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GANGSTASPARTY.com:First Off.. I would like to ask u: How did you get your name RHUDE ?
DJ RHUDE: That's a name my boys gave me. There used to be this wrestler named Ravishing Rick Rude who was pretty popular and we shared the same first name. So when I use to come outside cats started saying yo what up Rick Rude? The name kinda just stuck with me as I made the transformation to DJing. I just added the letter H to make the name stand out a lttle more.
GANGSTASPARTY.com:What was the first hip-hop record that you ever bought and when did you start scratching and mixing?
What do u like to remember about that period?
DJ RHUDE:Hmmmm, that's a good one. I'd have to say the first record I started to learn how to cut on was a Wu Tang Clan record, Protect Ya Neck. But I got my mixing skills from house records. Back then in the early nineties house music was mad popular and I remember buying a ton of records when I was first starting out. Once I got the science down of mixing the house records, I transfered that knowledge to the rap records.
What I remember most about that period was that the amount of quality records coming out then was crazy. Most of the artists coming out then was dropping heat. You had Pete Rock & CL Smooth, The Wu, NWA, Ice Cube when he went solo, Dr Dre and Snoop, Notorious B.I.G, Nas, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, cats like that. Those times were definitely the high point of rap music.
GANGSTASPARTY.com:What do u prefer (right Now): cds or vinyl?
DJ RHUDE:I still prefer vinyl but I do realize that in this day and age the mp3 and CD revolution has pretty much taken over. I remember when I first saw CD turntables, I swore that I'd never use them and I'd stick to the 1200s. Learning how to DJ on vinyl is the art in it's purest form, something that can't be duplicated on a CD turntable. Nowadays these cats are learning how to DJ on equipment that has everything set up for them, whether it's cueing up the song or simulated scratching sounds. That shit is wack to me. Call me biased or whatever, but I learned to DJ like all the other respected DJs like DJ Premier or Kid Capri did, with the wax.The only thing CD turntables have done is eliminate the amount of stuff you gotta carry to the parties. I will give them that much.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: How did the connection with you and XXL Magazine happen? What is your role(right now)?
DJ RHUDE:I've been writing with them almost since the beginning of the magazine's conception. Back then, around 98, my boys Datwon Thomas who was the music editor and Blackspot who was editor in Chief, asked me to start writing the singles column which was called Spin Cycle. Once I submitted my first column it was on and popping. The column name has since been changed to Block Muzik and I also write the Top 5 in the gaming section in addition to artist features for the Show & Prove & Train of Thought sections.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: Tell us a little about your first performance on BET (Rap City) & What were your feelings?
DJ RHUDE: Ah that was a crazy time. I remember I wanted to make a splash and do shit big, so I had this chick I knew who worked for a furrier hook me up with a fur coat. I remember going up to the BET studios and she met me there with the coat. I threw that shit on when it was time to start taping and everyone saw me in that fur getting busy on the 1200s haha. I had to take it off after taping two segments though, got mad hot under them studio lights. On the real though, that was a fun time for me, I enjoyed the experience immensley. I remember that there were no other studio guests scheduled to be on with me so I got a ton of camera time with Big Tigger.
GANGSTASPARTY.com:Tell us a little about your mixtapes: . Block Muzik V.1. and . Block Muzik V.2. & what are the differences ? What images and emotions do you want your music to invoke in the listener?
DJ RHUDE:Block Muzik is just one of the series of mixtapes I started, loosely based on my Block Music column in XXL. With every one I drop, I try to get a host for it, like for Vol. 1 & 2 I had Termanology and AZ host them. When people throw on a DJ Rhude mixtape I want them to always feel good like, this cat Rhude always puts it down. Like no bullshit on his tapes and they know they are going to always get quality music with little to no fast forward material.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: What is DJ RHUDE working on right now? And introduce us any future projects..(tv, music, print,etc...)
DJ RHUDE: Well, as always I got my monthly writing assignments up at XXL and I have some writing assignments about to pop off with King Magazine as well, me and my team Spazout Ent. are really going to go hard and corner the market. I got the We Got Now series which is a mixtape that features all the up and coming rap artists. We just dropped part 2 which is really starting to pick up some buzz. In addition to that, I got my video game site, www.vetzballin.com that we are trying to make into a big entity and I'm fresh off taping some shows for ESPN2's Madden Nation Show Season 2.
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