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It got so hot that some cats from London wanted to make a record about him!! I said yeah , but its not their promo that you're playing every night!! Im like I will compete with the world to get my shot!! When I heard the track I was like wow!!! It was hard to get inspiration , because after all I am writing a song about another man. Whether he is my mentor or not its hard to do that, so I looked at the element of Hip Hop, and that was my escape route that made it easier.
It was an honor when cats like Mele Mel gave me props when we were makin' the record , cus Mel is like whoah. I aint gonna lie I would have loved to be in his shoes a couple of times back then. I just liked his whole swagger.
When I say the key , I mean they rap syncopated in key upon the music scale. Later on you had LL Cool J, Public Enemy and cats like that who could do it — but most cats cant rap syncopated and go up and down the music scale. But Mel told me that I had captured the essence of what needed to be said on the record , and he told Magic that I was the one for it , because he was gonna try the Furious 5 out.
Ecstacy was the lead vocalist on most Whodini songs because anything that we could play he could rap right to it in key. Later on you had Biggie and Pac that could do it as well. I feel that Pac was a stronger lyricist , but Biggie could flow syncopated a lil better.
Cats that flow like that sound great on any track, as far as their voice tones. Ecstacy just floats on the track and it makes it hard for another man to follow him on a song.
When we set up Whodini songs I would ask Ex to just go in a talk trash on the track, so I could get the key down to write the song. He went in and just freelanced a few bars and I told him to stop once I knew what key to write in.
Same thing with 80 percent of Whodini songs. The first sounds that he spoke I wrote to. He would let me know the key , then it was all on me and the God. JQ:I see that you have some Islamic elements about you , and you seem to be a very spiritual dude. Were you ever a 5 percenter? JA: Muslim!! I hung out with 5 percenters, but 5 percent starts from Islam. I had my years off course , and its nothing im happy about , but this game is a funny game.
When the God blesses you with knowledge of self at an early age, and you mix it with fame it takes you out of reality and you need to surround yourself with others with knowledge of self. I told my man Devine Mekkah how I wished that I had your problems!!! In fact my man Elbravador has the picture on his website, and im gonna use it for this interview.
JA: Laughs Yeah I got caught up in that world!! When you have that knowledge you can use it for the benefit , or to abuse things. JQ: I am looking thru my crates as we speak. What role did he play? JA: He was the brains of the music on that record. But yeah he is the father of that. JQ: Allow me to ask a stupid question that I always wanted to ask. JQ: How did you get with a cat like that?
We set Jive records off in America man!!! Ain't nobody heard of Jive in America till Whodini!!! JA: Yeah man it was us , then they brought you Billy Ocean and stuff. We set them off in the Black Market. JQ: How did you sign with them? Cats like that call it makin' someone pay their dues. It looked like a rock record with all the skeletons and stuff on the cover!! The first part of that record is the invite to the party , and the second part is about Emcees.
Every monster and character in there is about an Emcee that reminds me of them. If you listen close you can tell some of them!! I would fill you in , but some of those rappers might read this. Just imagine how it would have sounded if he did it. He was a genius, who taught me so much about keeping rhythms simple. The cat from the Thompson Twins had to end up playing the bass. Imagine telling a pop group to play this bass like Kenton would have.
But remember we were young cats who were from Brooklyn working early with these people. The Roland was big stuff for us. We had digital sound way back then , and we were one of the first!! I mean no offense to Nas but when he used Friends , or any of those dudes - none of 'em had that boom like the real Friends!! With all the technology that they have today!!! JQ: You wrote Haunted House by yourself? JA: Yes. JQ: I used to love the vocoder version! JA: Right!! Jalil is very excited …. Larry was the key to the whole thing — Larry was the glue!!!
God bless Russell Simmons for introducing me to Larry Smith. JA: Yeah!! We ended up becoming more friends than business associates. But this incident happened. Larry's bass player was working on a car , and he sliced a couple of his fingers off.
So basically Larry needed more money to do what he had do. He invited me to come to his spot to hear some stuff and try to make something happen. He told me that he had me in mind for some stuff he had done. The timing was perfect because we were about to go into the studio. I picked out certain tracks , and what I liked about them , and what I wanted to keep. We were really the first to play rock music. But go listen to 5 Minutes of Funk , and check the bassline. Its was originally a rock guitar.
JA: Friends was a beat that I had hummed in the house for a couple of weeks. I used to beat on my mattress. Where their record ends ours begins. That was my inspiration for that. You bang on you pillows and mattress for a couple of weeks , and you'll get the beat that you want. JQ: Let me put it in perspective. When Larry invited you to listen to music , one of the tracks was 5 Minutes of Funk?
JA:It was just the beat. We added some stuff together , the bassline was something I was just humming , and he put the Funk on it with the mini — moog. It was part rock guitar, and part bassline. When we went to Europe to lay the track he left the mini moog in New York , and I was real pissed. We were forced to go with the Jazz Fender Bass , which I like the sound of. Not that we wanted to do just rock , but it was a mixture.
They were also saying that we should take the guitars out because the title had the word funk in it , but Parliament had songs with rock guitars , so we could have done it. There was a lil beef about that. But the title was based on 7 Minutes of Funk, which was an old street record. JA: Right. I told him — no we just liked the title , and seven minutes would have been too long.
Its 2 classics on one record! JA: Even that was our idea. The album ended up being certified for platinum-level sales by the R. The vinyl album is long out of print and the CD only released twice, once in and again in is also out of print and any copies of either of them are valuable to collectors.
Paul Kodish, drummer of Pendulum, was featured on the album. From to , the group was at its most productive; they toured with the more successful bands such as Run-D. The group was involved in the first Fresh Fest tour, which was the first hip hop tour to play large coliseums nationwide. In July they appeared at Philadelphia's Spectrum Stadium in front of an audience of 18, O also appearing with them as their break dance act.
They played all over Europe to full venues as no one had seen this kind of music before. By , the group had earned its share of gold singles and albums. With Open Sesame , its final release of the s, the group had turned away from their once-playful simple beats and catchy rhymes of the old school and instead became vocally more harder and more instrument-driven, with guitars and horns and bells.
This new school style had been similarly done almost a year previously on the multi-million selling debut albums by L.
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