DJ Arson

"The year was approximately 1983, even though 1985 was the year I consider to have technically started collecting. I’m in a local record store around my way and decided to pick up a couple of the latest hits on wax (record). For all my old school-ers that would be around the time when Pack Jam was out and Soul Sonic Force was bangin’.

I began to play my selections over and over on my pop’s stereo. So much that he would always tell me, 'Turn that hip-hop jungle sh.t off. It’s just a phase, it won’t make it' (little did he know). 'You need to get up on Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, etc'. This is basically what I grew up on besides early disco and soul classics. As you can see, my pops was a jazz fanatic which I give much credit to for the birth of Rap and Hip-Hop.

While staying up late listening to Mr. Magic’s Rap attack, P-Fine on 89.1 and other underground radio shows, I began to start trying to bring the record back and forth trying to create that scratching effect that Grandmaster Flash introduced to us.

After being inspired by so many Rappers and DJ’s, I began to practice hard. This is when I really decided that I wanted to become a DJ. I regretted that for approximately a year I stopped collecting records due to other interests and financial difficulties, but when I started working and hustling a few bucks again, I was right back in the game. Before I knew it, people were asking, and I was doing little local parties for free or next to nothing, letting everyone know who I was and what I do."