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R.I.P. DJ AM

Sorry if we’re a little late in relaying our condolences to DJ AM’s friends and family but we were waiting for a more personal photo rather than googling some library shot. Fat Lace homie stromie DJ Mighty Mi of The High & Mighty just sent us this. AM’s contribution to Hip-Hop culture and the art of DJing is unparalleled. The reason we posted this photo was to let you know just that and how deep in the game AM was. Here’s an extract from an interview from 2005 which breaks down his origins as an original member and beat boxer for the group that later became The High & Mighty, Mighty Mi himself being directly responsible for AM becoming a DJ.

R.I.P. to a true talent, we only wish he could have made it to the UK more.

Full Story: HERE

Extract:

The Hundreds: When did u start DJing? DJ AM: Around ’85?…I started first messing around. I grew up in Philly, and Mighty Mi (from the High and Mighty – he’s another shoe collector) – we grew up together and he had turntables at his house and it was the same group as High and Mighty with Mi, Eon as MC Magnum, and I was AMG the Human Lindrum. I was the beatboxer.

No way!

This was literally 20 years ago. And Mi had some turntables set up and I used to watch him fuck with it and be like “Damn, I really wanna do that.” That was the first exposure to it, then I started making “pause” mixes. My dad bought me this boombox that had an old mic I used to tape to the TV, and on old VCR tapes, I would un-pause certain words to piece together sentences. I used to sit there for days, making paragraphs…remaking the Preamble. If someone said the word, “What,” I would pause it, and piece it together like “What…Are…You…” on an old cassette tape. And I used to love Gumby, and had all these episodes, and I made a Gumboy porno…That’s the same thing as DJing…piece-ing shit together.

Then I convinced my mom to get me turntables. She was like “I’ll get you one.” And I was like “Uhh, what am I gonna do with one?”