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10 Oct, 8 tweets, 6 min read
...#RealFacts in 1984 I create the tape ‘PublicEnemy#1’ as a promo for radio station WBAU 90.3 . I pass tape across JammasterJay to @DoctorDre39 .. The promo catches fire. Jay takes back to RUSH. Adam Mike Adam of BB hear it from Hollis Crew. RickRubin wants this MC for @defjam
..The MC turns RickRubin down in 85-86 NOT wanting to record. @DoctorDre39 Dre creates BASS music w OriginalConcept. Rick suggests the MC rap with OC. Still a NO. Dre becomes 2nd DJ for the BB. Bill Stephney becomes exec at @defjam. PE1 spreads as a weird car anthem on LongIsland
1986 @DoctorDre39 tours with RaisingHell 60 USA cities as BB DJ. @DJHURRICANE2 is w HollisCrew recording as DavyDMX MC replacing Dre as BB DJ. @OfficialRunDMC headlines @TheGarden .JMJ says to MC cmon Chuck this ain’t that bad as 20,000 hold up adidas. Rick threatens firing Bill-
-if he cannot get the MC on the label. Upon dropping Bill off home a conversation with he and Hank in the car shifts a reason WHY to record. 4 demos are made to go to Ricks dorm to create @PublicEnemyFTP hence Yo! BumRushTheShow is written shadowing Raising Hell upon signing ..
..Yo! BumRushTheShow simply meant the industry was rushed once the MC toe got in the door from different vantage entries. DJ Producer Journalist Exec SecurityForce etc. Yo! MtvRaps was named as UK show that saluted YBRTS. The BB played PE time Bomb on NatTV on @DJHURRICANE2 box
.. PE1 ..is the reason that @PublicEnemyFTP exists thus it pays homage to the recording reasons in the first place. The Beastie Boys .Run DMC JMJ DJHurricane @DoctorDre39 BillStephney and Rick Rubins persistence to convince the MC to record the twisted sound of ConsciousNoise.
2020 full circle. This 45 returns the year we Vote out 45. 33 yrs later & 36 since I passed the tape. Follow @DoctorDre39 & we help his cause. Together Forever Salutes to MCA&JMJ who got it around #RestInBeats Run DMC Mike D Adrock @DJTerminatorX @TheImpossebulls @DjLORDofficial
Fact is if you can find another HIPHOP Rap recording artist in its recording history 1979-2020 who turned down making records post here. Not a bidding war mind you. A Turn down. Much less from the greatest label & producer of the genre & possibly all time. I’m working on a story

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More from @MrChuckD

17 Feb 19
The key in fandom is knowing yourself 1st. The key is being a artist is KNOW you 1st.Then maybe the 2 meet & dance. However Art is short for ‘ARTificial’ it’s a facsimile of life. It’s NOT living. It reflects that. The leaders of Politics & Religion stole a page outta that book.
In the USA the place is so Big & so all over the place that is low on preparing its humans on the world. Especially culture . Always low bar sht thrown at its mASSes. Quantity prevails from those metrics. Organic movement gets reduced & redefined like Love & HipHop for example
My door closed on R&B in the 90s when Urban situations coined themselves ‘Homes of Hip Hop & R&B ‘ and were neither. I still was fan of artists NOT their troth. My Roosevelt Homeboys Bob & Mike Davis hold the form high on Soul-Patrol.com @kozmicfunk SO where are yall?
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11 Dec 18
Errrrr R&B is short term for Rhythm and Blues .. which artists have & do ....good& bad . Today especially. That’s the term. Jerry Wexler one of @AtlanticRecords foundation giants created the term while working as a writerthe @billboard race charts in 1950. #KNOWwhatyousayYouLOVE
@billboard editor PaulAckerman sent JerryWexler home to come up with the new term because RACE records was considered derogatory to a new movement of Blackfolk post World War 2. Especially in New York. Thus the Rhythm and Blues CHARTS were born ..R&B ..people #LearnYOURmusic
I mean dude (WEXLER) didn’t invent the music... just created the term ( R&B)
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