{"id":1406,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:39:58","slug":"djdivine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/djdivine.htm","title":{"rendered":"DJ Divine and The Infinity Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc33;\">Members<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n DJ Divine<br \/>\n DJ Kendu<br \/>\n Wildcat<br \/>\n Rondu<br \/>\n Reverend Will<br \/>\n Def Jeff<br \/>\n Freaky T<br \/>\n MC Magic<br \/>\n MC Bedrock<br \/>\n Michael Goody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based in Jamaica queens this group worked much of 1977 through 1985.<\/p>\n<p>They toured with and provided sound systems for <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/afrika.htm\">Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force<\/a>, Super  Rhymes, <a href=\"furiousfive.htm\">Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five<\/a>, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/kurtisblow.htm\">Kurtis Blow<\/a>, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/lovebugstarski.htm\">Love Bug Starski<\/a>, <a href=\"\/artists\/deejays\/djhollywood.htm\">Hollywood<\/a>, Eddie  Cheeba.<\/p>\n<p>They are most famous for their sound system that carried 28 Cerwin Vega b-36&#8217;s, as  well as Bertha&#8217;s, Altec voice of the theater mid&#8217;s and the original Cerwin Vega turntables.<\/p>\n<p>Battles have included: The Disco Twins, Cipher Sounds, Phase3, The Sound experience, Spectrum City (with  Chuck D and Hank Shock Lee) and the Devastating Sight &amp; Sound.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Divine&#8217;s vinyl appearances are few but he was <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/spyderd.htm\">Spyder D&#8217;s<\/a> DJ on his early Profile outings before Spyder teamed up with  DJ Doc (Ivan Doc Rodriguez of BDP fame).  DJ Divine is on &#8220;Placin&#8217; The Beat&#8221; and &#8220;Buck Wheat&#8217;s Beat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Divine&#8217;s solo record &#8220;Get Into the Mix&#8221; was released on West End Records in 1983 and featured an  uncredited Spyder D on vocals.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Some Reminiscing With DJ Divine<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCn-o2Ai7hA?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Info submitted by Big Lee and Ed Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/artists\/emcees.htm\">Back to MC&#8217;s Biographies<\/a><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members DJ Divine DJ Kendu Wildcat Rondu Reverend Will Def Jeff Freaky T MC Magic MC Bedrock Michael Goody Based in Jamaica queens this group worked much of 1977 through 1985. They toured with and provided sound systems for Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force, Super Rhymes, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kurtis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}