DJ Kid Capri tells Jalen Rose how he helped Kendrick win that Pulitzer
nypost.comhails from hip-hop’s birthplace — a spot that we know locally as the Boogie Down Bronx. He has been an instrumental force in music since the late 1980s, making smash hits for such artists as Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Heavy D, 50 Cent and even the Queen of Pop, Madonna herself.As Aug.
23 approaches — the fateful date that DJ Kool Herc first broke a beat at a back-to-school party in 1973 — Kid Capri took time on “Renaissance Man” to reflect on the pioneers responsible for the genre’s explosion throughout the past half-century.
Kid especially sounded off on the influence of his good friend from The Bronx and occasional show partner Grandmaster Flash.“He will [still] come to my shows to see this pandemonium going on,” Kid told me.
Giving the DJ his propers, he told me Flash will “just turn around and say, ‘Yo, I’m so proud of you, man. You just took it and made it what it is [now].
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