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The K.MC
DJ Cheese
Their big track was “King Kut” which is part of the long history of basing songs around how great your deejay is.
The song features several recognizable samples and DJ Cheese definitely takes over the track. He won the World Mixing Championships in 1986.
“Coast to Coast” was also a well known single.
DJ Cheese was originally from West Virginia, but moved to Plainfield, New Jersey to perfect his deejay skills. He debuted on the Z-3 MC’s only recording in 1985, produced by Duke Bootee.
The Word of Mouth MC’s were also from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
They were produced by Duke Bootee of Sugarhill fame.
Cheese did a record in Europe called “Cosmic Mr. DJ”.
Cheese did a record with K-Rob (Beat-Bop) fame in 1986 called “I’m A Homeboy” b/w Psycho Lorriane” and later went on the scratch on a Tackhead song called “Is there a Way Out. Cheese also recorded “Life on the Streets” by MC Crash + DJ Cheese also on Beauty and the Beat.
Cheese also did some cutting on a British Soul artist called Princess in late 1986. During the breakdowns, Cheese would flex his skills on his famed-Aaaaa scratch with quick cutting, from Fab 5 Freddy’s “Change the Beat.”
Additional info provided by A-Ron, DJ Skills, Ed Roberts, Da Ewoks, Barjeilik, Phil Keogh, Dan Duce, TZERO13
Check Out DJ Cheese’s Championship Routine from 1986!
Members
Jalil (Jalil Hutchins)
Ecstasy (John Fletcher)
Grandmaster Dee (Drew Carter)
Formed in the early 80′s Whodini got its start in a rather unusual way. Keyboard wiz Thomas Dolby brought in a track to Jive. Someone suggested they have someone rap over it. The label grabbed Jalil and Ecstasy to record a track about radio personality Mister Magic. The song gained more attention oversees than in New York.
They eventually used tracks recorded from producers all over Europe for their first album which never really received much success.
They were also the first group to include official dancers in their show, utilizing Dr. Ice and Kangol Kid of UTFO.
Their next effort, however, was different story. Escape is the best known Whodini album. It featured “Friends,” “Freaks Come Out at Night” and “Big Mouth” and ended up going platinum. There more melodic sound opened doors for them outside of the normal rap channels. And for a while it was the highest selling rap album ever.
Whodini put out a hype EP called “SIX” in 1996.
By the time their next album came out, LL Cool J was the man to watch and their R&B edge paled next to his hard hitting rhymes. They did achieve some success with the classics “Funky Beat” and “One Love.”
Members appeared in the documentary film The Show.
They did go on to record some other albums and showed up on a moderately successful single on Terminator X’s second album.
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