I think it was all of that in our voices, hitting on the one.
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I rapped and operated the drum machine live, Code scratched live. And the thing is - the special thing is - everything was recorded live. I remember putting the mic in one of those rooms. It was definitely picking up sounds from the piano because it had like real reverb. We’d go in and they would make us put tiles on the piano ’cause it was recorded right on the piano. So these rooms were like fucking huge rooms. We recorded those records in classical studios. Where did the exaggerated echo on the drums come from in “P.S.K.”? Once I got the fuck in it was just a wrap. And they’re waiting to get in, waiting to get in, waiting to get in. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen girls do double-dutch. It was frustrating and magic at the same time. So watching other cats always rapping, me being on the sidelines, knowing I was better than the twelve guys before me.
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And nobody fucking believed me except for a handful of people…They was like, “As soon as you find your voice. Like I seen these fucking sparkles and these sparks, and all this energy. Nobody believed him, but his music was - this is John Coltrane. Just imagine when John Coltrane used to walk into the studio, like the same as blue and green, he would see music in colors.
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It was fucking magic as hell, but nobody could see it. I’m like, “I’m the same motherfucker!” So I had to work my ranks up. And hip-hop in Philly was kinda like, “Pow! What the fuck.” Being away from Philly for a couple years, they just looked at me as a country boy. I had just moved back from Atlanta ’cause I would go back Philly and Atlanta. I come from a musical family so I knew I had to say something, I knew I was gonna do something my whole fucking life. It was a bit frustrating because I knew I had something. There’s no strict release date to celebrate, because Weaver was self-releasing his records, but with a 30th anniversary reissue of “P.S.K.” out now, he probably said it best himself in 1985: “Lookin’ at my Gucci, it’s about that time.”īefore “Gucci Time” and “P.S.K.” what was your experience releasing music like? Speaking with Billboard, Schoolly explains how “P.S.K.” and his self-titled debut album came to fruition 30 years ago in cottage industry fashion. The group became the face of the gangsta rap movement. A few months later he’d release his debut full-length, Schoolly D, one of a handful of early hip-hop LP’s in an era of 12-inch singles.Įarlier this year, Straight Outta Compton tinkered with and cemented gangsta rap’s origin myths for a mass market: N.W.A burst onto the scene in the late ’80s and stirred up controversy with their offensive but reflective lyrics.
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“P.S.K.”, a hyperlocal anthem that resounded nationally, was Schoolly’s big break.