DJ Clark Kent Tells the Story of Introducing Jay Z & BIG, Why Young DJs Are Trash & His Sneaker Expo
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2016
- DJ Clark Kent rolled up to Ebro in the Morning for some major talk about kicks, DJing, and classic hip hop on Hot 97.
The DJ tells some classic stories behind introducing Jay Z and Notorious B.I.G. together, and the whole Roc-A-Fella era. He also discussed the evolution of the DJ, and why he feels they are "trash" today.The Ultimate Sneaker Expo is September 17.
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19:33 Biggie, Jay.
Rap is something you do. Hip-Hop is what you are. (Class of 88) Blessed I was where and when.
Brooklyns finest is a legendary song thanks to DJ Clark Kent
The fact that a lot of my peers that are in my age group don't bother to pay attention and listen to a smart cat like DJ Clark Kent is disrespectful because I actually learn things about this game we call "hip-hop/rap" from guys like him. Thanks for the knowledge 🙏🏾.
all facts
💯💯
it's refreshing to hear someone who genuinely appreciates Hip-hop/rap. there is just SO MUCH bad rap and for many, it's cool not to be able to rap that well.
"I'd rather do smart shit all the time" dope line!!!!
Clark Kent dropped a bunch of gems here, great interview.
YES-and there is no discussion about most of it, especially when he talked about the state of today's music starting at 28:50
I love this interview, the beginning of hip hop is important and his perspective is valued. Thank you for this interview Hot 97 and Ebro.
Such a great conversation. Clark is a legend.
great interview, i remember kent from wetlands club in the early '90's, and wish (looking back) that my boys had signed w/ him than who they did; and it's true the voice itself is an instrument...
this interview is why I love DJ Clark Kent
I saw Clark play in Atlanta at Club "Plastics" in 1991 and literally lay the blueprint for modern DJing. He has some "interesting" ideas, but he is definitely official.
Great interview I like hearing stories about moments in hip hop that weren't documented. And he's right if a person can't spit FOH!
I remember DJ Clark Kent from back in the day in New York City. I was in the record store & there he was, mind you, he was already legendary and not just for rap! I remember Kent for all the new House tracks! I saw him djing in the club MARS! Anyway, I humbly asked him what House track I should go with & he told me and he was SO right!!! The brother was so aproachable. I mean we were up in there chatting like we knew each other! Mad respect for this brother!!!
DJ Clark Kent told the greatest story of Mad Skillz saying he was the greatest MC, he is like you Nice, but my boy Jay is going to be the GOAT. He knew way back then.
this interview contains some of the best information for artist that i've seen. took alot of jewels away.
best interview you've had in a long time
Realest convo anybodys had about hip hop In a while. Need that quality control.
LOVED THIS INTERVIEW. BIG UP DJ
Clark Kent most definitely one of the best DJ's out there. Good interview
Greatest hot 97 interview ever.
GREAT INTERVIEW, CLARK KENT LEGENDARY
Dope ass interview!! Word up
I like DJ Clark Kent. Sky's The Limit is my favorite song ever, it's great to see the personality behind all those records.
love this interview, definitely miss the golden era of Hip-hop but hopefully the transition taking place finally bridges the gap word to Nas
great interview..love how laura and scottie beam caught clark out there contradicting his own logic with how he would call out rappers that can't spit, but how he won't confront djs that do pre mixes and are overall bad djs that are messing up the game… .great interview from ebro and everyone…
He wasnt contradicting himself. The other DJ is his competition so why would he help his competition be better. As DJs and radio personalities their job is to literally to listen to and play music therefore making their critic of the actual music more relevant.
what is this? he did not /did too time? what- you trolling? I would not expect you to understand the contradiction -nor my explanation of why he contradicted himself..the only thing you succeeded in is getting a reply from me. Congratulations!
dope dope interview
Great interview. ik weak but it really was great
I love this conversation.
bobbito got those nice puma collaborations out going to cop both of them this week
Big up to my man Mr Blink aka Dj Clark Kent the dude that got me into Graffiti back in 83
Tears In my eyes, true hip hop talk. Dam Wow
The way he speaks on hip hop is inspiring. He sounds like common when he wrote h.e.r
greatest interview ever
Like this interview.
