Recaps

Photos from The Boom Bap Legends series featuring DJ Scratch in Nashville on June 24th 2017 at The Basement East.

From Willingboro, NJ, DJ Jay Ski fell in love with hip hop in the early 80′s. The first time he heard Afrika Bambaataa's pioneering song "Planet Rock" on Drexel University's radio station, he was hooked. Jay Ski grew up listening to classic radio shows such as Street Beat with Lady B, Kool DJ Red Alert, and Rap Attack with Marley Marl and the late...

Venerable Richmond, Virginia rapper Skillz is the hip hop head’s hip hop head. He's the guy who spun on cardboard as a kid, sprayed graffiti, and deejayed by connecting his mother’s turntables together. Never in a million years would he think that years later he would become an in-demand songwriter, producer, artist & deejay. Born in Detroit, Shaquan Lewis, otherwise known as "Skillz" spent...