DJ Envy recalled how he upset Diddy and The Infamous B.I.G. in an interview with AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur. The Breakfast Membership host defined why he was the primary New York DJ to play Tupac Shakur’s diss observe “Hit Em Up” on a mixtape through the East Coast vs. West Coast feud.
“I obtained that document first, and on the time, it was like I do know a whole lot of DJs weren’t going to play it,” DJ Envy stated. “On the time, I used to be behind everyone. Whenever you speak about DJs, it was SNS, it was Craig G, it was [DJ] Clue, it was Child Capri, simply within the New York space. And I used to be like, ‘I have to get my foot within the door.’ And I used to be like I’m gonna play this document after which we’ll go from there. We’ll see what occurs. So, they gave me the document and I stated, ‘That is going to be one of many greatest mixtapes ever.’ And it went loopy. On the time, I do know Massive and Puff was mad, however I used to be getting my foot within the door and it was music. And that’s the place it began.”
DJ Envy is without doubt one of the govt producers behind a brand new documentary titled Story of the Tape. The movie explores mixtapes’ position in Hip-Hop’s historical past.
“Rising up for us, music was every little thing,” DJ Envy stated. “And I believe that was a part of the peak of the mixtape sport. Everyone was a mixtape DJ. We will undergo it from Clue to Whoo Child to Drama to you identify it, Tony Contact … There was so many mixtape DJs however that was our soundtrack. That was after we began listening to blends and began listening to chopping and began listening to scratching. And we had vehicles. So, we needed these tapes to be for the experience of the vehicles. And I simply thought it was a misplaced artwork the place folks didn’t essentially perceive that.”
He continued, “Proper now … anyone may very well be a DJ. So long as you should purchase a laptop computer, you generally is a DJ. And that’s what you’re seeing. You’re seeing a whole lot of trash DJs. So, with this documentary, they recount the place the mixtape DJs got here from and the significance of a DJ. And it goes by way of everyone from Brucie B to Child Capri to Clue to myself to Drama, to so many. It’s so many DJs, you may’t identify ’em all. Nevertheless it begins the story of that.”
Story of the Tape is out there to hire on Amazon Prime Video.
Take a look at AllHipHop’s full dialog with DJ Envy beneath.