I take this show for granted. Lets be clear: I love this show.
36:36 the most important part/point of this interview....
I really appreciate Clark Kent explaining how important the rapper's voice is. If you don't sound good on a beat, no one's gonna listen to you no matter how lyrical you say you are.
clark kent keeps it real at all times.
Them Shaolin Fantastic Puma's 💀
This guy^^^ 😏
+Tym Jones as soon as he said pumas with the gold signature it popped in my head 😂
They Are Called Puma "Clydes" Sneakers........
Glad you felt you should share.. But the joke wasn't about the name of the shoe.. It was a joke about a show called The Get Down..
You should watch it on Netflix..
But thanks for the info..... I guess...
Not gonna lie, I peeped out Brooklyn's Finest after he told that Jay Z and BIG story. It gave me a better appreciation for it
clark is a legend
fab has lived like 3 rap life times, pusha has lived 2 (one being reincarnated)
***** ok what i meant was excelling through the trends and fads. G rap may be a legend and well respected and still a cited source but could he sell and make his own lane in today's hip-hop?
Legendary DJ/Producer
zero dislikes on a dope interview with slightly controversial topics #Nice
Im about to send this video to Lik Yatchty and Lil Uzi
The 17 was the cleanest Jordan from 15 up. With the suitcase and everything. Don't sleep.
Hahah I went to school in smithtown that's mad funny
Clark Kent talkin that TALK! :$
you also got to understand as a mc you grow a taste to types of beats thats once you hear it makes you want to rap. As a mc dont give me a trap beat hit me with jdilla, etc
Prime example why the industry is over saturated. Everybody wanna DJ & Emcee but are not actually qualified to do so!!!!!! Operation take back hip hop.... Salute DJ Clark Kent for keeping it original
15-17 are so underrated, they're fire to me
LOOL to ball in maybe aha
nah you can rock them casual if you know how to dress, Joe Haden did it right on his ig
J Blue LOL idk im a 90s fiend so i cant do it haha so when I'm wearing concords my outfits needs to be like 1995 and i only bump music that day from that year really LOL
If its a EARLY 90s mood? For example i might I throw on my braves starter pinstripe with some olympic 7s and play 1992 albums all day haha yeah I'm that crazy haha
didn't Easy E wear the Jordans 3's in Easy doz it?
So they just have that nigga in the green shirt stand up the whole episode
thats laura when rosenberg is around.
lmao ya
He has A.D.D and O.C.D. He always tend to stand even while mixing or interviewing. He just needs to do something and be active. He also gets bored easily. IF you go to his IG, he's uploading like 2-4 photos an hour lol. It's just him
Oh shit...I thought he had a seat! #MexicanLivesMatter LOL
sean24833 he ain't complaining
I've heard diff stories about Brooklyn's finest but I'm inclined to believe Clark
Is it me or is Clarke Kent low key schooling Ebro in this interview??!!
I think a lot of people got schooled from this interview
clark kent , large professor, q tip, mc lyte, DOC , rico wade , j prince, jazzy jeff they are the real life ambassadors in this hiphop game . to me they are more important than krs 1 these days.
Yup, and it was because Ebro was playin him close with some of his questions like Clark Kent was one these "Young - Lil's" new to the game!
not really but he had that tone a lil bit lol
I don't give a damn what anybody says, the Air Jordan 20's are FIRE. I don't wear Jordan's but that's a very slept on sneaker.
No they are not Paul 🙃
Jay Z & Biggie Meeting @19:24
That was a Hip Hop Lives interview
The culture must be preserved integrity must remain intact we have to respect what our people ( black people) has created or else we will have nothing . Peace to the OG's and the young heads
I feel like the reason kids today don't get this whole "real hip hop" argument is because the definition of what fun and culture meant from the 2000s onwards has changed.
The stuff older people talk about (generally) just sounds boring to young ears. At the same time, sure there's young people who are in tune with traditional hip hop culture and mores the same way we have that one cousin who is actually interested in grandpa's origins and stories about where the family came from.
