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