![]() So that album must have been dropped right after that happened. Well I’m looking at that “Grip It From That Other Level” cassette tape right now, and I see that Rest In Peace note you put on the cover of that. RR: Well first person that I knew that was good people was Kenny Ray and he got shot and killed on the Making Trouble album, so we always used to wonder, if during the making of a Geto Boy’s album, “Who’s Next?” I knew him very briefly but for the year to 6 months I knew him, I knew he was folks man. That last line is pretty stunning if you think about it. Then you mentioned… “Somebody always got killed during the making of a GB album! RIP Big C.” ![]() Vicious Lee of the Def 4 got arrested that night for trying to get to NC.” RC: ( Continues) “I was back home in NJ around the holidays I got a call that he been killed!. In 1988 while shooting Raheem’s video for A&M Records, NC was killed at a gas station by a Punk Asss Bytch Mutha Fucker from what I hear it had been a knuckle up at the club and like a 1 hr later he was dead by a shotgun blast to the face! “NC Trahan was big part of the GB early days before I came down to Houston he let us practice at his crib all day and nite never said a thing. Now you mentioned briefly NC Trahan, and like I said I did my homework and dug way back thru the archives, and back in the day, on ’s message board, you mentioned something that stuck with me. So I went up there and I did my East Coast, Trenton, New Jersey style of DJing, which is pretty much our style of DJing, with a Philly Twist, and New Jersey Twist, being that I’m from Trenton, and there’s a world wind of culture there in Trenton between Philly and New York, so this was a whirlwind of techniques and ways that you can attack the art of turntablism. RR: I had a DJ battle down at the world famous Rhinestone Wrangler on Murworth, right up the street from the Astrodome off of Main. RC: So then after that did you have a DJ Battle in Houston that really got things rolling for you? ![]() I got a thousand dollars to get down with the Geto Boys since he helped me get my sister out of a bad situation. Later on I asked him to loan me a couple of dollars to help me out, and that’s how I got down. ![]() And I just met James Smith the owner of Rap-A-Lot Records that same night. We was cool for the first couple months then he started tripping out so I had to put some things on. So I got to Houston, and meet this guy she was still with. I planned on being gone at least a month. RR: Yes, this would have been December 1986, she says “Hey, I need you to come somewhere with me.” I said “What’s going on?” “I need you to grab your stuff and come down here.” So I said OK. RC: Ok, so the story goes that back in 87, you were in Jersey and got a call from your sister to come down to Texas and help her out with some boyfriend problems, and that’s the phone call that basically got the ball rolling for you with the Geto Boys, can you elaborate on that? Old School Trenton Flyer Featuring Divine Sounds and “GW” Grand Wizard Ready Red ![]()
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