The Marvelous JP

On 84th Street, we got the new bomb. We would put a whole cap in it. Everybody in Miami started to do the same thing, but it didn’t sound like ours. There is two different kinds of powder you can get. The powder we used was high-energy powder. When we hit that switch, boom! It would open the doors up. We had double doors out there in the front, and the double doors would open up every time the bomb would go off.

The whole thing was to get the crowd hyped up after that. You would play one of your best records, something by 2 Live or Anquette’s “Do the 61st” to get the crowd jumping. If you drop the bomb, and you don’t put on the right record, now you got nobody dancing, and nothing else. It would defeat the purpose.

Walshy Fire

It wasn’t just Bass. They would play a lot of funk. Imagine a bunch of 13 year olds jumping around to funk songs. Barry White’s “Look at Her” was probably one of the most important songs in there… And 2Pac. It was 2Pacalypse in that bitch.

Brother MArquis

Some of the most memorable nights were when they used to have the Battle of the DJs in there. Those nights they had 40 or 50 speakers in there. Inside! My ears are still messed up behind some of that foolishness.

THE MARVELOUS JP

When a lot of people talk about battling, they’re talking about turning it up loud, so you can’t hear the other one. We wanted to see who had the crowd rockin’ the best, and then we let the crowd pick who won… Ghetto Style didn’t get in [the battles], we let the other crews get it in. But we got in it this one time. We had all the big boys, so I had to pull out my tricks. We had a forklift in there, and I put the console on the forklift. When it was time for us to come on, Chico rose up on the forklift, jamming. But he went into the ceiling. It messed him up! We had tricks.