About a month ago I was blessed to have the opportunity to interview the legendary one and only Grandmixer DJ Q-Bert. Knowing that he was performing in Baltimore soon and being the cool dude that he is I decided to ask him if he would be down to come to a private gig with local turntablists. He said "that would be ill!!!! as long as its after the show and close to the gig". I was like bet...now what? I know a few local cats, but im not as connected to the local turntablist community as much as I am to the local producer and emcee scenes. So I called my main man mothafucka Cam-One who was like im down, but im out of town....you should call Virak. I met Virak at Cam's bachelor party and found out he was a dope dj, a really cool dude and is plugged in to the local scene. Virak made all the connections, organized the dj's and the equipment and I worked on finding a location to host the event. We settled on Protean Records in Federal Hill because their store is packed with books, records and toys, they have an occult museum with oddities and artifacts about Baltimore murders and mysteries and an empty warehouse next door capable of holding about 200 people!!!! I drew up a contract with the owner, Virak hit dude off with some ends and it was on and poppin! I picked up Q-Bert after the Dr. Octagon show, Virak set up the sounds at Protean and the video below is what what played out. I'm eternally grateful to Q-Bert for hanging out, spinning and talking with us. I'll never forget me, Q and Virak listening to beats and watching Ducktales in Virak's minivan. Classic shit. And I got it on tape! Infinite shout outs and props to Virak for helping to make this happen and for having such a good heart. Love to Cam for being the glue in all of this. Respect to all the turntablists that came out and brought their equipment and positive energy. And good looking out to Protean Records for letting us host the event there. Let's do it again!!! If you're in town make sure you stop past their shop and pick up some vinyl. Enjoy the video!!!