Have you subscribed to theGrio’s new podcast “Acting Up”? Download our newest episodes now! “So while I’m here, I’m going to continue to share that celebration, and share how we can better ourselves as artists and reach the people with something that means something instead of just being, you know, just about me, me, me, me, me. However, he feels that the art of paying it forward, like how Brown did for him as well, has dwindled in hip hop culture, and he hopes that he can still inspire others to help each other. Biz started with me, and it seems like he’s finishing with me.”īeyond Biz, Kane, and KRS, Doug has also been a teacher for Notorious B.I.G., Puffy, and Public Enemy, whether showing them how to relate to an audience, engage with others on stage, or other kinds of general music advice. “And for me, it makes me feel like I think it was supposed to happen that way. “I never knew that this would be the last that we would perform together like that live, you know,” Doug said of Biz. One of Doug’s numerous proteges and comrades in hip hop, Biz made a surprise appearance on the album’s version of “The Show,” and it wound up being one of his last live performances prior to his 2020 hospitalization that ultimately led to his passing earlier this year. So I felt that this represented everything that needed to be seen on this particular project because this one’s for Chuck.”Īs it turned out, the album would also be a swan song of sorts for Biz Markie. “The way that “I’m Getting Ready” was played, and “Play This Only At Night,” and “The Show,” the way that all of these kind of came together naturally, I felt like this represents Go-Go in its purest form with all of the injections of the hip hop and the battle of the drummer, Biz Markie slided [sic} on there without me knowing what’s coming and scratching. He said that numerous songs worked, but the ones that wound up on the album were that perfect blend of Go-Go and hip hop spirit. With that in mind, Doug embarked on the difficult task of going through his catalog to find the right songs to be reimagined in Go-Go form. So that skillset, I’m the last of that line.” So am I, I learned directly from Hollywood. And so Hollywood, Lovebug Starsky, Busy Bee, Kurtis Blow, these are the architects of call and response. And the guy who created that was DJ Hollywood. Before the rhyme, call and response was at the root of it. “One of the foundations of hip-hop is call and response. But hey, creators take chances.”īeyond just the percussive similarities, Doug also connected the two genres with the method of communicating with the audience, call and response. “And when I made this album, I did it so that when people are home they can at least feel the same kind of energy or close to it, that they were going out to something live because people don’t make live albums no more for that live effect. “I want to introduce that whole Go-Go energy,” Doug said. For that reason, he decided to record the album live to give the listeners the closest representation of what it is to be fully immersed in the music. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)ĭoug also explained that Go-Go would always be diluted to a certain respect because people can’t fully appreciate its full magnitude without seeing it in person. Fresh attends the official unveiling of City Of Los Angeles’ Obama Boulevard in honor of the 44th President of the United States of America on in Los Angeles, California.
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