<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nBut my main thing was playing for older crowds where that was all you heard. But when I started hanging out with Mel, Whip, Tito and Mr. Troy I changed up a little bit because it didn’t sound old but it sounded more adult because these dudes were sounding like kids a little bit. Well at least to me they were sounding like kids. and they use to always say, “Yo Kyle got that Disco voice!” And you could tell the difference. I modified, not on purpose but as my experience evolved and I started going to different places and being with different cats and playing with different dudes and I started realizing you playing with these 17, 18, 19 year olds. And not that I am that much older, but you wanted to fit in and be relevant. Now that voice happen to have worked fine in the 25 and older crowd.<\/p>\n
So we in The Fever one night and here comes Sweet G and he’s doing that baritone sound, “Sweet G, to the beat!” And he went hard with that and I was like okay and it worked for a minute because The Fever was suppose to be an adult club, but it evolved into being the Mecca of Hip Hop because everybody started hanging in there. Once Love Bug started playing there, Star Ski bought that street click in there with him. He could also play for\u00a0 the older crowd so he was able to fit in. Me and Flash started hanging in there and when Flash got on it was a rap. Because now it’s about Flashes crowd knowing that he’s there. Also knowing that the Furious 5 is hanging in there cats were coming and eventually some of the Furious would get on the mic once a or twice a night. Just because they were there. George aka Sweet G’s style evolved also.<\/p>\n
Troy- So with you playing all over the 5 boroughs and with so many different m.c.s and d.j.s all over New York did Glenn aka Sweety G passed the test, was he a part of the real nation of Hip Hop?<\/h5>\n
Kool Kyle- Yes you have to say he was. First of all he was getting mad work, Sweety G was getting shows. You don’t get shows for just running your mouth and people know who you are. Someone had to put money up to rent a place and figured Sweety G could entertain the crowd, you feel me? If they hired him he was there for a reason. Now we all had a hook up so maybe somebody would hire him once or twice, somebody he knew would put him on. But I seen Sweety G at a lot of places in Queens. Yo he was hot Troy. He was one of those Queens dudes that rocked the way you expected somebody to rock. He wasn’t a straight up rhymer, rhymer, rhymer but he could do that and he did it well. He was more of a club dude like Hollywood, Cheba, like me in the very beginning. But he could rhyme and he was hot. The stuff he was saying was working, he knew how to work the crowd and that combination which I kind of perfected, rhyming, talking to the crowd to get the crowd participation. So I would say lets shout the girls out, shout the fellas out, now we do the zodiac signs. We doing jeans, sneakers all that, that people could recognize and then rhyme and Sweety G was like that too and he was good.<\/p>\n
Back to Sweety G<\/h5>\nTroy- Tell me the difference between a Queens party and a Harlem party during that time? If there\u2019s a difference.<\/h5>\n
Sweety G- A Harlem party was very upscale, very sophisticated, you could have a dude in there with twenty million dollars. You could have a man that was fifty dating a twenty-five year old girl, who jumps into an exotic car. You could have young girls who were fifteen and sixteen, well-behaved, you could have stick up kids from Brooklyn, you could have Puerto Ricans, Hispanics, Dominicans, even some Asian people who had traveled and came over to follow the Hip Hop music world. In Queens it was more of a club, in Queens it was more elite, it would be like actually being in the Harlem club in the fifties where everybody is dancing, that specific art form, it\u2019s all of us knowing each other, growing up, it\u2019s almost like a spiritual or art thing.\u00a0 You know, like a gang, like \u201cOh, this Queens County.\u201d\u00a0 But Harlem was so diverse, so sophisticated and it’s like Manhattan as it was, but Queens was very exclusive and specific.<\/p>\n
Troy- Ok, so you can actually say you seen some Asian people in there in 81, 82?<\/h5>\n
Sweety G- Yeah, I saw some Asian people in there, some of them were more photographers, hip-hop dancers, and most of the time I think they might have been journalists to be honest with you because you could see they were more professionals versus fans. Or they had a video camera and they were doing a story, or taping somebody who had a record out.<\/p>\n
Troy- What was up with the club in Queens known as Encore?<\/h5>\n
Sweety G- I was the resident MC if there is such a thing.\u00a0 I would sleep at my house until 11:30pm, come in the party at 12 midnight and sing \u201cSweety G at the Place,\u201d grab $3500 and go home after an hour and forty five minutes.<\/p>\n
Troy- Encore was no joke?<\/h5>\n
Sweety G- Yes sir. American Gangster sir. Sound of Queens County.\u00a0 Sound of Queens County.\u00a0 Who is that, Pappy? Who is that, Pream?\u00a0 Who is that, Fat Cat?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know. Every weekend, my house, my building.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nTroy- Right, I got you. So what was it like for you now to cross over the river and sit with Master Don and the Def Committee, the Crash Crew, the Fearless Four and these guys had shows with three or four people in the group and they\u2019re putting on a hellified performance like something at the Apollo.\u00a0 There\u2019s no booing because these guys are like the top of the line like the Temptations, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles and people are screaming and going crazy.\u00a0 Now you witnessed the screaming and going crazy in Queens for yourself, how did it feel for you to see those guys do it?<\/h5>\n