"85-86 that's when you start hearing samples in rap records so it went from DJs playing those records to people putting it in the sampler."

"Most of my early memories were from a town we lived in called Middletown, California..."

"There was no Oakland rap in 1979 when Sugar Hill Gang came in, it did not exist. I thought it was so cool that people could do that..."

"I was one of a few DJs in the Sacramento Valley that actually had a mix show. Josh was at the Davis High School and he came down at KDVS."