Overall I just think you can never bridge two generations. Both will always clash until one dies out and then the cycle repeats (for hip hop and numerous other cultures)
Exactly my point! You hit the nail on the head my friend!
Dude hip hop came from appropriating old disco and soul records, isn't that biting too? They pretty much illegally used other people's materials to make music rather than make it from scratch. So you pretty much sound like the disco and soul heads that saw hip hop in its early stages...which alludes to what I mentioned, it's all just a cycle and nothing's really going to come of all this fighting
***** sampling was not illegal when they were doing it.
***** And when the Beatles and Roling Stones, and ESPECIALLY Led Zeppelin came out, they were appropriating american delta blues music to a ridiculous extent and turning it into garage music. The riffs of blues, minus the heritage, as well as struggle and hand-to-mouth hardship black blues musicians faced in the South. And now what are those groups viewed as? The greatest bands of all time. Can you imagine how white boys in England copying, and sometimes outright STEALING, black southern music would've fared in the Twitter era?
L Lake I should have been more specific...they sampled illegally i.e without permission from the artists
My Adidas... Jordans Fila..champions ... Reebok when I was a young
So there is a version of Jay z Solo on Brooklyn Finest !
where can i get that hat?
Need info on that hat 🔥🔥👀
Good lookin out fam
Salute to Clark!! Bklyn all day!!
mad history
E-BRO should sell a DVD of the interviews where he kicks people out.
Sneakerhead Mount Rushmore
Fat Joe, Dj Clark Kent, Dj Greg Street, Wale
perfect pair and mayor also
Fabolous?
+Brian Baez it's crazy because I was thinking it was somebody else on that level lol
+dan15lop I respect it but is he up there wit them?
Yeah only ones missing are Mayor and Perfect Pair
The Only man who hear the Jay z 2pac diss record....
Yeah I heard it was a "scathing " diss too. I think he described it like that on Combat Jack I think.
+vmm12 how was PAC a hater?he didn't say shit about dmx.x admitted he just dissed PAC to get more exposure.PAC was more successful than all the rappers he dissed.
He wasn't the only one. Even Kenny Parker (KRS One's brother) vouches for the fact that Jay performed that record at the Apollo.
who can get me in touch with klark Kent i know he would respect real bars and i got them
I can't do a thing but now down . This interview is the blood, flesh, and none of the rap game. The youth needs to learn the word," STANDARDS". There's nothing wrong with having them, or striving for perfection. Rap is the music of a culture or the language of hip hop.
None of the rap game? You''re buggin.
+Kevindoh G really? I live by the theory that all things being equal the shortest way from a to b is a straight line. So you're buggin if you think that's what I mean. Do the math it's too few in the modern game that have this type of work ethic and craft work.
+vmm12 you sound like you've never read the theory of Occum's Razor. I don't ramble at all. As Dj Clark Kent just said ..." It's never ok to be stupid for a good reason."
#facts
it crazy you go back and listen to Dj Hollywood. it sounds more like lil yachty then what they say "REAL HIP HOP" is.
Y'all need to get DJ Ted Smooth up there!
Dj clark kent god
Facts!
It's our responsibility to introduce the young generation to real hip hop. My son & I play a game where he picks a rap song from his era and I pick a rap song from my era. I'm picking Nas, Biggie and he's picking Ty Dollar Sign, Wale, etc they're getting crushed. Now he's picking artist like J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Common etc. Sometimes you don't know what bad lyrics are, until you hear great lyrics.
Who has Ebro kicked out of the studio? And btw Clark Kent is almost 50 years old the man looks like he's 28
ya i wonder who too ..hmm
I'm a young DJ but I learned the history behind the art of the DJ. I use a controller but only because I can't afford turntables and a mixer right now. The controller isn't controlling you. You can use a controller just like your using turntables. You may not get the best feel out of it but it is possible. I hate when veteran DJs hate on young guys. We didn't grow up win turntables and it ain't our fault. If DVS wasn't around, turntables wouldn't even be relevant in this day and age.
