Back in the day, NYC was the birthplace of mixing and scratching.
Growing up as a young kid in the early 80's, my friends and I were always on the lookout for new mixed tapes from legendary DJs like Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore and Afrika Bambaataa. The tapes were always sold illegally on random street corners all over the city. And while other kids from the suburbs were trading baseball cards, we would spend our free time trading mixed tapes.
Back then, I briefly entertained the idea of becoming a professional DJ. My buddy had a turntable and mixing board set-up in his apartment and the two of us would spend hours mixing and scratching until the break of dawn.
At the same time, MetroBro ended up developing a love for freestyle rap. He was fucking fearless. He'd go out on the streets and trade battle raps with anyone. He was like the illegitimate love child of Yeats and Eminem.
But let's face it. Two Korean-American prep school kids in blazers weren't going to have much of an impact on the future of urban street music.
That's why it warms the cockles of my aging turntablist’s heart to see these two young Korean kids burning up the decks. Big props to the next generation. Word on the street is that the little girl is seven years old and the boy is five!
As I like to kid all my white and black friends when we're talking shit on the hoops court and I'm dropping threes on them, "Koreans take what you make...and we make it better! Boo yah!"
By the way, while doing a random surf on youtube, I came across THIS. How is it possible that this movie never won the Academy Award for Best Picture? Is anyone else out there old enough to remember this classic scene or am I dating myself again?
Fuck, I'm old!
awesome. and that sparkly DJ hat is perfect.
these kids rock...
2 cool 4 a 6 pack
Posted by: Tony | January 24, 2008 at 01:44 PM
Korean DJ Wunderkids:
These kids are actually Japanese. They are DJ Sara and DJ Ryuso
Their father is a DJ who has competed in many DJ competitions. They were flown from Japan to California to meet the great DJ Qbert.
Sorry to bust ur bubble
Posted by: DJ Sniffles | April 02, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Great blog! Cheers from San Francisco.
Posted by: Jdub | July 28, 2008 at 07:38 PM
I can care less what ethnicity these kids are; they got what's going on none-the-less!
cute babies :)
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