STM Best of 2012 Mikey D
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In the early 1980's I began my hip hop journey, after hearing the classic Kool Moe Dee vs. Busy BEE battle. I was instantly attracted to the new sound that would soon be the biggest thing in the music industry. The first rhyme I wrote was “Kim”, it was one of those female drama rhymes inspired by Grand Master Caz's “Evette”. I had a lot of rhymes but no where to spit them. Johnnie Quest, my childhood homey, got some equipment for Christmas right around that time and it was on and poppin. We would make tapes just about every day. Making tapes every day started to bore us after a while so eventually we stepped up our game and introduced ourselves to the park jam scene. Nervous as hell, I did what I do now and ripped it. Word got around fast. Quest and I were definitely coming up. Of course battles came with the territory, I would bounce from hood to hood Instead of rockin to a beat I dissed this dude off the beat of his own pushups. The crowd went bananas. Mel must have been embarrassed because He threw his belt on the floor and said if I was a real champion I would Battle for the belts. At first I wasn't with it but once again the crowd amped me up. I looked at Mel, then I looked at my belt, then I looked at his belt on the floor, then I looked at the crowd chanting "GO MIKEY". N.Y. flow wasn't really poppin in Miami at that time so I tried to bring some new flavor to the table. My man T.C. and I got together and put some N.Y. flow over Miami tracks and called our crew No Strings Attached. We signed to a label called Magnum Records and put out a single titled put “Your Body in Motion”. We even got a nice budget video for it. We did lots of performances but that was that. Miami just wasn't the place for me musically. That was from 1989 to 1991.
When I returned to N.Y. I continued writing I would just drink 40s and freestyle all day. One day Jeff Red told me that he knew a well established group that needed an emcee, and was I interested?...Of course. He didn't tell me the name of the group, he just gave me an address and directions to meet with them. When I rang the bell a dread answered the door. As soon as I saw him I knew who he was. It was K-Cut of the group Main Source. Large Pro had broke out from the group do to certain issues After a week of lockdown in the crib, we met up at. But all I know is that these two niggaz was fire. Straight off the back I wanted them on this track. The next week we hit the studio and recorded “Set It Off”. This song featured the original Lotto, Sha- Queen (Ma Barker), myself and the Warlocks now known as the Lox. I never met Styles P but Sheek and Jadakiss put it down on the track. New Year (2006) hits, we will be re-releasing the classic L.A. Posse Material. This album will include a few never heard before tracks produced by the late great Paul C. The album will be titled “Better Late Then Never (In memory of Paul C)”. Also, we will be releasing a documentary DVD with A bonus CD of the classic Queens Park jams. The title of this project is “Let The Truth Be Told”. I'm currently in the lab recording my next project called Throwback 06. This album will feature a lot of rappers from back in the day that still spit that hot shit. Be sure you stay tuned because history is about to repeat in Two Thousand Sick (2006).