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"So I'm at Warden Woods with my grandmother watching
Beat Street and I see some crazy stuff people are doing
on cardboard boxes so when I get home I'm flattening the
cardbox that the air conditioner came in and I put "breakdance"
in bubble letters with crayola markers. Y'know, the kind
that smells fruity. Like Red is cherry and purple is
grape. Anyways, I'm trying to moonwalk and backspin to
Rockit and Pop Goes My Love from this Breakdance
compilation but I never quite got the hang of the
windmill. It wasn't on the instructional poster that
came with the tape.... So I'm watching TV, y'know
flipping through channels, when I get to this local
station airing a DMC competition that went down in
Kitchener or Waterloo or something. That's the first
time I saw DJ's competing with routines. Guys like DJ X,
Tyson, even Nick Holder was in this thing. Y'know, the
house guy? He was in this DMC. Anyways, I think this
dude, Jam On Strong won that year. It was probably him
using the tricycle to scratch or something that put him
over the top. But dude had cuts and was fast. So it
wasn't soon after that I tried scratching records on
this radio shack stereo system. The only records I had
were a Kool Moe Dee album, the one with go see the
doctor, and Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince's rock the house.
I really messed those records up cuz the record platter
was only big enough to hold 7" records so when you
scratched LP's the edge of the platter would grind down
on the grooves and really mess it up. Fortunately my
grandmother bought me 1200's soon after that to keep me
out of trouble. But Dumb Dick was never the same"
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