Keep on doing what yo do!
-I'm glad that you have done your research and take the craft seriously.
I got introduced into Dj'ing with my friends who had turntables. When I got back into it many years later, the controllers (and CDJ's for pro's) are the king of the scene for most DJ's now.
I agree with you about the DVS statement, it is allowing turntables to have and extended life.
-but for me, I'm strictly a controller user, I use the Pioneer DDJ-RX for my gigs, but would like to pick up some tables just to have if I get some extra spending money.
The same discussions went on in the production world years ago as well, those of us who started making beats and recording on physical drum machines, keyboards, and Rack dynamics equipment learned music theory and proper recording techniques-we did fell jaded by how technology opened up the music business to people who were less talented and less dedicated to their craft.
-I admit, I was on of these producers, it just felt like computers made every one think they could make music1
-add in the internet and social media presence...then BOOM, you have the lower quality of music product we have today!
So don't get mad at older dj's but just understand where they are coming from, I know you see the bigger picture.
-good luck with your DJ'ing plans!
MarxSound Audio Services appreciate that man 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿thanks
No prob-I had to go back and make another post after I listened to Clark again, he was pretty angry with today's dj's.
-it's at the top of the page under my regular name Gregory J. Mansfield...I had to stick up for us 'Controller DJ's"
Peace!
I thought the first $100 Sneaker was The Nike Revolutions.
please give Juanito a fucking chair . his feet hurt he doing dance moves and shit lol
😂😂
I thought New Balance were the first $100 sneakers. Matter fact I think Clark maybe wrong as it was in or around 82 when I beleive the 990 OG came out for a $100.
Man I think Ebros talents are stronger behind the scenes man. I get the points he's trying to make and I'm around dudes age but some shit you gotta just let ride. Most of his interviews have a weird vibe. You can tell by his co hosts body language all the the time. It's like they want to keep apologizing for dude but they're riding cause they're on the same team.
1985.
I thought Jay & BIG met in high school...
don't know if I ever heard an interview from him
It was the Jordan1in she's gotta have it the movie came of in '86 the jordan 3 dropped in '88
YEah! i caught that i guess he got so much info he gets it mixed up lol and also didn't spike lee advertise with the 3s too?
where the jay z story start at, help me out
20 MINS IN BUDDY
Only 131k views and it’s been 4 years smh y’all really don’t do y’all homework on old school hip hop and it shows
Thought this was Mack Maine
Brooklyn stand up
Sorry but I never liked that Brooklyn's Finest beat. BIG and Jay went in though.
somtimes it sounds good othertimes not realy
bugged
bulletz gotti beat is lukewarm. other joints on that album were way hotter
456 123 nah beat just ain't that hot
+H 7assan That beat and every verse is fire. Jay is the illest. A take Jay
These nikkas make me wanna dress fresh af rn
Nah fuck that. Start saving for a house.
or buy Nike shares
+Joetuss hell yeah
Wait wait wait...I'm so confused right now. The story has always been that Jay Z started not writing down his rhymes because he saw BIG do that. But he just told it the other way around...
Where have you been? or who have you been listening to? Are you one of those Jay hater's that believe every negative story about him in the past?
Kingpin Status hahaha what??
The story in Decoded (from Jay's perspective) is he got tired of scrambling for a surface to write on when he was hustling so he started writing in his head
naw jay z said he taught himself how to mesmerize raps in his head before he met big I forgot what documentary it was but he said he would say raps on train and have it remembered by the time he was home
in the decoded book he describe it as always thinking of rhymes and struggling to have it written down. he started reciting his rhymes and tweaking them which made it memorable
Another interview he said it took big 2 weeks.
I'm a addict for sneakers 👟
First Jordan was $65. First $100 sneaker was Nike Air force 1.
#16 Dwight Gooden NY METS!
Yes Ebro please put those non rappers on please.
DJ mustard ain't trash! He makes hits & Tour #MustardOnThaBeatHoe !
He's barely a Dj
Pressing play on a song doesn't make you a DJ. All Mustard dose is make keyboard drum pad beats he doesn't even qualify as a producer.