Jalen Rose spits game with Naughty by Nature’s DJ KayGee and Vin Rock
nypost.comhip-hop turns 50 and we pull back the lens to see its full story, we can appreciate the rappers who truly changed the game from an artistic and business perspective.
That list wouldn’t be complete without including the groundbreaking trio from East Orange, New Jersey: Naughty by Nature.They started out performing at their high school talent show and went to the moon.
Initially, Vin Rock (Vincent Brown) and DJ KayGee (Keir Lamont Gist), who joined me on this week’s “Renaissance Man,” enlisted Treach (Anthony Criss) to round out the group. “We started in 1987 in high school and we didn’t even have a name when we did that talent show,” KayGee told me. “Then, when we did the talent show, I just scratched, ‘It’s the new style!’ So, you know, we just start calling ourselves the New Style.
We started doing a bunch of talent shows and it evolved.” They changed their name after their first album to Naughty by Nature — and the rest is history.
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