Congrats on 30 years of “Video Music Box.” Being you’re directly responsible for introducing so many people to hip-hop, do you recall your own personal first exposure to it?
It was probably, I want to say, ’76. Breakbeats were starting to become prevalent and I was in a record store, watching a DJ buy some breakbeats, going through each song and realizing he was only playing a certain part of the record he was looking for. While I was looking for full songs, I found it interesting he was looking for a particular break in the record. I realized that, it was a movement of mostly guys from the Bronx who were just playing that particular part of the record. I was living in Queens at the time, and we were playing the breaks of records around the city, but we were not as micromanaging as he was. That’s when I realized something was going on with the Bronx DJs that was a little bit different than the rest of the city.