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ISSUE SEVEN OF THE ORIGINAL FEATURES:

MARLEY MARL & CRAIG G...
Marley Marl: "4117 Vernon Boulevard was where I used to live with my moms when I was a kid. When I started making beats, I moved out of my mom's and I had another crib, at 4114 12th Street. It was a two-bedroom, and I had my studio in the living room of my sister's apartment. My sister didn't stay there, so I paid the $120 a month to live there. [Laughs] That's how much it was. So I could say that most of my early productions were co-produced by the New York City Housing Authority, because they supplied the electricity, heh heh! That's where I made ‘The Bridge', ‘Eric B Is President', Shante's records, ‘Nobody Beats The Biz' and all that stuff..."

DJ DISCO WIZ...
"Grandmaster Caz and I both had records, so we'd bring one phonograph to the other one's house. Before we got our own sound-system Caz got his mother to give him his college tuition that his father had left him when has passed away, so Caz bought the first sound system. It was prehistoric - Kenwood wood-grain turntables, belt-drive, crazy, forget it! But we got it poppin'..."

K-DEF...
"My story's a little crazy. Me and Larry-O, we started hookin' up and going to the studio in 88, and I think in 89 Larry-O's sister started dating ICU from Boogie Down Productions. So from that point him and Larry hooked up and then KRS-One came into the picture. So them being kinda cool with each other, we went into the studio and did a song that never came out..."

THE T LA ROCK COLUMN...
"There were a couple of rhymes on Treacherous Three records like 'Feel The Heartbeat' that I remember hearing Special K say around the house: "Special K not a doctor but I'm gonna prescribe/Gonna rock send the vibe to rock your whole tribe/It's traditional custom when I'm in the place/Something that you enjoy no matter what your race!" We were both naturals at rhyming so I didn't have to give him too much advice, but he actually ended up repeating my rhymes sometimes and used little bits of them on occasion in his rhymes with the Treacherous Three..."

THE VAULT...
"What is the rarest rap record? Come on! Tell me! What is it? Have the eBay rodeo-clowns come up with some brand new random rap masterpiece this week? Did Mr Magic release a test-press-only variation of 'Gilligan's Island To The Beat' with louder drums? (Truthful answer: Nope.) As far as this week is concerned, in my book, on the right side of my mind and behind the shallow façade of hollow intellectual content that is the legitimate baggage of ruddy crate-diggers galaxy-wide, the rarest hip hop record ever made is... (cue up 'Land Of Hope And Glory', fade it up slowly)... it is... 'Happy Birthday Charlie' by Rap-A-Lot/A&M-hip hop artiste Raheem The Vigilante..."

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