{"id":1218,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2011-04-10T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:28:27","slug":"marleymarl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/deejays\/marleymarl.htm","title":{"rendered":"Marley Marl"},"content":{"rendered":"

MC Shan.\u00a0 Roxanne Shante<\/a>.\u00a0 Heavy D.\u00a0 Big Daddy Kane.\u00a0 Biz Markie.\u00a0 Chaka Kahn.\u00a0 MC Lyte.\u00a0 Craig\u00a0 G.\u00a0 LL Cool J.\u00a0 Master Ace.\u00a0 3rd Bass.\u00a0 Boogie Down Productions.\u00a0 En Vogue.\u00a0 TLC.\u00a0 Lords of the Underground.\u00a0 Monie Love.\u00a0 Shabba Ranks.\u00a0 Da Youngsters.\u00a0 Dr. Dre & Ed Lover.\u00a0 KRS-ONE.\u00a0 Capone & Noreaga.\u00a0 The Alkaholiks.\u00a0 Mic Geronimo.\u00a0 Eric B. and Rakim.\u00a0 Fat Joe.\u00a0 Funkmaster Flex.<\/p>\n

What do these artists have in common?\u00a0 They have all had tracks or entire albums produced by Marlon Williams.\u00a0 You may know him as Marley Marl.<\/p>\n

He was born on September 30, 1962 in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n

Marley made his name producing tracks for Roxanne Shante in her bid to upstage UTFO.<\/p>\n

On a large number of Tuff City’s recordings Marley Marl is credited as having mixed them including Grandmaster Caz’s<\/a> “Count Basie”, Funkmaster Wizard Wiz’s “Bellevue Patient”, and much of Spoonie Gee’s<\/a> material on the label.<\/p>\n

He recorded a song called “DJ Cuttin'” under the alias NYC Cutter for Pop Art in 1985.<\/p>\n

He later became a the backbone of group of rappers known as the Juice Crew.<\/p>\n

He is often credited with bringing a more accessible sound to the music.\u00a0 With others he helped usher in the new era of sampling and was an early master of it.<\/p>\n

The only track in which he actually emcees is “I Ain’t Bullshittin'” on Cold Chillin’ in 1990.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, he has been in a legal struggle with former label Cold Chillin’ Records (a label he nearly single handed brought from obscurity to the big time) claiming he was owed over $500,000 in back payments.\u00a0 The suit was settled out of court and Marley received ownership of all the songs he produced for the label.<\/p>\n

As you can tell from the list above, since he began in the early 80’s, he has been working steadily with an array of artists spanning old school to new school artists.<\/p>\n

Watch Marley on the Turntables<\/h3>\n