They spoke to the club owner and we went in there and did like 5 to 10 minute show which eventually became 20 minute shows . From there the club owner trusted us to get onto the decks . At the time I got very , very lucky because I managed to make it to the UK , thanks to the sponsors , or should I say the sponsorship of one of our team members . I went to the UK in 87 and I came back with a whole stack of vinyl ’ s , gee-whiz a shipment of note . Took it back to Teasers , we played it there , and that attracted a lot of kids from the Cape Flats , because they heard of these coloured laities , and black laities , who were doing Hip-Hop and Bee Boy in the club and part of that wave was a guy called Shaheen Ariefdien . He became the lead rapper for POC and he always used to battle throw down syfers in Teasers . We eventually linked up through a mutual friend , because I learned his dad had a recording studio , and Shaheen heard there was a bra that could scratch and he needed to see this with his own eyes , because at that time nobody was actually doing it . He came to my house , and we started to connect with each other , and that was the birth of POC right there , in 1988 officially , that is when the wheels were in motion and that was the road to POC . POC ( Prophets of Da City ) recorded the first album in 1990 . We were always involved with politics and the social aspects of what goes on in Cape Town and in our country . We recorded 3 albums in South Africa , 2 in the UK . We ’ ve released singles , so it was quite a journey for POC . From South Africa , we based ourselves in the UK for more than a year and from the UK we were out there just touring . We did the US , Scandinavia , Western Europe , Eastern Europe , like really some obscure places . So that was the journey for POC .
You are known as the Grandmaster , tell us about that journey and how you became the Grandmaster . Lol , I ’ m not even sure if I still deserve being labelled the Grandmaster , because a Grandmaster is a person that ’ s supposed to know so much , but I still regard myself , as a student . I still regard myself you know , as somebody that is still in search of so much when it comes to music and what I do as a DJ , and it ’ s just an ongoing process . I think the title was given , because the industry acknowledged me you know , for my commitment I would say for the music and also Hip-Hop as a culture , and also for the work that I did in the community . I would say the first level of acknowledgement came through Hype magazine . They handed me the award about 8 years ago , when I started at Goodhope Fm , about 3-4 years down the line , Goodhope Fm caught wind of the Grand Mastership . I tried to keep it under wraps , for my own