lo-Zone. The
event was hosted by So What aka Daymon
Dodson.
I used to hang out there. There were fist
fights, rhyme battles, bboys, graffiti vandalism, dancing, moshing, public sex acts,
drug abuse and all sorts of random campus
mayhem.
I asked Pos what it was like to be playing
music and look out into a crowd of humans
punching each other. Pos said they wanted
wildness at the time, “Przm used to want to
have a fight while we were performing. So
if someone was fighting while we were deejaying we were like ‘alright. this is what we
need.’ Let’s throw on some hardcore stuff.
Unless it got too serious. At times it was just
a dumb brawl.”
Pos got his start at Bernies because Przm
needed to go home to Detroit and so the
Fonosluts needed someone to fill-in.
It was where Pos developed, “Lo was like,
‘keep bringing your records down here.’ A lot
of times I didn’t spin. Sometimes I would. Or
Camu would spin my records and steal the
crowd.”
After paying dues for awhile, Pos became
one of the most respected deejays in Columbus, known for his mix tapes. His “Bust-It”

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